Woman booked for misusing bank account in ₹70.85 lakh cyber fraud case

A woman was arrested for misusing a bank account in a ₹70.85 lakh cyber fraud case in Karnataka.

The Cyber Crime Police have registered a case against a woman for allegedly misusing the current bank account of her husband’s friend to route funds amounting to ₹70.85 lakh in connection with a cyber fraud.

According to the complaint, the victim had known a person named Vijay for nearly 15 years, through whom he was introduced to his wife, identified as Prathima Kumar.

The accused allegedly obtained the victim’s current account details, including net banking ID, password and linked mobile number, through WhatsApp on December 2025 with an assurance that she would use it for foreign trips, trekking and other adventure events and promised to pay the GST and taxes related to her transactions .

Police said the accused subsequently changed the mobile number linked to the bank account and used the account to carry out transactions totalling ₹70,85,137 on February 3, 2026. The amount is suspected to be proceeds of cyber fraud that were illegally routed through the complainant’s account.

The fraud came to light after officials from the cyber crime wing, acting on information received through the online cybercrime portal, visited the complainant’s residence for verification.

Based on the complaint, a case has been registered at the police station concerned. The accused has been booked under Sections 66(C) and 66(D) of the IT Act, along with Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.