Mohali, June 21 -- In a crackdown on cybercrime amid the ongoing drive to make the state safer, Punjab Police's State Cyber Crime police station has arrested a fraudster involved in multiple cases of OLX rental fraud.

The accused, identified as Paramjit Singh, a resident of Kharar in Mohali, was arrested by inspector Daljeet Singh following an analysis of cyber fraud data reported on the Pratibimb portal of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Union ministry of home affairs (MHA).

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the arrested accused had cheated at least 23 victims belonging to the states from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, duping them of approximately Rs.5 lakh through fa...