Bhopal- A retired bank manager and his family from Bhopal lost more than Rs 67 lakh after fraudsters, posing as police personnel, threatened to arrest him in a terror and financial fraud case and kept the family under “digital arrest” for two days, officials said on Thursday.

The crime unfolded between November 17 and 19, they said.

Snehlata Deshmukh, a resident of Shiva Royal Court in Bawadia Kalan in Bhopal, lodged a complaint in this regard.

In the complaint, she said that she lives with her 67-year-old husband, Dayaram Deshmukh, retired manager of a Bank of India branch, and their son Piyush.

“As per the complaint, a man identifying himself as ‘Ranjeet Kumar’, a police officer, called her husband on his mobile phone on November 17. When she received the call, the caller told her t

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