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In a major breakthrough in a high-profile cyber fraud case, a team of Bidhannagar Cyber Police from West Bengal has arrested three youths from Odisha 's Jagatsinghpur district for impersonating central investigation officials and digitally extorting a whopping Rs 1.09 crore from a Kolkata resident.

The accused, identified as Akash Nath, Neelakantha Nayak, and Manoranjan Parida, were arrested from Kujang's Balarampur and Balia areas after a two-day intensive operation. They had allegedly posed as officers from the CBI, ED, and TRAI, and digitally 'arrested' the victim under the pretext of a money laundering investigation.

The cas...