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Jammu, March 30 The Special Crime Wing (SCW) of the Crime Branch has filed chargesheets against four accused in three separate cases involving a chit fund fraud, a fake government job racket, and criminal conspiracy in the districts of Jammu and Doda, an official said on Monday.A chargesheet...

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...

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...

New Delhi, March 30 The Enforcement Directorate said on Monday that it has attached land parcels and other immovable assets worth more than Rs 270 crore as part of its money laundering investigation against Rajendra Lodha, former director of the Maharashtra-based realty company Lodha Developers...

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...

Kochi (Kerala), March 30 A 34-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was arrested for allegedly carrying out a series of sophisticated thefts by using duplicate keys to open two-wheeler's luggage boxes and stealing ATM cards to withdraw money from bank accounts, officials said on Monday.The accused...

Dewas, March 30 An agent for telecom companies was arrested in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, for allegedly issuing 84 SIM cards to different people using a single photograph, a police official said on Monday.Kotwali police station in-charge Shyamchandra Sharma identified the accused as Abrar, also...

Kolkata, March 30 – The Excise Department has seized a large quantity of raw materials and equipment used in the manufacture of fake liquor in Siliguri, West Bengal, a senior Election Commission official said on Monday.According to reports, approximately 1,560 litres of OP spirit (surgical...

Malappuram (Kerala), March 30 A man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to extort money from a relative of IUML state president Sayyid Sadikkali Shihab Thangal by threatening to circulate defamatory images of the leader online in Perinthalmanna, police said on Monday.The accused...

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...

Thane, March 30 Police have registered a case against three individuals for allegedly defrauding a man from Thane district of Maharashtra of Rs 2.92 lakh by promising him a good job in Russia, officials said on Monday.The accused assured the 38-year-old complainant, a carpenter from Badlapur...

Mumbai, March 29 A sessions court in Mumbai has directed a magistrate to issue summons to former Maharashtra Director General of Police Satish Mathur and other senior officers for failing to register an FIR against MHADA officials in a complaint of alleged fraud.After issuing the summons, the...

New Delhi, March 29 Delhi Police has busted a gang of fake loan recovery agents operating a sophisticated extortion racket on the side of the road in east Delhi, and has arrested four people, an officer said on Sunday.The accused allegedly used a mobile application to identify vehicles with...

Mysuru (Karnataka), March 29 A man accused of causing panic by sending false bomb threat messages to government offices, schools, and courts has been arrested by the Delhi Police in Mysuru, police sources said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Srinivas, was found to be operating from a...

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...

Kurukshetra, March 28 A physical verification at a rice mill here allegedly revealed a shortage of government paddy worth Rs 11 crore, officials said on Saturday.Police have booked four people, including two partners of the rice mill in Kurukshetra and two guarantors, after over 38,000...

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...

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...