Dehradun, May 24 -- A professor at a private university in Dehradun was allegedly duped of Rs.18.5 lakh by scammers posing as officers from Mumbai police, a police officer aware of the matter said on Friday. The police registered a first information report (FIR) against an unidentified person under sections 308 (6) (Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, etc), 318 (4) (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 66-C and 66-D of the IT Act at Cantt police station on May 20. Complainant, Dr Priya Kumari Singh, an assistant professor at UPES Dehradun, said that the ordeal began at the end of January, when she received a call from an unknown number. The caller introduced himself as a police officer from Mumbai, claiming that her Aadhaar card was linked to a criminal case involving the misuse of her identity to obtain a SIM card used in blackmailing a woman. According to the complainant, she initially ignored the caller saying he dialled the wrong number, but he persisted with repeated calls and eventually convinced her that she was involved in a legal case, and that the only way to avoid arrest was to cooperate. She was asked to follow the instructions over a video call, where they pretended to "clear" her from the case, the complaint added. Soon Singh was contacted again, this time regarding her alleged involvement in a case linked to the "Debankar Bus Ban's fraud care (DB-stock case)," with claims that her identity had been used to open a fraudulent bank account in Canara Bank. The scammers shared forged documents bearing her name and Aadhaar number, leaving her terrified, it said. "I was made to believe that I was under digital surveillance and a suspect in a serious case," Singh said....