The Mumbai police have cautioned citizens about a new kind of cyber crime where fraudsters are using the edited picture of an identity card of a senior police officer to threaten and extort people. A first information report (FIR) was filed at Matunga police station regarding one such case in November 2022. The scamsters are still active, and no arrests have been made in that case.

On November 18, 2022, Deepak Chavhan, senior inspector of Matunga police received a call from a friend saying an unknown person was using his picture along with the identity Naresh Gupta Banarjee, police sub inspector from Andheri police station. The edited ID card was allegedly used to extort money from people. The victims were threatened with narcotics and money laundering cases against them.