In a first by a trial court in Chandigarh, three persons from Rajasthan were convicted in a digital arrest scam — not for making fraudulent calls, but for receiving the cheated money in their bank accounts.

The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Court of Sher Singh held Mahendra Nai, Poonam Chand and Sandeep Kumar guilty under Section 317(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), marking the first conviction of its kind as such cyberfraud cases surged across the country in the last one year.

The convicts were sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment of one year and two months, however, since the accused have already undergone the period of sentence, the court said that convicts be released from custody.

The FIR in the matter was registered on the complaint of Pratipal Kaur with the s

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