financial crime

New Delhi, March 30 – The Enforcement Directorate has investigated 1,105 cases of bank fraud under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and has attached assets worth ₹64,920 crore, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Lok Sabha on Monday.She also said that action had been...

Mumbai, March 30 A 69-year-old man was cheated of Rs 1.57 crore in a cyber fraud, a Mumbai police official said on Monday.The victim, a resident of Andheri who retired from a private firm, was tricked by a cyber criminal who contacted him in December last year and claimed that he was...

Ahmedabad, March 30 A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Ahmedabad convicted and sentenced the wife of a former Income Tax Officer to a rigorous imprisonment (RI) of two years in a disproportionate assets (DA) case dating back nearly 19 years.The convict, Jasodaben...

Ahmedabad, March 30 – A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Monday convicted a private individual in a Disproportionate Assets case and sentenced her to two years of Rigorous Imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 20,000.The court found Jasodaben Rameshbhai Vadadia guilty...

Hubballi (Karnataka), March 30 Deputy Commissioner of the Commercial Tax Department, Bharath Kumar Hegde, was caught on Monday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh, Lokayukta officials said.Hegde, 48, was caught while receiving the money from businessman Vishwajit Nayak, 53, from...

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...

Bhubaneswar, March 29 Odisha Vigilance officials arrested a revenue inspector on Sunday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 from a person for the conversion of his land.Revenue Inspector Rajuram Bandra allegedly demanded the bribe from the landowner in exchange for submitting a...

Thane, March 29 A 29-year-old woman from Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district was allegedly cheated of ₹6.75 lakh by a man posing as an NRI on a matrimonial website, police said on Sunday.Based on a complaint, the Mumbra police registered an FIR against Adnan Ahmed and an unidentified woman...

New Delhi, March 28 Five people have been arrested for allegedly abducting and robbing a man after luring him through a dating application in the Kalkaji area of southeast Delhi, police said on Saturday.The victim was identified as Anurup Narula. In his complaint, he said that the incident...

Srinagar, March 28 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Jammu and Kashmir arrested an executive engineer from the Jal Shakti Department on Saturday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 12,000.Manzoor Ahmad Dar, an Executive Engineer of the Jal Shakti (PHE) – Mechanical Division, South...

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...

Patna, March 28 Two individuals were arrested in Patna with drugs worth approximately ₹25 crore, police said on Saturday.The arrests were made during a raid conducted at an apartment in the Alamganj police station area, they said.The accused were identified as Jitendra Kumar of the...

Coimbatore, March 28 – A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court has sentenced six individuals involved in the Coimbatore overseas job scam to varying jail terms ranging from 14 years to four years, along with fines, an official said on Saturday.The Chief Judicial Magistrate in...

Shimla, March 28 Himachal Pradesh has witnessed a sharp increase in cyber fraud, with a total of 585 cases registered in the state from January 31, 2026, up to the past three years, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told the assembly on Saturday.Responding to a question from BJP MLA Inder...

Gurugram, March 28 Directors of a company are alleged to have defrauded another company from which they had taken loans worth crores of rupees. Gurugram Police have arrested one of the directors from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, officials said on Saturday.The arrest came following a complaint filed...

Nashik (Maharashtra), March 28 Police said on Saturday that two more cases have been registered against self-proclaimed spiritual leader Ashok Kharat, adding that the Special Investigation Team investigating him has received over 100 complaints via phone.With this, a total of ten FIRs, eight...

New Delhi, March 28 Five individuals have been arrested for allegedly providing mule bank accounts to cyber fraud syndicates, with links to Dubai, police said on Saturday.The case involves the defrauding of a man to the tune of over Rs 12 lakh under the pretext of stock market investment, they...

Hoshiarpur (Punjab), March 28 Police have registered a case following a reported online fraud of approximately Rs 17.52 lakh from the bank accounts of a retired Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer in Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, officials said on Saturday.According to officials at the...

Karimnagar (Telangana), March 28 A large network involved in operating illegal mule bank accounts used for fraudulent financial transactions was busted on Saturday, police officials said.The operation, nicknamed 'Operation Crackdown 1.0' by the Karimnagar police, identified 24 suspects, and 13...

Ahmedabad/Surat, March 27 – A key figure in a counterfeit currency racket involving forged Rs 500 notes has been arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch. The investigation, which has expanded to include a network allegedly linked to a self-proclaimed spiritual leader known among associates as...