Archive · 6 Aug 2026
Rajasthan Police arrest three more in cyber slavery racket
Some very bad people tricked young people in India.
They promised them good jobs in faraway countries.
The jobs seemed to pay a lot of money, about 800 to 1,000 dollars every month.
But when the young people arrived, the bad people took away their passports.
Then they locked them in buildings and made them trick other people out of money on the internet.
These tricks are called scams.
The police in Rajasthan, a state in India, have been hunting these bad people down.
They have now caught eight of them.
The police want everyone to be careful of job offers from strangers and to report scams so they can help.
Rajasthan Police arrested three more accused - Arif Kathat alias 'Deepu', Kanu Singh alias 'Python' and Firoz Kathat alias 'Mafia' - in the cyber slavery racket, taking the total to eight.
The syndicate allegedly lured Indian youths with overseas jobs paying USD 800-1,000 a month and sent them to Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
Victims' passports and identity documents were confiscated, and they were forced to commit digital arrest scams, fake investment frauds, cryptocurrency scams and online job frauds.
The accused are suspected of recruiting victims, posing as women on social media to lure investors into fraudulent crypto schemes, and managing fake identities and mule bank accounts.
Police are tracing a financial trail involving transactions worth crores of rupees and urged citizens to report cyber fraud via helpline 1930 or www.cybercrime.gov.in.
- Who
- Rajasthan Police's State Cyber Crime Police Station, working under Director General of Police Rajiv Kumar Sharma and Additional Director General of Police (Cyber Crime) Vijay Kumar Singh.
- What
- Arrested three more accused in an international cyber slavery and human trafficking syndicate, raising the total arrests to eight.
- When
- The article gives no exact date for the latest arrests, which were made on a Wednesday; Firoz Kathat allegedly travelled to Cambodia in late 2025 and Kanu Singh in April 2025.
- Where
- Rajasthan, India, with victims trafficked to Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
- Why
- As part of a statewide anti-cybercrime campaign to dismantle a network that lured Indian youths abroad and forced them to work in cyber fraud operations run by Chinese criminal networks.
- Total accused arrested
- 8
- Latest arrests
- Arif Kathat alias 'Deepu', Kanu Singh alias 'Python', Firoz Kathat alias 'Mafia'
- Promised monthly salary
- USD 800-1,000
- Destination countries
- Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand
- Types of fraud
- Digital arrest scams, fake investment frauds, cryptocurrency scams, online job frauds
- Intelligence source
- Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)
- Reporting helpline
- 1930
- Reporting portal
- www.cybercrime.gov.in