A 69-year-old businesswoman was allegedly cheated of ₹6.9 crore after being kept under 'digital arrest' for nine days by cyber fraudsters in south Delhi’s Greater Kailash area, police said on Thursday (January 15, 2026).
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The victim, identified as Meenakshi Ahuja, runs a furniture business and lives alone at her residence after her husband passed away four years ago. She has two children, a son settled in Australia and a daughter who is married and lives in Gurugram, they said.
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According to police, the fraudsters placed Ms. Ahuja under continuous digital surveillance between January 5 and January 13 by posing as law enforcement and investigative authorities.
