Dehradun, July 14 -- Special Task Force (STF) of Uttarakhand police on Sunday evening arrested a 41-year-old man for digitally arresting a retired vice-chancellor of a university in Nainital and duping her of Rs.1.47 crore in August last year, officials said. The accused, identified as Bhupinder Singh, is a resident of Ambala in Haryana. The victim, Dr Beena Shah, 72, former vice-chancellor of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, resides in Mallital, Nainital. An FIR was registered at the cyber police station in Rudrapur under Sections 3(5), 61(2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 66D of the Information Technology (IT) Act. According to her complaint, on August 14, 2025, she received a phone call from a man claiming to be a senior official of the Reserve Bank of India, who alleged that Rs.7-8 crore obtained through hawala transactions had been illegally credited to her account. Soon afterwards, she received a video call from another person posing as an officer of the Maharashtra Police. The caller threatened her with arrest and other legal action and directed her to transfer money to designated bank accounts, assuring her that the amount would be refunded once the purported investigation was completed. Fearing arrest, Shah transferred funds from three of her bank accounts to five accounts allegedly controlled by the fraudsters. When bank officials questioned the unusually large transactions, she told them that the money was meant for the purchase of a new house. Senior Superintendent of Police Ajai Singh said, "Our investigators traced the Rs.50 lakh to the account of the accused."...