Overview
- DGGI’s Delhi unit arrested alleged kingpin Mukesh Sharma after detecting a Rs 645 crore ITC racket run through 229 dummy firms, seizing 162 phones, 44 digital signatures and over 200 cheque books.
- Cyberabad police detained two suspects accused of creating 10 fake GST registrations to claim Rs 11.79 crore ITC, with 405 fabricated e‑waybills across eight states, while several alleged masterminds remain at large.
- Maharashtra Cyber added two arrests in a Rs 58.13 crore ‘digital arrest’ case and mapped about 20,000 mule accounts across 13 layers used to circulate victim funds, taking total arrests in the probe to 29.
- Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested two in separate online investment and crypto‑linked scams that cost victims over Rs 50 lakh, froze linked accounts and secured a partial refund for one complainant.
- Parallel state actions included 12 arrests in a Kadapa digital‑arrest case, eight held in a Greater Noida betting and gaming racket with large seizures of forged banking materials, and raids on Pune call centres targeting US citizens.