Amid rise in cyber fraud activities with multiple attempts and cases of digital arrest registered in the last few weeks across Uttar Pradesh, the Lucknow police officials on Wednesday (December 31, 2025) pushed for multi-channel reporting, awareness drive, rapid blocking of accounts and reach out to vulnerable population as safety protocol to curb the threat. “Yes, threat of digital arrest is increasing where scammers call people and place them in digital arrest. Since AI Voice and Video spoofing is going to increase risk in the future people need to do Independent verification by calling official police, bank helplines, not the number that called them,” told Vineet Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Law and Order, Lucknow to The Hindu.
Recently, in the third week of December the Vikas Nagar police in Lucknow were successful in a cyber rescue, foiling a ₹1.3-crore digital fraud when the victim, 75-year-old women saved from being duped when frauds put her under a ‘digital arrest’ for over four days. “When the bank alerted us, we acted insistently to foil the attempt of cyber fraud’s as criminals were trying to extract the entire savings of the woman by psychologically tangling the lady by posing as CBI officials for four days and keeping her under digital arrest,” said Alok Kumar Singh, Station House Officer (SHO), Vikas Nagar police station.
