Around 4,935 complaints and 286 instances have been discovered to be registered towards the 16-member gang that was busted by officers of the cybercrime police station.

The accused have been arrested when one Ravinder Kumar Dhir of Sector 31 informed the police that he had been duped on the pretext of putting in an electrical energy meter at his flat in Mohali. The name heart of the accused, who hailed from Jharkhand, Bihar and Kolkata, was additionally busted.

As many as 47 cellphones have been recovered from the accused and their particulars have been shared with Centre’s Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Centre, which revealed that 4,935 complaints had been registered towards them, 1,416 in Uttar Pradesh, 537 in Rajasthan, 355 in New Delhi, 348 in Telangana and 322 in Gujarat.