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Multi-State Arrests Target ‘Digital Arrest’ Rackets Across India

Police say layered mule accounts funneled victims’ money to overseas handlers via hawala channels.

Overview

  • A Mumbai probe into a 68-year-old’s loss of nearly ₹3.75 crore — including a staged video hearing by a man posing as ‘Justice Chandrachud’ — led to the arrest of Jitendra Biyani in Surat, where funds were parked in a fake firm’s account.
  • Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police arrested two Bhavnagar residents in a ₹1.95 crore case, alleging they managed multiple mule accounts tied to at least 22 complaints and routed proceeds to Dubai through hawala networks.
  • Delhi Police’s Inter-State Cell, probing an NRI’s ₹30 lakh ‘digital arrest’ extortion, arrested Varun in Mohali as the authorised signatory of a first-layer partnership firm account and seized cash, devices, cards and cheque books.
  • In a linked Delhi fake-trading scheme that cost a resident ₹31.45 lakh, investigators traced funds through layered mule accounts and arrested Arjun Singh in Gujarat for operating early transfer layers, with two associates still at large.
  • Shahdara cyber police arrested Sameer and Dev Singh from Hisar after a Delhi doctor lost ₹22.7 lakh via a WhatsApp-promoted stock app, as national efforts advance under the Supreme Court’s December 1 directive for a unified CBI-led probe.