Overview

• Delhi Police’s IFSO unit is investigating the month-long coercion of 78-year-old Naresh Malhotra, freezing about Rs 2.67 crore after tracking flows through more than 4,000 bank accounts.
• Pune cyber police arrested Seetaiah Kilaru on September 21 for allegedly impersonating an IIT-Bombay professor to defraud a private university of Rs 2.46 crore; he is in police custody until September 28.
• Cyberabad police detected 10 cases between September 17 and 23, arrested 13 suspects across trading, digital-arrest and job scams, and secured court orders that enabled Rs 1.69 crore in victim refunds.
• Pimpri-Chinchwad cyber police arrested six from a Kondhwa hotel for running share-trading cons linked to Chinese handlers, with 150–160 victims and Rs 20–25 crore routed via USDT, hawala and money transfers.
• Gujarat Crime Branch arrested Surat resident Hitesh Praveenchandra Dhodiyawala for a ‘fake CBI officer’ digital-arrest con that duped an Ajmer professor of Rs 7.5 lakh, with his bank account tied to multiple cases.