Digital arrest: MP teacher dies by suicide as cyber fraudsters threaten her over ‘illegal parcel’

A woman in Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj allegedly died by suicide as she panicked after getting threatened with arrest by cyber fraudsters who digitally arrested her and told her that a parcel she had sent contained illegal materials, police said on Monday.

“Cyber fraudsters were pressuring the woman, a government guest teacher, after claiming a parcel she had sent contained illegal materials. The accused were seeking money from her,” Superintendent of Police Rasna Thakur said..