Agra teacher receives scam call about daughter’s sex crime and dies of heart attack – Agra News

In a tragic incident in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, a woman died of a heart attack following a digital blackmail call. The victim, Malti Verma, received a WhatsApp call on September 30 from a man posing as a police officer, claiming that her daughter had been arrested in a sex trafficking case.

The caller threatened to leak an obscene video featuring her daughter if a payment of Rs. 1 lakh was not made. The woman informed her son about the incident and asked him to transfer the amount immediately to prevent her daughter from being implicated in the case.

After listening to his mother’s account, the victim’s son, identified as Divyanshu, became suspicious and realized that the call was made by someone from Pakistan posing as a police officer to extort money from his family.

“After receiving the man’s call, she panicked and called me and I asked her the number from where she received the call. When I checked the number I found it had the area code +92 and told her so.” “It was a scam. She was still very anxious and started feeling unwell,” said Divyanshu.

“I reassured her and also told her that I spoke to my sister who was in college and she was fine,” he added.

However, the incident took a huge toll on the woman’s health. When she returned from school around 4 p.m., she began to feel unwell. She was taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead.

A video surfaced online showing people rushing into the victim’s house to help her after she suffered a heart attack. The video also shows people carrying the woman to a car to take her to the hospital.

“I received a call from my brother asking me where I was. He told me to video call him after I told him I was in college,” the victim’s daughter explained.

“The reason for this, according to her husband, was that she had received a call informing her that her daughter had been involved in a sex trade and the caller had demanded Rs 100,000 from her. She was very worried about this and died 15 minutes after she reached home. We are identifying the number from where the call came and will take action,” said a senior police official.

Sharing the news of the woman’s death due to “digital arrest”, Congress said such cases have become very common in the country and need to be addressed.

“This is not the first incident of ‘digital arrest’ in the country. Such cases come to light every day. Cybercriminals harm people all the time,” Congress said.

(With contributions from Arvind Sharma)