Bank Staff Caught in Rs 1.93 Crore Cyber Scam from Dormant Accounts

Four employees of a private bank, including a branch manager, have been arrested in Bulandshahr for allegedly collaborating with cybercriminals to siphon off Rs 1.93 crore from dormant bank accounts, police said on Tuesday.

- HT Correspondent

MEERUT:

A dormant bank account is one that has had no activity for an extended period, typically 24 months or more.

The police said that the arrests were made on Monday following a complaint filed on May 18 by Mohd Aslam, a resident of Shastri Park in Meerut, who discovered that his dormant account had been fraudulently accessed. Aslam, who had opened the account in 2022 for his folding-bed business and stopped using it by December of that year, said he was alerted in April 2025 when unidentified individuals visited his old address, prompting his family to raise concerns.