Four youths who had been part of a cybercrime syndicate with links to Pakistan had been arrested in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, an official mentioned on Sunday (December 10). The accused individuals allegedly cheated an individual in Punjab of Rs 1.63 lakh and a cellphone quantity used within the crime led the investigators to attain Hazaribagh.
10 cell phones, 36 SIM playing cards, 37 debit and bank cards, 12 passbooks and chequebooks, a two-wheeler, a four-wheeler and different articles had been recovered by the police from them, the police mentioned.
The 4 individuals, who had been within the age group of 19 to 25, had been nabbed within the Korra space, round 105 km from Ranchi.
Hazaribag Superintendent of Police Manoj Ratan Chothe mentioned that in interrogation, the accused confessed that they had been working below a Pakistani handler.
“Since it is a serious matter, we are trying to find out whether this money was meant for cyber crimes or any other purpose which is against the interest of the nation,” the official mentioned.
However, Chothe didn’t reveal a lot on the case for the sake of investigation.
The SP mentioned that a web-based fraud of Rs 1.63 lakh was dedicated in Punjab on November 28 and the cellphone quantity was discovered to be linked to a spot someplace in Jharkhand.
“After getting the information, we found that the number is active in a locality in Korra. We set up a team and conducted raids. First, we arrested two persons and then, following their interrogation, picked up the other two,” he mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
