India, Dec. 24 -- A Rajasthan teenager has been arrested for allegedly running a digital payment scam by tampering with merchant QR codes at shops. The accused, in his 19 tampered with a QR code of a shop in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, where a customer was cheated of INR 1.40 lakh.

The customer, while buying a lehenga, scanned the manipulated QR code, and the amount was transferred to the bank account of the accused in place of the shop owner, police said on Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Manish Verma, was arrested in Jaipur on Sunday after an inter-State operation. Police said Verma diverted UPI payments by subtly altering genuine QR codes displayed at shop counters, rerouting money to his own bank account while keeping the codes visua...