Sun Jan 26 15:41:00 UTC 2025: ## Delhi Man Arrested for ₹10 Lakh Cyber Fraud in Coimbatore
**COIMBATORE, January 26, 2025** – Coimbatore Rural police have arrested a 42-year-old New Delhi man, Gopi Kumar, for allegedly defrauding a 25-year-old woman, Rithika, of ₹10 lakh in a cybercrime scam. Kumar, posing as a FedEx courier employee, convinced Rithika in September 2024 that she was under investigation for narcotics trafficking and needed to transfer funds for verification.
After transferring the money, Rithika discovered she had been duped when Kumar’s contact number became unreachable. She filed a complaint with the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal, leading to an investigation by the Coimbatore Rural police under Superintendent of Police K. Karthikeyan.
The investigation traced Kumar to New Delhi, where he was arrested and brought back to Coimbatore. Police have frozen his bank account, which reportedly shows involvement in 11 similar cases across India totaling ₹30 lakh in fraudulent transactions. Kumar allegedly operates two companies in Delhi, Compact Corporation Private Ltd., and Nihansh Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
He has been charged under Sections 318(4) BNS and 66D of the IT Act 2000 and remanded in judicial custody.
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