New Delhi, May 27 -- In a dramatic high-altitude operation, the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested two cyber fraudsters from Sarchu, a remote and oxygen-deprived region on the Himachal-Ladakh border, a press release said.

The arrest, part of a real-time interstate chase spanning over 800 km, the systematic misuse of bank accounts belonging to poor rural labourers for laundering proceeds of cybercrime.

The case originated from a complaint registered at the Crime Branch police station, where a woman reported a fraudulent deduction of 69,953 after being duped by a scammer posing as an executive from an online coaching platform.

Investigations led police to Dumka and Godda districts in Jharkhand, where several bank accoun...