Hyderabad, March 10 -- Telangana Police conducted a statewide enforcement drive titled "Operation Crackdown 1.0" on February 25 to identify and dismantle mule bank account networks facilitating cyber frauds across India.

The operation was conceptualised and led by the Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau after analysing cyber fraud data from the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal and identifying suspicious bank accounts opened in Telangana that were linked to complaints from different parts of the country.

During the first-of-its-kind simultaneous drive, 137 police teams comprising 512 personnel carried out surprise checks at 137 identified bank branches across the state. Officials verified 1,888 suspicious mule bank accounts linked...