Nagpur: A 58-year-old homemaker from Raghuji Nagar was allegedly cheated of Rs 52.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters posing as Karnataka police officers and falsely implicating her in a money-laundering case.In her complaint, Pushpa Borikar said the accused contacted her claiming to be police officers from Bengaluru. They alleged that her Aadhaar card had been misused in money-laundering cases, threatened her with legal action and coerced her into transferring money to different bank accounts to “settle” the matter. Between August 9 and 18, she allegedly transferred Rs 52.5 lakh.The complaint names Ravikumar Joshi and CP Shrimant Kumar Singh, among others, as those allegedly involved in threatening her.Hudkeshwar police have registered a case of cheating by personation and begun an investigation. No arrests have been made so far. Cyber crime cell teams are examining bank transaction trails and call records to trace the wider network behind the fraud.
