Police conducted decoy operation, sent officers as cyber experts to crack bank data theft case

Pune Police’s Cyber Crime Cell conducted a decoy operation and their officials played the role of cyber experts to crack the bank data theft case. Eight persons were arrested earlier for allegedly conspiring and trying to sell bank account data — from two prominent banks — containing deposits of Rs 216 crore in total.

Meanwhile, police made two more arrests on Wednesday, a woman and a man, taking the number of arrests in the case to 10 till now.

Pune police said on Tuesday that their cyber crime wing had arrested eight persons, including four IT engineers and a Marathi actor and ad filmmaker, for allegedly trying to sell data of bank accounts — some of them dormant — containing deposits of Rs 216 crore.