Digital arrest: Haryana cops nab 3 for fraud worth Rs 40 lakh

Three people have been arrested in connection with a digital arrest fraud case of Rs 40 lakh Faridabad Police in Haryana said on Tuesday reported the PTIThe accused were identified as Gaurav Sunny and Harshit hailing from Rajasthan police saidThe were apprehended on Monday and sent on a fourday police remand after producing them in a city court an official saidThe matter came to light when a woman a resident of Omaxe Green Valley in Faridabad lodged a police complaint in November last yearAccording to the PTI in the complaint she mentioned that she received a call from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India telling her that her mobile number would be blockedSoon the call was transferred to someone claiming from the Mumbai police On the call she was told that her Aadhaar card was used for a Canara Bank account from which illegal transactions worth Rs 6 crores were made according to the complaintThe cyber thugs then threatened her with the arrest and extorted Rs 40 lakh from herFollowing the complaint a case was registered and the accused were arrestedDuring interrogation it was revealed that Gauravs account was used to transfer Rs 240 lakh of the fraudulent money He had reportedly given the operational details of the account to Sunny who had further shared it with Harshit Harshit used to send the money deposited in the account to the cyber thugs the police saidFurther investigation is underway said the policeMumbai Cyber Police bust Rs 18 crore share trading fraud three heldMeanwhile in an another incidentMumbai Police busted a share trading cyber fraud case and arrested three people for allegedly defrauding people of over Rs 18 crore the police said on TuesdayThe gang lured people into bogus share trading investments with promises of high returns an official saidAccording to the police the probe into the matter was launched after a complaint was filed on 22 April 2025 by a 49yearold Goregaon resident who lost Rs 277 crore to the scam The complainant was added to a WhatsApp group named ldquoK05IIFL Securities Limitedrdquo by unknown fraudsters who posed as investment advisersUsing fabricated trading tips and screenshots of fake profits they convinced him to download a fake trading app named ldquoIIFL Marketsrdquo through a suspicious link the official saidThe victim was persuaded to invest in what was claimed to be block trades QIP and IPOs and transferred large sums into multiple bank accounts When he attempted to withdraw his socalled returns he was further extorted under the guise of taxes and credit checks he saidTechnical tracking and investigations led to the arrest of the suspects from Bandra in Mumbai an official saidwith PTI inputsatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params