Overview
- Bengaluru East Cyber Crime police registered an FIR on November 14 after a 57-year-old IT professional said she was held under video surveillance for months and pushed into 187 transfers totaling Rs 31.83 crore.
- Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested six suspects in Lucknow in a case where a 71-year-old woman was kept on continuous video calls and duped of Rs 49 lakh, with funds layered through multiple mule accounts and withdrawn via ATMs.
- Mumbai Police reported 142 digital arrest cases and Rs 114 crore in losses through October 2025 and launched a door-to-door awareness drive reaching 627 seniors living alone in Zone 1.
- Mangaluru CEN Crime Police arrested two men linked to cyber fraud operations that used more than 300 bank accounts and over 250 SIM cards, seizing phones, debit cards, passbooks and chequebooks.
- Authorities stress that digital arrest does not exist in law, warn that seniors living alone are frequent targets, and urge reporting to local police, helpline 1930 or the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.