A 44-year-old neurologist at one of India’s best hospitals, Ruchika Tandon, spent a terrifying week in August that seemed like a high-stakes federal criminal investigation.
However, it was a complex fraud, a web of lies woven by con artists who controlled her every action and squandered her and her family’s retirement funds.
Dr. Tandon was forced to take time off work, give up her daily liberties, and comply with constant surveillance and instructions from strangers on the phone under the guise of “digital arrest,” a term that her perpetrators had made up. They persuaded her that she was the subject of a serious investigation.
