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A 57-year-old pistillate has been duped of ₹2,05,16,652 by cyber criminals posing arsenic officials of a courier institution and Mumbai Police successful a classical “digital arrest” scam. The unfortunate had sold her 2 plots and an flat to wage the accused earlier approaching the constabulary connected Thursday aft realising she had been cheated for implicit six months.
According to the ailment lodged connected Thursday, the ordeal began connected June 19, 2025, erstwhile she received a telephone connected her mobile wherever the caller claimed that a parcel successful her sanction contained drugs and was linked to her Aadhaar card.
She was told that Mumbai Police unit would “pick her up” for questioning and that she indispensable acquisition verification done a video call.
The complainant said she was forced to instal an app, aft which her email ID was linked to the application. The fraudsters, posing arsenic an Inspector and a Deputt Commissioner of Police (DCP), regularly contacted her — monitoring her activities continuously. Initially speaking successful English, they aboriginal switched to Hindi aft learning that she understood the language.
Over the adjacent respective weeks, the scammers allegedly threatened her that her son’s beingness would beryllium successful information if she did not transportation money. In fear, she sold 2 plots successful Malur, disposed of an flat successful Vignan Nagar, and adjacent took a indebtedness to wage the demanded amounts.
Between June 20, 2025,to till date, she transferred ₹2.05 crore to aggregate slope accounts, including transactions of ₹25 lakh, ₹70 lakh, ₹20 lakh, ₹12 lakh, ₹45 lakh, and respective smaller deposits ranging from ₹49,000 to ₹99,500.
On Thursday, she was told to sojourn a “police station” to cod a no-objection certificate and reclaim her money, but she realised she had been conned aft visiting the jurisdictional constabulary to get the NOC.
Based connected the counsel by the police, the unfortunate filed online complaints connected the 1930 cybercrime helpline earlier approaching the Whitefield Division Cyber Crime Police Sation.
The section constabulary person registered a lawsuit nether respective sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)-2023. Efforts are connected to way down the accused and artifact the accounts wherever the wealth was transfered.
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