Chandigarh, Nov. 23 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has granted bail to a bank employee arrested by Mohali police on allegations of helping an accused in a digital arrest case cheat a Mohali woman.

The petitioner employee, Shaik Noushad Ahammed, worked as relationship manager with a bank. The allegations were that he had facilitated opening of the account in which Rs.57 lakh out of the cheated amount of Rs.1.03 crore was deposited and later withdrawn.

The FIR was registered in June 2025 in which a Mohali woman had alleged that she was present in her house when she received a Whatsapp call from an unknown number. The person on the other end, claimed to be a cop from Maharashtra and accused the victim of having fake accounts. He furt...