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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Mateen Hafeez | TNN

First arrest in fake power SMS cases in Mumbai

MUMBAI: It could be the first cyber detection in the string of fake electricity SMS cases in the city. Malabar Hill police on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old waiter, who works in a Navi Mumbai restaurant, for alleged involvement in a fake SMS case in which Rs 1.7 lakh was siphoned from two credit cards of a Nepean Sea Road resident. It was a digital voucher, bought using the complainant's money, that led cops to the accused.

Police arrested Madan Sav, 37, and he was produced before a court later on Wednesday and remanded in police custody till July 11.

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