Ghaziabad, Oct. 9 -- The Ghaziabad Crime Branch arrested seven individuals in connection with a nationwide cyber fraud scheme, swindling over Rs 60 lakh from victims using fraudulent motor insurance policies.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Balwant Chaudhary on Friday said the primary accused, Deepak Khanna, along with Rahul and Neeraj Bhati, hatched a conspiracy to establish a fake call centre to extract large sums of money from citizens under the guise of issuing legitimate insurance policies.

The gang set up the fraudulent call centre and created online advertisements on Google Ads in the name of a prominent insurance company using forged email accounts.

As per DCP, unsuspecting citizens routinely made inquiries through...