On Saturday, police arrested eight cyber criminals, hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from Yamuna Hotel in Bokara. The cyber thugs had been operating from the hotel rooms when the cops nabbed them after getting a tip-off.

A woman was also arrested during the raid. Their four-wheeler – a Scorpio, has also been seized by the police.

Confirming the news and sharing details about the arrest, Chandan Kumar Jha, SP, Bokaro, said, “Police have recovered several passbooks, ATM cards, cheque books, 19 mobile, gold chain, and Rs 4.17 lakhs from their possession.”

According to sources in the police, the gang has been actively cheating people for the past three years. People across the country have been robbed by them. However, the police claimed that the gang of thugs had entered Bokara, two days back.

The modus operandi was simple – team members of the gang would pose as bank executives or call centre executives and call the victims, seek their bank details over the phone and then make online transactions in their favour.

The SP said, “Police on a tip-off conducted a raid at the Yamuna Hotel and found that the gang members were staying in room numbers 206 and 407. They came to Bokaro via road, two days back.”

These cheats would keep moving between places, hire hotel rooms from where they would call people and trap them into sharing their bank details. Later they would transfer the money to their fake bank accounts and then withdraw it from the ATM.

Police found passbooks, cheque books, ATMs, mobile numbers which are on fake names from the hotel rooms. The arrested individuals have confessed before the police that they also have fake bank accounts in the name of other people.

“Those arrested have been identified as Vijay alias Veer Hans of Uttar Pradesh, Atmanand Kumar alias Shambhu, Gaurav Kumar of Bihar Nawada, Mintu Kumar of Bihar Sheikhpura, Avinash Anand of Nalanda, Rajmuni Sehgal of Bihar, Kunal Kumar of Nawada and Anita Kumari wife of Atmanand of Nawada,” said SP.