DAYS AFTER a Pune-based prominent private university was swindled of Rs 2.46 crore by an online fraudster posing as a professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Pune City cyber police have made a breakthrough. They have arrested a 34-year-old electronics and telecommunications engineer who holds a PhD from a UK university and has been booked in over half a dozen cases of online frauds and impersonation in the recent past.

An FIR in the case was registered on September 6 by the chief education officer of the private university. Between July 25 and August 26 this year, cybercriminals — posing as a professor from IIT Bombay — deceived the university’s administration into transferring a total of Rs 2.46 crore to multiple mule accounts. The transfers were made under the false pre

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