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Retired Nagpur scribe held hostage online in ‘digital arrest’ scam for 7 days

Summary by nagpurtoday.in
Nagpur: What began as an ordinary WhatsApp call turned into seven days of psychological captivity for a 75-year-old retired journalist from Nagpur, who fell prey to cybercriminals posing as police officials. For a full week, the conmen “digitally arrested” him, monitoring his every move through video calls made every two hours, threatening him with fabricated charges of money laundering and terrorism links, a report in a local daily said. Accord…
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nagpurtoday.in broke the news in on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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