Kolkata, Feb 19 || A man has been arrested from Haryana on charges of online fraud, Kolkata Police said on Thursday.
According to police sources, fraud was committed using an APK file called 'M Paribahan'. The accused was traced based on the server and multiple IP addresses of this file.
According to police sources, the name of the arrested person is Deepak Kumar. He is originally a resident of Jhajjar in Haryana.
A complaint was filed with the Cyber Crime Police Station of Kolkata Police on September 12 last year.
Deepak was arrested on Wednesday after investigating a fraud of over Rs 5 lakh.
Last year, the accused messaged a person informing him that an e-Challan had been issued in the name of his vehicle.
A link was sent to him to find out more about it. On clicking on that link, Rs 60,000 was withdrawn from the complainant's account.
After that, the police searched based on the IP address of that app. The name of 29-year-old Deepak came up from that source. After that, a notice was sent to him. His mobile and SIM were confiscated.