When Debjani Das Choudhary’s phone rang on a humid July morning, she had no reason to suspect anything was amiss. The nursing officer at a government hospital in Delhi answered the call which left her panicking: the caller said her name had allegedly surfaced in the money-laundering case filed against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal.

Within hours, police said, Debjani transferred Rs 7 lakh to bank accounts provided by the caller, who claimed to be a policeman. “She was put under fake video surveillance on WhatsApp, under the pretext of investigation proceedings, and was deceitfully made to transfer Rs 7 lakh from her bank account to another account,” DCP (West) Darade Sharad Bhaskar said.

A complaint was lodged.

As police probed the cyber fraud case in the months that followed, they ma

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