New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday filed a cyber crime complaint with the Delhi Police against a social media handle X, that impersonated the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and sought money for a cab fare.
Bringing attention to a screenshot message that went viral on social media on Sunday, CJI Chandrachud raised the issue. The Supreme Court’s security department responded by filing a complaint with the cyber-crime department of the Delhi Police, on the instructions of the CJI.
The fraudster put forth the request with the promise to return the money once he reached the Supreme Court. The screenshot of the post suggests that the impersonator was “stranded” at Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP).
This comes months after a similar impersonation incident in which a 42-year-old man was arrested in March this year. He was apprehended for duping two people of ₹4 lakh allegedly by impersonating a Delhi Police crime branch inspector. The scammer executed the scheme under the guise of selling luxury cars and expensive cell phones, which were supposedly auctioned by Delhi courts at big bargain prices. Subsequently, he was arrested in the cheating case registered at the Subzi Mandi police station in January.
Meanwhile, Social media platform X experienced outages late on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed over 36,500 reports in the US at the peak of the outage. Downdetector also showed over 3,300 reports of outages in Canada and 1,600 reports in the UK. The cause of the outage is not yet known.
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