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IITian, banker held in 1.2 crore Maharashtra digital arrest case

Cyber police in Maharashtra arrested six individuals, including an engineering graduate from IIT Delhi and a private bank's operations manager, for their alleged involvement in a digital arrest scam resulting in a loss of Rs 1.12 crore. The arrests followed an investigation into the financial trail of illicit funds, mule accounts, active SIM cards, and cash withdrawals.

State

Multiple States

First reported

September 2026

Agency involved

North Cyber Police station, Mumbai

Arrests

6 individuals

Status

Six accused arrested and investigation into the financial trail is underway.

The full story

Everything you need to know about this case, in one place.

The victim, a 68-year-old retired professional from Dahisar, was targeted over a two-week period. Fraudsters posing as telecom officials and a fake police officer named Vijay Khanna claimed the victim's Aadhaar card was misused in a money laundering case. The scammers used a WhatsApp video call displaying a police logo and threatened the senior citizen with arrest and public humiliation if he informed his family.

Under pressure, the victim liquidated his fixed deposits and transferred funds as instructed, while also being forced to report his location every two hours. The fraud was uncovered when the victim's daughter discovered the scheme, after which the family filed a complaint on the cybercrime helpline, prompting an FIR at the North Cyber Police station.

Not yet reported: The articles do not mention the full identities of all six arrested suspects or the precise total number of individuals eventually implicated in the wider network.

Where the case stands

The latest position in the reports we read.

Six individuals have been arrested by the cyber police, and investigators are continuing to probe the wider network involved in managing the mule accounts and moving the illicit funds.

Who was affected

Described in general terms; we do not name victims.

A 68-year-old retired professional from Dahisar, Mumbai, who lost Rs 1.12 crore after being targeted by cybercriminals.

Timeline

Key dates as reported, oldest first.

July-AugustA 68-year-old retired professional from Dahisar was duped in a digital arrest scam over a span of two weeks.

Two weeks after the scam beganThe victim's daughter discovered the fraud and the family complained to the cybercrime helpline, leading to an FIR at the North Cyber Police station.

How the scam worked

The method described in the reports.

Fraudsters called the victim pretending to be telecom authority representatives, claiming his Aadhaar card had been misused.
The call was transferred to a fake police officer who alleged that an offense had been registered against the victim in Delhi for money laundering and SIM card misuse.
Scammers sent fake documents featuring Supreme Court and government letterheads over WhatsApp to intimidate the victim.
The victim was placed under virtual surveillance via a WhatsApp video call and ordered to report his location every two hours.
The victim was coerced into liquidating his fixed deposits and transferring money to bank accounts associated with a gold trading firm, which were controlled using mule accounts and illegally acquired SIM cards.

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Sources and further reading

Optional. The full story is above; these are the original reports it was prepared from.

timesofindia.indiatimes.comOriginal report The Times of IndiaOpens via Google News

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