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Srinagar, April 1 – The Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch announced on Wednesday that it had filed a charge sheet in court against the accused in a case of overseas job fraud.A statement from the Crime Branch Kashmir said, "The Special Crime Wing of the Crime Branch of J&K, Srinagar, has filed a...

Bhubaneswar, March 31 The Odisha Vigilance Department on Tuesday seized Rs 45.41 lakh in cash from the possession of an officer, who could not satisfactorily explain the source of the money, an official said.Acting on a tip-off, a team from the department intercepted Odisha Police Housing and...

New Delhi, March 31 The CBI arrested a CGST assistant commissioner posted in Ratlam on Tuesday in an alleged bribery case involving Rs 1.5 lakh, officials said.The CBI caught Shankar Parmar red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh, they said. This action came hours after Parmar allegedly...

Dehradun, March 31 – A Special CBI Court in Dehradun on Tuesday sentenced a former rural bank manager to four years of rigorous imprisonment and handed down one-year sentences to 11 others in a Rs 3.39 crore loan fraud case, an official said.Ram Avtar Singh Dinkar, the then Branch Manager of...

New Delhi, March 31 Artificial intelligence tools will be integrated into the second version of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) that is under development. This network connects 17,000 police stations across India to a centralized online platform, the Ministry of Home...

Ranchi, March 31 – The Enforcement Directorate has filed a fifth supplementary charge sheet before a PMLA Special Court in Ranchi, related to the alleged MGNREGA scam in Khunti district of Jharkhand, naming five additional accused, including close relatives of IAS officer Pooja Singhal...

Srinagar, March 31 – The J&K Crime Branch said on Tuesday that it has filed a charge sheet in the case involving a fraud of Rs 55.11 lakh."The Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch in Srinagar has filed a charge sheet against Mehraj-Ud-Din Dar, son of Abdul Ahad Dar, a resident of Alamdar...

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...