Jamtara police, as part of a drive, on Thursday arrested nine cyber criminals from Narayanpur Police station of the district and recovered 24 mobile phones, 26 sim cards and 10 ATM cards from them.

Jamtara SP, Deepak Kumar Sinha while talking to The Telegraph Online on Thursday said, “We have arrested nine persons on the basis of a complaint from a Himachal Pradesh based victim during a joint raid conducted by a team of Karmatand and Narayanpur Police stations.”

“We have so far arrested altogether 250 cyber frauds as part of the drive against cyber crime since January this year on the basis of complaints being received from different parts of the country and have also seized significant amounts of cash on the basis,” he said.

“We are also returning the money to victims as per the complaints after verifying their complaints,” said Sinha and added that the drive will continue as they are looking into all the complaints coming from different parts of the country.

“We have also arrested 11 cyber criminals on September 21 during which we also recovered 27 mobile phones, 37 SIM Cards and one laptop from them,” Sinha further said.

Notably, Jamtara has earned the notoriety of being the hub of cyber criminals of the country and earlier several cases of cyber frauds have taken place from Jamtara .

On August 30, Delhi Police arrested 14 cyber criminals after raids were conducted in association with Jamatara Police. Earlier, several incidents of cyber frauds have taken place from residents of different parts of the country including Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, UP, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.