India, Feb. 3 -- The West Regional Cyber Police have arrested a man for allegedly supplying bank accounts to cyber fraudsters who cheated an elderly Mumbai resident of Rs.1.27 crore by posing as a senior CBI officer and threatening him with arrest in a fabricated case.

The accused has been identified as Parshuram Jagtap. He was arrested and produced before a court, police said, adding that he allegedly provided bank accounts used to route the defrauded money.

According to the police, the complainant, a retired central government employee residing on Juhu-Versova Link Road, received a call in October last year from a man identifying himself as Sandeep Rao, who claimed to be an officer from the Ashok Nagar police station in Bengaluru.

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