DHANBAD, May 24 -- Jamtara police arrested five cyber fraudsters in a coordinated operation across the Karmatanr and Narayanpur police station areas, busting a gang accused of cheating people through digital payment platforms such as PhonePe and Google Pay.

Acting on specific intelligence, a special team from the cyber police station raided Matand village under Karmatanr police station and Lokniya village under Narayanpur police station. During the operation, police arrested Vishnu Mandal,19, Sachin Mandal, 19, Sagar Nayak, 27, Kishore Das, 23, and Bishwajit Das, 25, who is originally from Durgapur in West Bengal.

Police recovered 15 mobile phones, 14 SIM cards, four ATM cards, two laptops and Rs.50,000 in cash from the accused.

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