Agra teacher dies after scammers pose as police officials, claim 20-year-old daughter caught in sex scandal
cyber fraudsters posing as police officers, a 58-year-old government school teacher in Agra collapsed and died. The scammers claimed that her 20-year-old daughter was involved in a sex scandal and threatened to circulate an obscene video of her if an immediate payment of Rs 1 lakh was not made.
DCP (Agra city) Suraj Rai told ToI on Friday, «The case under IT Act is being investigated in detail by police in Jagdishpura. They've interacted with the family of the teacher, Malti Verma. We're investigating the numbers from which the calls arrived on Sept 30 and will take appropriate action. Type of call is also being looked into and we're trying to find out under what circumstances the teacher died.»
In his police complaint, the teacher's husband, Shivcharan Verma, who worked as a deputy manager of a private firm in Agra and had retired three days ago, said, «She complained of anxiety and chest pain. Her health began to deteriorate rapidly. We took her to a hospital, where doctors declared her dead due to cardiac arrest.»
The teacher's son Deepanshu Rajput said, «My mother taught at a junior high school in Agra's Achhnera. On Sept 30, she first got a Whatsapp call at 12pm, in which they said my sister was caught in a sex scandal and began threatening her with consequences. The caller posed as a police inspector, and his profile picture showed him wearing a ‘khaki' uniform and a peaked cap. She thereafter received around 10 phone calls from them within a span of 15 minutes...»
Rajput added: «After that, she spoke with
