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New Delhi, April 11 The Delhi Police has cracked an interstate cyber fraud network and arrested three individuals in connection with separate cases of digital fraud and investment scams involving over Rs 80 lakh, an official said on Saturday.In the first case, a fraud of Rs 47.74 lakh was...

Prayagraj (UP), April 11 Sixteen individuals, including two gold appraisers, have been booked for allegedly obtaining loans worth lakhs of rupees against counterfeit gold from a bank in Prayagraj, officials said on Saturday.Civil Lines Station House Officer (SHO) Ramashray Yadav said that...

Hazaribag (Jharkhand), April 10 Two more persons were arrested in the Hazaribag Superintendent of Police (SP) Office treasury scam, bringing the total number of arrests to five, and the amount embezzled has also increased to Rs 28 crore, an official said.Hazaribag Deputy Commissioner Shashi...

Ahmedabad/Surat, April 10 – A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Friday convicted and sentenced three retired officials of Punjab National Bank (PNB), along with five private individuals and a company, in a bank fraud case.The case involved the granting of...

Mumbai, April 10 The Bombay High Court has ordered HDFC Bank to refund Rs 38 lakh to a Pune-based businessman, who lost the amount to a digital fraud, observing that the account holder was not at fault.A bench of Justices Bharti Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande, in its order of April 6, held that...

Chandigarh, April 10 Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Friday that the BJP government adopts a zero-tolerance approach towards any wrongdoing, noting that they had immediately ordered an investigation into the Rs 590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud case.Earlier, Haryana's State...

New Delhi, April 10 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against an accused based in Siliguri and a company incorporated by him, in connection with a major "digital fraud" cyber crime case involving the defrauding of a senior citizen in Delhi of nearly Rs 23 crore...

New Delhi, April 10 – In a major crackdown under its ongoing anti-cybercrime initiative 'Cyhawk 4.0,' the Delhi Police South District dismantled a fraudulent call center operating from Govindpuri and arrested 11 accused, including the masterminds behind the operation.The accused have been...

Thane, April 10 A 64-year-old man from the Thane district of Maharashtra was allegedly cheated out of nearly Rs 28 lakh in a digital fraud scam, police said on Friday.The complainant, a resident of Ronak City in Kalyan West, alleged that between April 1 and April 7, he received multiple...

Mumbai, April 9 A Mumbai court on Thursday denied bail to Hitesh Mehta, the former General Manager of New India Cooperative Bank, who was arrested in a ₹122 crore fraud at the bank, and described him as the prime accused in the case.The court noted that a long period of imprisonment cannot be...

Hazaribag (Jharkhand), April 9 Three employees of the Hazaribag district treasury have been arrested for allegedly embezzling Rs 15.41 crore from two bank accounts over the past eight years, officials said on Thursday.Hazaribag Deputy Commissioner Shashi Prakash Singh told reporters on...

New Delhi, April 9 Two individuals have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a man of approximately Rs 7 lakh by falsely claiming high returns through a fake stock investment scheme operated via a social media app, police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Shashikant Sharma and...

New Delhi, April 9 Two men have been arrested for allegedly running an online cyber fraud scheme involving over ₹3.60 crore, using mule bank accounts and a social media application, police said on Thursday.The accused have been identified as Ram Avtar Singh, a resident of Agra, and Vikrant...

New Delhi, April 9 The CBI is set to take over the case of embezzlement of ₹590 crore from the accounts of the Haryana government maintained with IDFC First Bank in Chandigarh, official sources said on Thursday.The Haryana government had decided last month to hand over the investigation to the...

New Delhi, April 9 The Delhi Police has arrested two men in connection with separate cyber investment fraud cases involving over Rs 74 lakh, an official said on Wednesday.In the first case, a man identified as Rahul Tyagi, a resident of Greater Noida, was arrested for his alleged role in a Rs...

New Delhi, April 9 A Delhi court has ordered Google LLC and several media houses to remove and take down allegedly defamatory content linking businessman Manoj Kesarichand Sandesara and his family to the Sterling Biotech bank fraud case.Senior Civil Judge-cum-Rent Controller Richa Sharma was...

Dehradun, April 8 The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two members of an inter-state organized gang from Jammu and Kashmir for their alleged involvement in cyber fraud, officials said on Wednesday.Senior Superintendent of Police (STF) Ajay Singh said the accused – Shaukat...

Pune, April 8 A 75-year-old medical practitioner was defrauded of ₹12.31 crore in an online stock trading scam, with fraudsters allegedly coercing him into making multiple investments, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the victim received a message from an unidentified number in...

Lucknow, April 8 The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to businessman Rajesh Bothra in connection with a case related to the "Rotomac scam", observing that the trial is likely to be prolonged.The order was passed on Tuesday by Justice Rajiv Singh of the court's Lucknow bench while allowing...

Mumbai, April 8 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 33 immovable and movable properties valued at nearly ₹16.95 crore belonging to Hiren Ranjit Bhanu, his wife Gauri Hiren Bhanu, and other family members under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002...