VARANASI: Sleuths of the cybercrime cell have nabbed one Vivek Kumar of Mirzapur, the driver of former BJP MLA Surendra Narain Singh, for making payment of about Rs 30 lakh from the latter’s account for online shopping of electronics, household goods, clothes, and food items between 2019 and 2021. Singh became MLA from the Rohania constituency in 2017 on BJP ticket but he did not contest in 2022 elections as BJP had left the seat for alliance partner Apna Dal (Sonelal).
IG Range K Satyanarain, on Saturday, said, “After registering a case on the complaint of former MLA Surendra Narain Singh, the cybercrime cell of Varanasi range conducted a detailed investigation and then arrested Vivek from Karsada area on Friday. The cybercrime cops recovered two smart TVs, electrical equipment for DJ, including amplifiers, sound mixing machines, stabilizers, lights, laptop, cooler, inverter, battery and many more items worth over Rs 8 lakh.”
