An 27-year-old engineer has landed himself into trouble after he was trying to impress his wife, by hacking into the system of the city police’s passport verification branch and clearing the inquiry reports of three applicants, including his wife.
Cyber police of crime branch have arrested him for this.
Police Inquiry for Passport Cleared by Engineer
The accused, Raja Babu Shah, wanted to impress his wife, who planned to go abroad for a job. Shah had cleared two more inquiries to avoid suspicion, cops said. The police inquiry for three passports of women from Antop Hill, Chembur and Tilak Nagar in Mumbai were cleared by the accused.
The police inquiry for three passports of women from Antop Hill, Chembur and Tilak Nagar in Mumbai were cleared by the accused.
Police said that documents submitted by Shah’s wife were in order and there was no problem. But after the FIR, Shah’s wife’s passport has been stopped. The accused is in judicial custody.
The hacking incident took place last year on September 24 which was a holiday. The passport branch of the police was shut on that day. Later cops registered FIR against an unknown person at Azad Maidan police station for forgery of valuable security, will, identity theft, punishment for cheating by using computer resources under various sections of IPC and Information Technology Act.
Accused Used IP Address of a Device in Noida
Cops found that the accused had used an internet protocol (IP) address allotted to a device in Noida and probe was transferred to the south region cyber police station of crime branch.
Shah was arrested from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh by a team led by DCP Balsingh Rajput and comprising ACP Ramchandra Lotlikar, senior PI Kiran Jadhav and PSI Prakash Gawli.
With the accused taking it too far to impress his wife, all we can say that “Excess of everything is bad”.
