LUCKNOW, Sept. 14 -- The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday raided a plush high-rise society and arrested a Union Bank of India branch manager along with three accomplices for allegedly running a large-scale cyber fraud by sanctioning fake Mudra and auto loans using forged documents and unauthorised access to bank systems, officials said.

Gaurav Singh, 40, branch manager of Union Bank's Jankipuram branch, was allegedly the mastermind. A BTech and MBA graduate, Singh is a resident of Vikas Nagar in Lucknow and hails from Khersa village in Kanpur, according to an STF release. The others arrested were Naved Hasan, 42, of Jankipuram Garden (originally from Hata Mirza Ali Khan, Thakurganj); Akhilesh Tiwari, 37, of Rajajipuram;...