GUWAHATI: A retired government official had reportedly lost Rs. 92 lakhs after he fell victim to a ‘digital arrest scam’. The man behind this scam was revealed to be a 38-year-old Assam native identified as Partha Pratim Bora, who was later arrested by Chennai police.
Bora had allegedly posed as a police officer from Mumbai and pretended to “digitally arrest” the retired government official. He also demanded a huge sum of money from the retired official to carry out investigation on his digital arrest.
Bora was soon arrested in Assam and transferred to Chennai after the incident was brought into the notice of the police who had secured a transit warrant in connection to this case.
He was remanded to judicial custody after being presented before the XIth Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Saidapet. Presently, Bora has been detained at the Central Prison in Puzhal.
This incident has brought light to the increase in digital frauds across the country and the advancement of tactics used in such fraudulent operations, preying on innocent people as their targets.
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