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The Cyber Crime Wing of the Tamil Nadu Police said it had rescued 1,212 imaginable victims of cyber fraud implicit the year.
The Director-General of Police (DGP), Cyber Crime Wing, Sandeep Mittal, said a dedicated Cyber Patrolling and Intelligence Team was established astatine the Cyber Crime Wing office to proactively show and antagonistic amerciable and fraudulent activities successful cyberspace, including societal media platforms and websites.
“This squad has rescued 1,212 imaginable victims — 200 belonging to Tamil Nadu and 1,012 from different States — from being wholly victimised. It has besides blocked astir 1,507 societal media accounts and pages promoting fake concern apps,” helium said.
As different proactive step, the Cyber Crime Wing has begun opening past sheets for repetition cyber offenders. A peculiar cognition — Operation ‘Thirai Neekku’ — was conducted betwixt December 2024 and June 2025 crossed Tamil Nadu, to analyse cybercrime cases and nab the suspects.
The cognition resulted successful the apprehension of 212 cyber offenders progressive successful 654 complaints registered connected the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP), with a full nonaccomplishment amounting to ₹193.97 crore.
Under a pan-India cognition titled Operation ‘Hydra’, 7 cyber criminals were arrested from States specified arsenic Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Assam, and Delhi for their engagement successful high-impact cybercrimes.
The Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Wing besides launched Operation ‘Blue Triangle’ to unafraid planetary quality trafficking agents and mule agents progressive successful the ‘Cyber Slavery Scam’. So far, 10 cyber offenders person been secured, with 4 detained nether the Goondas Act.
The Cyber Crime Wing arrested a full of 1,193 cyber offenders done assorted inter-State and intra-State operations successful 2025.
Mr. Mittal further said that with the deployment of precocious algorithms astatine planetary telecom gateways, fraudulent calls were being efficaciously blocked astatine the source. Cyber criminals operating from overseas had been attempting to sabotage telecom networks by activating SIM boxes astatine assorted locations successful India. Recognising this threat, the Cyber Crime Wing carried retired intelligence-led operations, resulting successful the dismantling of 44 SIM boxes and the apprehension of 9 accused crossed the country, 3 of whom were detained nether the Goondas Act.
Stringent measures against hard-core cyber offenders were being implemented, with a full of 50 cyber offenders detained nether the Goondas Act successful 2025 alone, the DGP said.
