An 84-year-old retired soldier was allegedly subjected to a digital arrest and duped of ₹ 30 lakh, police said.
Police have registered a case against unidentified persons under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act. Police registered separate cases against unidentified persons in both incidents and are tracing the mobile numbers and bank accounts used in the transactions. Davinder Singh of Phase 3B1 told police that he received a call on September 19 from a person claiming to be from SBI customer care, according to the complaint. The caller allegedly told him that ₹ 1 lakh had been withdrawn using his credit card. The accused persuaded Singh to transfer ₹ 30 lakh from his HDFC and SBI accounts in the name of the Reserve Bank of India, according to the complaint. Urmi Aggarwal, 71, of Ambedkar Nagar, Kharar, told police that she was searching online for the electricity department’s contact number on September 21 after she did not receive her electricity bill. Police said the accused withdrew ₹ 2 lakh from her bank account through eight separate transactions.
Singh told the caller that he did not have such a card. Aggarwal told police that she later realised that her phone had been hacked.
