No provision for ‘digital arrest’ worldwide; report cybercrimes at earliest: Experts

Posing as CBI and RBI officials, suspected cybercriminals recently put a retired banker and his wife under “digital arrest” for five days in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district and convinced the elderly couple to transfer more than Rs 1 crore to them.

A senior doctor from Lucknow’s SGPGIMS lost Rs 2.81 crore under a similar ruse in August while reports of such crimes have also emerged from Noida and Varanasi, among other places in the state.