Noida elderly man, family placed under digital arrest for 5 days, lose Rs 1.10 crore

“The caller also said that my case is with the Mumbai Cyber Crime police, and there are 24 cyber cases against me apart from a case of money laundering with the Crime Branch,” Paliwal told the police.

The scammers, in a series of phone calls, allegedly threatened Paliwal and his family, who were “under surveillance”, and asked him to ensure that his phone had a full battery charge. “On February 3, I saw a man acting as a judge who denied me bail and asked me to transfer Rs 1,10,08,000 within the next three days,” he said in the First Information Report (FIR).

The cyber fraudsters told Paliwal that his Aadhaar card was sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the alleged case.

“The victim was scammed by receiving multiple calls over WhatsApp by different numbers. We are probing the matter,” Preeti Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime, Noida, told The Indian Express.

The police on Thursday registered a case for extortion and cheating under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and slapped relevant sections of the IT Act based on the complaint of Paliwal.