The people who research and write every guide on this site, and the standard we hold them to.
Every guide on cyberwakil.com is written and reviewed by the firm's own legal team - the advocates and researchers who handle cyber crime, financial fraud and bank freeze matters in practice. Nothing here is outsourced to a content agency, because the value of a guide about a Section 102 seizure depends on having drafted the application.
What the team works on
Instructions come from individuals and businesses across India: accounts frozen by a cyber cell, ED, CID or DRI; money lost to UPI, card, investment and job fraud; sextortion and image-based blackmail; online defamation and content takedown; and the court applications that follow when an agency does not respond.
That casework is the source material for the guides. When a new pattern appears in instructions - a fresh mule-account structure, a new loan-app variant, a change in how a cyber cell marks a lien - it goes into the writing.
How a guide is written
Primary text first. Every statutory statement is checked against the provision itself - the IT Act, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, the DPDP Act, or the relevant RBI circular - not against a secondary summary.
Procedure checked against practice. Filing steps, portal routes, timelines and the documents an officer actually asks for are confirmed against how the filing works in practice, not how it is described in a notification.
Second review before publication. Each guide is read by a second member of the team for legal accuracy and for whether the practical sequence would work for a reader who is not a lawyer.
Dated and revised. Guides carry an updated date. Provisions change - the BNS and BNSS replaced the IPC and CrPC in 2023, and portal procedures change more often - so a guide that has not been revised is treated as unreliable.
Corrections are published. If a reader or a colleague identifies an error, the guide is corrected and the correction noted. Write to hi@cyberwakil.com with the page and the point.
What these guides are not
They are not legal advice on your matter. Statute and procedure are general; what applies to your case depends on the facts, the jurisdiction and the paperwork.
They do not predict outcomes. No guide on this site quotes a recovery rate or promises that a freeze will be lifted, because neither is knowable in advance.
They are not a substitute for a consultation. Where a deadline is running - an RBI reporting window, a chargeback period, a court date - the timeline is the reason to speak to someone today rather than read further.
Where to start
If you already know what happened, the service pages set out the route for that specific problem. If you are looking for the law rather than a service, the legal framework page collects the provisions in one place. The location pages cover the cyber cell and court that handles these matters in each state and city.
The team is reachable on +91-9007000603 (call or WhatsApp) and at hi@cyberwakil.com. The office is at 14 Hare Street, Kolkata 700001, and instructions are taken from anywhere in India. The first consultation is free.