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India Cracks Down on ‘Digital Arrest’ Scams With Multi‑State Raids and Key Arrests

Investigators are dismantling the infrastructure that moves victims’ money through mule accounts, SIM fraud, shell companies to cross‑border handlers.

Overview

  • Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell arrested Rakesh Meena, Chotu Lal Meena and Yogendra Gujjar in a Jaipur-based module that coerced a 75-year-old into transferring ₹16 lakh, seizing cash, phones and mule‑account passbooks with links to handlers in Cambodia.
  • The CBI executed synchronized searches in Goa, Bengaluru, Palakkad, Nagpur, Hyderabad and Delhi in a ₹1.86 crore case tied to a Kottayam victim, arresting mule‑account operator Blessin Jacob Abraham, shell‑company operator Mohammad Mushtaque and SIM facilitator Mohammad Junaid.
  • Faridabad cyber police arrested three suspects in Pune in a ₹2.13 crore fraud targeting a retired CAG official, recovering 283 SIMs, four SIM boxes and VoIP‑to‑GSM gear, and freezing ₹1.25 crore while probing links to a Chinese‑run syndicate based in Cambodia.
  • Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 3 busted a shell‑company racket, arresting two men accused of opening 55 bank accounts across nine front firms to receive and route proceeds of cyber fraud worth several crores.
  • Teams report using digital forensics, SIM tracking, social media monitoring and money‑trail analysis to trace mule networks, seize devices and pursue further arrests and recoveries as nationwide investigations continue.