India, Feb. 9 -- Two men were arrested for extorting Rs.40 lakh from a 60-year-old woman in over three months in a digital arrest case, police said on Sunday. The accused operated a bank account linked to over 190 cyberfraud complaints, totalling around Rs.100 crore in cheated funds.

The woman, a resident of central Delhi, lives with her husband and son, an engineer at a private firm. On October 15 last year, the accused, posing as a senior police officer from Mumbai, called her and threatened to arrest both her and her husband in connection with fraud and other cases.

The accused were identified as Anish Singh and Mani Singh, who revealed they were operating eight bank accounts to receive funds.

DCP (Crime) Aditya Gautam said, "The ac...