Panchkula police arrest 2 for duping elderly man in digital arrest scam
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The accused were arrested on July 29 from Dadoli Village in Hisar.
The investigation, led by SI Saurabh Singh and under the supervision of cyber SHO Yudhveer, led to the arrest of the accused individuals, Manish and Amit, both residents of Dadoli village, Hisar. Both accused have been remanded to five days of police custody, where officials will investigate their mobile phones, bank accounts, digital transactions, and connections with other accomplices involved in the scam.
According to the victim, 83-year-old Rajendra, a retired HMT employee from Sector 16, Panchkula, the fraud began on Jan 16 when he received a WhatsApp video call from a person claiming to be an officer from the Hyderabad Police headquarters. The caller informed Rajendra that he was implicated in a serious money laundering case and needed to be in Hyderabad within two hours. When the elderly man expressed his inability to travel, the scammer showed him a video of a person named 'Goyal', who fled abroad after committing fraud.
Rajendra was told that his Aadhaar card was linked to the fraud and that he was digitally arrested.
The scammers continued to manipulate the victim's fear, threatening him with grave consequences if he informed anyone. They kept him under mental control for three days, during which they convinced him to transfer a total of Rs 57,90,000 from his various bank accounts.
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