Truthfinder Investigations · Mumbai. Founder Vikram Joshi — retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, CID Mumbai (28-year service). We do five things: surveillance, background checks, infidelity investigations, corporate due-diligence, and legal support to law-firms. Every case is intaken under NDA. Every report is admissible-evidence-grade.
Vikram Joshi served the Mumbai Police from 1987 to 2015 — Sub-Inspector to Deputy Superintendent of Police, the last thirteen years inside the CID economic-offences cell. His investigation file on the 2008 Mumbai attacks remains classified. So does his work on the 2013 Maharashtra-Karnataka cross-border syndicate case. He retired in 2015 with the Police Medal for Meritorious Service.
Truthfinder Investigations was founded the same year. Today, twenty-three investigators (eleven of them ex-police, eight ex-armed-forces) work with him out of an Andheri East HQ + branches in Bandra-Kurla Complex (corporate desk) + Pune (campus) + Bangalore (corporate desk). Every case Vikram ji intakes personally; every report he signs personally.
We do not operate "celebrity surveillance," "social-media stalking," or "asset-recovery using force." Every case is bound by Indian law, every method is admissible, every report stands up in court.
Complete profile verification of a prospective alliance: education, employment, salary, family background, lifestyle, prior relationships, financial standing, social-media footprint, criminal record, character witnesses. NDA-backed report. Photographs only of public conduct (no entrapment).
Discreet surveillance of a spouse or partner suspected of infidelity. Daily activity log + photographic evidence + financial-transaction trail (where lawfully obtainable) + witness affidavits. Report admissible in family court. Zero entrapment, zero illegal access. Most painful case category we handle — Vikram ji intakes every one personally.
Pre-deal verification of a target company / counterparty / candidate / vendor. Filings + litigation + ownership + UBO + reputational + sanctions + adverse-media. RBI-AML / FATF / OFAC checks. For M&A teams, family offices, founders due-diligencing senior hires, banks, investors. Pan-India + 6-country footprint (US/UK/UAE/Singapore/Mauritius/Hong Kong).
Find or verify hidden assets — real estate, accounts, vehicles, securities, business interests, partnership stakes. Used by divorce-counsel, fraud-recovery teams, banks, debt-collectors. Lawful access only — no hacking, no ID-theft, no insider-bribery. Reports stand up in court.
Field surveillance of a subject for a defined window — daily activity log + photographic evidence + meeting-pattern + companion-pattern. Used in infidelity, asset-tracing, embezzlement, employee-misconduct cases. Two-investigator rotation. Vehicle + foot. No covert entry to private premises.
White-label investigation support to law-firms — witness interviews, evidence preservation, location-of-respondent, service-of-process assistance, courtroom-presentation packs. Long-running retainer agreements with three Mumbai law-firms (₹6.4L-₹14L/year). Discounted hourly rate for retainer-clients.
These are the lines that distinguish a working detective agency from a "private intelligence" outfit you read about in the news. We have declined ₹1.4 crore worth of case-pipeline in the last three years on these grounds. We will continue to.
Every method we use is bound by Indian law — IPC, CrPC, IT Act 2000, IT Rules 2011, DPDPA 2023. Zero hacking, zero phone-tapping, zero ID-theft, zero insider-bribery, zero impersonation of police. If a method we are asked to use is illegal, we decline the case — and we will say so on the spot.
Every case is intaken under a mutual NDA. Investigator-team-of-record is the smallest possible (typically 2-5 investigators). Case files are stored on encrypted local drives — no cloud, no off-site backup. Eleven years, 1,800+ cases, zero documented leak. Reputation is operating capital in this trade.
Every report we deliver is structured to be admissible as evidence in Indian civil + criminal courts. Photographs are timestamped + GPS-tagged. Witness statements are signed + dated. Chain-of-custody is documented. Family court, sessions court, Mumbai High Court — our reports have been accepted in 184 cases (and we have testified in 41).
We do not take "media-celebrity surveillance" cases (legal grey area + reputational risk). We do not take political opposition-research cases. And we do not entrap subjects — every observation is of public conduct in public spaces, no honey-traps, no lured situations. If you need entrapment, we are the wrong agency.
Every detective agency claims discretion + professionalism. Here is exactly what those words mean in our day-to-day operations — encrypted-Telegram updates, no WhatsApp/email, NDAs at start, 90-day deletion of original report from our drives after handover.
Call our 24×7 line or fill the contact form. Initial conversation is anonymous — no name, no details required. 30-minute slot at our Andheri East / BKC / Pune / Bangalore office, or a secure video call. NDA signed at start of meeting if you proceed.
