Noida, April 8 -- Three people, including a former bank relationship manager and his wife, were arrested on Monday for allegedly duping a 74-year-old woman - the wife of a late lieutenant colonel - of Rs.1.39 crore on the pretext of investing her savings, police said.

The complainant, Amita Chaturvedi, widow of Lt Col (Retd) VK Chaturvedi, said the accused posed as her relationship manager and convinced her to invest her late husband's savings over the past five years.

Chaturvedi said, "In January 2020, the suspect, Ashish Chandra, who was employed as a relationship manager at a private bank in Sector 18, approached me and informed me that he had been assigned as my relationship manager by senior bank officials."

"My husband died in 20...