Elderly man arrested digitally, preparations made to cheat Rs 6 crore, then angel came

New Delhi. Digital arrest, a new age crime which has given sleepless nights to cyber experts and security agencies. Usually, the job of arrest is done by police or other security agencies, but digital arrest has completely become a weapon of criminals. Cyber ​​criminals are making people pauper without coming forward with this new age methods. A similar crime was about to happen in Gurugram also. Where cyber criminals digitally arrested an elderly person and had also made full preparations to empty his bank account. But, the relationship manager of the bank not only saved him from fraud but also returned the transferred money.

This is the case of an elderly customer of Axis Bank. This customer, resident of Gurugram, was digitally arrested by cyber criminals by threatening him with CBI and ED. To avoid the fear of defamation, the elderly customer also decided to pay money on the demand of the criminals. He had also withdrawn all his money from the mutual fund on the demand of the swindlers. Not only this, he also transferred some part of it and if the bank employee had not shown his wisdom at the right time, the elderly customer would have become completely destitute. For the intelligence of the bank employee, Gurugram Police Commissioner also honored him with Rs 20,000.

How the web of fraud was laid
A case regarding this cyber fraud was registered with Cyber ​​Crime East Gurugram Police on November 18, 2025. In the complaint, the victim said that the thugs had called him posing as police and CBI officers. After this, the complainant was digitally arrested under the threat of illegal use of his mobile number and Aadhaar card. Seeing the old man in their custody, the criminals demanded money from him. The criminals knew that he had a huge amount of money and demanded Rs 6 crore.

Withdrawal of money from mutual fund
The complainant said that out of fear he redeemed all his Rs 5.90 crore from the mutual fund. Not only this, on the instructions of the thugs, he also transferred Rs 20 lakh to the SBI branch of Jamshedpur on November 11. After this, on November 12, he again transferred Rs 44 lakh which went to the account of Axis Bank, Bandra-Mumbai. In two days, the swindlers collected Rs 64 lakh from the old man.

Bank employee became suspicious
Nowadays, relationship managers are appointed by banks for every customer. Axis Bank’s Galleria Market branch in Gurugram had also appointed Meet Sabarwal as the relationship manager of that elderly customer and this employee became an angel for that customer. Meet became suspicious due to continuous large transactions being made from the old man’s account and he immediately talked to the bank branch and put all the transactions on hold on November 13, 2025. The police was also informed about the matter and the account of the cyber criminals to which the money was transferred was also frozen. The customer’s account was also frozen.

Didn’t even pick up the phone out of fear
When the relationship manager of the bank contacted the victim, he could not even answer the phone due to fear. When the bank employee talked to him and took him into confidence, the old man told him the entire story of digital arrest. On the persuasion of the bank manager, he registered a case at Gurugram police station on 18 November. The most important thing in this entire incident is that if the bank employee had not shown wisdom then crores of rupees of the old man would have been defrauded.

Police Commissioner honored
Gurugram Police also returned Rs 64 lakh that had gone to the account of cyber thugs and Commissioner Vikas Arora also honored the relationship manager of Axis Bank. The Commissioner called Meet Sabarwal to his office and also gave him a reward of Rs 20,000. The Police Commissioner said that the police never arrest anyone digitally and people should not fall prey to such cyber frauds. If there is any problem, immediately call the national helpline number 1930 and give all the information.