Nandini Chiplunkar, a retired principal fallen victim to a digital arrest scam, losing Rs 1.02 crores. The scam involved con artists posing as officials from Mumbai’s Colaba Police and CBI, claiming that Ms Chiplunkar was implicated in financial transactions with Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways and was involved in money laundering.
As per Rajesh Dandotiya, the Additional DCP of the Crime Branch, on April 27, principal received a call informing her that her SIM card would be deactivated. The scammers asserted that there were 267 FIRs filed against her and held her under digital arrest for two days. They persuaded her to transfer Rs 1 crore into a fraudulent account in return for resolving the case.
While speaking to Media on Monday, DCP Dandotiya said, “On April 27th, Nandini, who retired as principal of Central School, received a call saying that her SIM was going to get deactivated…they said there was legal action being taken against her and there are 267 an FIRs against her…throughout the night she was kept on digital arrest…”
When principal attempted to withdraw her fixed deposit of Rs 50 lakhs at the bank, the manager became suspicious and alerted the Crime Branch. Officials stepped in, allowing Ms. Chiplunkar to protect her fixed deposit funds.
“Next day they managed to convince her and she went to break her fixed deposit of Rs 50 lakhs… The bank manager realised that there is some trouble by looking at her face, he said that the server is down and asked her to come back next day and then the Bank Manager immediately informed me…later, I spoke to her and convinced that it was a fake call, and she was convinced…She switched off her phone. But, after two days, principal started receiving calls again. We met her and explained to her that such digital arrest calls are fake…she lost Rs 1.02 crores, but because the bank was alert, she didn’t lose her fixed deposit money…”, DCP Dandotiya added.
The Crime Branch has received retired principal’s complaint and is currently looking into the issue. No case has been registered so far, and the officials are making efforts to identify the suspect.
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