After the consultation we draft a written case-plan: scope (what we will and will not do), team (who is on it), timeline, evidence-points, deliverables, and price. You sign-off (or do not). 50% advance to begin.
Investigator team works the case. Daily encrypted-Telegram updates to you (no WhatsApp, no email — both are insecure for evidence chain). Weekly written summary. Mid-case review at the 50% mark — adjust scope if findings demand.
Photographs timestamped + GPS-tagged. Witness statements signed + dated. Document trail catalogued. Chain-of-custody log prepared. Cross-checked by senior investigator (typically Vikram ji or one of two senior associates).
Bound case-report (1 hardcopy) + encrypted USB (1) + matching SHA-256 hash certificate. Delivered to you in person at our office or your law-firm. 50% balance on handover. Original report destroyed from our drives 90 days after handover (your archive becomes the only copy).
If your case proceeds to litigation, the lead investigator will appear in court to give evidence — included in the original quote, no additional charge. Vikram ji has personally testified in 41 cases. Written supplementary affidavits prepared as legal counsel requires.
Built explicitly for our case-handling protocol — no WhatsApp, no email, no SMS. All client communication runs through a self-hosted encrypted-channel. Final reports view-only, screenshot-blocked on Android, hardcopy + encrypted-USB delivered separately at handover.
Anonymous case-intake form. No name, no address required at first. We assign a case-code · all updates referenced by case-code thereafter.
No WhatsApp, no email, no SMS for case communication. We use a self-hosted encrypted-channel built on Matrix protocol. Logs auto-delete every 7 days.
Clean timeline of case milestones (consultation → quote → field-ops → consolidation → handover → testimony if needed). No detail leaked, just status.
Final report viewable on app once · download disabled · screenshot blocked (Android-only — iOS limitation). Hardcopy + encrypted-USB delivered separately at handover.
If your matter goes to litigation, app shows next court date, lead-investigator availability, depositions filed. Vikram ji + two seniors marked-available across all benches.
Call our 24×7 line and quote your case-code. We will route immediately to your lead investigator (or Vikram ji if it is escalation-grade). No call-routing, no script reading.
“The pre-matrimonial check Vikram ji ran on my prospective alliance found three undisclosed prior relationships and a falsified employment claim. The 14-day report was structured so we could discuss it as a family without breaking confidentiality. Today my daughter is engaged to a different person — verified — and we are grateful for the difficult truth Vikram ji surfaced. The ₹62,000 we spent saved us a lifetime of pain.”
“I am a senior partner at a Mumbai law-firm; we have had Truthfinder on retainer for four years. Their reports stand up in court — I personally know of seven cases where their photographic evidence + witness affidavits secured judgments for our clients. Vikram ji has testified in three of mine. The discount on retainer is genuinely worth it; the discretion is priceless. We renew every year without negotiation.”
“My family-office was acquiring a Bangalore-based food-tech startup at ₹84-crore valuation. Truthfinder's 21-day due-diligence surfaced an undeclared US litigation, a Singapore-tax-evasion show-cause, and three founder-level personal-guarantees that the data-room had not disclosed. We pulled out of the deal. ₹84,000 invested, ₹84-crore mistake avoided. Vikram ji's brief to me was three pages. I have re-read it four times.”
“मेरे पति की 4 साल पुरानी संदिग्ध गतिविधियों की वजह से मैं बहुत परेशान थी। Vikram ji की team ने 21-day surveillance में जो evidence collect किया वो family court में admissible था। मेरा divorce settlement उस evidence की वजह से उचित-rate पर हुआ — बच्चों की custody मुझे मिली, alimony fair अमाउंट निकली। Vikram ji ने पूरे case में मुझे एक बार भी shame feel नहीं होने दिया। यह एक ऐसी service है जो आपकी इज़्ज़त भी बरक़रार रखती है।”
“My son had been missing from our Borivali home for 6 weeks — Mumbai Police had filed an FIR but progress was slow. Truthfinder traced him to Pune in 11 days, verified he was safe (he had left voluntarily after a workplace dispute), and offered him the choice to reconnect. He called me that evening. We are a family again. Vikram ji refused to take the location-only fee — he said this consent-protocol is what he started Truthfinder for. ₹1.4L well spent; one ex-policeman's integrity, priceless.”
First conversation is anonymous. We will not ask for your name, address, or details until you decide to proceed. NDA signed at the start of the formal consultation. Walk-in at any of our four offices, or secure video call.
