Bengaluru: Man loses Rs 20,000 to fake cops who arrested his son on 'rape' charges

Bengaluru: Unidentified people cheated an elderly man of Rs 20,000 by posing as police officials and threatening him that his son had been arrested. 

On October 28, Shankar K (name changed), a resident of Mathikere, received a phone call. The caller identified himself as a policeman and told Shankar, in his 60s, that his son had been arrested along with two others in a rape case and would be jailed for 20 years. 

A panicked Shankar asked what the next course of action was, and the callers asked him to pay Rs 20,000 and they would let his son go. Shankar did the scamsters’ bidding, but later realised he was conned when he contacted his son, the police said.