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Police person launched a hunt for a cyber fraudster, who posed arsenic an serviceman with the metropolis cybercrime cell, called a erstwhile justice of the Supreme Court, attempting to endanger him that a mobile fig registered successful his sanction was being misused.
The ailment was received done a station astatine the Office of the Commissioner of Police by Bharat Parashar, Secretary General of the Supreme Court.
According to the complaint, connected January 9, 2026, astatine astir 3.05 p.m., J. Chelameswar, erstwhile justice of the Supreme Court of India, got a call. The caller impersonated arsenic an serviceman from the Bengaluru cybercrime compartment and attempted to intimidate him by stating that mobile fig registered nether his sanction was being misused successful the sanction of the government.
The complainant has sought recognition of the chartless caller and initiation of due ineligible enactment against the idiosyncratic involved. Based connected the complaint, the constabulary person registered a case.
In July past year, the Central Division cybercrime constabulary registered a lawsuit against 2 unidentified cyber fraudsters, who, posed arsenic ineligible consultants from the Data Protection Board of India, allegedly tried to intimidate Upa Lokayukta K.N. Phaneendra with a fake case, successful what seemed to beryllium a imaginable extortion bid.
