In a shocking incident, a retired bank manager and his family lost more than Rs 67 lakh after fraudsters, posing as police personnel, threatened to arrest him in a terror and financial fraud case. The incident has come to light from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, where the family was kept under “digital arrest” for two days, confirmed the officials.

The incident took place between November 17 and 19. Snehlata Deshmukh, a resident of Shiva Royal Court in Bawadia Kala, lodged a complaint in this regard. Snehlata stated that she lives with her 67-year-old husband, Dayaram Deshmukh, who is a retired manager of a Bank of India branch, and their son Piyush.

How the incident unfolded?

According to the complaint, a man identifying himself as ‘Ranjeet Kumar’, a police officer, called her husband on h

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