Posing as an officer with the narcotics division of the Mumbai police, a man cheated an IISc student of ₹1.3 lakh after threatening to foist a case under the NDPS Act, on Friday.
The fraud came to light when the victim, identified as Parul Yadav, discussed the issue with her friends on the hostel campus and realised that she had been cheated.
Based on the complaint, the police registered a case against the unknown individual, charging him under various sections of the IT Act, 2000; efforts are on to track him down through the contact number and bank account, to which the money had been transferred.
