Based on a tip-off, the Dumka police on Friday busted a cyber criminal gang and arrested four of its members at Kenduwatard village area within limits of Margomunda police station here on Friday, The police also seized seven Samsung mobile phones, two diaries, one ATM card ,two additional sim and cash worth Rs 26,000 from the accused,Cyber Dy SP Ram Samad told the Pioneer .
According to reports the accused have been identified as Tilak Kumar Mandal, Mithun Kumar Mondal son of Bahadur Mandal Jitendra Kumar Mandal and Raj Kumar Mandal son of Rup lal Mandalfrom Kenduwatard village under Margomunda police station area of Dumka.
Cyber DY SP said that many more gangs are still operating across the region. The accused are between 25-30 years of age. Some of them are working under the guidance of their senior cyber criminals and extended family members, Samad added.
Cyber Dy SP told the pioneer today mostly cyber criminals used to pose themselves as bank manger and officials use to ask for ATM pins from the customers and after which they use to online transact the funds in their accounts.
Police sources said Jarmundi police in charge Vishnu Prasad Chaudhary and other forces have been successful in nabbing all four cyber criminals .Our team worked on the case(59/17) and tracked each of the bank accounts in which complaint had transferred money of Rs 14,000 of Panchwati Devi, who had enrolled FIR with Jarmundi police station in the month of August,22,2017 and we finally managed to nab the four criminals. The gang had trapped many persons in similar manner in different places ,said Dy SP.