Delhi Police on Friday announced the results of Operation CyHawk-6.0, its sixth coordinated crackdown on organised cybercrime, conducted on October 28 and 29 across all 15 police districts of the capital along with the Crime Branch's cyber unit and the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit. Police arrested 944 people during the two-day drive, which targeted the ecosystem behind online fraud — suppliers of mule bank accounts and fake SIM cards, suspected bank insiders, illegal call centres and networks laundering stolen money.
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Addressing a press conference at Delhi Police Headquarters, Joint Commissioner of Police (IFSO) Chinmoy Biswal and Joint Commissioner of Police, New Delhi Range, Nupur Prasad said police took action in 1,032 cases — 596 newly registered FIRs, 432 previously registered cases and four proceedings under preventive provisions. A further 788 people were bound down and notices were issued to another 2,081, while 4,979 suspects were detained or rounded up for verification.
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The complaints worked out during the operation involved alleged cheating of about Rs 479.14 crore; 727 of the complaints originated in Delhi and 3,275 came from other states and Union Territories. As many as 283 police teams carried out raids across 17 states and five Union Territories. The cases covered fake KYC calls, phishing messages, fraudulent mobile applications, online shopping scams, investment frauds, matrimonial scams, loan-app sextortion and impersonation of corporate executives and government officials, police said.
Seizures during the drive included 1,037 mobile phones, 1,301 SIM cards, 106 laptops and computers, 397 ATM cards, more than 244 bank kits and passbooks, 325 Aadhaar cards, six SIM boxes, 11 cars and 10 two-wheelers, along with Rs 37.67 lakh in cash and quantities of gold and cryptocurrency. Police said the operation drew on inputs from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal and the Samanvaya and Pratibimb portals to identify suspicious accounts, numbers and hotspots.
Fresh FIR registrations during CyHawk-6.0 rose by about 24 per cent compared with the previous edition held on June 16 and 17, and total arrests across all six editions of the operation have now crossed 3,300, officials said. Delhi Police said Operation CyHawk would continue as a regular, intelligence-led campaign against cybercrime networks. The fraud amounts and the roles of those arrested remain allegations under investigation and are subject to court proceedings.