fraudulent transactions

New Delhi, April 9 Two individuals have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a man of approximately Rs 7 lakh by falsely claiming high returns through a fake stock investment scheme operated via a social media app, police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Shashikant Sharma and...

New Delhi, April 9 The CBI has registered an FIR in the alleged embezzlement of ₹550 crore from the accounts of the Haryana government, maintained with IDFC First Bank in Chandigarh, after taking over the investigation, official sources said on Thursday.The Haryana government had transferred...

New Delhi, April 9 Two nationals from Africa have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an international cyber fraud scheme that allegedly defrauded victims across multiple states of over Rs 50 lakh, police said on Thursday.The accused allegedly impersonated women on online platforms...

Pune, April 8 A 75-year-old medical practitioner was defrauded of ₹12.31 crore in an online stock trading scam, with fraudsters allegedly coercing him into making multiple investments, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the victim received a message from an unidentified number in...

New Delhi, April 8 – The Delhi Police arrested the son of the founder of the iconic restaurant chain, Khan Chacha, on Wednesday in a cyber crime case that has sent shockwaves across the national capital, officials said.The accused, Mohammad Javed (49), was taken into custody for allegedly...

New Delhi, April 8 A Delhi court has denied bail to an 18-year-old aspiring NEET candidate who was allegedly involved in large-scale organized cyber fraud, stating that his role is not simply "peripheral" in light of the substantial evidence recovered against him.Additional Sessions Judge...

New Delhi, April 8 A man, suspected of leading an organized ATM fraud gang and allegedly involved in over 50 cheating cases, was arrested in the national capital, police said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Ravi Kumar Bharti (36), a resident of Bihar, was apprehended from the Rajpur...

New Delhi, April 7 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti moved the Delhi High Court on Tuesday challenging his conviction and three-year jail sentence in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.Justice Swarana Kanta...

Chandigarh, April 3 Haryana Labour Minister Anil Vij said on Friday that nearly 90 per cent of the work slips examined during an investigation into irregularities in the labour department were found to be fake, indicating a major scam.He said a portal will soon be opened and IDs will be...

New Delhi, April 2 A Delhi court has rejected the bail plea of a man accused of being an active member of a 'digital arrest' scam, holding the material recovered from his possession adequate to prove a prima facie case against him.Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar Gautam was hearing a...

New Delhi/Itanagar, April 2 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint before a Special PMLA Court in Arunachal Pradesh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with an alleged fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) racket worth Rs 116 crore, the...

Lucknow, April 1 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Sameer Joshi, a proclaimed offender, in connection with a financial fraud case linked to the Life Insurance Corporation of India, officials said on Wednesday.According to officials, the CBI had registered the case on...

Itanagar, March 31 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties and assets worth ₹14.85 crore in Howrah and Hooghly in West Bengal, and in Guwahati, in connection with a GST-related fraud involving nearly ₹100 crore, an official statement said on Tuesday.The...

New Delhi, March 28 – The Delhi Police has busted an investment fraud syndicate with the arrest of five individuals allegedly involved in operating a network of mule bank accounts used for cyber crimes, officials said on Saturday.A team from the Cyber Police Station of the South-West District...

Thane, March 28 A case has been registered against a tour operator from Thane district in Maharashtra, for allegedly defrauding a woman of Rs 6.6 lakh by promising to arrange travel bookings for her clients, police said on Saturday.The Ulhasnagar police have registered a first information...

Ranchi, March 27 – The ED filed a chargesheet against a former SBI Branch Manager and his wife in a Special PMLA Court here in connection with a Rs 5.40 crore fraud involving the manipulation of 440 customer accounts, an official said on Friday.The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal...

Mumbai, March 24 A special CBI court here on Tuesday convicted a retired bank manager and nine others in a 2004 loan fraud case, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from one year to five years.The masterminds of the crime, brothers Kashinath Jadhav and Ganesh Pandurang Jadhav, were...

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...

Gadag (Karnataka), March 16 Five men were arrested for allegedly luring students with false promises of scholarship money and other incentives to open mule bank accounts in their names for illegal transactions, police said on Monday.The accused were identified as Vakdoth Vakeel (24), Raju...

Raipur, March 13 The Chhattisgarh Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing (ACB/EOW) filed a 1290-page chargesheet against an SBI manager accused of embezzling over Rs 2.78 crore through fraudulent transactions, an official said.The chargesheet against Vijay Kumar Ahke, who was serving as...