Overview
- Mumbai cyber police arrested Surat resident Jitendrabhai Dhanjibhai Miyani for providing a current account that received Rs 1.71 crore from a 68-year-old victim coerced into transferring Rs 3.71 crore after a staged video hearing featuring a man posing as ‘Justice Chandrachud’.
- Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police detained two Bhavnagar men in a case where a woman transferred Rs 1.95 crore under threats tied to a fabricated ‘digital arrest’, with investigators linking the proceeds to Dubai-based operators via hawala.
- Delhi Police Crime Branch’s Inter-State Cell arrested Varun in Mohali and Arjun Singh in Gujarat, tracing Rs 30 lakh from an NRI victim and Rs 31.45 lakh from a fake trading-app scheme through layered mule accounts and seizing cards, devices, documents and cash.
- Investigators describe a coercive playbook of incessant video calls, threats of immediate arrest, impersonation of police and officials, and demands to move savings to ‘verification’ accounts under the guise of case inquiries or bail.
- The cases feed into a broader, ongoing probe ordered by the Supreme Court for a unified CBI investigation, with police pursuing additional suspects believed to be operating from abroad.