AGRA, Feb. 22 -- Continuing with its crackdown on cybercrime, police in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district early on Sunday carried out an extensive search operation in two villages of that district's Shergarh area and arrested 34 people for their alleged involvement in cyber fraud.

Led by Suresh Chandra Rawat, SP (rural), Mathura, a police team comprising 240 personnel along with 13 police station in charges besides other officials carried out the operation. Rawat said the action was taken on the direction of Shlok Kumar, SSP Mathura, as part of the crackdown on cyber fraudsters maligning Mathura's image.

"This campaign was undertaken in Janghawali and Bishambhara villages which are notorious for such acts of cyber fraud and traced as hot...