India, Jan. 22 -- In the first "digital arrest" cyber fraud case registered in Navi Mumbai this year, an 80-year-old resident of Kharghar was allegedly cheated of Rs.4.38 crore, with investigators also finding that his bank account was misused as a mule account to route money siphoned from other cybercrime victims.

According to a complaint registered at the Cyber Police Station, Navi Mumbai, the fraud began on November 18 when the victim, a retired director of an engineering and technical institute in Jaipur, received a phone call from a man claiming to be from "Cyber Data Protection of India".

"The caller alleged that a mobile number had been fraudulently obtained using the victim's Aadhaar card and that a related offence had been regi...