Panchkula, Oct. 20 -- A telecommunication sub-inspector with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Ramgarh, Panchkula, lost Rs.7.5 lakh after fraudsters posing as Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials threatened him with a fake criminal case and coerced him into transferring the money.

According to the FIR registered at the cyber crime police station on October 17, complainant Madan Singh of Rohru, Shimla, received a call on September 29 from a person who claimed that his Aadhaar and mobile number had been linked to a criminal case. The caller told him that the case would be transferred to the ATS headquarters in Pune.

The complainant received video calls from individuals posing as police and ATS officials. They appeared in uniform an...