Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:59am on 18 Aug 2026,Tuesday India
Three men have been arrested in Patna for allegedly renting their bank accounts to cyber scammers, enabling money linked to multiple fraud cases to be routed through them, police said. The accused named Prabhakar, Amit and Deepak allegedly received between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 for each transaction conducted through their accounts. Police said transactions totalling around Rs 25 crore had passed through the accounts. Cybercrime-related complaints against the three accused have been lodged on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) by complainants from several states, according to DSP Sangita Kumari, in-charge of Patna’s Cyber Police Station. Two accused were arrested in Patna, while the third was arrested from Bihar’s Buxar district. (PC: India Today)
