The Two Town police on Sunday busted a cyber crime racket by arresting five youths, including four students, and a computer operator for allegedly altering the web options of around 35 students during the first phase of the EAMCET web counselling in connivance with the managements of five private engineering colleges in the district.
The police, acting on a complaint lodged by the officials of the District EAMCET Web Counselling Centre here, achieved the breakthrough in cracking the cyber crime by tracing the Internet Protocol (IP) number of the computers from where the tricksters changed the web options of the gullible students.
Based on the vital clues, the police tracked down the five accused in the case.
The arrested youths are D. Rambabu, 29, a degree student, T. Premkumar, 24, MBA student, M. Nagendra Chary, MCA student, S. K. Gousiya, 24, a B.Sc student and B. Vijay, a computer operator.
The police also seized nine computers and a projector from Vivekananda helpline centre set up by the persons behind the racket in front of the SR & BGNR Government Degree College on the pretext of extending guidance to the students.
Students cheated
Disclosing this to mediapersons here on Sunday night, Superintendent of Police P. Hari Kumar said the accused had cheated the students under the guise of extending help to choose a ‘right engineering college'.
Members of the cyber crime racket had deceived the students by securing their passwords and changing their web options clandestinely without the latter's knowledge for “commissions” from the errant private engineering college managements.
The students had lost an opportunity to study in the colleges of their choice due to the fraud, Mr. Hari Kumar added.
Source: The Hindu
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