Mumbai: The Bandra police registered an FIR towards an unidentified particular person for allegedly trying to fraudulently change into the authorised signatory of Baba Siddique’s cellular quantity. The quantity is linked to the household’s actual property and enterprise agency. Siddique’s daughter, Dr Arshia Siddique, 35, filed a criticism with the police, following which the case was registered on June 26.
In response to the FIR, Dr Arshia Siddique resides in Bandra West and runs a meals enterprise known as Flavour Meals Enterprise. Baba Siddique’s spouse, Shehzeen Siddique, runs Zears Enterprise India LLP, which is an actual property firm. Baba Siddique’s cellular quantity is linked to each these corporations. His household has saved the quantity energetic in his reminiscence. Nevertheless, somebody allegedly tried to fraudulently take over the authority of the cellular quantity.
The fraudster created a faux e-mail ID in Shehzeen Siddique’s title and used it to ship a faux e-mail to Vodafone, requesting the standing of the authorised signatory. The fraudster additionally accessed Shehzeen Siddique’s Aadhaar quantity, PAN card, GST quantity and the household firm’s letterhead. These particulars have been then used by way of the spoofed e-mail ID to submit a fraudulent request to the cellular firm to be listed as the brand new authorised signatory on Siddique’s quantity. The fraudulent names concerned have been Micheal Sharma, Tarun Kumar, Avinash Arora, and Sumit Sharma.
After receiving the e-mail, the cellular firm replied to Shehzeen Siddique on June 25. The reply said {that a} request had been acquired for an authorised signatory replace and — crucially — CC’d Shehzeen Siddique’s actual e-mail ID, revealing {that a} spoofed account had initiated the request. When Shehzeen acquired the e-mail, it grew to become clear that somebody had made a faux software in her title and had allegedly tried to fraudulently change into the authorised signatory of Baba Siddique’s cellular quantity.
The Bandra police have registered an FIR underneath sections 319(2) (dishonest by personation), 62 (try to commit offences punishable with imprisonment), 335 (making a false doc), 336(2) & 336(3) (forgery), and 340(2) (utilizing cast digital data as real) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
