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The crime branch arrested a Ugandan woman and two local men for possession of 50.75 gms of cocaine worth Rs 4.5 lakh for supply to rave parties. Rave parties involve fast, repetitive electronic music and light shows. It’s a youth-oriented culture that combines music, art, and social ideals. A city-based tabloid reported that Shalin Shah […]
An interstate ‘rape’ racket involving two women from Gujarat has been busted by Goa police, leading to the arrest of the two along with their male accomplices. According to their modus operandi, the two threatened to lodge false rape complaints with the police and extorted money from people. They even did lodge false FIRs as […]
Gujarat Police have revealed that the dubious ‘DaniData’ app fraud has affected people across India and the multi-crore cyber scam is not just limited to Gujarat. CID (crime), which has been tracking and probing the case for the last one year, said in a statement that complaints of alleged fruad by the football betting app […]
Cyber fruad has become one of the most potent tools for scammers to dupe people. There have been multiple instances of people getting conned and losing money to frauds who feign as a genuine service providers. A very common way of luring people is to push gaming and betting apps that deal with money. People, […]
Pricked by his wife’s large fan following on Instagram, a man reportedly strangled her inside their car near Lucknow, that too in front of their two kids. Police said the woman had a substantial fan base on Insta and she had also reportedly blocked her husband from her profile. This led him to suspect her […]
A teacher in a town in Gujarat’s Banaskantha lost a staggering Rs 80 lakh to cyber fraud. She was duped into transferring funds to a UK-based ‘friend’, who in fact, never existed. The 52-year-old woman is currently undergoing therapy as she refuses to believe her foreign ‘friend’, who claimed to have landed in India bearing […]
An Indo Canadian gangster has been killed in a gang war in Richmond in Canada. The deceased, according to the Vancouver police, has been identified as Ravinder Samra. He was 36. Ravinder became the latest victim in an ongoing intra gang conflict in Canada. In May this year, his younger brother Amarpreet Samra was shot […]
Acting on a tip-off last month about an illegal trading operation Dabba or box trading in Mumbai’s Mahavir Nagar, Kandivali West, the crime branch arrested a 50-year-old from Surat. Bhupen Babubhai Kheni allegedly had been involved in the betting racket and took 3% of the profits from the operations, police officials told a media house. […]
An engineer specialising in information technology became a victim of an online scam in Pune. The engineer got scammed after he was lured for a job offer. He lost 60,000 Million Dollars. In a police complaint that Amita Kulkarni (name changed) has filed with the Hinjewadi police station in Pune in India, the IT engineer […]
In the ladies’ compartment of a moving Mumbai local train on Wednesday morning, a 20-year-old woman who was traveling alone was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 40-year-old man. According to a GRP official, the accused was arrested after 8 hours of the incident. The woman, a Girgaum native, was on her way to Belapur in […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against IRS officer Santosh Karnani, then Additional Commissioner of Income-Tax (Central Range-1), who is accused of taking a Rs 30-lakh bribe from Ahmedabad builder Safal Construction Pvt Ltd. The chargesheet also names then Assistant Commissioner of Income-Tax, Ahmedabad, Vivek Johri, for allegedly helping Karnani. The […]
Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested a man posing as a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer. The suspect, identified as Sultan Khan Ahmed Khan (44), was arrested along with his associates. Khan used to deceive people by displaying a fake identification card of a CBI officer and earning their trust. Based on a tip-off, the […]
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) announced on Tuesday that it had successfully dismantled a global drugs trafficking network operating on the darknet, resulting in the largest-ever seizure of LSD blots in India. The operation, which spanned over two weeks, culminated in the confiscation of approximately 15,000 LSD blots, with an estimated international market value exceeding […]
A 12-year-old was killed allegedly by her brother, a 30-year-old security guard. According to a report, the guard suspected that since his sister had been menstruating, she must have got intimate with someone. A case of murder was registered under section 302 of Indian Penal Code. The girl, according to the report, lived with her […]
Three shooters who gunned down gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed on the night of April 15, had been moved from the barracks to the high-security cell of Naini (Prayagraj) Central Jail on Monday. “All three shooters, Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh and Lovelesh Tiwari, are under threat of attack behind bars, owing to […]
The Opposition leaders on Sunday targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother in front of the police officers, and the media in Prayagraj district, using terms like “mafia raj” and “jungle raj” to describe Uttar Pradesh and even India. Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of […]
The brother-in-law of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed has been detained by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police for harbouring and financially supporting Umesh Pal’s killers. Umesh Pal was a key witness in the murder case of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal. A team from STF detained government doctor Akhlaq Ahmed on […]
A Prayagraj court found gangster Atiq Ahmed and two others guilty in the kidnapping of Umesh Pal in 2006, and they were given life sentences. In the case, seven additional people—including Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, the brother of Atiq Ahmed—were found not guilty. After a 24-hour road trip, the Uttar Pradesh police brought Ahmed, a […]
In a bid to curb the rising incidence of frauds committed using dubious phone numbers, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) issued a new circular about a fortnight ago. Accordingly, fraudulent mobile numbers used by phone scammers can be struck off/blocked if the local Superintendent of Police (SP) provides such the same the DoT nodal officer. […]
A rape accused and the survivor was found living together for 17 years and even had a son from their relationship. The accused, Ranjitsinh Solanki, was allowed to go by the police after the woman gave a statement that she was neither kidnapped nor raped by him. Solanki was arrested by police by Panchmahal police’s […]
