Ahmedabad, May 25 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch on Monday arrested another member of an inter-state gang accused of blackmailing and extorting victims through fake astrology and “kinnar guruma” profiles on Instagram, with investigators uncovering transactions worth nearly Rs 60 lakh linked to the accused over the last two years. The latest accused, Vikas Bhargav, a resident of the Gangashahar area of Bikaner, Rajasthan, was arrested in Jaipur and brought to Ahmedabad.He was produce…
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Bengaluru, May 21 (IANS) The Karnataka State Cyber Command has busted fake call centres operating in Bengaluru in the name of “Quick Book”, a prominent US-based accounting company, and arrested two persons for allegedly cheating several American citizens.According to a press note issued on Wednesday by the Karnataka State Cyber Command, the raids were conducted as part of a special drive against cyber fraud across the state. The press note was issued by Director General of Police, Cyber Comm…
Hyderabad, May 20 (IANS) In a nationwide crackdown on cyber fraud enabling infrastructure, Hyderabad Police targeted the Ghost SIM network under Operation Octopus 3.0 and arrested 66 persons in 13 states, Hyderabad Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar said. Cyber Crime Police Station (CCPS) Hyderabad identified 1,194 Ghost SIMs linked to cases registered in CCPS. Eighteen trained teams were deployed across 13 states over a continuous seven-day operationOf this, 544 SIMs were seized in the city by …
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has ordered HDFC Bank to immediately defreeze the bank account of a Delhi resident, holding that the continued freezing of the account without any FIR, accusation, or judicial order was “wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law”. A single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, in an order passed on May 4, allowed the plea filed by Tushar Verma, whose savings account with HDFC Bank was frozen following a complaint received from the Cyb…
Ahmedabad, May 12 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested two members of an interstate cyber fraud gang involved in a “digital arrest” scam in which a senior citizen woman was cheated of Rs 55.50 lakh after being impersonated and coerced through fabricated legal threats and forged official communications. According to police, the case was registered at Cyber Crime Police Station under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, including Sections 338, 336(3), 340(2…
Jaipur, May 2 (IANS) In a significant breakthrough against organised cyber crime, the Cyber Crime Police Station, Jaipur, has dismantled an interstate fraud syndicate and arrested 17 accused involved in a Rs 5.30 crore financial scam executed through WhatsApp impersonation. The case originated from a complaint lodged on April 24, 2026, via the national cyber helpline (1930) by Dipendra Singh, an accountant at a private company.The complainant reported receiving messages from an unknown WhatsA…
Kohima, April 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has filed a second supplementary prosecution complaint before the Special Court for PMLA cases in Dimapur, Nagaland, in connection with the HPZ Token cryptocurrency investment scam. The case has its genesis in three FIRs registered by the Cyber Crime Police Station, Kohima, Nagaland; the CID PS, Ulubari, Guwahati; and the CBI, Delhi. Accordingly, an ECIR was registered on April 12, 2022. The Main Prosecution Compl…
Aizawl, April 28 (IANS) Mizoram Police have arrested an 18-year-old youth for circulating a fake office circular on social media that falsely declared a public holiday on April 27 due to heavy rainfall in the state, officials said on Tuesday. According to a senior police official, a complaint was received on April 27 at the Cyber Crime Police Station from the Under Secretary of the General Administration Department of the Government of Mizoram.The complaint alleged that a fabricated office circu…
Noida, April 9 (IANS) Police in UP’s Gautam Buddha Nagar have achieved a major success in its crackdown on cybercrime with the Cyber Crime Police Station team on Thursday busting a fake call centre operating in Sector-16, Noida, and arresting 16 accused, officials said.The gang used to trap foreign nationals through paid online advertisements and defraud them by instilling fear of hacking and data theft.According to the police, the action was carried out based on local intelligence and technical…
Noida, April 7 (IANS) The Cyber Crime Police Station in Noida has busted a major cyber fraud syndicate and arrested four accused for allegedly duping foreign nationals of crores of rupees by posing as technical support agents, officials said on Tuesday.The accused were apprehended from Noida’s Sector-76 following a targeted operation based on technical intelligence and local inputs, police added.According to investigators, the gang ran paid advertisements on the internet and social media platf…