The Giridih police on Saturday arrested seven criminals including an engineering student who had allegedly cheated innocent peoples in an online fraud.
Gandaye police of Giridih district raided at Margo village and seized 12 mobile phones, 17 SIM cards and two ATM cards from their possession, said Giridih SDPO Manish Toppo. As per the case details engineering student studying in Odisha identified as Bhim Kumar Mandal and while the others as Devendra Mandal, Govind Mandal, Rahul Mandal alias Sarkari Mandal, Rapesh Mandal and Santosh Kumar Mandal.
All the accused are between 20 to 30 years of age while two persons with criminal background have been identified as Rajesh Mandal and Santosh Kumar Mandal, police sources said.
Police had received several complaints about cyber fraud and illicit calls demanding PIN numbers. “Our team worked on the case and tracked each of the bank accounts in which complaint were received and we finally managed to nab the criminals. The gang had cheated many persons in similar manner in different States,” said SDPO Manish Toppo.