Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh): Six people have been arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with Gwalior’s biggest digital fraud case, in which over ₹2.5 crore was duped from the secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Ashram.
The arrests were made in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Those held include a bank account holder who received ₹10 lakh, a person who withdrew the money, a private bank's branch manager, a woman cashier, and two others.
Police say the arrested bank employees helped the fraudsters take out the money quickly and avoid the accounts being frozen. This is a major breakthrough in the case. Meanwhile, two more SIT teams are carrying out raids in other states to catch more people involved.
The case
The case came to light when Swami Supradiptananda, secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram in Gwalior, was tricked by fraudsters pretending to be officials.
They claimed he was involved in a money laundering case and digitally “arrested” him, forcing him to transfer ₹2.53 crore to three bank accounts.
The money was later split and sent to nearly 50 accounts. There, ₹10 lakh was withdrawn immediately. After finding this out, Gwalior SSP Dharmveer Singh formed the SIT to take action.
The SIT identified and caught the account holder and the person who withdrew the money using CCTV footage.
All six suspects have now been taken to Gwalior for further investigation.
Police say more arrests are likely soon.
