BENGALURU, 11 APRIL

The police arrested three fraudsters for creating fake court orders using forged government email IDs and duping a private bank into transferring over Rs 1.32 crore in the City.
The cybercrime department arrested the accused following an investigation.
The accused have been identified as Abhimanyu and Neeraj from Delhi and Sagar from Rajasthan, the alleged mastermind behind the operation.

The trio created a fake email ID impersonating a government department and sent 18 forged court orders to an ICICI Bank branch in Halasuru between September 2024 and February 2025.
The orders directed the bank to release funds frozen in certain accounts. One of the accused, posing as a government official, also called a bank employee. Believing the documents to be genuine, the employee transferred Rs 1,32,28,293 crore from two ICICI accounts to an Axis Bank account.
Bank managers, sensing foul play, filed a complaint with the cyber crime department. During the probe, investigators traced the transferred money to an individual in Delhi’s Vikas Nagar, who led them to his associate in Rajasthan.

Sagar had not only created the fake government email ID, but also fabricated the court documents. He had received Rs 38 lakh from the scam and spent the bulk of it. Authorities have now frozen Rs 63 lakh in his Axis Bank account.
The accused were brought to Bengaluru and produced before the court, which remanded them to eight days in police custody.