The fraudsters held the Bengaluru woman under a fabricated “digital arrest” for 11 days, orchestrating an elaborate cyber ...

Initially, she wired Rs 99,000. On December 4, 5 and 7, Lavina broke FDs worth Rs 10 lakh, Rs 9 lakh and Rs 8.5 lakh, respectively, and transferred them to the fraudsters based on their insistence.

FDS interviews also collect data on a randomly selected child under five years of age and a randomly selected woman who gave birth in the last two years. The data produced will be publicly available ...