Bengaluru, Nov. 26 -- The Bengaluru central crime branch police were reportedly stunned by the "hacking skills" employed by the 25-year-old computer programmer who was arrested last week.

Joint police commissioner (Crime), Sandeep Patil said that the accused Srikrishna aka Shreeki has hacked nearly 30 websites which mainly deal with bit-coins.

"Our interrogation has revealed that he has hacked many websites and had sought the court's permission to take him into our custody. The court has remanded his police custody on Thursday, we are investigating him further about his various roles," he said.

The police added that Prasid Shetty and Suneesh Hegde - a real estate businessmen and resident of Sadashivanagar, had been ably assisting him in ...