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A Jharkhand man, who works as a carpenter in Ahmedabad was allegedly drugged and robbed when he was to board a train to his native at the Ahmedabad railway station. The 23-year-old alleged that while he was waiting for the Kolkata Weekly Express on platform number 3, a man approached him and started a conversation. […]
Sextortion of women seems to be on the rise recently. According to Gujarat Police officers, cybercrime police stations have received eight sextortion complaints from women from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar over the past ten days. In the previous years, such cases were rare. For example, only two to three sextortion calls of this nature were reported […]
After allegedly marrying 14 women from across seven states in 48 years, a man was arrested in Bhubaneswar on Monday. He was arrested on Monday from his rented house, on the basis of the complaint filed by his last wife, with whom he used to stay in Odisha. According to the police, the man had […]
In comparison to the previous year, an increase of 25 per cent in the domestic violence cases were reported in Ahmedabad in 2021. As many as 541 cases were registered in the year 2021, which is the highest number of cases in the city since 2015. However, the year 2020 had reported 433 cases. Apart […]
Fenil Korat – a Rajkot based businessman has eloped after allegedly sexually abusing and financially cheating his female partner for years. After making false marriage promises, Fenil has raped and cheated victims on many occasions. According to the Satellite Police station in Ahmedabad, the Surat resident victim has lodged an FIR against Fenil as he […]
In an yet another case of cyber-bullying in the city, a woman in Ahmedabad fell prey to a trap by an UK returnee man, who blackmailed her through her nude pictures. Jay Mewada, who originally hails from Mehsana, went to the UK on a student’s visa but had to return to India during the pandemic. […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided SKIL Infrastructure Executive Chairman Nikhil Gandhi and seized jewellery, including diamonds, worth around Rs 30 crore. ED officials have been carrying out searches of lockers belonging to Gandhi and his relatives at two banks in South Mumbai and Central Mumbai. Gandhi’s company has extensively worked with Government of Gujarat for […]
An Ahmedabad-based businessman was duped worth Rs 46.36 lakhs via a missed call on his number, followed by the deactivation of his sim cards. Rakesh Shah, a resident of the Satellite area of the city, received a missed call from an unknown number after which his sim card lost the network and was deactivated automatically. […]
Mumbai cyber police on Wednesday arrested one more student from Uttarakhand in connection with the controversial ‘Bulli Bai’ app case. Identified as Mayank Rawal, the 21-year-old was arrested from the northern state early on Wednesday, said a Mumbai Police official. Read more: Mumbai Cops Arrest Mastermind Woman & Engineering Student in Bulli Bai Scam With […]
Yet another incident of illegal moneylenders turning the life of the borrower hell by charging exorbitant interest rates and harassing them to no end has surfaced in Ahmedabad. A student has registered a complained to police against moneylenders Ashish Desai and Rahul Desai. It is pertinent to know that a couple from Sola had to […]
Following complaints of lewd content, the github based app called ‘Bulli Bai’was blocked a day after its launch on January 1. The app was intended to embarrass and insult Muslim women by posting pictures of Muslim women – including journalists with a strong presence on social media platforms. One such woman working with a news […]
Sukesh Chandrashekhar, the alleged mastermind of the ₹200 crore money laundering scam accepts a relationship with actress Jacqueline Fernandez. He added that a lot is being said and dictated about him but it is wrong to say that he is a “conman” or “Thug” as he has not been convicted yet. Sukesh is married to […]
Ahmedabad city police is unrelenting in it’s quest to nab the drug peddlers is evident from busting of further two cases. While Special Operations Group ( SOG) held one person with 58.9 Kg of Posh Doda powder, the crime branch arrested six persons in Gurukul, SG Highway and Sidhu Bhavan Road for dealing in charas. […]
The Income Tax department on Tuesday sealed the offices of former vice-president of Surat city BJP, PVS Sarma at Bamroli Road and Udhana in connection with the search operation carried out in October last year. PVS Sarma had tweeted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging a massive money laundering scam perpetrated by the jewellers, builders, […]
The Ahmedabad police have arrested a youth for allegedly converting a girl to Islam as well as raping and blackmailing her when he she was a minor in 2019. The Vastrapur police arrested Riyaz Rafiq Memon under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, various sections of the IPC for rape and blackmail, POCSO Act and […]
After the Gujarat connection in Rs 75,000 offshore income tax fraud; here is yet another tax fraud where Ahmedabad Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) officials are playing a central role. Goods and Services Tax raid at Kanpur-based businessman Piyush Jain unearthed ₹ 257 crore cash from his house and factory. The entire operation of […]
Sabarkantha police have arrested five people, including the brother of the main accused, in the head clerk examination’s paper-leak case. This brings the total tally of people arrested in connection with the case to 27. The arrested will be produced in court late on Monday. Sanjay Patel, Akshay Patel, Vipul Patel, Prakashbhai Patel and Dhimen […]
Piyush Jain travels on an old scooter. On paper, he is a small town perfume maker in Kannauj who hardly makes two ends meet. He learned the art of making perfumes and edible essences from his father, who is a chemist. A recent Goods and Services Tax raid at his house unearthed ₹ 250 crore […]
After Komal Rawal, an employee of TCS and resident of Gandhinagar, allegedly died by suicide on November 5, the police have charged a man for abetment to suicide on Thursday. Ritwik Thakkar, a colleague of Komal at TCS, was booked after Komal’s father – Ashwini Rawal in his complaint said that “Thakkar called my wife […]
The golden rule remains. Never, never, never accept friend requests from strangers on Facebook (now Meta). What begins as just a casual acquaintance, soon shifts to exchanging numbers, getting onto WhatsApp and thereon, intensifies the crime. In a recent briefing by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell, […]
