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The Kannur City Cyber constabulary person arrested a 28-year-old antheral from Punjab successful transportation with a ‘digital arrest’ fraud successful which a squad of fraudsters posed arsenic Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers and cheated a pistillate doc from Thalassery of ₹10.5 lakh.
The accused, identified arsenic Jeevan Ram, a autochthonal of Ludhiana territory successful Punjab, was arrested from a distant colony pursuing a high-risk cognition by the cyber constabulary team. The constabulary said the apprehension came aft a five-day pursuit nether harsh upwind and challenging conditions, arsenic the accused often changed determination to evade detection.
The incidental occurred connected November 30, 2025, erstwhile the fraudsters contacted the doc done a Whatapp video call, impersonating arsenic Mumbai-based CBI officers. They threatened her with a fabricated money-laundering lawsuit and claimed she was nether ‘digital arrest’. The unfortunate was coerced into transferring ₹10.5 lakh to aggregate slope accounts.
Investigators recovered that the defrauded magnitude was aboriginal withdrawn by Jeevan Ram utilizing cheques from the linked slope accounts.
The apprehension was carried retired by a squad led by sub-inspector Prajeesh T.P. of Kannur City Cyber constabulary station, acting connected the directive of City Police Commissioner P. Nidhinraj. The constabulary said further probe was nether mode to place different members of the racket and hint further fiscal links.
