India, Jan. 3 -- A 25-year-old man from Surat has been arrested for allegedly facilitating a cyber fraud in which Rs.21 lakh was siphoned off from a city businessman and his wife through a malicious file sent under the guise of a traffic e-challan. He provided his bank account details to the fraudsters, enabling them to route and withdraw the stolen money, the police said.

The accused, identified as Hardik Ashokbhai Borda, was brought to the city and produced before a court in Borivali, which remanded him in police custody. The police said that the involvement of at least four others has surfaced and efforts are on to trace them.

According to the police, the complainant, Bhaven Shah, who runs a business with his brother, visited his ban...