Bengaluru police have arrested four people, including a deputy manager of IndusInd Bank, for cheating a 76-year-old woman out of ₹50 lakh by tricking her into signing an RTGS form.
The arrested people are Meghana P V (31), who worked as a deputy manager at the bank’s Girinagar branch, her boyfriend Shivaprasad, and two others—Anwar Ghouse and Varadaraj. The three men are in their 30s.
According to the complaint, the elderly woman and her husband had a joint bank account, and Meghana had been helping them with their finances. Over time, she gained their trust and collected their personal details. In January 2025, after selling a house, the couple received ₹1 crore in their bank account.
Police said Meghana tricked the woman into signing an RTGS (Real-Time Gross Settlement) form by making it look like a form to renew a fixed deposit. She then transferred ₹50 lakh to Anwar Ghouse’s bank account. The fraud was discovered when the woman’s son checked their bank transactions.
Once they realized the money was missing, the family immediately called the cybercrime helpline (1930). The police registered a case on March 3 at the Girinagar police station under two legal sections—316 (criminal breach of trust) and 318 (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
A police team, led by Sub-Inspector Manjunath, arrested Meghana in Kerala and Shivaprasad in Bengaluru. The other two men were caught in Ankola. They claimed they did not know about the fraud. All four are now in judicial custody, and the investigation is still going on.
A police officer said that Meghana claimed she never meant to cheat and planned to return the money to the elderly woman later.
