Gurugram: 2 held for supplying bank account in ₹78 lakh ‘digital arrest’ case

Gurugram Police arrested two men linked to a ₹78 lakh fraud case involving a bank account used for digital extortion. Further investigation continues.

Gurugram: Gurugram Police on Saturday said it has arrested two men accused of providing a bank account used to route money in a ₹78 lakh “digital arrest” case.

During the investigation, police found that ₹24 lakh of the cheated amount had been transferred to a bank account held by one of the accused. (Representative photo)

The first accused, a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar, was arrested on Wednesday and remanded to two days of police custody on Thursday, and the other accused, a native of Meerut, was arrested from his rented accommodation in Ghaziabad on Friday.

The arrests stem from a complaint filed on November 28, 2025, by a man who alleged that fraudsters posing as police officers kept him under a digital arrest between November 21 and 28 and coerced him into transferring ₹78 lakh.

During the investigation, police found that ₹24 lakh of the cheated amount had been transferred to a bank account held by one of the accused. According to investigators, he had sold the account to the second accused for ₹70,000, who then allegedly passed it on to another person for ₹2.2 lakh.

Police said the account was allegedly used as part of a wider cyber fraud network. Investigators also found that 52 complaints had previously been registered in connection with transactions routed through the same account.