Punjab Police has busted an interstate cyber fraud racket and arrested 38 people from a resort during a raid, officials said on Friday.
The raid was conducted jointly by teams of Kapurthala Cyber Cell and the city police station, Phagwara, on Thursday night, they added. The arrested accused, including some women, were taken to Kapurthala in a bus.
The accused individuals belong to various states, including Punjab, New Delhi, Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra, police said.
According to police sources, the group was defrauding people in the United States and Canada under the pretext of offering software solutions. They would hack electronic devices of unsuspecting victims to carry out their fraudulent activities.
One of the accused, who allegedly ran the racket, had leased the resort premises and engaged several people to manage the illegal call centre, the sources revealed.
An FIR was registered in the early hours of Friday. The arrests were made under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including cheating and the Information Technology Act.
During the raid, police recovered 40 laptops, 67 mobile phones, and Rs 10 lakh in cash.
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