A Kerala-based doctor has been rescued in real time from a 'virtual arrest' by "fakesters" who were posing as Mumbai Police officers to defraud him, news agency PTI reported. The cyber cell of Kerala Police, along with the State Bank of India (SBI) officials, on Tuesday collaborated to identify the fraud and managed to recover most of the Rs 5 lakh that was taken from him by the fraudsters, Kottayam Superintendent of Police (SP) Shahul Hameed said at a press briefing.

According to PTI, a cyber cell officer told a TV channel that SBI has a financial tracking system for monitoring suspicious transactions and they flagged a Rs 5-lakh transaction that was made by the doctor on Tuesday to an account in North India.