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Patna’s rural SP falls victim to e-commerce fraud, purchases cellphone but brother receives stones at Jamshedpur

Patna’s rural SP falls victim to e-commerce fraud, purchases cellphone but brother receives stones at Jamshedpur
The officer purchased a cellphone for around Rs 11000 during period of festival sale offered online by an e-commerce giant.
PATNA: Patna district’s rural SP Kantesh Kumar Mishra had fell victim to e-commerce fraud as he had purchased a cellphone via a e-commerce firm’s mobile based app while he was in Patna with aim to gift it to his younger brother at Jamshedpur but instead a packet full of two heavy pieces of stones was received. Mishra is a 2015 batch IPS officer.
The officer told TOI over phone on Friday that he had actually purchased a cellphone for around Rs 11000 during period of festival sale offered online by an e-commerce giant.

"I had used its mobile based app to purchase the cellphone on October 14 as heavy discount was being offered. Its actual price was somewhere around Rs 14,000 and I had used my debit card to make payment against the purchase at Patna," he said.
Mishra said he had purchased the cellphone to gift it to his younger brother Satish Mishra who lives at Sonari in Jamshedpur.
"The consignment reached at my brother’s residence on October 28. However, he was shocked to find two heavy pieces of stones stuffed inside a cellphone packet. The matter was immediately brought before light of delivery boy but he said it was beyond his jurisdiction. He suggested my brother to lodge a complaint with e-commerce firm’s customer service desk," the SP said.
"Even the cellphone box, inside which stones were kept, was not of cellphone model which was actually ordered by me through app," he said.

Mishra said his younger brother, who works with Tata Steel, later lodged an FIR with Sonari police station under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) on October 30.
"The cellphone packet was well packed inside another sealed cardboard box. I am surprised with the incident. I can’t tell if the fraud took place during transit of actual packet or only at the point where it was being packed. A complaint had been registered with the online firm too to deliver an actual cellphone," he said.
This is probably second such incident with an IPS officer in Bihar. Earlier on October 9, 2015, 1994-batch Bihar cadre IPS officer Anupama Nilekar Chandra had fell victim to online fraud after Rs 24,898 was withdrawn from her account with State Bank of India’s Raj Bahwan Branch using her ATM card details.
Chandra, who is an IG rank office, had immediately registered an FIR in this connection with Shashtri Nagar police station in state capital. Chandra is present on central deputation.
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