Dehradun, Sept. 2 -- A man accused of duping a retired vice-chancellor of Rohilkhand University of Rs.1.47 crore by placing her under false "digital arrest" for nearly 12 days has been arrested, police said, adding that the accused, Rajendra Kumar, was arrested on Sunday from Solan district in Himachal Pradesh, wherein he is based. According to a complaint filed on August 25 by the victim, Dr Beena Shah, 72, she was first contacted on August 14 by a man posing as a senior Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officer, who told her that she had received Rs.60 crore in a Canara bank account opened in her name, after which another caller posing as an officer from the Maharashtra Cyber Crime Department threatened her with legal action and instructed her to remain in constant touch through WhatsApp calls. "By placing her under 'digital arrest', the accused coerced her into transferring Rs.1.47 crore in instalments to several accounts under the pretext of verification. One of the beneficiary accounts, operated in the name of Cosmos Enterprises, received Rs.50 lakh," said SSP (STF) Navneet Singh Bhullar. "He (Rajendra Kumar) used multiple accounts opened in other people's names to route the siphoned funds. Our probe revealed that lakhs of rupees were routed through these accounts between June and August 2025. Our investigation is underway to identify other members of the racket and trace the money trail," he added. During the raid, three mobile phones, three SIM cards, two cheque books, 10 blank and signed cheques of multiple banks, three debit cards, seals of four different firms, a Wi-Fi router, GST and Udyam registration certificates, a bill book, and a business card linked to financial transactions used in the fraud were found, police said. "Digital arrests" are fraudulent schemes that involve an attempt to convince a potential victim of them having inadvertently gotten involved in some kind of illegal activity, posing as an authority figure in order to deploy the threat of legal action, and force the victim to continually part with their money. These fraudsters frequently use setups that resemble police stations or government offices and wear uniforms to look authentic....