Hyderabad: The Hyderabad City Cyber Crime Police have arrested three individuals for allegedly defrauding a 62-year-old man of Rs 1.07 crore in a digital arrest scam.
The suspects, Gurdeep Singh (also known as Lucky Narang), Harpreet Singh (also known as Karan Kowshik), and Kumar Mohit (also known as Mohit Kowshik), are from New Delhi. Gurdeep operates a money exchange and travel agency. Harpreet works as a technician, and Kumar Mohit is planning a food business.
On October 16, 2025, the victim, a resident of Hyderabad, received a call from someone claiming to be a Mumbai Crime Branch officer. The caller falsely informed him that his Aadhaar card and phone number were involved in a money laundering case.
Another person, pretending to be an investigator, threatened the victim with arrest and pressured him to transfer Rs 1.07 crore. Realizing the scam, the victim reported it to the Cybercrime Police.
The investigation uncovered that the three arrested, along with Prashant Kumar and Deepak Kumar, formed a gang. They obtained bank accounts and online banking access, offering commissions to account holders and setting them up in hotels in Delhi, Jaipur, and other cities for their operations.
Deepak Kumar’s YES bank account was used to collect the defrauded money, which was then forwarded to the gang leader. The gang members received commissions from these transactions.
Previously, Deepak Kumar and Prashant Kumar were arrested in New Delhi and are now in judicial custody.
Police revealed that the gang often impersonated officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Customs, and the Mumbai Crime Branch, using threats of non-bailable warrants and video calls to intimidate victims.
