Overview
- Crime branch cyber cell teams identified 627 seniors living alone in Zone 1 and visited them at home to explain the scheme and prevention steps.
- Twenty-five officers and 27 personnel from five regional cyber police stations took part, distributing pamphlets in Marathi and English.
- Fraudsters impersonate police, CBI, ED or RBI officials, claim bank accounts are tied to crimes, and coerce transfers over phone or video.
- Police stress that “digital arrest” has no basis in law and legitimate agencies do not detain people over video calls or seek payments.
- Victims are often isolated senior citizens told not to inform anyone, so authorities urge immediate reports to local stations, 1930/100, or cybercrime.gov.in.