India, Nov. 13 -- A metropolitan magistrate court has granted bail to a 36-year-old Indore-based software developer accused of creating and selling 2,805 malicious Android application kit (APK) files allegedly used by cybercrime gangs to defraud 9,673 people of more than Rs.150 crore across the country, observing that there was no prima facie evidence directly linking him to the fraud that led to his arrest.

The accused, Pankaj Avdhesh Lal Gupta, was arrested by the crime branch's Property Cell following a complaint by a 72-year-old Byculla resident who lost Rs.5.62 lakh after downloading a fake senior citizen card verification application.

According to the police, Gupta allegedly created and sold the malicious applications, disguised a...