PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE /Dehradun
The Special Task Force (STF) arrested a 41-year-old man from Ambala, Haryana in connection with Rs 1.47 crore digital arrest cyber fraud case on Monday. The accused, Bhupinder Singh was wanted in the case and had a non-bailable warrant issued against him by the court.
As per the STF sources, Rs 50 lakh from the fraud was transferred to his bank account. He was arrested from Pilkhani village in Ambala after the cyber team tracked him through technical analysis, digital evidence and continuous surveillance.
The case had been registered in August 2025 after a retired vice-chancellor of Rohilkhand University, who lives in Nainital, filed a complaint at the cybercrime police station in Rudrapur. The cyber fraudsters had allegedly posed as Maharashtra cybercrime officials and falsely told the senior citizen that her bank account had been linked to an Rs 60 crore money laundering case. They had allegedly kept her under a fake ‘digital arrest’ through WhatsApp calls for 12 days and forced her to transfer Rs 1.47 crore to different bank accounts.
The STF officials, privy to details, said that three accused had already been arrested in the case, and the investigation is continuing to trace other people involved in the fraud.
