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.