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India Widens Cyber-Fraud Crackdown With Arrests Across Noida, Delhi, Rajasthan and Punjab

Police describe account-provider networks as the financial backbone of impersonation scams that coerce victims into large transfers.

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The police have recovered 40 laptops, 67 mobile phones and ₹10 lakh in cash during the raid, police said. (HT)
Authorities said efforts are on to trace the culprits who impersonated NPCI staff and executed the elaborate scam. (HT Photo)

Overview

  • Noida cyber police arrested three B.Tech students accused of supplying bank accounts in a ₹1.70 crore ‘digital arrest’ case targeting an 84-year-old retired central official, with ₹17.48 lakh traced and frozen so far.
  • Rajasthan’s Alwar police, under Operation Cyber Sangram, detained six people for creating and selling mule accounts tied to frauds exceeding ₹100 crore, seizing banking tools and forming an SIT to pursue wider links.
  • Punjab police raided a Phagwara resort and arrested 38 in an interstate call-centre racket alleged to have targeted victims in the US and Canada, with recoveries of laptops, phones and cash and probes noting Bitcoin and hawala use.
  • Delhi Police’s Crime Branch arrested Kulwant Singh and Devender Singh for providing current accounts used in bogus IPO and stock schemes that siphoned nearly ₹6 crore, including an NGO trust account linked to multiple NCRP complaints.
  • Fresh cases across cities show the same playbook, including an 83-year-old Hyderabad resident losing ₹80.64 lakh to a ‘digital arrest’ scheme, a ₹37.8 lakh stock-tip scam in Thane, an Indore arrest for receiving fraud proceeds, and a Ludhiana teacher duped of over ₹16 lakh.