The district police have arrested four accused in connection with an online bank fixed deposit (FD) fraud involving several lakh rupees. The arrests were made by the Cyber Crime Police Station, Kurukshetra, following a complaint filed by the victim.
Police identified the arrested accused as Rahul, a resident of Marui; Aamir Sahil from Lehangpura; Sohrab Ali of Sindhora; and Mohammad Arman from Asarabad in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh. The accused were produced before a competent court on Sunday and were subsequently sent to judicial custody as per court orders.
According to a police spokesperson, the complainant, Dharam Singh, a resident of Berthala village in Kurukshetra district, stated that he had invested Rs7.80 lakh in a bank fixed deposit on August 16, 2024. On April 24, 2025, he discovered that Rs5.46 lakh had been fraudulently withdrawn from his FD through 11 online transactions carried out within a single day.
Upon realising that he had been cheated, Dharam Singh approached the Cyber Crime Police Station, Kurukshetra, following which a case was registered and an investigation was launched.
The investigation was conducted under the supervision of Cyber Crime Police Station In-charge PSI Mahesh Kumar by a team comprising PSI Ved Prakash, head constable Deshraj, and SPO Jagjit Singh.
Police said that during the probe, it was found that accused Rahul’s bank account had transactions worth approximately Rs15 to Rs20 lakh linked to complaints from multiple states, indicating a wider network involved in the fraud.
Further investigation is underway to identify other persons involved and to trace additional victims of the online financial fraud, police added.
