The game of defrauding lakhs and crores of rupees in the name of digital arrest by showing the fear of arrest to some after arrest of their son in a rape case and to others after finding drugs in the parcel, proved to be bloody in Uttar Pradesh. In Agra, a government school teacher died of shock during digital arrest after a similar call from a cyber thug. The cyber thug had called the female teacher and told her that her daughter had been caught in a sex racket and she would be arrested and sent to jail along with the call girl. If she wants to save her daughter then transfer one lakh.
Malti Verma, a resident of Abaltiya, Agra, died four days ago in an attempt to scare people by giving bad and false information to defraud money and in that panic to get people to transfer money online. Malti Verma was working as a government teacher in Achhnera Girls Junior School in Agra. The son of the deceased teacher has alleged that his mother was duped into digital arrest. The mother was told that her daughter had been caught in prostitution. Give one lakh rupees, otherwise she will go to jail.
The son said that his mother was shocked by such ridiculous talk about her sister and she died. Four days after the death of the teacher, the son approached the police to file a case. The son has shown the call records of the mother’s mobile phone in which WhatsApp calls are seen ten times from a Pakistani number. The Pakistani number has posted a photo of an Indian police officer in police uniform, which must be the picture available on the internet.
A few days ago, in Meerut, Sarita Jain, mother of poet Saurabh Jain and mother-in-law of poet Anamika Amber, was also called on WhatsApp from a Pakistani number and told that her son was trapped in a rape case and he was under digital arrest. Saurabh Jain was threatened to be sent to jail if he did not pay Rs 1 crore, but in the meantime, when Saurabh called his mother on another number for some work, the attempt to cheat was caught. The Pakistani number that called Sarita had posted the photo of Bihar’s famous IPS officer Vikas Vaibhav.
The biggest fraud in the name of digital arrest in the country has happened in Uttar Pradesh and that too by a doctor of PGI, Lucknow. In the month of August, thugs kept PGI Lucknow’s doctor Ruchika Tandon under digital arrest for seven days and transferred Rs 2.81 crore. During this time the thugs also presented him in the online court. Every new incident by the swindlers was an excuse to swindle some more money.
Ruchika Tandon was threatened with a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and was told that her case is a confidential case related to national security, so she should not tell anything to anyone. According to a report in August, a fraud of more than Rs 120 crore was done in India by giving fear of digital arrest from April to August.