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In a lawsuit wherever scammers posing arsenic constabulary officers threatened a unfortunate implicit the phone, placed her nether a alleged “digital arrest,” and cheated her of ₹20 lakh, the full magnitude was recovered wrong 14 days by the West Zone Cyber Crime Police Station.
The complainant, S. Latha, 54, lodged a ailment that the fraud connected her started connected December 20, 2025. The caller contacted her and her hubby via video telephone and repeatedly threatened them. For 3 consecutive days, the accused intimidated the couple, prevented them from speaking to outsiders, and did not let them to disconnect the calls. They insisted that each the wealth successful the complainant’s slope relationship beryllium instantly transferred to the slope relationship specified by them, claiming that they would cheque whether immoderate wealth laundering was progressive and past instrumentality the wealth to her account.
Believing these assurances, the complainant personally went to ICICI Bank and deposited ₹20 lakh by cheque into the slope relationship provided by the accused. Later, with the assistance of a friend, she realised that she had been cheated. She instantly registered a ailment done the cyber transgression helpline fig 1930.
During the investigation, constabulary recovered that the wealth sent by the complainant had been credited to an ICICI Bank relationship of Onat Global Trading Pvt Ltd, located successful Visakhapatnam. The constabulary instantly contacted the acrophobic slope and confirmed that the complainant’s funds had been frozen. Acting swiftly, they coordinated with the slope managers and submitted a requisition earlier a Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Saidapet, connected January 2. After obtaining a tribunal order, the aforesaid was forwarded to the ICICI Bank, Visakhapatnam branch, and connected January 7, the full magnitude of ₹20 lakh mislaid by the complainant was promptly credited backmost to her slope account, the constabulary said.
A elder constabulary serviceman said it is noteworthy that the afloat magnitude mislaid by the complainant done the “digital arrest” modus operandi was recovered wrong 14 days owed to swift probe and continuous monitoring.
Further probe is connected to place the accused who contacted the complainant and to verify the slope relationship details provided by them.
