Hazaribag, Dec 10: The police arrested four youths in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, who were part of a cybercrime syndicate with links to Pakistan, an officer said on Sunday.
The quartet allegedly cheated a person in Punjab of Rs 1.63 lakh and a phone number used in the crime led the investigators to reach Hazaribagh.
The police recovered 10 mobile phones, 36 SIM cards, 37 debit and credit cards, 12 passbooks and chequebooks, a two-wheeler, a four-wheeler and other articles from them, the police said.
The four, who are in the age group of 19 to 25, were arrested in a locality of Korra area, around 105 km from Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi.
Hazaribag Superintendent of Police Manoj Ratan Chothe said that during interrogation, the accused confessed that they were operating under a Pakistani handler. (PTI)
