Delhi police arrests SIM card retailer for cyber fraud

A 29-year-old a registered SIM card retailer was arrested by the Delhi Police from Jehanabad in Bihar on Saturday after a five-day operation for allegedly supplying over 5,000 illegal SIM cards used in cybercrimes across South Asia, including in China and Cambodia.

Anuj Kumar was arrested after a complaint was registered against him for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 20 lakh. The complainant, Gautam Kumar, a representative of Starcon Infra Projects India, has alleged that man, posing as a director of a company, contacted him via WhatsApp and manipulated him into transferring the money to him, said police.