{"id":1016101,"date":"2026-06-22T08:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016101"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:27:26","slug":"karnataka-freezes-rs-436-crore-in-cyber-fraud-cases-maharashtra-tops-in-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/karnataka-freezes-rs-436-crore-in-cyber-fraud-cases-maharashtra-tops-in-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka freezes Rs 436 crore in cyber fraud cases, Maharashtra tops in crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Karnataka has emerged as the second best performing state in the country in freezing money lost to cyber fraud, with police successfully blocking Rs 436 crore through bank lien marking mechanisms, Home Minister Priyank Kharge said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking after reviewing cybercrime response systems at the Police Wireless Headquarters on MG Road, Kharge said the state has intensified efforts to combat the growing threat of cybercrime through advanced technology, dedicated teams and improved public grievance mechanisms. Karnataka police managed to freeze Rs 436crore, accounting for 17 per cent of Rs 2,640crore reported lost to cyber fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Karnataka has emerged as the second best performing state in the country in freezing money lost to cyber fraud, with police successfully blocking Rs 436 crore through bank lien marking mechanisms, Home Minister Priyank Kharge said on Friday. Speaking after reviewing cybercrime response systems at the Police Wireless Headquarters on MG Road, Kharge said the state has intensified efforts to combat the growing threat of cybercrime through advanced technology, dedicated teams and improved public grievance mechanisms. Karnataka police managed to freeze Rs 436crore, accounting for 17 per cent of Rs 2,640crore reported lost to cyber fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016110,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016101\/revisions\/1016110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}