Deoghar, March 22 Five men were arrested in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Sunday for allegedly defrauding people by sending malicious APK files to their mobile phones and promising them loans under various government schemes, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team apprehended the accused from an area under the Sarwan Police Station limits, a senior officer said.
Deoghar Deputy Superintendent of Police (Cyber) Raja Kumar Mitra said, “The police have seized six mobile phones and seven SIM cards from their possession. The accused were defrauding people in the name of providing loans under the PM Kisan scheme by posing as customer care officials of banks.”
A preliminary investigation suggested that they were cheating people by sending APK (Android Package Kit) files to their mobile numbers, the DSP said.
An FIR has been lodged against them under various sections of the IT Act, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and they have been remanded to judicial custody, he said.