CBI carries out searches in 6 States in ‘digital arrest’ case
CYBER SECURITY
9 OCTOBER 2025
- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out searches at close to 40 locations in and around Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kerala, and West Bengal in connection with a transnational cyber-enabled “digital arrest” fraud case, as part of the ongoing Operation Chakra-V.
- The agency had earlier registered a comprehensive first information report, based on the complaints received on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) from nine different victims of digital arrest.
- It then probed both the mule accounts and telecommunication channels used to approach the victims.
- It added that it unearthed an extensive domestic facilitation network involved in supplying mule bank accounts and enabling parallel “hawala” channels for layering and movement of proceeds of crime.
- “An analysis of more than 15,000 IP addresses revealed that the perpetrators of the digital arrest frauds were carrying out their operations from foreign locations, including Cambodia, and using Indian mule account holders to layer and integrate the proceeds of crime,” said an official.
