Overview

• The Cyber Cell tracked Seetaiah Kilaru, 34, to Hyderabad’s Yapral and arrested him on September 21 before bringing him to Pune on transit remand.
• He is in police custody until September 28 after a court order, with investigators examining financial trails tied to the alleged fraud.
• According to the FIR, the institute sent ₹56 lakh, ₹46 lakh and ₹1.44 crore between July 25 and August 26 after communications from a purported IIT Bombay professor.
• Police say the scheme involved impersonating Raghunath Shevgaonkar and a fictitious ‘Dr Chethan Kamath’ while demanding 2% “fees” for supposed DRDO projects.
• Officers seized 10 debit cards, 13 passbooks, 15 cheque books, multiple devices, gold purchase receipts and two cars, and note he holds a UK PhD and faces prior cybercrime cases in Telangana.