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CASE · 06 · 001

Homicide Investigation: 1,204 Deleted WhatsApp Messages Recovered from Accused's Phone

State CID / Homicide Unit
Samsung Android — factory reset
Evidence accepted by sessions court

Investigators had seized an accused's mobile phone in a homicide case. The suspect had performed a factory reset on the phone before it was seized, wiping what investigators believed were communications coordinating the crime. Standard mobile forensic tools deployed by the unit returned no recoverable data from the reset device.

Physical extraction bypassing factory reset — full chip-level imaging
Unallocated space carving — WhatsApp SQLite database fragments recovered
SHA-256 hash verified at acquisition — tamper-proof evidence seal
Message reconstruction including sender, recipient, timestamps
GPS coordinates extracted from recovered photos — location evidence
CrPC Section 65B certificate with examiner declaration for court
1,204
Deleted WhatsApp messages recovered
67
Location-tagged photos recovered from deleted storage
Evidence accepted by Sessions Court — conviction followed

Recovered messages proved coordination between the accused and two accomplices in the 48 hours before the crime. GPS-tagged photographs placed the accused at the crime scene location at the time of the offence. The CrPC 65B-compliant forensics report was admitted as primary digital evidence by the Sessions Court — a conviction was secured.

We were told the data was gone — factory reset meant nothing left to find. VedOps Digital Forensics found over 1,200 deleted messages and photographs that changed the entire case. This is what a proper forensics platform can do.
— Investigating Officer, State CID (name withheld)
CASE · 06 · 002

Ransomware Incident Response: Attack Timeline Reconstructed in 36 Hours for ₹28 Crore Insurance Claim

Pharmaceutical Company
14TB encrypted / 340 endpoints
Insurance claim satisfied

A pharmaceutical company's research network was struck by ransomware that encrypted 14TB of proprietary research data across 340 endpoints. The company held cyber insurance worth ₹28 crore but the insurer required forensic proof of the attack's origin, timeline, affected scope, and data exfiltration extent before processing the claim. Time pressure was critical — the policy had a 60-day claim window.

Memory forensics on surviving endpoints — malware strain identification
Windows event log super-timeline — 340 endpoints in 24 hours
Lateral movement reconstruction across network segments
Phishing email artifact recovery — initial access vector confirmed
IPDR correlation proving 67GB data exfiltration before encryption
Insurance claim report in required format — examiner declarations included
36hr
Full attack timeline delivered
47d
Dwell time confirmed — initial access pre-detonation
₹28Cr
Insurance claim satisfied within policy window

Full attack timeline was delivered in 36 hours — revealing the attacker had been inside the network for 47 days before detonating ransomware. 67GB of research data was confirmed exfiltrated via IPDR analysis. The forensics report satisfied the insurer — the full ₹28 crore claim was settled within 4 months.

CASE · 06 · 003

Corporate Insider Threat: CFO's Encrypted Laptop Reveals ₹6 Crore Fraud Over 3 Years

Listed Manufacturing Company
BitLocker-encrypted device
Criminal complaint filed

An audit of a listed manufacturing company revealed financial irregularities suggesting systematic vendor invoice fraud. The company's board suspected the CFO was creating fictitious vendors and siphoning payments. The CFO had resigned before investigation — leaving a BitLocker-encrypted laptop and encrypted cloud backup as the primary evidence sources.

BitLocker key recovery from Windows registry and memory artefacts
Full disk imaging after decryption — 2TB preserved with hash verification
Deleted financial document carving — 3 years of concealed records
Email archive forensics — vendor communication with personal email accounts
Cloud forensics — OneDrive and Google Drive access logs recovered
Chronological fraud timeline with financial amounts cross-referenced to ERP logs
₹6Cr
Total fraud value evidenced over 3 years
3yrs
Fraud timeline reconstructed from deleted records
FIR filed — chargesheet admitted with forensic evidence
Three years of deleted records — recovered. Every fictitious vendor, every manipulated payment entry, every cover email. VedOps Digital Forensics built us a case we could take to court, and the chargesheet was admitted.
— Company Secretary, Listed Manufacturing Firm (name withheld)
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