Retired judge from Telangana’s Neredmet loses Rs 1.7 crore in digital arrest

HYDERABAD: A 73-year-old retired sessions judge from Neredmet lost Rs 1.66 crore to fraudsters who kept him under digital arrest for nearly 10 days.

According to police, the victim received a call on February 23 from a person identifying himself as a senior CBI officer named Deepak Kumar. The caller falsely alleged that the victim had been using two mobile numbers to make inappropriate calls to women and claimed that an FIR had been registered against him at Indiranagar police station in Bengaluru.