Mumbai Digital Arrest Case: Former Raji Player Among 3 Held for Duping Senior Citizen of Rs 32.7 Lakh

Mumbai Cyber Crime Police detained three accused, along with former Ranji Trophy cricket player Rishi from Gujarat, for allegedly dumping a senior citizen from Goregaon's Aarey Colony in a Rs 32.7 lakh digital scam case. 

Earlier, four people were arrested in the case, taking the total number of arrests to seven so far, said police, reported The Times of India. The arrested accused Rishi, Harsh and Nikhil were allegedly involved in routing the scammed money to the mastermind. Rishi's father is a cricket coach.

The incident occurred on February 11, 2026, when a senior citizen received a call from a Tamil-speaking man. He posed as a Chennai Police sub-inspector on the call and informed the senior citizen that his SIM card had been used by terrorist Afzal Khan, who was involved in the Pahalgam attack.

The senior citizen was given a case number, and the call was later transferred to a senior official. The next person who spoke to him said that he knew that the senior citizen had just migrated to Mumbai from Tamil Nadu and claimed to have information about his family. 

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The senior citizen was asked to bring a "non-involvement certificate" from the police, and her call was transferred to "Mumbai ATS." Thereafter, she received a video call from an English-speaking man whose WhatsApp DP was an ATS logo.

He acted as a police officer in a police uniform and sat on a chair with several case files in front of his desk. Created a police station-like background to make appeared real. He then asked the senior citizen to take the phone around the house so he could view every room and ensure only the family was home.

Next, the senior citizen was asked to download the Arattai app and modify certain privacy settings. She received some documents such as a notice, FIR copy and an arrest warrant, which later turned out to be fake. The senior citizen was shocked when the fraudster said they knew her son was in Berlin and they would arrest him once he returned home to Mumbai.

Between February 11 and 16, she received several calls from the fraudsters and was asked to transfer a total of Rs 32.7 lakh to them, when they claimed that her funds would be verified online by the RBI and returned to her if it was legally hers." On February 16, her son returned home from Berlin and learned that she had been scammed. She then approached the Cyber Police through her granddaughter.