Overview

• Gujarat police said a network linked to Dubai, Vietnam and Cambodia carried out 1,549 crimes worth about Rs 804 crore, arresting 10 in Surat and seizing 65 phones, 447 debit cards, 529 bank kits, 686 SIMs and 16 POS machines.
• Surat Cyber Crime Unit busted two account-supplying gangs tied to transactions of roughly Rs 19.70 crore across 43 bank accounts, with raids recovering phones, laptops and documents from fronts posing as trading and e-commerce firms.
• Hyderabad police arrested two Maharashtra suspects in a Rs 6.6 lakh ‘digital arrest’ extortion that preceded a retired doctor’s fatal cardiac arrest, reiterating that no such legal practice exists.
• Cyberabad investigators froze Rs 25.10 lakh after victims lost over Rs 4 crore to fabricated online trading platforms that used cloned apps, manipulated dashboards and WhatsApp groups to induce deposits.
• Separate operations reported arrests in Delhi, Chandigarh, Rajasthan and Haryana, including a Delhi stock-trading case citing a China-based handler ‘Tom’, a Rajasthan suspect held with 136 fake SIMs, and a Haryana account provider tied to a Rs 34 lakh crypto fraud.