Chandigarh, July 28 -- A local court on Monday dismissed the regular bail plea of a man whose bank account was used as a "mule account" to receive and withdraw proceeds of cyber frauds involving fake investment schemes, part-time job scams and digital arrest frauds targeting victims across India.

Additional sessions judge Harinder Sidhu observed that the investigation had traced multiple fraudulent transactions to a bank account in his name. The case originated after the Chandigarh cyber crime police, acting on inputs from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), analysed complaints registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP - 14C) and identified several bank accounts allegedly operating as "mule accounts".

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