Mumbai Crime: Cyber cops nab Agra man for creating fake social media account of DGP

A screengrab of the fake Facebook account

The Maharashtra Nodal Cyber Police have arrested an Agra-based man, who created a fake Facebook profile in the name of Director General of Police, Sanjay Pandey. The arrested youth made the account from his mother's cell phone. After a complaint was filed by Advocate Atal Bihari Dubey, who received multiple friend requests from the account, the cyber cops nabbed the accused by tracing the URL of the fake account.

The arrested accused has been identified as 21-year-old Mehfuz Azim Khan. As part of the investigation, the cops had sought the IP address and number from Facebook, following which the URL was traced. The cops traced the number to Agra and found out that it belonged to Savana Azim. However, it was being used by her son Mehfuz.

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When the police initially questioned Mehfuz, he did not respond properly, after which he was called to the Mumbai office. When he appeared at the nodal cyber police station on August 16, it became clear that he had created the fake profile.

An officer told mid-day, "Mehfuz has been arrested and produced in court. He has been given police custody till August 20."

Complainant Dubey told police that he received friend requests from the said account. He became suspicious, as Pandey was already his Facebook friend. He then confirmed the same with Pandey and realised that the account was a fake one.

Dubey told mid-day, "On June 25, I got a friend request from an account in the name of DGP Sanjay Pandey, who is already my friend on Facebook. When I asked him about it, he said it was a fake account. The accused sent me friend requests thrice."