Cybercrime gang from Delhi arrested

A gang of cyber crooks, who were wanted in connection with an online fraud committed in Mydukur, have been arrested by a special team of

Kadapa

police from Delhi. The gang had cheated a woman of Rs 10,000 in the garb of insurance officers last month and were on the run.

Police said the accused called Giddaluru Umadevi of Mydukur town on the pretext of depositing some bonus in her bank account and managed to persuade her to divulge her ATM card and bank account details.

No sooner did Umadevi reveal the details, an amount of Rs 10,000 got debited from her account. Umadevi then approached the Mydukur police, who handed over the case to the cyber cell at Kadapa.

The cyber cops arrested one Veera Nagaiah, who told the cops that he and three of his friends were offered a call centre job in Delhi by one Siva from Mydukur.

Their job was to call various mobile numbers randomly and secure the bank account details of customers picking up the call by coaxing them with cheap and lucrative offers. They then used to pass on the details to Delhi-based Sumit Bansal, Sivaratri Karthik and Narala Karthik.

Based on Nagaiah’s confession, Kadapa SP KKN Anburajan formed a special team headed by Mydukur inspector, which went to Delhi and arrested the three cyber criminals.

The police also arrested 15 local youth working in the ‘call centre’ and brought them to Kadapa on transit warrant.