Overview
- Officers traced Rs 29.5 lakh from a retired banker’s Rs 50.5 lakh loss to a mule account in Ulhasnagar and arrested Ravi Ananda Ambore and Vishwapal Chandrakant Jadhav.
- Police said the couple was kept on a continuous video call for three days, with threats built on fake FIRs and IDs, and registered an FIR under BNS sections and the IT Act.
- In a separate Mulund case, a 67-year-old reportedly transferred Rs 74.24 lakh after callers invoked Abu Salem, issued sham ‘warrants,’ and placed him under a two‑week ‘digital arrest.’
- Pune cyber police registered an FIR after an elderly couple lost about Rs 1.19–1.2 crore through similar coercion; the 82-year-old husband died of a heart attack days later, with no causal link asserted by officials.
- Related probes include a Vasai resident duped of Rs 1.08 crore via a fake crypto–forex platform with a suspect believed to be in Chennai, and Chandigarh arrests in a Telegram job scam with IP traces to Cambodia.