CBI cracks down on digital arrest syndicates, searches at 12 locations across country

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested four members of a cybercrime gang who had extorted more than Rs. 7crore through “digital arrest” from a Rajasthan resident, following raids in 12 locations across the country including Mumbai and Krishnagar in West Bengal.

The complainant, a Jhunjhunu resident was kept on “digital arrest” for over three months and total Rs. 7.67crores extorted from him 42 times by the gang posing as officers employed with different probe agencies.