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Mumbai: Senior citizen put under ‘digital arrest’ for 12 days
Updated On: 20 November, 2025 07:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Aishwarya Iyer
Scammers posing as Delhi police officers extort nearly Rs 9 lakh; the ordeal began on October 3 when the senior citizen received a WhatsApp call from a man introducing himself as Head Constable
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1 The senior citizen trapped in a digital arrest scam over WhatsApp video calls for 12 days; 2 The victim was threatened with SIM cancellation; told he would be arrested in terror-extortion case; 3 The fraudsters posing as Delhi Police and RBI officials extorted nearly Rs 9 lakh from the 79-year-old. Illustrations/Uday Mohite
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For 12 days, a 79-year-old Kandivli resident lived in fear of being ‘arrested’ after fraudsters allegedly posing as Delhi Police kept him under constant pressure through WhatsApp video calls, accused him of aiding a terror-extortion racket, and forced him to transfer nearly Rs 9 lakh. The Charkop police have registered an FIR and begun tracing the callers.
The ordeal began on October 3 when the senior citizen received a WhatsApp call from a man introducing himself as Head Constable Gupesh Kumar. The caller claimed the victim’s SIM would be blocked within two hours because it had been used by a man named Mohammad Nawab Malik in an extortion case. “He was told not to tell anyone or he would be arrested,” the police said.
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