Overview
- Ahemdabad’s Cyber Crime Branch arrested three more alleged masterminds from Uttar Pradesh and Assam, taking the AI-driven Aadhaar loan case to seven arrests as one accused remains at large.
- Investigators say the gang used AI “eye-blink” videos to fool Aadhaar live-face checks on UCL kits, changed the Aadhaar-linked phone number to their SIM, then took over DigiLocker and bank access to secure loans in victims’ names.
- The suspects pulled GST, PAN and credit data from services such as MastersIndia, Peridot and CRIF High Mark to pick targets, and police estimate the fraud yielded about ₹10–15 lakh a year.
- In a separate probe, Delhi Police detained 14 people tied to fake work-from-home lures that used mule accounts and encrypted chats to move funds, with links to transactions worth more than ₹8 crore.
- Responding to rising losses, Cyberabad police urged banks to create faster cyber-response desks and speed freezes and KYC sharing, noting ₹438 crore lost in 2025 and roughly ₹104 crore so far in 2026.