Man held in UP for Rs 3 crore 'digital arrest' con

Uttarakhand STF and state cyber police arrested a 27-year-old man from Bahraich, UP, in a joint operation Sunday for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 3 crore by placing him under " digital arrest " at the latter's house in Dehradun's Rajpur area, reports Kalyan Das. Accused Manoj Kumar was arrested during probe into a fraud case registered in May. Victim had alleged that Kumar called him on WhatsApp on May 20, claiming that security agencies had seized a parcel in his name containing drugs and passports. Posing as an officer of Greater Mumbai police, Kumar threatened to book him in a money laundering and drug trafficking case and forced him to transfer the amount to clear his name. Over the next two days, Kumar put the man in a "digital arrest" and maintained constant contact with him through WhatsApp video and voice calls. Kumar was tracked down using his phone numbers and bank account information.