India is a federal country. There are various layers of federal, state, local, and municipal governments and enforcement you need to peel through to crack down on stuff like this, especially if an operation ends up partially co-opting the state and local portion, or if the state and the federal portion are opponents of each other.

The Indian version of the FBI can't operate in states without their explicit permission, and there have been multiple cases where state police will end up arresting each other because competing politicians in neighboring states would file motions against each other. For example - https://m.timesofindia.com/india/explainer-inter-state-polic...

> country's image

abstract terms with no implications

Compare that with solid $ figures: if there's 1B in cyber crime money flowing to India per year split by 100k workers

that's $10k/year each, double average salary in india

Same like Russia, there can be a lot of complaints about Russia, but everyone still buying oil from Russia

It does care. Some folks here are just posting their pet speculations as facts without actually checking their assertions. Indian police regularly work with the U.S. FBI.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/delhi/international-cyber-...

I can post 2 dozen such bust-ups in the last few years alone. The problem is that India is large nation with a humongous internet-growing population and the Indian police are still far behind their western counterparts. Also, compared to the FBI, the Indian CBI lacks teeth.

Please note that the FBI also ranks India as among the top five countries in terms of total cybercrime victims.