In a first, 9 sentenced to life by court in Bengal for ‘digital arrest’ fraud | India News
KOLKATA: In possibly the first such sentencing in the country for cybercrimes, a trial court in Kalyani, in Bengal’s Nadia district, Friday awarded life imprisonment to nine scammers who had extorted Rs 1 crore from a Ranaghat resident by threatening him with ‘digital arrest’ last year, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. It agreed with the prosecution’s charge…