76-year-old Delhi woman cheated of Rs 1.64 crore in digital fraud, CBI files case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in connection with an alleged digital fraud in which a 76-year-old woman from Delhi’s Munirka was cheated of her life savings, officials said on Wednesday.

The agency took over the case from the Delhi Police Special Cell and re-registered it as a CBI case following directions issued by the Supreme Court in December 2025.

The victim, a widowed pensioner, was subjected to what the court described as a “digital arrest”, during which her entire savings were siphoned off from her bank account. The Supreme Court, while transferring the case to the CBI, noted that she was a victim of a digital arrest scam.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that cyber criminals cheated her of Rs 1.64 crore by impersonating others and using fake documents and electronic records.

“Someone deceived me and cheated me, pretending to be someone else, and made me deliver my property (money) of Rs 1.64 crore,” she said, adding that the fraud took place within Delhi’s jurisdiction.

In a separate incident, an elderly doctor couple in Delhi was allegedly duped of Rs 14 crore by cyber fraudsters after being kept under “digital arrest” for over two weeks, sources said on Sunday, January 11.

The couple – Om Taneja and Indira Taneja, residents of Greater Kailash – were allegedly placed under digital arrest from December 24 to January 9 and threatened with false court cases and FIRs. Fearing legal action, they transferred a lump sum amount to multiple bank accounts provided by the fraudsters.

According to sources, the intimidation began on December 24 when the couple, who had lived in the United States for nearly five decades before returning to India, received a phone call from the scammers. The callers spun a fabricated narrative involving fake cases, prompting the couple to repeatedly transfer money, in amounts ranging from a few lakh rupees to several crores, as directed.

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