Rs 2.5-crore digital arrest fraud case: Chandigarh police arrest 3 more persons

The UT police have arrested three more persons in the Rs 2.5 crore digital arrest cyber fraud case.

The suspects were identified as Anurag (23), alias Vikrant, Abhijeet (24) and Prashant Kumar (20). The action was carried out under the supervision of SP (Cyber Crime) Geetanjali Khandelwal.

In her complaint, Sumit Kaur, a resident of Sector 10-A, had alleged that she was duped out of her life savings by fraudsters posing as officials from TRAI, the police, the CBI and the Supreme Court. On May 3, the victim received a call claiming that her SIM card had been misused and an FIR had been lodged against her. It was followed by a series of high-pressure WhatsApp video calls from individuals impersonating senior officials, including a CBI DIG and a Supreme Court Justice, who convinced her to transfer Rs 2.5 crores to several fraudulently operated bank accounts under the guise of verifying her funds.

Prashant Kumar was arrested on June 22 from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. During questioning, he admitted that his mobile number was linked to a bank account, which was opened by submitting forged documents. He also revealed the involvement of Abhijeet and Anurag in the crime. They were arrested during a police raid in Uttar Pradesh on June 27. Several mobile phones and photocopies of bank account documents were recovered from them.

Earlier, eight persons had been arrested in the case registered on June 1 under various sections of the BNS.