VARANASI, Dec. 9 -- Azamgarh police have arrested fifteen members of an organised gang of cyber fraudsters who cloned government-owned and other mobile applications to cheat beneficiaries financially, they said.

Acting on a tip-off that two members of a gang in Lucknow were planning to commit a major cyber fraud, a police team led by Azamgarh cybercrime police station in-charge inspector Devendra Pratap Singh conducted a raid near Husadiya Chowk in the state capital and arrested Imran alias Samad and Arjun Singh on December 7. Based on their information, raids were conducted at two hotels, and 13 others were also arrested from Lucknow.

Azamgarh senior superintendent of police Anil Kumar said the 15 men hail from UP, Bihar, Delhi, Chhatt...