Two cyber frauds held from Bihar, Rs1.01 crore cash seized

The crime branch of Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has arrested two fraudsters from Nalanda district in Bihar for allegedly impersonating an executive of a cement company and duping a south Delhi-based trader of ₹57.50 lakh in the name of supplying cement bags in bulk at heavily discounted rates.

Over ₹1.01 crore in cash was recovered from the house of the prime suspect, apart from 10 cellphones that he used for duping people by offering lucrative schemes. The cheats had been involved in fraudulent activities for the past three years and have duped scores of people to the tune of over ₹5 crore, police said.

“We recovered ₹1.01 crore in cash from the house of the prime accused Chandan Kumar Bhuiyan, 25. Bhuiyan revealed that he earned the money through cyber cheating.