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New Delhi, March 11 A former Indian Army soldier, along with two others, has been booked for making a fraudulent death claim to secure insurance benefits worth Rs 3 lakh from the Army Group Insurance Fund.According to an FIR registered on March 6, the case pertains to a claim made in 2011...

Thane, March 9 A 36-year-old man from the Thane district of Maharashtra has allegedly been cheated of Rs 62 lakh by an acquaintance who lured him to invest in the stock market, promising him high returns, police said on Monday.Based on a complaint, the Kapurbawdi police registered a first...

Kochi, March 8 A court here has sentenced a Kerala film producer to two years' imprisonment each in two cheating cases.Additional Sessions Court Judge Sabarinathan P found Joby George (49) of Kallara South in Kottayam guilty in two cases related to promising jobs and business opportunities...

Thane, March 8 Police have registered a case against two individuals for allegedly cheating the owner of a private hospital in Thane district of Maharashtra, amounting to Rs 10 lakh, officials said on Sunday.According to the victim's complaint, the accused had entered into a 10-year...

New Delhi, March 6 A Delhi court has upheld the conviction of a man for cheating in a property transaction, but granted him probation considering his age and the long duration of the trial.Additional Sessions Judge Purshotam Pathak partly allowed the appeal of the convict, Braham Singh, and...

Mumbai, March 5 The Mumbai police have registered a case against a man for allegedly cheating actress Varsha Usgaonkar and four others of Rs 47 lakh with the promise of lucrative returns on investment, a police official said on Thursday.Referring to the first information report (FIR), the...

Mumbai, March 5 – Marathi actress Varsha Usgaonkar is among several people who have reportedly been cheated of around ₹47 lakh by a man posing as a builder and film producer, according to the Mumbai Police.A case involving fraud related to the Marathi film industry has come to light. According...

New Delhi, March 3 A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of an alleged kingpin in an over Rs 8.94 crore bank fraud case, saying that the offense was serious and committed in a systematic manner through layered transactions.Additional Sessions Judge Shunali Gupta rejected the bail...

New Delhi, March 3 The Delhi Police have busted an alleged interstate gang that defrauded and robbed people by posing as cryptocurrency traders, arresting four men who reportedly impersonated police officers to target a man in northwest Delhi, an official said on Tuesday.The accused have been...

Mumbai, March 2 A man was arrested in Gujarat after evading authorities for 10 months in a case of job fraud, a Mumbai police official said on Monday.Narendra Manguruji Maundekar had allegedly cheated retired railway officer Jayprakash Tamore (64) of Rs 17 lakh by promising a job in ONGC for...

Thane, February 27 The crime branch of the Navi Mumbai police has arrested a 34-year-old man for allegedly impersonating an ISRO scientist and a PWD official to defraud and sexually exploit several women after promising to marry them.Adarsh Prashant Mhatre, a resident of Alibag, allegedly used...

New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court strongly criticized the Rajasthan Police on Friday for filing an FIR against the former regional head of Zee Rajasthan on charges of blackmail and extortion, based on a complaint from Zee Media, and said it was shocked by the manner in which the case was...

New Delhi, February 27 A 57-year-old man and his wife have been apprehended in Greater Noida for allegedly cheating several people by selling the same flat multiple times, police said on Friday.The accused have been identified as Naresh Kumar Sikri and his wife, Sharda Sikri (55), residents of...

Thane, February 27 A case has been registered against two men in Thane city, Maharashtra, for allegedly defrauding 12 people of ₹1.78 crore by luring them to invest in a bogus share market scheme promising high returns, police said on Friday.Based on a complaint lodged by a woman from Bhandup...

Bilaspur (HP), February 26 A woman was allegedly cheated of Rs 4.56 lakh by a man posing as an engineer from the Public Works Department here, police said on Thursday.The accused allegedly promised to secure a job in the department. According to a complaint lodged by Neeta Devi, a resident of...

New Delhi, February 24 A man accused of defrauding two individuals of approximately Rs 35 lakh by selling a vacant plot in Delhi has been arrested, an official said on Tuesday.The accused, Deepak alias Tooda, from Begumpur Extension, was wanted in connection with the case registered at the...

Lucknow, February 24 – The Enforcement Directorate’s Lucknow Zonal Office has filed a chargesheet under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, against former MLA Arif Anwar Hashmi (a former MLA from Utraula, Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh) and his wife Rozi Salma.The complaint was...

Shimla, February 23 A woman has been arrested in Punjab for allegedly defrauding another woman of Rs 25 lakhs by promising her to arrange a visa for Canada, police said on Monday.The accused has been identified as Manju Kumari, a resident of Punjab.Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)...

Thane, February 23 A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Thane for allegedly defrauding a medical store owner of ₹35.42 lakh by promising to get his son admitted to a medical college under a "VIP quota," a police official said on Monday.An FIR was registered against Prashant Mahajan, a...

New Delhi, February 21 A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea of businessman Satya Prakash Bagla in a case related to the alleged cheating of investors based in Kolkata.Additional Sessions Judge Shunali Gupta rejected the bail application, stating that the allegations against Bagla...