Bengal man arrested for creating fake govt website

Kolkata | Wednesday | 24th July, 2019

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New Delhi: A 34-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly making a fake website of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan and cheating nearly 100 people by promising them jobs under the central government scheme, police said on Wednesday. Delhi police arrested Prasenjit Chatterjee from North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday. During investigation, it was found the accused had created a website similar to the official website https://www.pmgdisha.in under the URL link http://wbpmgdisha.in, claiming that it's the official website of the Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan for West Bengal, they added. Based on an investigation, the accused was identified and arrested by a team led by Inspector Bhanu Pratap of the cyber crime unit. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan aims to make six crore rural households digitally literate..