India, April 11 -- Three men, including a former Ranji Trophy player from Gujarat, have been arrested for allegedly providing their bank accounts to a cyber fraud network involved in a Rs.32 lakh "digital arrest" scam.

The accused include 24-year-old former Ranji trophy player Rishi Tushar Arote, Harsh Dilip Panchal and Nikhil Keshavram Tiwari, all from Vadodara. They are suspected of routing defrauded money through their accounts, which police say were used in multiple cases across Mumbai, Goa, Bengaluru and Gujarat. The police said that Arote, the son of a cricket coach, had abandoned his cricket career and picked cyber fraud as a "shortcut" to make money.

The case stems from a complaint by Maitreyi Vidyasagar, 21, a Goregaon resident...