Overview

• Delhi Police’s IFSO unit concluded a six-month probe by arresting 18 suspects in a ₹2.6 crore SBI credit-card fraud and recovering 52 mobile phones, SIM cards and leaked customer data from a Gurgaon call centre.
• Mumbai Cyber Police dismantled a multi-city share-investment racket that duped over 30 investors of more than ₹65 crore using a fake company, forged SEBI documents and rapid crypto conversions.
• Three men, including a London School of Economics graduate, were arrested in Delhi for a WhatsApp-based extortion scheme traced to Thailand that threatened victims and demanded Tether payments.
• A separate operation in West Delhi uncovered an illegal call-centre fraud network that deployed malicious APKs to harvest OTPs, routed funds through mule accounts in Panipat, Bathinda and Hyderabad and victimised private bank customers.
• Authorities have invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the IT Act and PMLA powers to register FIRs, freeze assets and coordinate cross-state and international tracing as full recovery of laundered funds remains incomplete.