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- Mumbai cyber police have arrested six people for allegedly cheating a 68-year-old retired businessman of Rs 1.12 crore through a 'digital arrest' scam.
- The accused include a web developer with a BE from IIT Delhi and an operations manager at a private bank.
- The fraudsters posed as telecom department officials and claimed the victim's Aadhaar details were linked to a money laundering case in Delhi.
- The victim was kept under a fake 'digital arrest' via video calls for about two weeks in July-August, shown forged documents bearing government logos and Supreme Court references, and threatened with arrest of his family.
- Police have traced the money trail to the account of a gold trading company, and the arrests show how organised digital arrest rackets have become.
What to watch next
- Whether police recover any part of the Rs 1.12 crore from the gold trading company's account.
- Whether more arrests follow as police investigate the wider network.
- Whether investigators identify the mastermind who posed as police officer 'Vijay Khanna'.
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Named India · Ajay Sharma · Bajrang Bansode · Chintan Desai · G Gohel · Mumbai Police · Pramod Kamble · Rakesh Jain · Shakar Tyagi · Sunil Lokhande · Tariq Momin
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