New Delhi: A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating persons online after taking their bank account details on the pretext of resolving their issues, police said Friday. The accused has been identified as Daud Ansari, a resident of Deoghar district in Jharkhand, they said.

On November 15 last year, police received a complaint from a woman who stated that she called a customer care number of a shopping website as she was facing problem in the payment process. When the woman called the number, the accused received the call and pretended to be from the customer care department of the shopping website, a senior police officer said. He then asked her bank account details and a total six unauthorised UPI transactions of Rs 85,896 were made, the officer said.