Noida: With the arrest of four men, the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved in duping crores of rupees from 1,500 people after obtaining the OTP numbers of their credit/debit cards. The four accused -- Sanjeet alias Sandeep, Baldev Singh, Tapeshwar alias Rahu Chaudhary and Gajendra alias Rahul Singh -- were held at around 12.30 pm from Ghaziabad by the Noida field unit of the STF, a senior official said.

"It has emerged that so far they have duped over 1,500 people and made over Rs 1 crore by duping them. More details are being worked out. The gang especially targeted paramilitary and Army officials," Deputy Superintendent of Police of the STF Raj Kumar Mishra said. Data of around 50,000 customers of various banks has been recovered from the gang, he said. Three mobile phones, data related to bank accounts and credit/debit cards of several people, among other documents, he added.