Hyderabad, Feb. 24 -- The Cyberabad police arrested three men for their involvement in a 'digital arrest' scam, where an 82-year-old retired engineer was duped of Rs 1.38 crore.

The police, on February 21, arrested the men from their native in Namakkal of Tamil Nadu. The arrested have been identified as Gokul Maruthachalamoorthi, 24, Jafar Sereef, 23, and Sharukhan, 30.

According to the police, the arrested Gokul is the holder of a mule account, through which the fraudsters siphoned money from the victim. While Jafar Sereef and Sharukhan supplied bank accounts to the scamsters.

The police said that the victim got a call from the scammers, who posed as officials from the State Bank of India (SBI), and falsely informed him that a case ha...