India, Jan. 10 -- Police in West Bengal's Kolkata have arrested 11 people in connection with a nationwide crackdown on a digital arrest scam, claiming to have resolved over 930 complaints across the country, The Times of India reported on Thursday.

The arrests include mastermind Chirag Kapoor, also known as Chintak Raj, a resident of JP Nagar in Bengaluru, who claimed to be a software engineer. He had managed to evade arrest for seven months while running his crime syndicate.

"We arrested him in a raid at his residence around 4:30 am. The accused claimed that he was a software engineer. However, we need to ascertain his antecedents," the report quoted a Bengaluru-based investigating officer as saying.

Several electronic devices were se...