Surat: The Cyber Crime Cell of Surat Police has arrested Dashrath Dhandhaliya, a key figure in a racket involved in sending bank account kits to Dubai for cyber frauds, including digital arrest scams, online honeytraps, and sextortion. Dhandhaliya allegedly rented out bank accounts for ₹10,000 to ₹15,000 and forwarded the account details to Milan, a Dubai-based handler. About seven months ago, the Surat Cyber Cell had exposed a network operating out of Sarthana and Mota Varachha’s Swadhya...Read More

Gandhinagar: In 2024, the Gujarat Police's State Cyber Crime Cell recovered over Rs. 108 crores belonging to innocent citizens who were scammed by cyber fraudsters. Additionally, in one year, Rs. 285.12 crores were frozen, and recovery actions are still underway. Due to the high freeze and recovery rates in complaints received during the golden hours (within five hours of the fraud) after cyber fraud, the state's police chief, Vikas Sahay, has appealed to citizens to immediately contact the help...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Cyber Crime Cell of Ahmedabad Police has arrested three individuals for allegedly using customer data to issue duplicate sim cards and later sending those sim cards to Dubai, reportedly for illicit activities. The fraud came to light on March 27 this year when a superintendent customs officer at the Shahibaug post office intercepted a suspicious parcel from Vadodara that was destined for Dubai. Upon inspection, the parcel was found to contain 55 cloned sim cards, prompting cybe...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Cyber Crime Cell of Gujarat Police has arrested a member of a gang involved in cybercrimes, specifically hacking WhatsApp accounts of school and college girls. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused, from Madhya Pradesh, has defrauded over 100 girls across various states, including Gujarat. Following the arrest, the State Cyber Crime Cell team has launched an intensive investigation and is working to apprehend other members of the gang. The case began when ...Read More

Ahmedabad: The cybercrime cell of the city police has arrested 17 individuals from different locations across the country in connection with a digital arrest fraud case. Among those arrested, four individuals are Taiwanese nationals who were apprehended from Delhi and Bangalore, with two from each city. In one case, the gang held a senior citizen in "digital arrest" for 10 days, monitoring him through video calls and extorting ₹79.34 lakhs under the pretense of resolving an "RBI issue," acc...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Zonal Office of the Enforcement Directorate, in collaboration with the Cyber Crime Police, conducted search operations at 20 premises located in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Lucknow, and Coimbatore in connection with the case of Magicwin (an online betting platform) and others under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, the central agency said on Monday. The ED investigation comes after an FIR that was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Sta...Read More

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell received information that suspects were hiding at "The Stay Lions" hotel near Anjali Cross Road. Acting on this tip-off, they conducted a raid this week and caught Saeem Desai, Bhaylukhan Baloch, and Aftab Dasadiya. Desai collaborated with a Chinese gang to orchestrate online fraud schemes. With his Chinese boss's help, Saeem and his associates created fake social media profiles. They defrauded people by promising high returns on investments. With Bhayluk...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Cyber Crime Branch of Ahmedabad Police has detained two individuals for posting a doctored video clip of Home Minister Amit Shah on the social media platform Facebook. Cyber Crime DCP Dr. Lavina Sinha, while providing details of the case, stated that two people have been detained for posting a doctored video of HM Shah on the social media platform Facebook. The arrested individuals are Satish Vansola from Palanpur and Rahul Bhai Bariya from Limakheda, Dahod. Both of them are af...Read More

Ahmedabad: The cybercrime police apprehended Gujarat Congress spokesperson Dr. Amit Nayak on Friday. Nayak has been booked for vandalising the wall graffiti of the BJP symbol and spreading the video of his actions. BJP campaign and communication convener Shahpur Abhay Shah mentioned in the FIR that he came across Nayak's video on X (formerly Twitter) on January 29, in which Nayak could be seen painting over the BJP wall graffiti of 'Fir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar.' Shah mentioned in the FIR that ...Read More

Ahmedabad: The cybercrime police have apprehended a police officer, namely Vinay Kathiria, posted at the office of Zone-5 Deputy Commissioner of Police. The officer allegedly provided call detail records (CDRs) to an unethical hacker named Amit Singh, whom Vinay had met at a cybersecurity seminar. Singh had already been arrested on September 7th following a complaint from a Pune-based businessman. The hacker, a 29-year-old resident of Hebatpur named Amit Singh, operates a company called "Amig...Read More