The annual report of India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) shows that officials from various cybercrime and police departments received training in cryptocurrency forensics and investigations during the fiscal year 2022-2023.
The MHA highlighted that 141 officers under the Narcotics Control Bureau, India’s central law enforcement and intelligence agency, were trained on dark web and cryptocurrency investigations and other workshops related to digital footprints and gathered intelligence and evidence from open source and social media , to give a few examples.
In addition, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center has trained more than 2,800 cyber police officers in cryptographic forensics and investigation, as well as other emerging technologies such as anonymous networks, as well as investigating abuse of mobile applications in cyberspace.
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Even as India prepares to tackle possible crypto-related crimes on a larger scale, the country continues to explore mainstream use cases for blockchain. Indian state-run oil and gas company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) recently launched a blockchain system to enable automated verification of purchase orders (POs).
HPCL has partnered with blockchain software company Zupple Labs to integrate its blockchain-based digital authentication technology into the purchase order system.
“This implementation helps automatically authenticate HPCL POs to external parties,” a spokesperson for HPCL told Cointelegraph. “This is achieved by integrating the blockchain system with HPCL’s internal e-PO and creates a tamper-proof Verifiable PO,” the representative pointed out.
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