Retired school teacher duped of Rs 52 lakh in digital arrest case in TN

TIRUCHY: A 74-year-old woman in Tiruchy was cheated of Rs 52 lakh by fraudsters online who posed as Bengaluru police officials and threatened her with arrest in a fabricated human trafficking case.

According to the police, the woman, a retired government-aided school teacher was a resident of Thiruvanaikoil. On February 7, she received a call from an unknown number who identified himself as an officer from the Bengaluru city police. He alleged that she had handed over her Aadhaar card and ATM card to a man named ‘Sathakathan’, who was allegedly involved in human trafficking and had received Rs 3 crore as bribe.