Officers of Cyber Crime police station of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) in Udichi have arrested two persons from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh (MP) within seventy two hours after receiving the complaint from the Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) over withdrawal of over Rs 40 lakh from a bank account after forging signatures.
Aimed at promoting the scaling and adoption of impactful AI solutions to enable large-scale socio-economic transformation, the IT Ministry has launched the ‘IndiaAI CyberGuard AI Hackathon’.
Following specific leads from the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian Police has rescued 67 Indian nationals who were trapped in the Southeast Asian nation in fraudulent job offers obtained through fake agents and forced into cyber crime.
The accused persons were nabbed from Pune, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, while investigation and questioning on the role of other workers at these illegal call centers is ongoing.
The four persons apprehended by ED sleuths included Shashi Kumar M, 25, Sachin M, 26, Kiran S.K., 25, and Charan Raj C., 26, in a case related to the cyber investment scam.
A total 11,097 cases of cyber crime have been registered in UP in 2020, 8,829 in 2021 and 10,117 in 2022.
According to RBI's annual report, the banking sector recorded 9,103 cases of frauds involving Rs 60,414 crore in 2021-22 and 7,359 cases of fraud involving Rs 1,38,211 crore in 2020-21.
unsuspecting, aspiring migrant workers from Bangladesh and various other countries are being lured into this vicious cycle by an extended network that is feeding this business with resources, including manpower
Senior Telangana Congress leaders including Shabbir Ali and Mallu Ravi were detained and put under house arrest as the party gave a call for protests across the state after the raid on its war room by the police.
The Himachal Pradesh police have successfully ensured refund of Rs 75,36,789 to the victims during investigation this year alone. They have further, put on hold the transaction of Rs 1,53,76,785 for investigation.
