Base on a tip off, the district police on Thursday night busted a cyber criminal gang and arrested four of its members in Rakaskuto village under Gandey police station in Giridih.
The accused have been identified as Prem Mandal, Pawan Mandal, Sona Mandal and Prakash Mandal .They hail from boundary wall of Jhari Mahto within limits of Gennady police station, SDPOM Manis Toppo said.
The Police also seized 10 mobile phones and 18 fake SIM cards from the accused, while two of them identified accused Sona Mandal and Prakash Mandal have got injured after getting jump from the boundary wall.
According to the police, on receipt of specific information that some cyber criminals have gathered at the boundary wall of Jhari Mahto at Rakaskuto village and having some plan to cheat innocent villagers a raid was conducted by officer-in charge of Gandey PS along with SI, Kuldip Ram , ASI Kamlesh Prasad and others on Thursday evening and were picked up, said SDPO Manish Toppo.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the SP Akhlesh V Varier said that the accused used to call the debit and credit card holders on the pretext of solving various technical problems related to the cards or telling them that their cards could be blocked if they did not share their details. They could have truncation of several thousand of rupees from different account no of the different people of Giridih .SP further added. A Case (115/17)have been registered with Gennady police station under section of 419, 420, 467,468, 471, 120B /34 of IPC act.