dehradun in a oneofitskind pursuit a team of uttarakhand cyber cell police travelled around 2700km covering six cities in three states uttarakhand up and madhya pradesh and taking eight days to arrest a 23yearold cyber fraudster vijay chawla who has allegedly duped more than 50 people of over rs 1 crore on the pretext of online share trading via a call centre in noidachawla a resident of indore was nabbed by police while probing a case in which a rudrapur resident was duped while investing in his fake online share trading website the case was registered in february against unidentified accusedinspector lalit joshi case investigation oficer who led the team in pursuit of the fraudster told toi on tuesday during the probe the police team had first tracked chawlas fake call centre in noida but by then he had closed it and went into hiding as he came to know that the delhi police were also after himpolice team started chase from indore ended in haridwarjoshi added in april after tracking his electronic footprint we came to know that he was hiding in indore his native place for two months on april 28 a fivemember team left for indore by road in a police vehicle when we reached there he managed to give us the slip and left for gwalior in a black sedan car with four friends hot on his heels the team visited mathura and then vrindavan from vrindavan the accused took the agra eway and went to noida where he used to reside in an upscale society we reached the place but as the society has 54 towers with 27 floors each he again managed to disappear this time for meerut joshi saidwe lost track of him for a while we had to do some guess work to take the haridwar route from there after reaching narsan checkpost in haridwar we checked with toll plaza staff about his vehicle we were told that a black sedan with a madhya pradesh registration number had passedby he saidfinally the team found chawla near bahadrabad toll plaza in haridwar and nabbed him on may 5the mans friends were shocked as they were unaware of his crimes and were under the impression that they were on a road trip during the probe police didnt find any involvement of his four friends including two women and they were allowed to go said the officer adding we covered 2700km in eight days and finally found him