Retd merchant navy officer, 100-yr-old dad lose ₹1.29 cr in digital arrest scam

LUCKNOW A 70-year-old retired merchant navy officer and his 100-year-old father fell victim to a digital arrest scam, losing a whopping ₹1.29 crore to fraudsters posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials.

The incident unfolded in Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar, where Surya Pal Singh, a former merchant navy officer, lives with his centenarian father Hardev Singh. According to the FIR, the ordeal began on August 20 when the complainant’s father Hardev Singh received a call from an unknown number wherein the caller introduced himself as Alok Singh from the ‘CBI’ and said that an arrest warrant had been issued against him for money laundering.