India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (India anti-money-laundering agency) Mandates Real-Time Selfie and Geolocation Checks for Crypto Platforms

The evidence overwhelmingly supports the truthfulness of the statement. A majority of the provided sources, ranging from a highly authoritative financial newspaper to specialized tax/law portals and a crypto exchange, directly and explicitly confirm that India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has mandated new, stricter Know Your Customer (KYC) rules for crypto platforms. These new rules specifically include the requirement for real-time or 'live' selfies and geolocation checks or 'geo-tagging'. The consistency across multiple independent sources is very strong. For example, sources from a financial newspaper, a tax portal, and a crypto exchange all use similar terminology to describe the new requirements. Several other sources provide strong contextual support, confirming that the FIU has mandated stricter, banking-level compliance for the crypto sector under anti-money laundering (PMLA) regulations. There are no sources that contradict the claim. The few irrelevant or low-relevance sources do not detract from the weight of the direct, corroborating evidence. The slight discrepancy in one source's title versus its summary is noted, but the summary aligns perfectly with the consensus, further strengthening the conclusion.