Agra: A woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra died of heart attack after a phone call said that her daughter was arrested in a sex trafficking case, India Today reported.
Malti Verma received a call on her WhatsApp from a man posing as a police officer on September 30 demanding Rs 1 lakh to not to leak obscene videos involving her daughter.
Verma asked her son to immediately transfer the amount to save her daughter from getting implicated in the case.
The victim's son, identified as Divyanshu, found out that the call was made from Pakistan.
Divyanshu said that his mother panicked after receiving the call.
When he checked the number, there was +92 prefix and he told his mother it was a scam.
‘She was still very anxious and started feeling unwell,’ Divyanshu said.
After speaking to his sister, he reassured his mother that sister was in the college and she was fine.
Despite his assurance, Malti Verma started feeling unwell and returned home from school.
Footage reportedly showed people rushing to her home after she suffered heart attack.
She was taken to nearby school where she was declared brought dead.
The victim's daughter reportedly said that her brother had asked her to make video call to him when she told him that she was in the college.
A top police official said that the victim received a call on her phone demanding Rs. 1 lakh claiming that her daughter was caught in sex racket.
The officer added that ‘she got very worried because of this and died 15 minutes after she reached home.’
Following the woman’s death the Congress sought action against cases such as ‘digital arrest’, which has become very common in the country.