MUMBAI, Oct. 30 -- In the latest 'digital arrest' fraud, a 67-year-old was duped of Rs.74.24 lakh by frauds who pretended to be police officers and accused him of being involved with jailed gangster Abu Salem Abdul Qayyum Ansari, convicted in the March 1993 Mumbai serial bombings. According to the East Region Cyber police, the frauds extorted the money from the senior citizen claiming that Salem had transferred large sums of money to a bank account opened in his name, and threatening to arrest him if he didn't pay up. The police said that the victim, a 67-year-old retired lab technician with the public health department, who stays in Mulund East with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, got a call on September 23 from an unknown number. The caller claimed to be a certain police sub-inspector Sandeep Rao from Nashik, and even sent pictures of his fake identity card to assure him that he was a 'genuine' police officer. A police officer said, "The fake cop told the complainant that there were several complaints against him for spreading terror in the region and that a bank account opened in his name with a nationalized bank had received money transfers from gangster Abu Salem." The fake cop told the complainant, "You are part of an organisation which acts against the interest of the country," and even sent him pictures of fake bank statements showing that he had received money from Ansari, once associated with the Dawood Ibrahim gang. The senior citizen was placed under a 'digital arrest' and forced to remain in isolation from September 23 to October 7. The frauds kept video-calling him to make sure he didn't step out of his house, or alert his family. The police said the frauds instructed him to transfer money to an account provided by them. They assured him that if he was proven innocent, the money would be returned to his bank account by October 13. Intimidated and afraid, the complainant transferred all of his savings and investments, amounting to over Rs.74 lakh to the frauds, the police said. When he later tried to contact the frauds, and realised that he had been cheated, he finally filed a police complaint. "We have registered the offence against unknown persons under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the Information, technology Act," said the police....