PANAJI
The Bombay High Court at Goa has granted transit bail to Livia Gomes, who is facing a case of cheating registered in Tumkuru-Karnataka after inadvertently seeing her bank account being used as part of an elaborate scam that involved cheating a resident of Tumkuru, Karnataka.
According to Gomes, she befriended an Italian national (or so he claimed) via Facebook, who promised to find her a job abroad and subsequently take her there. He then convinced her to share her bank account details.
However, consequent to her sharing the bank account details, the Italian national used her account to get people he was scamming to deposit money.
“Her bank details were misused by the Italian national as a result of which the alleged offence has been registered against her,” Gomes said in her bail application.
A complaint has been registered in Tumkuru in which the complainant alleged that on the promise of winning a prize of Rs 45 lakh, she was asked to transfer an amount of Rs 4.70 lakh into Gomes’ account.
“Taking an overall view of the matter, the present application can be allowed. A limited protection, therefore, needs to be granted to the applicant. In the event of arrest of the applicant in respect of Crime No 84/2022 of the CEN Cyber Police Station Tumkuru, Karnataka, the applicant shall be released on bail on her furnishing a PR bond in the sum of Rs 25,000 with one or more sureties in the like amount for a period of 6 weeks from today,” the Bombay High Court Justice M S Karnik, said.
