Police raid 14 cybercrime hot-spot villages in Nuh, 125 hackers apprehended

Over 125 suspects, allegedly involved in financial frauds and hacking, were arrested early Wednesday following simultaneous raids at 300 locations in 14 villages of Nuh, carried out by over 5,000 police personnel during an overnight operation to crack down on cybercrime.

Such was the scale of the operation that personnel were called in from at least 10 districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Bhiwani, Hisar, Panchkula, Rohtak, Sirsa, Jind, Ambala and Dari, senior officers said.

Over 20 cases have been registered following the raids, which yielded 66 smartphones, 65 fake SIMs, 166 Aadhaar cards, three laptops, 128 ATM cards of different banks, two ATM swipe machines, one AEPS machine, six scanners, five PAN cards, seven countrymade pistols, two cartridges, two cars, four tractor-trolleys, and 22 motorcycles, said police.