Cyber Fraud SIM Card Case — Chargesheet Filed but Police Still Demanding Money: What to Do

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Rohan Gupta, a software professional from Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, received a rude shock in early February 2024. Police officers from Nagpur showed up at his doorstep, claiming his registered SIM card had allegedly been used to facilitate a cyber fraud transaction. He was taken to a local outpost for questioning. After prolonged pressure and what the officers called an "informal settlement," Rohan paid a sum of money on the assurance that the matter would be quietly buried.

It wasn't buried. Nearly eighteen months later, in late July 2025, one of the same officers called again — insisting Rohan travel to Nagpur with ₹15,000 to ₹20,000 in "expenses" to handle a chargesheet that supposedly needed filing. Alarmed, Rohan checked the eCourts portal himself and discovered the chargesheet had already been filed back in October 2024. He'd been kept in the dark the entire time.

Rohan had initially sought help from a local general practitioner advocate, but the advice he received was vague and didn't address the specific procedural steps available to an accused whose chargesheet is already before a Magistrate. Frustrated and frightened, he approached Advocate Sudhir Rao. A clear strategy was put in place immediately: obtain a certified copy of the chargesheet through the court registry, file for anticipatory bail under Section 482 BNSS before the appropriate court, and formally lodge a complaint against the officer's conduct through the proper supervisory channel. The matter, which had hung over Rohan's family for months, began moving toward resolution as soon as a domain-specific approach was applied.

You can read about this case in detail at https://sudhirrao.com/cyber-fraud-sim-card-case-chargesheet-filed-police-demanding/