A 35-year-old ex-merchant navy captain, Nagesh Kumar, was arrested in Chandigarh for allegedly running a cyber slavery racket. He lured Indian youth with fake job offers, trafficking them to Cambodia and Laos to work for Chinese-run cyber fraud firms. The racket was exposed in Sept 2025.
A 35-year-old ex-merchant navy captain, Nagesh Kumar, was arrested in Chandigarh for allegedly running a cyber slavery racket. He is accused of trafficking Indian youths to Cambodia via Thailand, where they were forced to work for Chinese-run cyber fraud firms. The racket was exposed in September 2025.
Manish Dwivedi, an Indian Merchant Navy officer from Mirzapur, has gone missing from a port in Pennsylvania, USA, since May 6. His family accuses the ship management company of lacking transparency and has sought government intervention through MP Anupriya Patel.
The mother of Saurabh Rajput, a former Merchant Navy officer murdered on March 4, 2025, confronted the accused—his wife Muskan Rastogi and alleged lover Sahil Shukla—outside a Meerut court on Tuesday. Renu Devi demanded the death penalty, crying that she gave them Rs 50,000 monthly yet they killed her son. The accused allegedly stabbed Rajput, dismembered his body and sealed it inside a cement-filled blue drum, a case that has drawn nationwide outrage. Twenty-two witness statements have been recorded in the trial before District and Sessions Judge Anupam Kumar.
