Overview

• Budumuru Nagaraju, a 32-year-old former cricketer, was arrested by Hyderabad's cybercrime police for impersonating the Telangana Chief Minister's Officer on Special Duty (OSD).
• He used fake email IDs and WhatsApp accounts to target prominent business leaders, soliciting money under false pretenses of official requests.
• Victims included high-profile entrepreneurs like Krishna Mohan Bollineni of Bollineni Infra Projects, Aravind Sanka of Rapido, and others from Gupta Realty and Country Delight.
• Nagaraju is implicated in 29 prior criminal cases across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, with a non-bailable warrant from a 2020 cybercrime case still pending.
• He has been charged under Sections 66C and 66D of the IT Act and Section 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with his phone sent for forensic analysis as investigations continue.