India, July 15 -- The Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police has arrested four alleged members of an interstate mule bank account racket for their involvement in a Rs 2.47 lakh cyber fraud in which a Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) official was duped through a fake Blue Dart courier delivery call. The accused have been identified as Arbaz Daniyal alias Labbu (20), Jimmy Bathla (41), Abdul Wadood (27) and Aniket Verma (25). Police said none of them has any previous criminal record. They were arrested during coordinated raids in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. An e-FIR was registered on June 16 under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after Satender, a resident of Babarpur and Deputy General Manager at Delhi Transco Limited, lodged a complaint. Also Read - MCD rolls out EduLife 2.0 for schools According to police, the victim received a call from a fraudster posing as a Blue Dart courier executive regarding the delivery of a parcel. During the conversation, he was persuaded to dial a number and activate call and SMS forwarding on his mobile phone. This enabled the fraudsters to divert incoming calls and banking one-time passwords (OTPs), allowing them to withdraw Rs 2.47 lakh from his bank account. Tracing the money trail, investigators found that Rs 80,000 had been transferred to a bank account belonging to Arbaz Daniyal, which was allegedly being used as a mule account to receive and channel proceeds of cyber fraud. Also Read - CM serves up 'Mayur' Using financial analysis, technical surveillance and field intelligence, police identified beneficiary account holders and facilitators operating from Kashipur in Uttarakhand and Mirzapur, Lucknow and Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Simultaneous raids led to the arrest of all four accused. During interrogation, Arbaz allegedly disclosed that he had opened the bank account on Jimmy Bathla's instructions in exchange for Rs 50,000. Police alleged the accused sold mule bank accounts through Telegram to cyber fraudsters, exposing an interstate laundering network. Further investigation is underway to identify other members.

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