Kolkata, Feb 17 || A SIM box racket was busted with the arrest of one person in connection with over Rs 3 crore cyber fraud case in Kolkata, the police said on Tuesday.
The arrest was made for duping a Kolkata couple of over Rs 3 crore by threatening them with digital arrest.
The accused, identified as Mohammad Amjad (38), was arrested on Monday after the police conducted a raid in Amherst Street in central Kolkata.
Police sources said the name of the accused was learnt after interrogating Abir Sheikh who was arrested by Bidhannagar Police recently for running a similar SIM box ring.
According to the police, the crime took place in October last year.
Allegedly, Bidhan Ghoshdastidar, a businessman from Behala, was duped by a person posing as an official of a courier company and saying that banned drugs were found in a parcel in his name.
The police said that the CBI and ED were investigating him. After that, another person introduced himself as CBI officer Amit Kumar and made a video call to Bidhan. During the video call, Bidhan and his wife were threatened with arrest.