Two men — one from Kanpur and another from Delhi — were recently arrested in separate cases of online fraud by a team from Howrah City Police’s cyber wing.
The total amount duped out of the two victims is close to ₹66 lakh.
Vishal Singh, 28, was arrested from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for allegedly cheating a Howrah resident out of nearly ₹27 lakh.
“The woman was kept under digital arrest for between April 15 and 19 by a person posing as a CBI officer,” said Bishop Sarkar, deputy commissioner of police, in charge of the cyber wing of Howrah City Police.
Officers probing the case tracked Singh to Kanpur. He was brought to the city on transit remand on Friday. A Howrah court remanded him in police custody for eight days.
In an online investment fraud, Surjit Kumar, 35, was arrested from Uttam Nagar in the suburbs of Delhi for allegedly duping a resident of Shibpur out of ₹39 lakh.
“The initial investments that the complainant made fetched good returns, which prompted him to invest close to ₹39 lakh. Within days, he released that he was duped,” Sarkar said.
The cops found that over ₹15 lakh had reached the account of a Delhi-based man and tracked him to Uttam Nagar. Kumar was arrested on Sunday.