At the Microsoft AI Tour held in Mumbai on December 12, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced MahaCrimeOS AI, a platform that offers AI tools to fight cybercrime.
The platform, powered by Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, is developed by CyberEye, a network security company and an independent software vendor of Microsoft, along with Maharashtra government’s special purpose vehicle MARVEL, and the Microsoft India Development Centre.
MahaCrimeOS AI is currently live in 23 Nagpur police stations, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis proposed its future expansion to all 1,100 police stations across the state.
The platform supports officers by handling routine investigative tasks—creating cases instantly, extracting information across languages, and providing contextual legal guidance.
The platform brings together multiple AI assistants, automated workflows, and secure cloud infrastructure.
It also enables built-in access to India’s criminal laws using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technology which pulls relevant statutes and precedents from approved sources to ground AI responses in accurate legal material.
It helps investigators to link related cases, analyse digital evidence, and respond to emerging threats more quickly and precisely.
“Our collaboration with Microsoft began with solving complex cybercrime challenges, but its potential is far greater,” said Fadnavis.
“AI today touches every sphere of human activity, from healthcare and agriculture to industry and governance, and we intend to harness this power responsibly to create a more effective, citizen-centric state.”
Ram Ganesh, CEO, CyberEye, said, “Our collaboration with Microsoft and MARVEL has enabled us to empower cutting-edge officers even in remote parts of the state to solve complex cybercrime investigations with ease and reduced workloads.”
Using the platform, Microsoft stated that FIR creation dropped to 15 minutes due to automated data extraction. Tasks that previously took 2–3 months are now completed in about a week.
Besides, investigators who could earlier manage one case per month now handle 7–8 cases.
In the last few days, Nadella was present in India, where the company hosted an AI tour across Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Notably, the company announced a $17.5 billion investment in India over four years (2026–2029) to expand cloud and AI infrastructure, skilling programmes and ongoing operations.
The company also said it will expand partnerships with Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro, positioning the four Indian IT majors as “frontier firms” in the global adoption of agentic AI.
Each company will deploy more than 50,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses, collectively exceeding 200,000 seats, the company said.
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