Delhi High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of accused Om Kant Gupta in the alleged Digital Arrest cyber fraud case. The court said that custodial interrogation of the accused is necessary to understand the entire fraud network and its methods.
Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma said that records show that between September 2024 and March 2025, about Rs 1.5 crore was deposited and withdrawn from the bank account of the accused. Despite this, the accused did not lodge any complaint with the bank during that period. The court said that this prima facie weakens the argument that he was not aware of the transactions taking place in his account.
‘A case of serious cyber fraud’
Delhi High Court also said that this is a case of serious cyber fraud, in which technology is used to extort money from people by deceiving them. The number of such cases is increasing rapidly across the country, hence the investigating agencies should get a chance to expose the entire network. Delhi Police told the court that the accused was given a notice last year to join the investigation. But he did not appear. For this reason the police opposed his anticipatory bail.
Falsely accused of money laundering by pretending to be a surveillance officer
Actually, this matter is related to the complaint of a woman from Greater Kailash, South Delhi. The woman told the police that on March 15, 2025, she received a WhatsApp call, in which the caller introduced himself as a surveillance officer. Accusing the woman of money laundering, he said that she has been digitally arrested on the orders of the Supreme Court. After this, by intimidating him, about Rs 1.3 crore was transferred to two different bank accounts.
Investigation revealed that the accounts to which the money was sent. One of those accounts was in the name of Om Kant Gupta. In which Rs 30 lakh came and were sent to many other accounts on the same day. Police have registered a case in this matter under various sections including extortion, fraud, fake identity and criminal conspiracy and further investigation is also going on.