The petition has been filed by Vimal, Amit and Dhaval Shah, all running a firm at Mahim. The petitioners claim to have been looted of more than Rs 1.8 crore in an overnight online theft. This theft, according to the petitioners was carried out from various locations including United Kingdom after their SIM cards were blocked. They have claimed that their money has been syphoned to several accounts in different banks, across India.
In their plea through advocate Pankaj Bafna, the petitioners have also claimed that initially, they approached a local police station in Mahim to report their case, however, they were asked to go to some other station and finally after running from pillar to post, they got an FIR registered in the Cyber Crime Cell at BKC. The petitioners have in their petition highlighted how such online fraud cases have increased, especially by using a similar modus operandi.
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