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Mumbai, April 9 A couple has been arrested for allegedly cheating eight people of Rs 6.71 crore after promising them high returns in an import-export scheme, a Mumbai police official said on Thursday.The official at the Kasturba Marg police station identified the accused as Siddharth Khushal...

Kolkata, April 8 The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam accused Sudipta Sen in the last two of the over 300 criminal cases against him, paving the way for his release from jail after 13 years.The court observed that the right to a speedy...

Thane, April 8 Police have registered a case against three individuals, including a woman, for allegedly cheating a 56-year-old retired man in Thane, Maharashtra, of Rs 22 lakh by promising him a job in the railways, officials said on Wednesday.Based on the complaint filed by the man, a case...

Palghar, April 8 A 48-year-old real estate agent has been arrested for allegedly grabbing and illegally selling another person's land in Palghar district, Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.The accused, Surendra Pratap Singh, alias Randha, is alleged to have taken possession of 210...

Thane, April 7 A special court in Thane has acquitted a former deputy commissioner of the customs department in a 2023 corruption case, citing that the chargesheet in the matter was filed without the required sanctions from the competent authority.Special Judge D S Deshmukh of the CBI court...

New Delhi, April 6 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached immovable properties worth approximately ₹944 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in a case linked to the alleged failure to deliver housing units to over 1,500 homebuyers in Haryana and Rajasthan, officials said on...

Jaipur, April 4 – In a major breakthrough, police have arrested Rakesh Kumar Rewad, who had been on the run for over a year in connection with the cheating racket using Bluetooth in the recruitment exam for Junior Clerk Grade-II.Rewad was apprehended on Friday by Investigation Officer Pradeep...

Panchkula, April 3 A special court in Panchkula on Friday acquitted former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Associated Journals Limited in a money laundering case linked to the re-allotment of a plot in Panchkula, after closing the Enforcement Directorate's case against them...

New Delhi, April 1 A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti from Madhya Pradesh and a former bank employee in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to receive illegal interest payments from 1998 to 2011.Special Judge Vinay Singh convicted Bharti and...

Nashik, April 1 A court in Nashik, Maharashtra, remanded self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat, who is accused of rape, into 14-day judicial custody on Wednesday.Kharat was arrested on March 18 after a 35-year-old woman accused him of repeated rape over a period of three years. Following his...

Nashik, Apr 1 The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is investigating the alleged rape accused self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat, has detained his son from Nashik city for questioning, and is also searching for his wife, police said.At least 10 FIRs, eight for alleged sexual assault or...

Jaipur, March 30 – The Rajasthan Special Operations Group (SOG) has cracked down on a recruitment exam fraud syndicate involving the use of "dummy candidates," arresting a key accused who had been on the run for nearly two years and was carrying a reward of Rs 10,000.The arrested accused...

Mumbai, March 30 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLC Eknath Khadse and his daughter were booked for allegedly cheating an elderly woman by promising a sugar factory ownership on her land and taking possession of it with the help of forged documents in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district, police said...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, March 30 Three individuals have been booked in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, for allegedly selling beauty products made in Pakistan, a police official said on Monday.Shop owners Mohammed Abrar (26), Ankur Agrawal (35), and Juman Khan (48) were booked on...

Thane, March 30 Fraudsters are alleged to have duped 11 residents of Thane district in Maharashtra by promising affordable housing under a government scheme, and they forged documents to open bank accounts for larger financial transactions, police said on Monday.A 54-year-old woman from...

Patiala, March 29 A court here on Sunday extended the police remand of AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra by seven days. Pathanmajra, who was arrested by the Punjab Police from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday night, had escaped police custody in a rape case more than six months ago.The MLA...

Shimla, March 28 A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly defrauding a Nepalese national of Rs 5,000 by impersonating a police officer in Bhuntar, in the Kullu district, police said on Saturday.The accused has been identified as Mohit Sharma, a resident of Dhalpur, Kullu...

Bhadohi (UP), March 28 Three people, including the brother of a former BSP district president, have been booked for allegedly cheating a man here by promising him a government job for his relative and later threatening and assaulting him, police said on Saturday.According to Gopiganj Station...

Thane, March 28 A case has been registered against a tour operator from Thane district in Maharashtra, for allegedly defrauding a woman of Rs 6.6 lakh by promising to arrange travel bookings for her clients, police said on Saturday.The Ulhasnagar police have registered a first information...

Ranchi, March 27 – The ED filed a chargesheet against a former SBI Branch Manager and his wife in a Special PMLA Court here in connection with a Rs 5.40 crore fraud involving the manipulation of 440 customer accounts, an official said on Friday.The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal...