Dehradun, March 31 -- The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a man who was absconding for six years in a fake call centre case. He allegedly tricked people in India and abroad into installing a computer application under the pretence of providing Microsoft Corporation's services. Then he created problems in the victims' computers and forced them to take paid services for fixing these issues. His partners had already been arrested earlier by the police. He was running a pub in Goa and was arrested from Sector 18, Noida, police said.

According to the STF, in 2019, Microsoft Corporation's legal advisor, Bhupinder Singh Bindra filed a complaint against Praveen Kumar and his partners, Ranjan Kumar and Mayank Bansal. They were r...