A 22-year-old man was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch's cyber unit for falsely posing as a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer to dupe people off their money. The accused identified as Saikat Asin Amin, a native of Rajasthan is a school drop and used the identity card of a CISF jawan to cheat people using an online shopping portal. An officer said, "We had received a complaint from the CISF department that someone is using their personnel's name and identity to dupe people online and based on this complaint we registered the case and started the investigation."

The case came to light when the CISF officials started receiving complaints from civilians across India that one of their jawans has cheated them through an online shopping portal. In the complaint, civilians stated that the man who posed as a CISF jawan put up an advertisement about selling his I-Phone on an online shopping portal and when the money was transferred to him, he would ignore their calls and messages. The accused showed the buyers a CISF identity card to win their confidence.