Kadapa district police have busted an inter-State gang involved in a cyber crime and arrested one person for duping the public of their money in the name of providing COVID-19 compensation under YSR Bhima.
Meenuga Venkatesh(31), hailing from Miduthur village in Khajipet mandal, gathered mobile phone numbers of ANMs and through them, used to get information about people who had died of COVID-19 in the district. He would then pass it on to a group running a call centre in New Delhi, from where calls would be made to the kin of the deceased, promising to offer them compensation under ‘YSR Bhima’.
Claiming themselves to be government staff calling from the Collector’s office, the accused sought details of the OTP received on their mobile phone to swindle money from their bank account.
