U N Mehta doctor duped of ₹70,000 in alleged Telegram Forex investment scam

A 35-year-old doctor working at U N Mehta Hospital has allegedly been cheated of ₹70,000 by an unidentified cyber fraudster who lured him into investing in a fake Forex trading scheme through the Telegram messaging application.

According to the police, the victim, Dr Anil Maheshkumar Panwar, currently resides at the hospital’s PG hostel in Asarwa and has been serving as an Assistant Professor in Cardiac Anaesthesia at the hospital since June 2025.

Police said the complainant had been following a Telegram group named ‘Trade Like Berlin’ for the past six months to learn about stock market investments.

On April 27, while present at the hospital premises, the complainant allegedly received a message from an unknown person identified as ‘Berlin’ pon Telegram. The accused allegedly claimed that investing in the Forex market would generate profits worth nearly double the investment amount.

Believing the offer to be genuine, the complainant allegedly transferred ₹50,000 through a UPI transaction to an account linked with the ID ‘rajbairwa211@axl’. Later the same day, the accused allegedly persuaded him to invest an additional ₹20,000 through another UPI ID, ‘6387238136@okbizaxis’.

Police said the complainant thus transferred a total of ₹70,000 through online transactions.

According to the complaint, the accused later sent invoices through Telegram claiming that the investments had generated profits exceeding ₹3 lakh. However, the complainant was allegedly asked to first pay GST charges amounting to over ₹50,000 in order to withdraw the so-called profits.

Suspicious of the demand, the doctor reportedly discussed the matter with friends, who informed him that it appeared to be a cyber fraud operation.

The complainant subsequently contacted the national cybercrime helpline number 1930 and registered an online complaint before approaching the police.

An FIR has been registered against the unidentified accused for alleged online cheating and cyber fraud with the Shahibaug Police Station.