According to Delhi Police sources, the North District Cyber Police station in New Delhi nabbed a cyber ring that was allegedly extorting Rs 8.10 Lakh from a lady by posing as Telecom, CBI, and ED officers.

The accused allegedly kept the lady, her daughter and her father effectively prisoners for 48 hours and demanded Rs 8.10 lakh in return for taking her name off of the fictitious files they said they had against her, according to Deputy Commissioner Raja Banthia on Tuesday.

The FIR claims that on March 24, the complainant claimed to have gotten a call from an unidentified number posing as the Telecom Department of Delhi. The caller threatened to use a phoney SIM card against her.

Additionally, she got video calls from unidentified WhatsApp numbers claiming to be from the CBI and ED agencies.

The Deputy Commissioner’s statement said that the scammers threatened to arrest the woman complainant and implicate her in a money laundering case.

According to officials, between March 5 and March 7, the accused emailed the lady counterfeit CBI and ED papers with Supreme Court stamps, putting her family under “digital arrest.”

According to the North District Cyber Police’s early investigation, the call originated in the Greater Kailash, East of Kailash, and Zamrudpur regions.

On March 31, three accused—Raja Mandal (27), the account holder; Tushar Thapa (23); and Saurabh Tiwari (23), both account providers/agents—were arrested after the police raided the locations after obtaining call record details and tracking down the money. Four cell phones were also seized.

According to the results of the preliminary investigation, the victim in this instance was deceived in a highly methodical and professional way. The Dy Commissioner of the North District Police said that both manual intelligence and technology surveillance have been consistently improved.