Crypto app fraud claims life of Visva-Bharati student, 4 held
Times of India | 23 September 2024
SANTINIKETAN: Bengal police have arrested four men from Kolkata for allegedly duping a Visva-Bharati student of Rs 2.26 lakh after promising her huge returns on crypto investments made via an app, leading to her death in her hostel room on Sept 5. The autopsy report of Varanasi native and third-year student indicated death by poison, police said, reports S Boral.
The student had borrowed money from her classmates, professors, and her mother to invest.Police sources said accused Faiz Ali, Mohammed Kaif, Jahid Hossain, and Kamran were part of a gang operating on Telegram app. Birbhum SP Rajnarayan Mukherjee said: "Our probes have indicated that this (the death) was due to the huge financial burden on the victim for the unpaid loans to her peers and family." Acting on a complaint lodged by Anamika's mother, police registered an abetment to suicide FIR. "My daughter was forced to die. There was mounting pressure on her," the mother alleged.