Overview
- - Gujarat’s CID Crime disclosed Wednesday that Operation Mule Hunt 2.0 traced more than ₹622 crore linked to cyber fraud and arrested 40 suspects after raids in Surat, Bhavnagar, Rajkot and Unjha.
- - In Rajkot, police said Tuesday the investigation has widened past ₹2,500 crore with 20 arrests, including three private bank officials accused of helping open and keep suspicious accounts active.
- - Pimpri Chinchwad police invoked Maharashtra’s organised crime law in a fake trading app case and froze ₹2.65 crore that a court has allowed to be returned to the complainant.
- - Odisha’s Commissionerate Police reported arrests tied to a Jamtara phishing ring that sent fake WhatsApp APK links to harvest bank details, then pushed money through mule accounts, hawala routes and, in some cases, into USDT.
- - Judicial scrutiny sharpened Wednesday as a Dadar court acquitted a man in a ₹1.38 crore “digital arrest” case, citing missing call records, absent SIM registration forms and no forensic report linking him to the fraud.