Indore (Madhya Pradesh): City crime branch arrested two more accused for duping a woman of Rs 1.60 crore after holding her digitally arrested after threatening her of implicating in a case of money laundering on Wednesday. So far, six people have been arrested in connection with the same.

A 59-year-old woman had lodged a complaint that she had received a call from some people, who posed themselves as CBI, RBI and police officers and they had threatened to implicate her in a money laundering case a few days ago. The accused had threatened to send her to jail as her accounts were used in the crime.  

The woman was scared of the accused and she had provided her personal and bank details to the conman. She was digitally arrested on video calls on the pretext of investigation into the case. The woman didn’t inform anyone about the calls and she transferred money to the bank account provided by the accused. A case under section 318(4), 308(2), 316(5), 111(4), 3(5) of BNS and the crime branch arrested Prateek Jariwal of Surat, Abhishek Jariwala of Surat, Chandrabhan Bansal and Rakesh Bansal of Maihar a couple of days ago.

Following a lead given by the accused, the crime branch arrested their accomplices named Vivek Ranjan alias Pintu Giri of Kheda in Gujarat and Altaf Qureshi of Anand in Gujarat and they were taken to the city on Wednesday. They are being questioned for the involvement of other people.