Cyber thugs dupe man of Rs 2L through ‘digital arrest’

A resident of Sector 9 was ‘digitally arrested’ by cyber criminals for about three hours. They questioned him on the pretext of his ‘involvement’ in a money laundering case.

After the digital arrest through a video call, the cyber thugs also got Rs 2 lakh transferred from him. An FIR was registered at the Cyber West police station.

According to the complaint filed by Ranjeev Kumar of Surya Vihar, Sector 9, on May 25, he got an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) call. The caller said he would block all his numbers linked with his Aadhar card.