2 Nabha jail inmates held for running fake SDRF website

PATIALA : Two inmates of Nabha’s high security jail in Patiala district have been arrested for running a fake website in the name of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).

The accused have been identified as Aman Kumar and Sunil Kalra, who were also involved in the 2016 Nabha jailbreak case.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused were planning to run a fake recruitment drive of volunteers for rescue works from the jail as the website (sdrfindia.org) they were running is point-to-point copy of official website of the National Disaster Response Force. The phone numbers mentioned on the fake website were being operated from inside the jail.

Both the accused posed themselves as IPS officers on the SDRF website.

“It came fore that they were planning to run a fake recruitment drive by charging Rs 500 per volunteer. The website looked so real that even national signages and other links were copied,” said Nabha Kotwali SHO Surinder Bhalla.

It was found that Aman contacted a Hoshiarpur-based woman and introduced himself as an IPS officer working in the SDRF. “The woman along with her brother, who is a website developer, prepared a website for Aman without knowing that they were falling in a trap,” the SHO said.

A case under Sections 170 (personating a public servant), 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) of IPC and other sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act and the Prisons Act has been registered.