Police probe Soham phone hack claims

Pune: Facebook (FB), the social networking site, not only connects you to friends but can also help the police track down missing persons.

The latest instance being that of the Pune rural police tracking down Manohar Venkatraman Nemanivar (33) who was missing from 11 years from his home in Nanded.

After Manohar went missing from Nanded on December 28, 2000, his father Venkatraman who owns two restaurants in Nanded filed a missing complaint with the Nanded police station on January1, 2001.

Manohar's family could trace Manohar, when he unwittingly contacted one of his childhood friends via Facebook recently. His Facebook status also revealed the fact that Manohar used to visit the Saibaba temple in Shirdi often. This enabled the cyber crime cell of the Pune rural police lay a trap for Manohar at Shirdi, where they nabbed him on July 5.

Sub-inspector Vikas Kumbhar of the cyber crime cell of Pune rural police told, "Manohar was working at a resort in Goa as a waiter and when he came to know that his family was searching for him, he fled from Goa. However, we were able to track his whereabouts from his updates on Facebook and nab him when he was on his way to Pune from Shirdi.''

Manohar's family had come in large numbers from Nanded to meet him at the Chavannagar rural police headquarters on Wednesday. His father Venkatraman told, "I am speechless as I am yet to digest the truth but happy that my son has returned by the grace of God.''

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Complaint against finance company

RAMGARH: Patratu police have lodged an FIR against a finance company of a big corporate house and a cyber cafe in Bhurkunda in connection with a cyber crime. Manohar Kumar of Jainagar village under Patratu block of Ramgarh district was cheated of Rs 70,000 through a fake email which had informed him that his request for a loan of Rs 10 lakh had been sanctioned and directed him to deposit he processing fees in two bank accounts.

Happy to have received the mail, Kumar deposited the money with the accounts mentioned in the email. When he visited the branch office of the finance company, he came to know that the email was fake, Patratu OC Madan Prasad said adding that an advertisement was published in a newspaper related to an attractive offer for loan up to Rs 10 lakh.

Kumar applied for loan as per direction given in the advertisement. However officials of the finance company denied to have released such advertisement, police said. "We have also conducted a raid in a cyber cafe in Bhurkunda," Prasad said. The matter is being investigated by police.

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Security guard held for ATM card theft

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad Cyber Crime investigators on Saturday arrested a 32-year-old security guard for stealing a software company employee's ATM card and fraudulently withdrawing money from her account.

The incident came to light when 29-year-old M Swetha, working with the Cybage Software Pvt Ltd, DLF Towers, Gachibowli, lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime police station stating that some unknown person withdrew Rs 13,500 from her account using her ATM card. Based on the complaint, the Cyber Crime police registered a case and took up investigation.

"N Chandra Sekhar, working as security guard at DLF Towers, was caught based on CCTV footage. He confessed during interrogation that he used to steal Swetha's debit card and password from her bag during lunch hour and withdraw cash from Citibank ATM at DLF Towers. Later, he used to stealthily return the card," K S Rao of Cyber Crimes, told STOI. He used the card four times between April 20 and June 29.

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