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The cyber constabulary stations crossed the State are readying to proceed with an intensified probe nether ‘Operation Cy-Hunt’, the State-wide crackdown connected cyber fraud networks, pursuing its thumping occurrence successful netting hundreds of suspects progressive successful large online scams. The determination to measurement up the thrust comes successful the aftermath of encouraging results from the archetypal two-day phase, which uncovered a immense web of intermediaries operating wrong the State and their suspicious links with nationalist and planetary counterparts.
Officials with the State’s Hi-Tech Crime Inquiry Cell confirmed that the cyber constabulary stations successful Kerala had already accessed elaborate accusation connected 2,683 persons suspected of playing cardinal roles successful facilitating fraudulent money transfers. Based connected the latest data, Station House Officers of assorted cyber constabulary stations would articulation forces for district-level and State-level investigations, they said.
“Launched arsenic 1 of the astir extended and coordinated actions against cybercrime successful caller years, the latest Operation Cy-Hunt was the effect of a year-long probe that progressive analysing telephone item records, slope transactions, and reliable quality inputs from aggregate sources,” revealed an Assistant Commissioner of Police who was portion of the State-wide raid connected Thursday (October 30, 2025). He said the constabulary had registered 439 archetypal accusation reports connected Thursday unsocial and arrested 284 suspects, astir of whom were suspected of selling their slope accounts to 3rd parties for commission-based rewards aft each fraudulent transaction.
The cognition covered each districts connected Thursday, with the Ernakulam Rural constabulary initially signaling the highest fig of 43 arrests. Malappuram came 2nd with 30 arrests followed by Kannur City and Kozhikode city, which each reported 23 arrests. Alappuzha recorded the highest fig of 50 cases, followed by Kozhikode (43 cases). Cyber squads conducted 714 searches, seizing 88 physics devices utilized successful cyber fraud operations. The squads brought 72 suspects nether interrogation portion 147 others were served notices for further inquiry.
A elder constabulary serviceman who took portion successful the State-wide cognition described Cy-Hunt arsenic a “surgical strike” connected cyber fraudsters, stating that it marked lone the opening of a wider enactment plan. He said the constabulary zeroed successful connected implicit 1,000 caller suspects based connected caller grounds from the arrested individuals adding that recovered integer and documentary grounds would assistance uncover large-scale scams successful the days to come.
Responding to criticisms from immoderate societal media users that the thrust chiefly targeted intermediaries alternatively than kingpins, the constabulary officers who coordinated the cognition successful bluish Kerala said galore of those arrested were afloat alert of their roles successful the organised crimes often reported by the media. Many of the suspects, they clarified, had received a stock of the defrauded wealth from higher tiers of the network.
