Why India’s betting on new tactic against digital arrest

As another year winds down, a cybercrime epidemic of mindboggling proportions continues unabated in India. Striking with impunity and alarming frequency, there is seemingly no tactic that’s too bizarre and no target that’s out of reach for cyber fraudsters. Earlier this year, a doctor in Gujarat was kept under video surveillance for three months, reportedly losing ₹19 crore during her digital-arrest ordeal. More recently, a former Punjab Police IG was defrauded of more than ₹8 crore in an investment scam. The shock led him to shoot himself in the chest.