Overview
- Chandigarh police arrested Bengaluru resident Sibgathulla Baig in an ₹85 lakh ‘digital arrest’ case after tracing funds to an Axis Bank account linked to him.
- Mumbai’s cyber police detained Parshuram Dashrath Jagtap for providing a beneficiary account used to siphon ₹1.27 crore from an 85-year-old ex-TIFR employee coerced via impersonation.
- Goa Crime Branch picked up two suspects from Assam in a ₹1.42 crore ‘digital arrest’ probe, calling them key operatives connected to multiple cases using common IMEIs and numerous SIMs.
- Jharkhand CID arrested Abhishek Bera over a ₹2.07 crore fake trading-app fraud, while Cyberabad reported 16 arrests in a week across trading and ‘digital arrest’ cases, including mule account providers.
- Noida’s cyber unit shut a fraudulent call centre duping job seekers and froze five bank accounts, and Chandigarh police separately arrested two men accused of facilitating bank accounts for online investment scams.