India, Jan. 22 -- Unidentified suspects have been booked for allegedly duping Rs.1.9 crore from an elderly couple by trapping them in a cyber fraud in Faridabad, police said on Wednesday.

Investigators said the victims, both in their late 70s, live in Sector 29, while their children are settled abroad. The fraud began on December 9, when the man received a call from a suspect impersonating an official of the Reserve Bank of India. The caller claimed that the couple's bank accounts were being used for money laundering and asked them to transfer their fixed deposits and savings into select accounts for scrutiny, according to the complaint.

A senior police officer said the victim, suspecting no wrongdoing, transferred all savings from his ...