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I [3r83 I TN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA MONDAY. THE FIFTH DAY OF JT]t,Y TWO'THOIJSAND AND TWENTY ONE :PIIESENT:
THE HON'BLE SRI .'USTICE B.VI.IAYSEN REDDY CRIIIIN.\L PI.:TlTlO\ NOS : -1201 1202 J20J and J205 OF 2021 cRt..P.\o.J20l ()F
202 I Bet$,een:
Gajcndra Ravindranath Ti*ari. S/o. Ravindranath Tiu,ari.
Petitioner/un-numbered Accused .
AND The State ofTelangana, Through P.S. Cyber Crime, Rachakonda, Through Public Prosecutor.
High Court at Hyderabad ...Respondent/Complainant Petition under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition. the High Court rnay be pleased to releasc the Petitioner / Un-nunrbered Accused on bail in the event of his arrest in connection with Crime No. 699 of 2020 of PS Cyber Crinre, Rachakonda upon imposing such terms and conditions as this Hon'ble Court deems fit and proper under the circumstances of tlre case.
cRL.P.\O.d202 ()F 2021 Between:
Gaj endra Ravindranath Tiu ari. S/o. Ravi ndranath Tiu ari, Petitioner/un-numbered Accused .
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-lelangana. 'l'hrough The State of P.S. Cvber Crime. Rachakonda. Through Public Prosecutor.
High Courl at I [l derabad ,.. Respondent/Complainant Pctition under Section.1.18 of Cr.P.C. praling that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in support ol the Climinal Petition. the IIigh Court may be pleased to release the Petitioner 1Un-nurnbered Accused on bail in the erent of his an'est in connection with Crinre No. 705 of 2020 of I)S Clber Crime. R.achakonda upon inrposing such lerms and conditions as this I'lon ble Cloun deems fit and proper under thc circumstances olthe case.
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cttL.P.\o..120J 202 l Iieflr'een:
-f 'f Galendra Ral indranath iuari. Sio. Ravindranath iwari.
Petitioner/un-numbered Accused .
AND The State ofTelangana, Through P.S. Cyber Crime. Rachakonda, Tkough Public Prosecutor, High Court at Flyderabad ... Respondent/Complainant Petition under Section 438 of Cr.P.C, praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the Petitioner / Un-rrumbered Accused on bail in the event olhis arrest in connection with Crime No. 651 of 2020 of PS Cyber Crime, Rachakonda upon imposing such terms and conditions as this Hon'ble Court deems fit and proper under the circumstances ofthe case.
cRL.P.\O..1205 ()F 202r Betnecn:
'[ 'fiu,ari.
Gajcndra Ravindranath iuari. S/o. Ravindranath ,.. I)etitioner/un-num bered Accused T
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AND 'fhrough The State ofTelangana. Through P.S. Cyber Crime. Rachakonda, Public Prosecutor.
High Court at Hyderabad .lte sponden t/Complainant . .
Petition under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in supporr of the Criminal Petition. the Iligh Court mav be plcased to rclease the Petitioner / Un-numbered Accused on bail in the event of his arrest in connection u ith Crime tr-o. 697 of 2020 of PS Cyber Crime, Rachakonda upon imposing such terms and conditions as this Hon'ble Court deems fit and proper under the circumstances ofthe case.
These petitions coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petitions and the grounds flled in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of Mr.T.Niranjan Reddy learned senior counsel for Ms.Priyanka Singh, Advocate for the Petitioner in all petitions. and Assistant Public Prosecutor for Respondent in all petitions, the Court made the follou,ing.
ORDER
THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.420 .4202, 4204 and 42OS ot 2O2t COMMON ORDER:
The criminal petitions are filed by the petitioners seeking anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest in Cr.Nos.699, 705, 651 and 697 of 2027 on the file of the Station House Officer, Cyber Crime Police Station, Rachakonda. The offences alleged are under Sections 477,479,420 and 384 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 66-C and 66-D of the Information and Technology Act.
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The petitioner is so far not arrayed as accused in the above cflmes.
3. The case of the prosecution is that the complainant-r informa nts/victims in the above referred crimes received calls from unknown mobile numbers, who informed that they will provide loan from loan apps and asked to share the aadhaar card and pan card details. Due to the complainants' financial crisis, the complainants shared the said documents and has taken individual loans from some apps viz. Cash more, I Credit, Money Click, Big Shark, Fast Cash, Star Loan, Panda Loan, Golden lighting, Rupee day, Snapit Loan, Credlt bin, rupee lazmi, Quick cash, Cash tok, Rufilio, Insta loan, Rythaon, I easy and several loan apps and the complainants'repaid the loan, but still the loan persons are calling the complainant and harassing about the --.-
loan to pay more amount. While sanctioning the loan, the said persons took complainants' phone data including..their contacts. The said persons also contacted the complainants' family members and friends and talking abusively about the complainants. They are threatening the complainants they will upload their photo, due to which the _that complainants are unable to lead life peacefutty and is put to mental harassment.
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4. It appears in the course of investigation, the police arrested A5 and A6 on 11.01.2021. L.W.10 lssued notices under- Section 41-A Cr.P.C. to 45 and 46 to offer their explanation, but they failed to give satisfactory explanation. A5 confessed that he is the Director of companies viz. Ajaya Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and other corrpanies. He ls looking after the business in India on behalf of the companies along with another Director, Ankur Singh. The companies are providing Instant Micro Online loans with high rate of interest to the borrowers through above referred apps. The company does not have valid licenses registered with the Reserve Bank of India to run Non-banking finance bu siness/Insta nt online loan lending platforms. The applications are developed in such a way that on irstalling these apps they get the contracts, mobile information and other date on the device and collect the ID proofs, PAN card, KYC documents and bank account details of the customers. If any borrower does not respond, they issue instructions to tied up company.Jiya Liang Infotech Pvt. Ltd. to abuse the borrowers and threaten them to repay the due amount. On their instructions, call centre staff start making calls to the borrowers and their relatives, friends and insisting them to repay the loan amounts along with interest. If anyone does not clear the dues even after repeated calls, as per the company instructions, the call centre staff creates Whatsapp groups with the contact numbers of the borrowers and post borrower's ph otos, ID proofs, fake legal notices, '
and abusive comments and voice messages to that Whatsapp group. The company is maintaining several bank accounts all over India.
46 has confessed on similar lines as that of A5.
5. It is the case of the petitioner that he was employed as Finance Manager of the company by name Ajaya Solutions Private Limited and at the instance of the investors of the company, he was made formal J Director in the company Bienance Information Technology Private Limited and Truthigh Fintech Private Limited. He was officially enrolled as Director in the month of September 2019. He continued to work as Finance Manager in Ajaya Solutions Private Limited and he had absolutely no role to
