A cybercrime network has rescued 38 young people from Uttar Pradesh who were tricked by phony employment offers from Thailand and other nations. Following their rescue thanks to the Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA) assistance, 21 young people arrived in Lucknow on Tuesday evening. The people who were saved are from districts like as Gonda, Ambedkar Nagar, Varanasi, Kushinagar, and Lucknow.

They were taken on a Sahibabad depot bus from Delhi to Lucknow late at night, where they were interrogated at the Reserve Police Line by the Cyber Crime Cell and LIU (Local Intelligence Unit). In the meanwhile, 17 young people from Ghaziabad who were also taken captive are being questioned.

540 Indian citizens who were stranded in the South Asian “golden triangle,” which linked Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar, have been successfully released by the federal government. On Monday and Tuesday, they were transported to Delhi on Indian Air Force C-17 planes. Of them, 38 were from Uttar Pradesh, including 21 from Lucknow and 17 from Meerut.

The LIU and Cyber Crime Cell led the party of 21 from Lucknow to Charbagh before leading them to the Reserve Police Line for interrogation. Late into the night, the grilling went on.

The young people who had been saved were first sent to Thailand’s Mae Sot Airport. They were then transported to Delhi on a special Indian Air Force aircraft. 266 men and 17 women were returned after the operation’s first phase, which was carried out late Monday night. Another 257 people returned on Tuesday for the second round.

To make their homecoming easier, the Uttar Pradesh administration was in close communication with the MEA for months. The boys will now be placed in the care of the local district police, who will also keep an eye on them.

The recovered people, many of whom have BTech and MBA degrees, were enticed to Thailand and other nations with the promise of lucrative positions in digital marketing and sales, according to police reports. But when they got there, they discovered the employment offers were phony. They were coerced into engaging in cybercrime activities after being unlawfully trafficked over the border.

More victims will be safely returned as the MEA keeps up its efforts to combat bogus employment schemes that operate in Southeast Asian nations.

Investigations revealed that a large number of the recovered adolescents were motivated to make fast money overseas by the Akshay Kumar film Dunki. They were promised hefty wages of Rs 70,000 a month by the agents.

Once there, they were confined to a single facility and made to operate in a setting similar to a contact center, using scripted web conversations to trick American residents. Many were able to send money home while being in captivity.