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Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) Superintendent of police (SSP) Ajay Singh on Monday said that the State STF's Cyber Team has achieved a major breakthrough by arresting a wanted accused from Haryana in connection with a digital arrest cyber fraud case.
The accused was the beneficiary account holder who received Rs 50 lakh from the proceeds of the cyber fraud. Earlier, three other accused had already been arrested in the case. The SSP, STF Uttarakhand, said that the victim, a resident of Nainital, had lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station in Rudrapur in August 2025 regarding a digital arrest scam. The cyber fraudsters allegedly posed as officials of the Maharashtra Cyber Crime unit and falsely claimed that a bank account opened in the victim's name had been used for money laundering involving transactions worth Rs 60 crore. On the pretext of conducting an online verification of the victim's bank accounts, the fraudsters kept the victim under "digital arrest" through WhatsApp calls for 12 days and fraudulently induced the victim to transfer a total of Rs 1.47 crore into multiple bank accounts, SSP Singh added. During the investigation, it was found that Rs 50 lakh of the defrauded amount had been transferred to the bank account of the arrested accused. The accused had been absconding for a prolonged period and was eventually arrested by the STF Cyber Team in Haryana on the basis of technical analysis, digital evidence, and sustained surveillance, he said. The arrested accused has been identified as Bhupinder Singh, a resident of Pilkhani village, near Ravidas Mandir, under Shah Police Station in Ambala district, Haryana. (ANI)
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