On November 11 and 12, Meet Sabarwal, a relationship manager at the Axis Bank branch in Gurgaon’s Galleria Market, found a customer – a senior citizen – transferring Rs 20 lakh to an SBI account in Jamshedpur and Rs 44 lakh to an Axis Bank account at Bandra in Mumbai, while also redeeming mutual funds worth Rs 5.9 crore. The redeemed amount was scheduled to reach the man’s account in Sabarwal’s branch within three days.

As transactions were made within a short period, a suspicious Sabarwal put the same on hold and froze the customer’s account in his branch. He later found out that the senior citizen had been under “digital arrest”.

Police said the victim, a Gurgaon resident, received calls from persons pretending to be Mumbai Police and CBI officers on November 11. “They told him his m

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