Teacher Dies of Heart Attack as Scam Call Claims Her Daughter In Sex Racket

Agra: An attempted fraud call allegedly took the life of Malti Verma, 58, a teacher in a government school in Agra on Monday.

According to reports, at around noon on Monday, the teacher received a WhatsApp call from a man who claimed to be a police officer. The man told the teacher that her college-going daughter had been nabbed in a sex racket.

The man posing as a cop asked the teacher to deposit Rs 1 lakh in a particular account to ensure that no case was filed against her daughter. The man allegedly told Malti Verma that he was calling her to ensure that the family did not have to go through the trauma of having their daughter implicated in a sex racket-related case.

Panicked Malti called up her son, who checked the number and found that it had a +92 prefix. He told her mother that it was a scam call. But by that time Malti had become too stressed and was feeling unwell. Although her son reassured her that he had spoken to his sister, who was in college and was fine, Malti’s condition kept deteriorating.

When she came back from school, she said she was feeling some pain and died after some time.

The family filed a complaint on Thursday alleging that the cause of her death was the fake call meant to extort money. Police are investigating the number from which the call came for legal action.