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Police Widen 'Digital Arrest' Crackdown as Delhi Case Hits Eight Arrests, Gujarat Suspect Stopped at Airport

Police describe layered transfers through mule accounts under suspected foreign direction.

Overview

  • Delhi Police’s IFSO unit made five more arrests in the Greater Kailash case, taking the total to eight, after an elderly couple lost about ₹14.84 crore between December 24 and January 9.
  • Investigators say ₹2.08 crore linked to the Delhi case has been frozen, with suspects accused of operating mule accounts and paper fronts on instructions from handlers based in Cambodia and Nepal.
  • In Gujarat, Surat Cyber Crime Cell arrested Shankar Chaudhary at Delhi airport as he allegedly tried to flee to Russia in a ₹1.71 crore digital arrest case that used commissioned current accounts to move funds.
  • A separate Delhi Crime Branch probe arrested national-level shooter Himanshu Chauhan for allegedly sourcing mule bank accounts in a ₹40.27 lakh fraud, with NCRP data flagging at least 40 linked complaints and two FIRs across cities.
  • In Madhya Pradesh, a Ratlam SIT reported 15 arrests across six states and said ₹1.34 crore from a 28‑day digital arrest was first parked in six mule accounts tied to paper NGOs and firms before being layered through 64 more accounts.