BTech graduate held for running cyber fraud racket, selling banking data to fraudsters

A 28-year-old BTech graduate from Jharkhand’s cybercrime hub, Jamtara, has been arrested in Kolkata for allegedly running a nationwide data racket that obtained confidential personal and banking details from the dark web and sold them to cyber fraudsters across several states through a Telegram channel he operated under the name Baba Kismatwale, police said on Thursday.

The accused, identified as Niwash Kumar Mandal, allegedly ran the channel for over a year, charging ₹15,000 per member as a one-time fee to access the data.