ORDER:

This petition is filed by the petitioner, who was not shown as an accused, under Section 438 Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail in Cr.No.1128 of 2021 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 419 and 420 IPC and under Section 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, was that the de-facto complainant, by name, K. Vamsi Mohan, lodged a report before the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Police Station, on 25.06.2021 at 2.40 PM, alleging that when he was looking for work from home opportunities and browsed Google for the same, he came across the site https://www.wholintzheg122.xyz/, with WhatsApp number +91782722903 and he added the same in his mobile and when he contacted on 20th March 2021, they obtained his details like age, profession and his monthly income by saying that it was for crypto currency trading. The said person told the de-facto complainant that the App name was ‘Zepbit’ and once contacted, URL will be given for installing the Zepbit app. After he installed the app on his mobile, he was told to activate the account by paying Rs.500/- and then recharge for Rs.1000/- for two day sample predictions by a teacher/instructor called Mr. Luv. During two days, they gave 5 instructions each day to the de-facto complainant about how much to be invested and how to invest and they assured that everyone made profit of Rs.2,500 to 3,000/- over the course of two days and if they want to continue to have predictions from the teacher/instructor, the broker asked him to invest minimum Rs.10 lakhs for one to one predictions or an amount which was higher than any other participant who wanted one to one instructions from the teacher. The de- facto complainant also involved his wife by paying an additional amount of Rs.10 lakhs, in total they paid Rs.20 lakhs for teacher’s one to one predictions. After that, when they both applied for one to one predictions from the teacher/instructor, the broker along with administrator (Chotu) of the platform emotionally blackmailed him and his wife by saying that if they did not invest more, then they could not withdraw any amount, they had invested and won during predictions. By blackmailing the de-facto complainant, the accused forced and threatened him and his wife to invest another Rs.28 lakhs or else their accounts would be frozen and no money could be withdrawn. He spent 3 months time on the platform with daily predictions, his account funds in the app showed Rs.6+ crores for him and Rs.82+ lakhs for his wife. Again the accused had started asking him to pay Rs.10 lakhs to withdraw any amount from both the accounts. By that time, they realized that they have lost Rs.50+ lakhs and withdrawal of amount from the app was frozen. He further stated that the accused were threatening that the accounts would be deleted if the de-facto complainant did not pay what they were asking for. Basing on the said complaint, the above crime was registered for crypto currency trading fraud.

3. During the course of investigation, the de-facto complainant gave two more account details i.e., A/c.No.918897929271 and A/c.No.919652648756 of PAYTM payments Bank, IFSC Code:PYTMO123456 into whose accounts he transferred amounts, which he forgotten to mention in his complaint earlier. Basing on the said details, the police found out that the said accounts belonged to one Tammu Anil Kumar, who was already arrested in Cr.No.742 of 2021 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Rachakonda Commissionerate, Hyderabad, and that he was the beneficiary account holder in whose Paytm Payments Bank A/c.No.919652648756 the cheated amount of Rs.7.16 lakhs pertaining to Cr.No.1128 of 2021 was transferred and police requested for a PT warrant for remanding said Tammu Anil Kumar, in this crime.

The Cyber Crime Police, after remand of Tammu Anil Kumar in Cr.No.1128 of 2021, had recorded his confessional statement, wherein he referred the