The police claim to have solved cybercrime cases involving fraud of Rs 50 lakh, committed in the last few months. During a press conference held by Patiala SSP Varun Sharma today, the department said it had traced and returned over 70 lost mobile phones to their owners.

Officials said in one of the cases, a city resident had ordered a phone worth Rs 1.85 lakh from an online portal. The individual received the delivery, but later applied for a return. “The buyer committed a fraud as he pasted the IMEI number of the original phone on a dummy device and returned it to the delivery boy who collected it from him. The company viewed it as a fraud, but held the delivery boy responsible for the loss,” an official said.