Alirapur (Madhya Pradesh): Alirajpur police have arrested an accused from New Delhi in a cyber fraud of Rs 2. 01 lakhs on Monday.
According to district SP Manoj Kumar Singh, Chandani Bano had registered a case against unknown miscreants who extracted the said amount by hacking her bank account. According to her, the accused posed as an executive officer of ICICI Bank and obtained Bano's credit card details and used these details to take out money with the help of an OTP.
Police began tracing the IP address of the fraudster and arrested 24-year-old Rahul Prasad, a resident of Vikas Nagar-Uttam Nagar in New Delhi. The accused has been brought to Alirajpur police station.
Before his arrest, a team of cops, guided by police station in-charge Shivram Tarole was keeping an eye on Rahul's activities. A case has been registered under Section 420 of IPC.
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