Delhi Court directs 4 accused in CBI custody in $15 mn cyber fraud case

The Rouse Avenue court on Thursday remanded Shubham Jain, Ambuj Mathur Shailender Kumar Gautam in four days and Abhishek Bisht in two days CBI custody.They have been arrested in the transnational cyber fraud case for allegedly defrauding US citizens worth 15 million dollars.Earlier, they were remanded to judicial custody. CBI moved an application seeking 5 days remand for the accused persons.Two other accused, Dhairya and Dhruv Khattar, are in CBI custody till August 3.Judicial Magistrate (First class) Nishant Garg remanded the accused persons in CBI custody."Considering the submissions of the investingating officer (IO) and the investigation carried out so far, I am of the view that there is a necessity of custodial interrogation of the accused persons Abhishek Bisht, Ambuj Mathur, Shubham Jain and Shailendra Kumar Gautam, for the purpose of assisting the investigation in ascertaining the other details of the crime, involvement and whereabouts of other accused persons and flow and ...