An elderly woman in Dehradun was reportedly duped of over Rs 3 crore by cyber fraudsters who posed as CBI officers and kept her under “digital arrest,” police said on Sunday.
Police said that based on the 70-year-old woman’s complaint, a case was filed at the Cyber Police Station he was also warned that if she shared this information with anyone, her children would face legal action on Friday and a probe has begun.
In her complaint, the woman said that on September 1 last year, she received a video call from a man who introduced himself as a CBI officer. He told her that her phone number had been linked to a money-laundering case involving Rs 68 crore and that she would be arrested and sent to jail.
Police said she was also warned that if she shared this information with anyone, her children would face legal action as well. The fraudsters told her that if she wanted to avoid arrest, she should transfer her money to bank accounts provided by them. They assured her that the money would be returned after the probe was completed, police said.
According to police, the woman transferred a total of Rs 3.09 crore from her bank accounts to the accused between September 2025 and October 2025.
In her complaint, she said she had to break her fixed deposits, sell her shares and mortgage her jewellery to arrange the money demanded by the fraudsters. Police said an investigation is underway and that call records of the mobile numbers involved, along with bank account details, are being collected.
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