India, March 20 -- In two separate cases reported from Andheri, cyber frauds impersonating as CBI and police officers extorted Rs.38 lakh from a 58-year-old homemaker and a 60-year-old medical store owner, using the 'digital arrest' modus operandi.

The police said the homemaker, from old Nagardas Road in Andheri East, received a call on March 3, with the caller talking about some illegal activities on her phone and the CBI registering a case and started an inquiry. A person in police uniform then interrogated the woman on a WhatsApp video call and coerced her into transferring Rs.15 lakh after placing her under 'digital arrest'.

She was asked to lock herself up in a room of her house and stay on the video call for 'interrogation' withou...