LUCKNOW, April 9 -- Much along the lines of the Union government's Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Uttar Pradesh's Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre (CFMC) has helped prevent fraud money from being quickly siphoned off through mule accounts.

Consequently, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the top-performing large state in the country in freezing cyber fraud-linked funds, with authorities securing Rs.425.7 crore through lien marking between April 2025 and March 2026.

This places Uttar Pradesh two percentage points ahead of Gujarat (35.2%) and 6.1 percentage points above the large-state average of 31.1%, while also handling the highest complaint volume among major states - a combination officials said reflects both scale and system e...