Overview

• Noida cyber police arrested B.Tech students Prince Kumar, Avnish Kumar and Vidyasagar Yadav as alleged account mules in a “digital arrest” case that cost an 84-year-old ₹1.70 crore, with ₹17.48 lakh frozen.
• Punjab Police detained 38 people in Phagwara for an interstate call-centre racket targeting victims in the US and Canada; investigators seized 40 laptops, 67 phones and ₹10 lakh and cited Bitcoin and hawala channels.
• Rajasthan’s Alwar Police arrested six in Operation Cyber Sangram for supplying hundreds of mule accounts tied to frauds exceeding ₹100 crore, formed an SIT and recovered cheque books, ATM cards, SIMs and account data.
• Delhi Crime Branch arrested Kulwant Singh and Devender Singh for providing NGO-linked accounts used in bogus IPO and stock schemes that siphoned nearly ₹6 crore, including ₹20 lakh traced to one trust account flagged in 10 NCRP complaints.
• Haryana Police shut a Ladwa call centre and arrested 11 suspects trained on scripts that pressured victims into payments via cryptocurrency, reiterating that “digital arrest” is a hoax and advising immediate calls to 1930.