The more you share, the more accurately we can quote. But the minimum is one line — "infidelity", "pre-matrimonial", "corporate DD", "asset trace", "missing person." We will route to the right lead investigator within 4 hours.
WhatsApp + Telegram only · no calls · NDA at first formal meeting · 50% advance to begin · 50% on handover · 90-day post-handover deletion of original report from our drives
Every method we use is bound by IPC, CrPC, IT Act 2000, IT Rules 2011, and DPDPA 2023. We do not hack phones, intercept calls, plant listening devices, impersonate police, bribe insiders, fake credentials to access records, or entrap subjects. We do conduct surveillance in public spaces, witness interviews, public-record searches, court-filings retrieval, and lawful database queries. If a method we are asked to use is illegal, we decline the case on the spot — and we have, ₹1.4 Cr worth of case-pipeline in the last three years.
Every case is intaken under mutual NDA at start. Case files are stored on encrypted local drives — no cloud, no off-site backup, no AWS/Google. Investigator team-of-record is the smallest possible (typically 2-5). 90 days after handover, the original report is deleted from our drives — your archive becomes the only copy. Eleven years, 1,800+ cases, zero documented leak. If a leak is ever traced to us, the offending investigator is dismissed + reported to the Maharashtra Police Detective Association.
Pre-matrimonial check: ₹38,000-₹84,000 (depending on geography + lifestyle-axis depth). Infidelity investigation: ₹62,000-₹3,40,000 (depending on duration + investigator-rotation). Corporate due-diligence: ₹84,000-₹14,00,000 (depending on country count + AML depth). Asset verification: ₹54,000-₹4,80,000 (depending on tracing complexity). 50% advance, 50% on handover. Long retainers (typically 3 law-firms) get 22-28% off hourly rate.
Yes — every report is structured to be admissible as evidence in Indian civil + criminal courts. Photographs are timestamp + GPS tagged by camera firmware (not added later). Witness statements are signed, dated, thumb-printed, two-witnesses where possible. Chain-of-custody is documented. Our reports have been accepted in 184 family + sessions + Mumbai High Court cases since 2015. Vikram ji has personally testified in 41 of those cases. Court-deposition support is included in the original quote — no extra charge.
Call our 24×7 line. The first conversation is anonymous — you do not need to give your name yet. We will tell you what evidence-grade infidelity investigation looks like (cost, timeline, what we can and cannot get for you, what is admissible in family court). If you decide to proceed, we book a 30-minute consultation slot at our Andheri East / BKC / Pune / Bangalore office. NDA at start. Vikram ji intakes every infidelity case personally — they are our most painful case category and we treat them as such.
Yes — missing-person tracing is something we do, but with caveats. (1) If foul play is suspected, FIR must be filed first; we will work alongside police, not replace them. (2) If the person is an adult who has left voluntarily and does not wish to be found, we will trace + verify safety + offer them the choice to reconnect with you — we will not give you their location without their consent. This consent-protocol has saved a lot of relationships. Pre-FIR or low-foul-play cases: ₹64,000-₹3,40,000 depending on geography.
No — both are explicit non-do lines. Political opposition-research has reputational + legal grey-area risk we will not touch. Media-celebrity surveillance similarly. We have declined cases from three political parties, one prominent Bollywood production-house, and two industrial families on these grounds. We will not change this policy.
Three checks. (1) Vikram ji's Mumbai Police service record (1987-2015 · DSP CID retired · Police Medal for Meritorious Service) is verifiable through Maharashtra Police HQ and the Police Pension Office. (2) Our Maharashtra Detective Association membership # 2015-MH-D-0184 is verifiable on the MDA website. (3) Three Mumbai law-firms hold us on retainer (₹6.4L-₹14L/year each) — they can be approached for reference (with their permission, not directly).
Yes — that is our Legal Support service. Three Mumbai law-firms have us on retainer (Suresh & Associates, Karnik Patil & Co., the Joshi Bhatt firm). We provide white-label investigation reports that go on the law-firm's letterhead, with the law-firm presenting findings in court. Discount: retainer rate is 22-28% below hourly walk-in rate. Long-running retainers also get priority across investigator availability + court-deposition slots.
Yes — DPDPA-2023-aligned end-to-end. Personal data of subjects + clients is collected only with consent (or under "investigation of unlawful activity" exception § 17(1)(b)). Data is stored on encrypted local drives in Mumbai (no cross-border transfer). Retention: 90 days after handover, then deleted. Your right to access + correct + delete your own data is exercised through a written request to Vikram ji directly. We do not use your data for any purpose other than the case you have engaged us for.