Bhopal: Two B Tech pass outs and one Class 12 student have been detained by the police in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, in connection with the recent incident of digital arrest of a Border Security Force (BSF) inspector in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday. A team of Gwalior police visited Gurgaon on Wednesday to arrest the trio after getting the inputs on their presence in a hostel there, sources said. The trio would be produced in a local court and the Gwalior police would seek their remand, sources added. The three accused are Aftab Ahmed Khan, a B Tech degree holder hailing from Jharkhand, Akhil Singh Bais, a computer graduate hailing from Delhi and a Class 12 student from Kota in Rajasthan, police said. Preliminary investigation by the police suggested that the trio were working for a Chinese gang on ‘commission’ basis to dupe gullible people of their money by digitally arresting them, a senior police officer said, unwilling to be quoted. The trio had duped the BSF inspector Absar Ahmed, who has been posted in the BSF academy in Tekanpur in Gwalior, of Rs 71.25 lakh in 34 transactions during a month-long digital arrest, sources said. The BSF official had received a WhatsApp call at 11.29 am on December two last year by a person who identified himself as an officer of Mumbai crime branch. The fake police officer told the unsuspecting BSF official that the latter’s Aadhaar card had been used to transfer a large amount of money and a money laundering case was pending against him. The fake cop told the BSF official that he would be interrogated digitally and later produced several bank accounts and asked him to transfer the money to these accounts. The BSF official had reportedly transferred Rs 71.25 lakh in 34 transactions to these accounts during the period. The alleged cyber fraud victim’s son rushed to Gwalior after learning about it and asked his father to report the matter to the police, thus releasing him from the digital arrest on January three, 2025.
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