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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Panaji zonal office has provisionally attached properties valued at over Rs 17.45 crore under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with the investigation pertaining to illegal operation of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa. A fire at the nightclub in North Goa's Arpora on December 6 last year killed 25 people, including five tourists. The brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who ran the club, had taken a flight from Delhi t ...Read More >
Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where 25 were killed in a fire on December 6, were granted bail in a second case of alleged cheating and forgery and were likely to walk out of prison by Wednesday evening. The two were granted bail in the main case (culpable homicide) on April 1. Parag Rao, the lawyer of the brothers, said Mapusa's judicial magistrate first class granted the two bail in the second case subject to regular conditions on furnishing a bond ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 4 (UNI) Delhi's Dwarka Court has convicted Kavita Mathur, a former sub-inspector with Delhi Police, for forging the signatures of senior police officials on charge sheets and for sending an intimidating SMS to a senior officer. Judicial Magistrate First Class Saurabh Goyal convicted Mathur under Sections 417, 465, 466, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 506 Part-I of the IPC. The case pertains to offences committed during 2015 when Mathur was posted at PS Palam Villa ...Read More >
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Court convicted Bharti and a former cashier, Raghuvir Prajapati, of criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery. The case, which was registered in 2015 in Madhya Pradesh's Datiya, was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court in October last year after noting claims that efforts were made to intimidate defence witnesses. In a 95-page judgment, the court said that Bharti and Prajapati, along with other unknown persons, entered into a criminal con ...Read More >
This comes five days after the district and sessions court in Goa denied the duo anticipatory bail in a second case filed against them, alleging they submitted forged documents in applications for permission to run Birch by Romeo Lane, for which they remain in jail. The fire at Birch by Romeo Lane, on the intervening night of December 6 and 7, was allegedly caused by electrically triggered pyro sparklers ignited as part of an ongoing dance performance at the nightclub. The sparklers allegedly s ...Read More >
New Delhi: A local court at Mapusa in Goa on Wednesday granted bail to Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, in a case linked to a fire at the establishment on December 6 that killed 25 people in North Goa's Arpora. However, the Luthra brothers would remain behind bars as they were arrested in a forgery case on Monday. Last month, the Goa Police had filed a chargesheet against 13 accused, including the Luthras, in connection with the fire. Hours after a blaze eru ...Read More >
Ahmedabad: When a 50-year-old accountant from Nikol received a WhatsApp message from his employer containing 'RTO E-challan.apk' file, he thought it was an official message regarding a traffic memo and installed the file. The moment he entered his name and mobile number, he received a message about money being debited from his account. He immediately deleted the app, but it was already too late. Within 24 hours, he lost Rs 10.7 lakh to cybercriminals. The victim told Cybercrime police that he fr ...Read More >
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam have been convicted and sentenced to jail. A special court in Rampur found them guilty in a 2019 case involving obtaining two PAN cards with different birth dates. The court delivered its verdict after examining evidence and testimonies. Both father and son were sent to jail following the conviction. Rampur (UP): Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mohammad Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam were on Monday convicted and sentenced ...Read More >
At a time when most people use keyboards to write, does handwriting really matter? Yes, say Indian courts, if the writer is a doctor. Jokes around the notoriously bad handwriting of many doctors that can only be deciphered by pharmacists are common in India, as around the world. But the latest order emphasising the importance of clear handwriting came recently from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which said that "legible medical prescription is a fundamental right" as it can make a differenc ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Hyderabad topped the list of forgery, cheating and fraud cases in 2023 compared to 16 major cities in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released on Monday. As many as 4,090 cases related to Section 420 (cheating) read with Sections 465 (Forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (use of a forged document or electronic record as genuine) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and IT Act were booked with as many as 4,203 victims. These cases were amon ...Read More >
Self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati faces five days of police custody. He was arrested in Agra for molesting female students at a Vasant Kunj institute. Saraswati, a former college chairman, allegedly created a zone of fear in the hostel. He used remote CCTV access and tampered with DVR systems. Financial misconduct charges also emerged against him. Delhi's Patiala House Court on Sunday remanded self-styled godman Parthasarathy alias Chaitanyananda Saraswati to five days of police custo ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati in a multi-crore fraud and sexual harassment case, saying police require custodial interrogation to unravel the full extent of the alleged crimes. Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur noted that the investigation is still at an early stage and the accused is currently unreachable. "Investigation of the present case is at a nascent stage, and the investigating officer (IO) requ ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Chaitanyananda Saraswati, alias Parthasarathy, in a case of alleged cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. He also faces a case of allegedly sexually harassing 17 female students at a private institute in Delhi, called Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management Research, where he was the director. Chaitanyananda is on the run. Police said they have frozen approximately Rs 8 crore across 18 accounts and 28 fixed deposi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) Self-styled godman Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, accused of sexually harassing 17 girl students of a Delhi institute, allegedly used different names and particulars to operate bank accounts and withdrew over Rs 50 lakh after FIR was registered against him, investigators claimed on Friday. During the investigation, it was revealed that Saraswati had allegedly been operating a bank account under two different names by submitting documents with varying particulars at the ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): Delhi's Patiala House Court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Chaitanyanand Saraswati. He had sought anticipatory bail in a case of alleged financial irregularities lodged against him. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Dr Hardeep Kaur dismissed the plea after hearing the submissions made by the counsel for the accused, counsel for the complainant and the Delhi police. An FIR has been lodged in connection with an alleged multi-crore fraud, for ...Read More >
So far, two cars have been traced to Saraswati -- a Volvo with a forged diplomatic number plate '39 UN 1' registered with a fake address and a BMW he purchased in March. | File Image A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati in an alleged cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy case against him. Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur said, "Investigation of the present case is at a nascent stage and the investigating officer ( ...Read More >
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed its first supplementary chargesheet against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, before the NIA Special Court at Patiala House, New Delhi. The move comes after Rana's extradition from the United States in April this year and fresh evidence uncovered during interrogation. The court is expected to take cognizance of the chargesheet in the coming days, paving the way for the trial to formally commence. On ...Read More >
MUMBAI: A special PMLA court refused to grant bail to Sujit Patkar, a close aide of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case of alleged irregularities in the operation of two jumbo Covid centres during the pandemic. Patkar, the owner of a consultancy firm, established a partnership firm called Lifeline Hospital Management Services (LHMS) with other partners, namely Dr. Hemant Gupta, Sanjay Shah and Raju Salunkhe. The firm placed bids and bagged ...Read More >
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