Chandigarh, June 11 -- The cyber police station have arrested three persons for orchestrating an elaborate digital arrest scam to dupe an elderly woman of Rs.2.5 crore.

A case was registered on June 1 after the victim, Sumit Kaur, a resident of Sector 10A, Chandigarh, alerted the police.

She said she received a call on May 3, with the caller claiming to be from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

The caller informed her that her SIM card had been misused in a criminal case, and she was named in an FIR. What followed was a calculated psychological assault.

In a series of high-pressure WhatsApp video calls, a person pretending to be a police officer told her that two arrest warrants had been issued against her in connectio...