Cybercrime up,lab equal to task

According to additional commissioner (crime) A D Shinde,the cyber forensic lab started at the police commissionerate in December 2009 is playing a key role in solving cases. He said besides Pune police,the lab has helped the Satara,Aurangabad and even Chennai police in solving cases.

In a notable case,Pune resident Gurupreet Singh on February 26 filed a complaint that his sister had run away from her husband in Nairobi in Kenya after harassment by in-laws. She had sent an email to Gurupreet saying she would commit suicide. The cyber crime cell found she had sent the email from a cyber café in Lucknow. The information was passed on to Gurupreet,who went to Lucknow and rescued her.

In another case,the cyber crime cell helped Chennai-based Rajesh Bohra to trace his two sisters missing since February 11. Bohra lodged a report with Vadalpalani police in Chennai. Chennai police contacted the cyber crime cell,Pune. The hard disc of Bohra’s computer was sent to lab. From leads,police confirmed that Bohra’s sisters were in Mohali,Punjab. Bohra went there and found his sisters.

Nigerian in the ‘net’
Cyber forensic analysis of an email helped police arrest Nigerian Camid Kehid Latif alias Cristino Kenni,who fled after stealing his roommate’s money in Sangvi. Police said Kenni,studying in Pune,was residing with Farzana Firdoshi,an Iranian. On February 11,he allegedly stole $8,000 from Farzana and another roommate and fled. Farzana complained to Sangvi police. The cyber crime cell intercepted Kenni’s phone calls and conducted a cyber forensic analysis of his email. He was nabbed in Delhi.