Anuj Kumar was arrested after a complaint was registered against him for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 20 lakh.

A 29-year-old a registered SIM card retailer was arrested by the Delhi Police from Jehanabad in Bihar on Saturday after a five-day operation for allegedly supplying over 5,000 illegal SIM cards used in cybercrimes across South Asia, including in China and Cambodia.

Anuj Kumar was arrested after a complaint was registered against him for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 20 lakh. The complainant, Gautam Kumar, a representative of Starcon Infra Projects India, has alleged that man, posing as a director of a company, contacted him via WhatsApp and manipulated him into transferring the money to him, said police.

DCP (South East) Ravi Kumar Singh said, “We recovered 5,000 illegal SIM cards and 25 cellphones during the operation. Till now, about 250 SIM cards have been found to be active.” A bank account, that allegedly held Kumar’s Rs 20 lakh, was frozen through the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal, said police.