economic offences wing

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

Gurugram, March 28 The Delhi High Court has declined to grant interim relief to Experion Developers Private Limited and its co-petitioner, based in Gurugram, who sought to quash an FIR registered against them by the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police, on charges of fraud. An official...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 – The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested a businessman for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore fraud case related to the embezzlement of funds from the District Mineral Foundation Trust (DMFT) in the Mayurbhanj district, a senior EOW...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested a man for his alleged involvement in defrauding the District Mineral Foundation (DMF), Mayurbhanj, of Rs 9.6 crore, an official said on Thursday.One builder, Brajesh Mishra, was arrested from Chhattisgarh...

Bhopal, March 19 – The Enforcement Directorate's Bhopal Zonal Office filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Prasad Sarwate, the former Deputy Director of Madhya Pradesh's Tribal Welfare Department, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, on Thursday.The charge sheet was filed before...

Bhopal, March 18 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached 11 immovable properties worth Rs 20.59 crore belonging to M/s Jayshri Gayatri Food Products Pvt Ltd and its Managing Director, Kishan Modi, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)...

Bengaluru, March 18 A 34-year-old man was arrested in Mandya for allegedly being involved in the illegal supply of firearms, police said on Wednesday.Police claimed to have seized three locally made pistols, parts of a revolver, and two live rounds from Irfan, a civil engineer from Bhopal...

Raipur, March 17 The Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing (ACB/EOW) of Chhattisgarh arrested a suspended revenue department official on Tuesday in connection with the alleged Bharatmala road project compensation scam.The agency had registered a case last year over alleged fraud in the...

Raipur, March 16 – The ED has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 23.35 crore in connection with a land acquisition compensation fraud related to the Raipur-Visakhapatnam National Highway project under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, an official said on Monday.An investigation by the...

Mumbai, March 16 The accused had no dishonest or fraudulent intention, a local court observed while accepting the police's closure report in the case related to an alleged Rs 25,000 crore scam at the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB).Mere irregularities or lapses in procedure cannot be...

Bhopal, March 16 – The Enforcement Directorate's Bhopal Zonal Office has arrested Kishan Modi, a key individual linked to M/s Jayshri Gayatri Food Products Pvt Ltd, in a major money laundering case involving the production and export of adulterated dairy products.The arrest was made on March...

Chennai, March 14 The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday appointed B Bala Naga Devi, the current Director General of Police, Economic Offences Wing, Chennai, as the Director General of Police, Intelligence, with immediate effect.The new position for the senior IPS officer has been upgraded from...

Mumbai, March 11 – Taking the complaints regarding discrepancies in the college fee fixation process seriously, Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday that a high-level inquiry committee, headed by a retired High Court judge...

Srinagar, March 6 A court in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir has denied bail to five HDFC Bank officials accused of large-scale financial fraud, the Crime Branch said on Friday.A spokesman for the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) said that the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate...

Srinagar, March 6 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Shopian district, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), on Friday rejected the bail applications of five HDFC Bank officials who were allegedly involved in a major financial fraud case.Officials said on Friday that in a significant development in a...

Srinagar, March 5 – The Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police announced on Thursday that it had arrested an alleged overseas job fraudster in Faridabad, Haryana.In a statement, the Crime Branch Kashmir said a team from the Special Crime Wing (SCW) arrested the accused, who had allegedly...

Mumbai, March 4 A court here has once again denied bail to Purushottam Chavan, the husband of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rashmi Karandikar, in a fraud case involving over Rs 24 crore, noting that there was sufficient evidence to show his involvement in the crime.Chavan is accused of...

Gurugram, March 1 The CEO of a real estate company has been arrested here for allegedly defrauding several lawyers of Rs 6 crore by promising them high returns on an investment in a project, police said on Sunday.The accused, Puneet Beriwala (62), CEO of Vipul Limited and a resident of...

Bilaspur, February 28 The Chhattisgarh High Court on Saturday granted bail to Saumya Chaurasia, a former deputy secretary in the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) in the previous Congress government, in two cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the state Economic Offences Wing...

Faridabad, February 28 The Faridabad Police has registered a case against five individuals, including former MLA Chander Bhatia and a former Tehsildar of Badkhal, for their alleged involvement in a property fraud involving the double registration of a house in NIT-1 here, officials said on...