Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced the launch of MahaCrimeOS AI, a new artificial intelligence–driven platform designed to support police officers in combating cybercrime more efficiently. Unveiled at the Microsoft AI Tour in Mumbai, the system has been developed by CyberEye in partnership with Maharashtra’s special purpose vehicle MARVEL and the Microsoft India Development Centre. Powered by Microsoft Azure, the platform is already operational across 23 police stations in Nagpur, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis proposing its rollout to all 1,100 police stations in the state.
MahaCrimeOS AI aims to streamline investigative workflows by automating several routine and time-consuming tasks. The system offers instant case creation, multilingual data extraction, and contextual legal insights, helping officers navigate complex cases with greater precision. It brings together AI assistants, automated processes, secure cloud infrastructure, and retrieval-augmented generation technology to deliver accurate legal references, including relevant statutes and precedents. Reflecting on the collaboration, Fadnavis said, “Our collaboration with Microsoft began with solving complex cybercrime challenges, but its potential is far greater,” noting that Maharashtra plans to use AI as a cornerstone for broader, citizen-centric governance reforms.
CyberEye CEO Ram Ganesh 🇮🇳 also emphasized the platform’s transformative impact, stating that the partnership equips officers statewide with tools that simplify difficult investigations and significantly reduce manual workload. The early results underscore this: according to Microsoft, automated data extraction has reduced the time required to create FIRs to just 15 minutes, accelerated processes that once took months into about a week, and enabled officers to manage multiple cases simultaneously instead of focusing on only one.
Nadella’s India visit, during which MahaCrimeOS AI was unveiled, is part of Microsoft’s broader AI Tour across three major cities. Alongside the launch, the company announced a 17.5 billion-dollar investment to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in the country. Microsoft also highlighted plans to deepen collaboration with major Indian IT firms—Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro—each of which will deploy more than 50,000 Copilot licenses within their organizations.
With MahaCrimeOS AI, Maharashtra aims to build a more agile, data-driven policing framework, setting a precedent for how AI can support law enforcement and improve public-facing digital governance at scale.
