Overview

• Gujarat police said an international ring that duped ₹804 crore was busted in Surat, with 10 arrests, large seizures of phones, SIMs and bank kits, and ₹5.51 crore returned to victims.
• Separate Surat raids uncovered rented accounts and shell firms that moved roughly ₹20 crore through 43 bank accounts, with linked complaints across 13 states and extensive confiscations.
• Hyderabad cybercrime officers arrested two men from Maharashtra in a ‘digital arrest’ extortion that coerced a retired doctor into transferring ₹6.6 lakh before her fatal cardiac arrest, with officials reiterating that such arrests do not exist in law.
• Cyberabad police reported two fake online trading cases totaling ₹4.15 crore in losses and said timely reporting enabled the freezing of ₹25.10 lakh, with victims lured via counterfeit apps, social media groups and bogus IPO and block-deal claims.
• Delhi police arrested an alleged ‘account provider’ in a ₹34 lakh crypto-trading fraud tied to multiple complaints, highlighting mule-account pipelines as Chandigarh investigators track handlers and laundering routes linked to Southeast Asia and Dubai.