Cyber-fraud gang duping bank customers on pretext of KYC updates busted, 4 held: Delhi Police
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has busted a major multi-state cyber-fraud syndicate allegedly involved in duping bank customers on the pretext of updating their KYC details and arrested four men from Jharkhand and West Bengal, an official said on Saturday.
The accused have been identified as Shiv Kumar Ravidas (22), Sanjay Ravidas (33), Dinesh Ravidas (29) and Shubham Kumar Barnwal (25), he said.
"The syndicate members posed as bank officials and created a sense of urgency among the victims regarding KYC updates. They allegedly induced people to install malicious APK files on their mobile phones, which enabled them to gain unauthorised remote access to banking applications and personal financial data," the senior police officer said.
Police said the accused used the compromised credentials to fraudulently avail loans, transfer funds into mule accounts and withdraw the cheated money through ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) machines and other banking channels.
The case came to light following a complaint from a Sagarpur resident who reported receiving calls and messages from unknown persons impersonating bank officials in December 2025.
She was persuaded to click on a malicious link sent via an online messaging application. Subsequently, she received SMS alerts about a loan of Rs 8.33 lakh being processed on her credit card and unauthorised transactions amounting to Rs 5 lakh and Rs 3.3 lakh. She denied authorising any such transactions, following which a case was registered.
Police found that the accused were operating from areas near Jamtara in Jharkhand and frequently shifting locations between Jharkhand and West Bengal to evade arrest.
Coordinated raids led to the apprehension of three accused from the Nirsa area of Jharkhand's Dhanbad district while they were allegedly calling and targeting victims. The fourth accused was arrested from Hooghly in West Bengal.
During the operation, police seized 10 mobile phones, 13 SIM cards, clothing allegedly used during ATM withdrawals and digital evidence, including malicious APK files, phone data, Excel sheets containing bank details and transaction messages.
Preliminary interrogation revealed that different members had specific roles, including procuring APK files and mule accounts, making calls to victims, handling bank accounts and withdrawing cash, police said.
Further investigation is underway.
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Fact-check: Viral video claiming seizure of arms, ammunition from militants in Manipur is misleading
A video showing a large cache of arms, ammunition and cash laid out on the ground has been circulating on social media, with claims that the haul was recovered by the Indian Army during a raid against militants in Manipur. However, a fact-check by Alt News has found these claims to be false.
The video was widely shared on X by several users. One such post by an account named @TIgerNS3 on June 10 claimed that the Indian armed forces had recovered “big stocks of guns, arms and ammunition with huge money from anti-liberation social elements of Manipur”, tagging the alleged militants as “Kuki terrorists”. Another user, Jitendra Pratap Singh (@jpsin1), shared the same video earlier with a caption suggesting that it showed a major arms recovery by the Indian Army in Manipur.
Alt News, while verifying the video, noted a crucial visual detail. The men seen in camouflage uniforms in the clip were wearing insignia marked “BNRA”. BNRA stands for the Burma National Revolutionary Army, a relatively new armed group in Myanmar that was formed on September 9, 2023. Alt News compared the insignia visible in the viral video with images posted on the official Facebook page of the BNRA and found them to be identical, confirming that the armed men in the video belong to the Myanmar-based group.
Further examination of the video revealed the presence of a flag with blue, red and green colours and a white circle at its centre. A reverse image search identified this as the flag of the Chin National Defence Force (CNDF), the armed wing of the Chin National Organisation, a rebel group operating in Myanmar’s Chin State, which borders India’s Manipur.
Alt News also traced the origin of the video through reverse image searches of its keyframes. This led to a Facebook post dated April 24, where the same video was shared with a caption written in the Mizo language. The caption roughly translates to a claim that a group referred to as the “CB group”, likely the Chin Brotherhood, had defeated forces in Falam village and seized weapons and money.
Digging deeper, Alt News found that the video had earlier been published by Myanmar-based media outlet Khit Thit Media on April 10. According to the Burmese-language caption accompanying the clip, the video showed weapons and ammunition seized after the capture of Falam township in Chin State on April 9 during fighting against Myanmar’s military council. Several other Myanmar-based news outlets had also reported on the same development.
Based on these findings, Alt News concluded that the viral video has no connection to Manipur or any operation by the Indian Army. The footage is from Myanmar and depicts arms seized by rebel groups during clashes in Chin State. Claims circulating on social media linking the video to militant raids in Manipur are false and misleading.
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