Hyderabad, July 27 -- A cyber fraudster posing as a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer duped an elderly man in Hyderabad of Rs 35.74 lakh.

On July 6, the victim, a 79-year-old resident of Hyderabad, approached the cybercrime unit of the Hyderabad police and filed a complaint stating that he received a call from an individual who introduced himself as CBI officer Vijay Khanna from the Colaba police station in Mumbai.

The caller falsely claimed that a bank account in the victim's name at the Canara Bank's Colaba branch was linked to a money laundering case involving an individual named Naresh Goel.

To make the victim believe, the fraudster shared forged documents, including a fake order from the Supreme Court and fake warrants...