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Digital arrest: Bengaluru woman software engineer duped of Rs 31.83 crore

  A 57-year-old woman from Bengaluru has been duped of Rs 32 crore in an alleged ‘digital arrest’ scam. The police have registered a case and started investigating the matter. The fraudsters, posing as CBI officers, kept the woman under constant surveillance through Skype, kept her in a state of ‘digital arrest’ and took advantage of her panic to obtain all her financial information and pressured her for 187 bank transactions.

A software engineer from Indiranagar in the city said in her complaint that the fraudsters kept her under the illusion of ‘digital arrest’ for more than six months until she finally got a ‘clearance letter’. It started on September 15, 2024, with a call from a person claiming to be from DHL Andheri, alleging that a parcel booked in her name contained credit cards, passports and ‘MDMA’ and that her identity had been misused. MMDA is a type of narcotic.

Before the woman could answer, the call was transferred to persons claiming to be CBI officers. These so-called officers threatened her and claimed that ‘all evidence was against her’. The woman was asked to create two Skype IDs and stay on video.

A person named Mohit Handa monitored her for two days. After this, Rahul Yadav kept watch for a week. Another forger, Pradeep Singh, posed as a senior CBI officer and pressured her to prove her innocence. Uma Rani shared her financial details from September 24 to October 22 and transferred a large amount. She deposited an alleged security deposit of Rs 2 crore between October 24 and November 3, followed by further payments for “taxes”.

The victim allegedly received a “clearance letter” on December 1, but due to stress, she fell seriously ill and it took her a month to recover. After December, the fraudsters demanded processing fees and repeatedly delayed the refund till February and then March. All communication stopped on March 26, 2025. “I was defrauded of around Rs 31.83 crore through 187 transactions, which I had deposited,” the victim said.
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