India, July 1 -- LUCKNOW Even as music blared from the cafes and bars that make Summit Building one of Lucknow's busiest nightlife destinations, a fake international call centre allegedly involved in cyber fraud targeting Indian and foreign nationals through a mobile app and other technical scams was busted by the Lucknow Police in a midnight raid.

In what officials described as the city's biggest cybercrime crackdown, investigators detained 119 people, seized 100 laptops, 178 mobile phones and a large cache of digital evidence from the premises.

The nearly 12-hour operation, carried out jointly by the Lucknow commissionerate's Cyber Cell, Cyber Police Station and Crime Branch, began around 1am on Wednesday following a tip-off and conti...