Digital Arrest: In Ajmer district of Rajasthan, a retired employee was ‘digitally arrested’ and committed cyber fraud. The accused showed such fear that the victim felt helpless and withdrew her entire life’s earnings of more than Rs 86 lakh from the bank and transferred them to them.
A shocking case of cyber fraud has come to light from Ajmer district of Rajasthan. Where a retired bank employee was digitally arrested and showed such fear that he gave more than Rs 86 lakh to the accused to escape. For this, the victim broke all his fixed deposits, in which he had saved his entire life’s earnings for his old age.
I am a CBI officer – Human trafficking case against you.
Actually, this whole matter is of Madanganj Kishangarh in Ajmer district. Where 75 year old Sampatlal Maheshwari lodged a report of this fraud case that happened to him in the cyber police station on Tuesday. The victim told that on November 5, he had first received the message ‘Jai Hind’ on WhatsApp. After the message, a WhatsApp call came. The caller identified himself as Vijay Kumar. Said that he is a CBI officer in Delhi. A money laundering case has been registered against you. The elders got scared after hearing this. The young man called for the second time and said that a young man named Sadakat Khan has been arrested in a human trafficking case. Who has been caught at Delhi Airport. Around 200 ATM cards have been recovered from him. In which one card is yours. After this the old man and his wife got scared.
In fear, elderly couple deposited Rs 86 lakh 70 thousand
The victim told that after two days on November 7, he again received a call from the same person. He also made other people talk to him and said that he is our senior officer. A woman posing as a fake CBI officer said that in this case you can be sentenced to 2 years imprisonment and can also be fined Rs 5 lakh. Along with this he was digitally arrested. Also said that he should not be in contact with anyone, should not talk about this to anyone. Don’t even leave the house. Also connected the cameras installed in his house to his mobile. After this the thugs said that if you want to be free from all this then give us whatever money you have, we will talk to senior officials and get the case closed. Due to fear of jail and disgrace, the elderly couple got about 18 FDs broken and transferred Rs 86 lakh 70 thousand from them to the accounts mentioned by them.