Delhi Police nabs eight people in Rs 14 crore digital arrest case

The Delhi Police has arrested eight persons, including a priest, from three states in connection with the alleged duping of an elderly NRI couple of over Rs 14 crore through “digital arrest” and busted a cyber fraud racket with links to operators based in Cambodia and Nepal, officials said on Saturday.

The accused were apprehended from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha following a multi-state operation that exposed a well-coordinated network engaged in impersonating law enforcement



agencies and siphoning off victims’ money through mule bank accounts, they said.

ivyang Patel (30) and Krutik Shitole (26) from Gujarat’s Vadodara, Mahavir Sharma alias Neel (27) from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, Ankit Mishra alias Robin from Gujarat, Arun Kumar Tiwari (45) and Pradyuman Tiwari alias S P Tiwari (44) from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, and Bhupender Kumar Mishra (37) and Aadesh Kumar Singh (36) from Lucknow have been arrested in connection with the incident, the officials said.