Juhu Retired Bank Manager Loses ₹3.84 Crore In Digital Arrest Scam Over Fake Terror Case
Mumbai: A 64-year-old retired bank manager from Juhu was allegedly duped of ₹3.84 crore after scammers posing as Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officers kept him under “digital arrest” for 10 days in a terror-funding case. Fake ATS officials accuse victim of terror links The fraud began on August 7 when a caller posing as sub-inspector Aakash Sharma from Colaba ATS claimed a SIM card linked to his…
A retired bank manager from Mumbai's Juhu area lost ₹3.84 crore in a digital arrest scam involving fake Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officers, according to prosecutors. The fraud unfolded on August 7, when the victim received a call from someone claiming to be sub-inspector Aakash Sharma from Colaba ATS. The caller alleged that a SIM card associated with the victim's Aadhaar had been purchased in his name.
Another individual posing as inspector Prem Kumar Gautam from Lucknow ATS claimed that documents linked to the victim had been used to open a bank account in Jammu and Kashmir, which received ₹7 crore for terrorist activities.
The scammers sent the victim an RBI letter claiming that the Supreme Court had issued an arrest warrant against him. They isolated the victim from his family and threatened their arrest. Between August 7 and 17, the victim transferred the entire amount of ₹3.84 crore to the fraudsters. The police have subsequently frozen ₹2 crore across 150 bank accounts and are actively tracing the remaining money.
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