India, May 27 -- A man and a woman, employed in Dubai, were arrested from Gurugram on Tuesday for allegedly operating an illegal call gateway racket that enabled cyber fraud gangs abroad to target victims across India through stock market investment and digital arrest scams, police said.

The accused, a 32-year-old man from Dariyapur and a 25-year-old woman from Dhana village, both in Jhajjar, were allegedly running SIM boxes from a rented apartment in Emerald Plaza society in Sector-65. Police said four SIM boxes, routers and other communication devices were recovered during a raid at the apartment on April 2, but the duo had been absconding since then.

Investigators said the accused had rented the apartment on instructions of a foreign...