New cyber crime: Noida logs first case of ‘digital arrest’, woman duped of over Rs 11 lakh

Noida: The Uttar Pradesh Police has launched an investigation after a Noida resident found herself at the receiving end of a new cyber fraud trend, wherein she was duped of more than Rs 11 lakh and held under ‘digital arrest’ for a day, officials said on Saturday.

This is the first case in the new trend of ‘digital arrest fraud’ lodged at the Cyber Crime police station in Noida. The thugs posed as police officials who mentioned the names of an IPS officer in the CBI and the founder of a grounded airline, associating the 50-year-old victim in a fictitious money-laundering case.