Chandigarh, July 13 -- The cyber crime police station has arrested three persons involved in two online fraud cases, unearthing an inter-state racket operating across Kolkata, West Bengal, and Manimajra, Chandigarh. The total amount defrauded from victims in both cases stands at Rs.36.2 lakh.

The first case was registered on the complaint of Shukla Mahajan, a resident of Sector 39-B, who received multiple OTP alerts on February 28 regarding unauthorised transactions from her IndusInd Bank account.

Subsequent investigation revealed that Rs.2 lakh had been transferred to an ICICI Bank account registered in the name of Waris Ali, 29, a resident of Alipore, Kolkata.

Acting on technical analysis of call records and KYC documents, a police t...