Overview

• State minister Harsh Sanghavi said Gujarat Police exposed an international ring that committed 1,549 crimes and siphoned about Rs 804 crore, arresting 10 in Surat and seizing phones, hundreds of SIMs, bank kits and POS machines.
• Gujarat authorities returned Rs 5.51 crore to victims, including recoveries in a ‘digital arrest’ case and fake trading app losses, as police urge immediate reporting via helpline 1930 for fund freezes.
• Hyderabad Cyber Crime arrested two men from Maharashtra over a Rs 6.6 lakh ‘digital arrest’ extortion that preceded a retired doctor’s fatal cardiac arrest, with officials stressing such arrests do not exist in law.
• Cyberabad Police detailed fake online trading schemes that cost two victims Rs 4.15 crore but saw Rs 25.10 lakh frozen through rapid portal reporting, while Delhi and Chandigarh units separately busted stock, CSR and loan-modification scams.
• Parallel raids in Surat, Rajasthan, Delhi and Indore uncovered rented bank accounts, shell firms and fake SIMs used to launder funds, with probes tracing flows to crypto and offshore channels and identifying SIM-box technology enabling mass spoofed calls.