Overview
- An e-FIR has been registered and the case has been handed to Delhi Police’s Special Cell/IFSO, which says suspects are yet to be identified.
- The victims, doctors Om Taneja, 81, and Indira Taneja, 77, were coerced between December 24 and January 9–10 into eight RTGS transfers totaling Rs 14.85 crore to multiple accounts.
- Scammers impersonated TRAI and Colaba police, invoked money laundering and “national security,” and used a persona named Vikrant Singh Rajput to sustain pressure.
- The couple were kept under continuous surveillance through video calls, were coached on what to tell bank staff, and were even made to draft letters, including to the Supreme Court.
- The scheme unraveled when calls ceased and the couple, sent to a police station on the pretext of an RBI refund, learned it was fraud; police reiterated that no agency imposes remote ‘digital arrest’ and urged reporting via 1930.