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Thane, March 23 The Thane police have arrested two co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange platform CoinDCX in connection with an alleged fraud of Rs 71.6 lakh, officials said on Monday.The action follows the registration of an FIR at the Mumbra police station in Thane on March 16 against...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 22 An 81-year-old businessman in this city is alleged to have lost over Rs 15 crore in a "digital fraud scam" after fraudsters posing as CBI officials accused him of involvement in a financial crime, police said on Sunday.According to officials, the senior citizen...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 22 An 81-year-old businessman here is alleged to have lost over Rs 15 crore in a "digital fraud scam" after fraudsters posing as CBI officials accused him of involvement in a financial crime, police said on Sunday.According to officials, the senior citizen received...

Gorakhpur (UP), March 22 A newly married man absconded with the Rs 15 lakh given to him as dowry by the bride's family, and it came to light later that he was allegedly involved in a series of scams, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Pritam Kumar Nishad from Etawah, allegedly...

Deoghar, March 22 Five men were arrested in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Sunday for allegedly defrauding people by sending malicious APK files to their mobile phones and promising them loans under various government schemes, police said.Acting on a tip-off, a police team apprehended the...

New Delhi, March 22 A 29-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a prospective buyer and absconding with motorcycles that he took on the pretext of a test drive, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Punit Satija, a resident of Rewari in Haryana, was apprehended...

New Delhi, March 22 A man who allegedly posed as a property dealer, gained the trust of buyers and sellers, collected advance payments, and then absconded has been arrested by the Delhi Police, officials said on Sunday.The accused, Rahul Paswan, a resident of Laxmi Nagar in Delhi and...

New Delhi, March 21 A 48-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly staging a fake police arrest of two brothers in west Delhi, who were kidnapped and robbed of Rs 40 lakh in cash and other valuables, police said on Saturday.The arrested man, identified as Harish Sharma alias Rinku, was...

Hyderabad, March 21 Cyber criminals defrauded an accountant of a private company by impersonating the company's owner, police said on Saturday.The cyber criminals sent a message to the accountant on an instant messaging app in early March, including a picture of a woman and claiming that she...

Bhopal, March 21 – Madhya Pradesh Cyber Police have arrested two individuals for their alleged involvement in a human trafficking racket that lured young people with promises of jobs abroad, officials said on Saturday.The preliminary investigation revealed that the fraudsters contacted young...

Dehradun, March 21 – A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation has convicted and sentenced eight officials to two years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.85 lakh in connection with a Rs 55 lakh fraud case involving the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2003...

Gurugram, March 20 Gurugram Police have arrested a Bangladeshi man for allegedly sending bomb threats via email to several schools here, officials said on Friday.The police arrested Saurabh Vishwas alias Michael, 30, a resident of Bangladesh, from Ahmedabad on Thursday. He had entered India...

Mumbai, March 20 Opposition parties on Friday targeted Maharashtra State Women's Commission chairperson Rupali Chakankar over her alleged links with a self-proclaimed numerologist, arrested by the Nashik Crime Branch for raping a woman and exploiting many others under the guise of religious...

Ranchi, March 20 The Jharkhand CID has arrested three individuals from Hazaribag for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 19.85 lakh by posing as providers of an LPG connection, officials said on Friday.The arrests were made following a complaint lodged at the CID's cybercrime police station in...

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...

Kathmandu, March 19 Nepal police on Thursday arrested seven people, including six Indians, for running a fake travel lottery scam.Those arrested include Bibek Regmi, 26, a Nepali national from the Saptari district, currently residing in Gatthaghar, Thimi of the Bhaktapur district, and Indian...

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...

New Delhi, March 19 – The ED has attached two immovable properties worth ₹97.92 lakh in Jharkhand and Bihar, belonging to a former Branch Manager of the State Bank of India (SBI), in connection with a ₹5.4 crore fraud involving inactive accounts of deceased pensioners, an official said.The...

New Delhi, March 19 – The CBI questioned Amit Dangi, a top executive of Authum Investment & Infrastructure Ltd., on Thursday in connection with the Rs 57.47 crore bank fraud case involving Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd.Dangi is a full-time director at Authum Investment & Infrastructure Ltd...

New Delhi, March 19 The CBI questioned industrialist Anil Ambani for nearly eight hours on Thursday in connection with a Rs 2,929-crore fraud case, registered against Reliance Communications Ltd and him on a complaint by the State Bank of India, officials said.The industrialist, who is facing...