The Anti-Extortion Squad of the Pune Crime Branch have arrested a man for misusing the ‘1930’ National Cybercrime Helpline by deliberately transferring small amounts of money into people’s bank accounts and then falsely reporting cyber fraud to get their accounts frozen. The accused — Paresh Kothari — would then allegedly approach the account holders and demand money to “settle” the matter and get their accounts unfrozen.

Rs 5 lakh
Amount accused demanded to unfreeze bank account