Rejecting their claims that they were ‘victims of circumstances’ and that they had merely given access to their bank accounts to friends who claimed to need them to save tax, a magistrate court in Mumbai recently turned down the bail pleas of six accused, arrested in one of the largest cyber cons in the country, wherein a 72-year-old trader lost Rs 58 crore.

Last month, the Maharashtra cyber police had arrested 21 people for allegedly conning the trader by claiming that they were officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and he was placed under ‘digital arrest’ in a case.

Among those arrested, accused Imran Shaikh and Shaikh Shahid Abdul Salam claimed that their accounts were used as mule accounts to transfer the amount and that they had

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