Deoghar Cyber cell police have arrested five cyber criminals at Delipathar village area here on Tuesday. Police have also recovered 28 mobiles phones, 15 passbooks, 6 ATM cards and Rs 25,000 cash from their possession, said, Deoghar Cyber DySP Neha Bala.
Cyber cell sources said that the arrested cyber criminals have been named Lochan Mandal, Ashok Mandal, Rahul Kumar Mandal, Pintu Mandal and Avinash Mandal. All the accused are said to be residents of Delipathar village in Budhai police station area.
According to Deoghar SP Narendra Singh, all are vicious cyber criminals and police have been looking for the accused for a long time.
The SP also stated that money transactions were done through UPI and arrested accused, sometimes possess themselves as bank managers, sometimes be being managers of airport authorities, carried out cyber crime incidents.
This gang is accused of cheating millions of rupees, added Singh.
However, the SP has claimed that 72 cyber crime cases have been registered in Deoghar district in the last one year. In which 39 cyber criminals have been arrested. From them, 349 mobile phones, 485 SIM cards, 150 ATM cards, 58 passbooks, 39 check books, two SBI cards, 8 PAN cards, 9 Aadhaar cards, three voter cards, six laptops, three master cards, three watches, four memory cards, 20 bikes, five four-wheelers, 30 dongles, three swipe machines and six lakh 38 thousand 36 cash have been recovered.