Overview

• Six suspects, including kingpin Harshit Kumar and facilitator Mohammad Sultan, were arrested in coordinated raids across Supaul and Vaishali districts over July 19–20.
• Investigators confiscated eight imported SIM box devices, hundreds of SIM cards, mobile phones, bank passbooks and credit cards during the operation.
• The syndicate organised rural welfare-scheme camps to collect residents’ documents and fraudulently procure SIM cards for bulk calls and SMS scams.
• Preliminary findings show the ring made over 10,000 daily fraud calls through a parallel telephone exchange that inflicted heavy revenue losses on the telecom ministry.
• The ongoing inquiry is tracing cryptocurrency accounts, bank transactions and overseas operatives in the UAE, Southeast Asia and Europe to determine the full scale of the fraud.