The cybercrime police in Coimbatore city on Friday arrested a man from Keralam for alleged involvement in a ‘digital arrest’ scam in which a retired government doctor from the city was duped of ₹98.03 lakh in August this year.
Rajesh K.R. (46), a native of Manganam in Vijayapuram panchayat in Kottayam district, was arrested by a team supervised by cybercrime Inspector R. Kavithalakshmi from his State.
According to the cybercrime police, scamsters contacted the woman doctor and posed as law enforcement officers. They told her that fraudulent transactions had been detected in her bank account, for which she was kept under a digital arrest. She was made to transact the money in her account to different accounts on the pretext of a verification process. The scamsters cut all contacts with her after she sent a total of ₹98,03,495 in 10 transactions.
The cybercrime police registered a case based on her complaint and launched an investigation, tracing accounts to which the cheated amount had been transacted.
“We found that one of the transactions, of ₹20 lakh, had been made to a bank account operated by the accused. He in turn transferred the amount to another account, for which he received a commission of ₹15,000. We found that several such transactions related to different suspected incidents of cheating had been made using his account,” said an officer.
The police brought Rajesh, who had been residing at Punnavely near Mallapally in Pathanamthitta district, to Coimbatore after the arrest.
Published – October 02, 2026 08:46 pm IST
