MEERUT, May 27 -- Four employees of a private bank, including a branch manager, have been arrested in Bulandshahr for allegedly collaborating with cybercriminals to siphon off Rs.1.93 crore from dormant bank accounts, police said on Tuesday.

A dormant bank account is one that has had no activity for an extended period, typically 24 months or more.

The police said that the arrests were made on Monday following a complaint filed on May 18 by Mohd Aslam, a resident of Shastri Park in Meerut, who discovered that his dormant account had been fraudulently accessed. Aslam, who had opened the account in 2022 for his folding-bed business and stopped using it by December of that year, said he was alerted in April 2025 when unidentified individual...