Phagwara (Punjab), Sept 19: Punjab Police have busted a major interstate cyber fraud racket and arrested 38 people, including women, during a late-night raid at a resort in Phagwara, officials said Friday.
The operation was carried out jointly by the Kapurthala Cyber Cell and Phagwara city police. The accused, hailing from Punjab, New Delhi, Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, were taken to Kapurthala in a bus.
According to police, the group was duping people in the United States and Canada under the guise of providing software solutions, and would hack electronic devices of unsuspecting victims.
Police sources revealed that the mastermind had leased the resort premises and converted it into an illegal call centre.
An FIR was registered under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including cheating, as well as the Information Technology Act.
During the raid, police seized 40 laptops, 67 mobile phones and ₹10 lakh in cash. (Agencies)
