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Time of India
4 days ago
- Time of India
'Operation Codebreak': Agra Police launches crackdown on cybercrime; 4 arrested
AGRA: Four people have been arrested and cases filed against 910 others across at least three police stations in Agra under Operation Codebreak—a fresh initiative by the city police to tackle the growing threat of cybercrime. Police said Operation Codebreak is aimed at identifying, disrupting, and dismantling cybercriminal networks involved in OTP frauds, UPI scams, phishing attacks, and mule account operations. The crackdown is being driven by advanced analytics and digital investigation tools through the Pratibimb Portal, which enables deep IP tracing, digital footprint mapping, and account link analysis. These capabilities have helped law enforcement register FIRs under the Information Technology Act and BNS across multiple locations. The Pratibimb Portal, developed by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, is a GIS-based (Geographic Information System) platform that monitors cybercriminal activities and their infrastructure across the country. It identifies cybercrime hotspots and offers real-time intelligence to help agencies investigate and dismantle criminal networks. Key elements of the drive include online Cyber JanSunwai at police stations using Kanban methodology, directly connecting complainants to the Cyber Cell for faster account freezing and fraud resolution, particularly in cases of digital arrests and financial scams. Police are also working closely with banks, telecom firms and inter-agency cyber units for swift preventive action and fund recovery. Multiple arrests have already been made in identified high-risk zones. DCP City (Agra) Sonam Kumar said, 'Cybercrime is an evolving threat. Our aim through Operation Codebreak is to stay one step ahead with technology-led policing and a citizen-centric response.'
Time of India
05-07-2025
- Time of India
Agra police develop state's first AI platform to provide UP police documents to public
Agra: In a bid to strengthen law and order management and ensure timely dissemination of information, the Agra police have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software to promptly deliver UP police documents and circulars to citizens, making it the first such platform of its kind in the state. According to a statement by Agra police, the software, named ECOP, is based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology and was developed in collaboration with IIT Kanpur. The team included – DCP (city) Sonam Kumar, Mayank Pathak (who served as ASP U/T in Agra) and IIT Kanpur students Udbhav Agarwal, Trijal Srivastava, Vedant Neekhra (all from electrical engineering department) and Gaurav Kumar Rampuria from statistics and data science department. E xplaining the functioning of the new system, DCP Kumar said, "ECOP, which stands for Efficiency Cell for Optimising Policing, operates much like AI tools such as ChatGPT and Deepseek. It can access and analyse extensive data and has been trained specifically on publicly available documents of the UP police. These documents were digitised using optical character recognition (OCR) and used to train the AI model. " He added, "When users pose questions, the AI fetches precise information from relevant UP police circulars and documents, enabling citizens to access verified guidelines and instructions. Besides benefiting the public, the software will also assist police personnel with queries related to procedures, such as handling criminal cases in police stations." Commending the initiative, Agra police commissioner Deepak Kumar said, "Such efforts aim to ensure a developed India through smart policing."
Indian Express
30-06-2025
- Indian Express
Agra airport receives threat mail; security tightened
Security at Agra airport has been beefed up after it received a threat mail, police said on Monday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Sonam Kumar said the airport security filed a complaint regarding the threatening email on Sunday, following which a case was registered at Shahganj police station. The complaint did not specify the details about the threat, police said. 'Similar emails have been received at other locations as well, and we are in contact with officials there. A thorough investigation is underway. The airport premises has been checked, and nothing suspicious found,' the DCP said. The FIR has been registered under BNS Section 351(4) (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) and Section 66F of the IT Act. Police are working to trace the source of the email and assess its credibility, officials said.
Mint
30-06-2025
- Mint
Uttar Pradesh: Agra airport on alert after threat email, security beefed up
The airport authorities in Agra received a threat mail, following which security at Agra airport has been beefed up, PTI quoted police as saying on Monday. Informing more about the incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Sonam Kumar said that on Sunday the airport security filed a complaint regarding the threatening email, and soon after this a case was registered at Shahganj police station. The DCP added that the complaint did not specify the details about the threat though. "Similar emails have been received at other locations as well, and we are in contact with officials there. A thorough investigation is underway. The airport premises has been checked, and nothing suspicious found," the DCP said. The FIR has been registered under BNS Section 351(4) (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) and Section 66F of the IT Act. Meanwhile, the police officials are trying to figure out the source of the email and assess its credibility.
Time of India
30-06-2025
- Time of India
Agra airport receives bomb threat, security beefed up
Agra airport received bomb a bomb threat email, prompting a rise in security, police told PTI on Monday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Sonam Kumar said the airport security filed a complaint regarding the threatening email on Sunday, following which a case was registered at Shahganj police station. However, the complaint did not specify the details about the threat, police said. "Similar emails have been received at other locations as well, and we are in contact with officials there. A thorough investigation is underway. The airport premises has been checked, and nothing suspicious found," the DCP said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Sarah Ferguson breaks her silence about Prince Andrew Cleverst Undo An FIR has been registered under BNS Section 351(4) (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) and Section 66F of the IT Act. Police are working to trace the source of the email and assess its credibility, officials said. Similarly, on Monday, the Jabalpur airport in Madhya Pradesh received a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax after a search of the premises, an official said on Monday. Live Events The officials of the airport informed that an email threatening to blow up the facility was received on Sunday, following which the premises was evacuated and an investigation launched, Additional Superintendent of Police Suryakant Sharma said. "During the investigation, it was found that the mail was sent to 40 to 41 places simultaneously. It seems likely the work of some miscreant," he said. The airport was checked with the help of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), dog squad, local police along with the Central Industrial Security Force immediately after the threat was received. "But no such (suspicious) thing was found. After this, the flights were operated on time," the official said. All security measures have been taken at the airport and the situation is normal now, he said. Sharma said the task of finding the unidentified culprit has been assigned to the cyber cell.
