Jabalpur, Dec 6 (PTI) Cyber fraudsters posing as ATS officers extorted Rs 21.5 lakh from a 72-year-old retired government employee after placing him under "digital arrest" for three days, Jabalpur Police said on Saturday.

The complainant, Avinash Chandra, from Napier town, received a phone call on December 1 from a man who introduced himself as an ATS officer from Pune. The caller claimed that Chandra's bank account and Aadhaar number had been used in terror funding.

The 'ATS officers' sent some documents to Chandra on WhatsApp and threatened to arrest him and his son and seize their property if he did not cooperate.

They kept him on video call daily from 9 am to 7 pm for three days, monitoring his movements and preventing him from contacting anyone, police said.

The accused allegedly

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