BHABUA, Sept. 7 -- Kaimur police arrested a key member of an interstate cybercrime gang active across 8 states, officials said on Sunday, adding that the group is accused of siphoning crores of rupees through 'digital arrest' scams using mule bank accounts. The arrested person identified as Punit Tiwary, a resident of Kudasan village under Bhabua town police station, had opened mule accounts in different banks under the names of fake business establishments such as Punit Enterprises, Sujit Enterprises, Suraj Enterprises, Dheeraj Traders and Tiwary Enterprises, using fake documents, police said. The racket spread over Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Delhi, used these mule accounts to receive money from cyber fraud and digital arrests, said Cyber DSP Neetu Singh, who is also the SHO of the cyber police station at Bhabua. The fraud surfaced after the cyber team noticed a suspected current account in a local branch of Axis Bank. Further investigation revealed that the joint account opened in the name of Shyam Enterprises by Dheeraj Kumar and Akhil Singh, that saw a credit of Rs.14,038,939 between April 2025 and March this year, was a mule account actually opened by one Punit Tiwary. Upon checking the NCC RP portal, 8 complaints (related to Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttarakhand) involving amounts above six crore rupees were found registered against this account. This also includes four cases of digital arrest. This account received a 10% to 20% share of the defrauded amount after every transaction, which was then withdrawn by the accused. A case was registered with the Cyber police station on March 15, and the investigation continued, DSP Singh said. Other mule accounts opened by the accused were also detected and after hectic efforts of five months and collecting sufficient evidence, the cyber police team arrested accused Punit Tiwary on Saturday. The accused had disclosed the name of his 10 associates....