In a harrowing case of cybercrime, an 85-year-old retired official in Lucknow was allegedly defrauded of ₹84.5 lakh after being kept under a "digital arrest" for nearly a month. The victim, Badruddin Ansari, a resident of Janakipuram Sector-G, was coerced into transferring his life savings by scammers posing as high-ranking police and Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officers.