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SIH26189SoftwareBlockchain & Cybersecurity

AI-Powered Criminal Network Analysis System

Ministry of Home Affairs

Ideas submitted
500 / 500
Deadline
30 September 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Blockchain & Cybersecurity

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• Background Modern criminal activities are increasingly organized and interconnected. Criminals often operate through networks involving associates, intermediaries, financial channels, communication links,locations, and events. Law enforcement agencies collect large volumes of data from sources such as: • FIRs and police reports • Call Detail Records (CDRs) • Financial transaction records • Surveillance reports • Social media intelligence • Criminal history databases • Intelligence agency reports Despite having access to this information, investigators frequently face challenges in identifying hidden relationships among suspects because the data is fragmented, unstructured, and distributed across multiple systems. Manual analysis can be slow, labor-intensive, and prone to missing critical connections.With advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML),Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Graph Analytics, it is now possible to automatically discover relationships, detect patterns, and generate insights that can assist investigators in understanding criminal networks more effectively. • Description The objective is to develop an AI-powered system that can analyze large volumes of criminal and intelligence-related data to uncover hidden networks and relationships among individuals, organizations, locations,and events.

The system should

• Collect and process data from multiple sources. • Extract important entities such as people, locations, vehicles, phone numbers, and organizations. • Build relationship maps showing how different entities are connected. • Identify key individuals who play influential roles within criminal networks. • Detect suspicious patterns and unusual activities. • Assist investigators by providing visual and analytical insights. • Expected Solution Develop an AI-powered system that automatically analyzes structured and unstructured crime-related data to uncover criminal networks,identify key influencers, detect suspicious patterns, and provide actionable intelligence for investigators.

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as of 28 Sept
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What a jury will ask about this

  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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