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Supreme Court: There is no shield for a person who did not report a lot of money in the account for months. Bharat News

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New Delhi: The delay in informing the police about getting a lot of money from any unknown source from any unknown source may face trouble for the account holder as the Supreme Court on Monday refused to save a person from arrest that he took four months to contact the police after receiving Rs 20 lakh in his account, which was moving ahead of the crime. Demanding anticipatory bail after Delhi Police was called by Delhi Police for cyber fraud to receive money, a resident of Shivnagar village in Nawada, Bihar sought protection from arrest, alleging that his account was misused by his tenant.The tenant is misused, claims the petitioner in the money transfer case The petitioner alleged that his account was misused by his tenant, who received details of his account on the pretext of online transfer of loan amount taken by him and later hacked the account.When the lawyer Rakesh Singh appeared for the petitioner, he said that his clients have already appeared in the person in front of the Delhi Police and are cooperating in the investigation and providing all the information, a bench of Justice Sandeep Mehta and PB Varle asked him only one question when his client received money in his account and when he contacted the police.As the bench was informed, the petitioner approached the police after about four months, as the money was transferred to his account in September last year, and contacted the police in January, the bench said that the petitioner could not be relieved and dismissed his petition.In this case, there were several transfers of money in their account from different sources in a single day, which lasted more than Rs 5 crore and 13 cases were registered for separate transactions, which was done from different parts of the country, including Rs 20 lakh cyber fraud from Delhi. 20 lakh rupees deposited in his account were transferred to three other accounts within hours and Delhi Cyber ​​Police registered a case under BNS, Section 318 (4) of 2023. The FIR was registered on a complaint given by an authorized representative of an firm, namely Starcon Infra Projects India Private Limited. It is the case of the prosecution that the complainant was cheated by a person to transfer an amount of Rs 20 lakh to the complainant. During the investigation, it was found that the amount was transferred to the petitioner’s bank account in Bihar.The petitioner’s advocate tried to convince the court that his client was running a subsidized canteen for the paramilitary with a criminal past and did not even know about the cyber crime, arguing for bail, but the bench only refused his delay in informing the police about the transaction and said that investigation is needed.

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