Panchkula, May 5 -- District police arrested a member of a cyber fraud gang from Hyderabad for his role in a digital arrest scam that duped a Pinjore resident of over Rs.80 lakh. The accused, identified as Pathukar Murli Krishna, allegedly opened bank accounts in the name of a fake construction company to route the defrauded money. Another accused, Saurabh Kumar from Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, had been arrested earlier, leading to key leads in the case.

According to the complaint, a 70-year-old retired supervisor from Pinjore was contacted by fraudsters posing as officials from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Maharashtra Police. They falsely claimed that a Subscriber Identity Modu...