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He used the same modus operandi, conducted "rituals" and also used items like stones and tamarind seeds for intimidation and "divine invocation". Kharat, currently in police custody, is facing 12 criminal cases in Ahilya Nagar and Nashik city, including eight for sexual assault. The SIT has recorded statements of 30 witnesses and victims so far, said IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute, who heads the SIT, on Tuesday. "During questioning, it came to light that the accused exploited the faith of victims ...Read More >
Nashik: A shocking reality has come to light in the widely discussed abuse case involving a reputed IT company in Nashik, where a specific modus operandi was allegedly developed to lure female employees into a trap by offering them jobs and later exploiting their sense of obligation. In one reported incident, a female employee was allegedly taken to a resort on a holiday and sexually assaulted. The police have arrested six suspects, who have been remanded to police custody. The incident, which ...Read More >
Delhi Police have apprehended the alleged mastermind behind a sophisticated ATM fraud operation, responsible for over 50 cases of cheating and targeting vulnerable individuals at ATM kiosks across the city. Key PointsRavi Kumar Bharti, suspected leader of an ATM fraud gang, has been arrested in Delhi.Bharti is allegedly involved in over 50 cases of ATM fraud across Delhi.The gang targeted elderly ATM users by trapping cards and tricking victims into revealing their PINs.Delhi Police used CCTV a ...Read More >
Bengaluru, April 9: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) have busted an international racket involved in gold smuggling using transit aircraft. Gold worth Rs 5 crore seized, five arrested The DRI officials have seized three kg of pure gold worth over Rs 5 crore and arrested five members of the gang, who helped the syndicate transport the gold out of the airport. Insider involvement and modus operandi The DRI officials say that some ...Read More >
BERHAMPUR: Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday arrested five persons including four staff members of Kodala community health centre (CHC) in Ganjam district for their alleged involvement in misappropriation of government funds to the tune of over Rs 2 crore. The arrested persons are senior assistant of Kodala CHC Jatin Bhuyan, multi-purpose health worker Bharati Pradhan, attendant Gopal Nahak, sweeper Manu Nayak and attendant of Beguniapada PHC Rama Chandra Mallika. According to Vigilance officials ...Read More >
Delhi Police have successfully shut down a fake call centre operating from Pitampura, arresting 19 individuals for their involvement in a sophisticated loan and insurance fraud targeting people across the country. Photograph: ANI PhotoKey PointsDelhi Police busted a fake call centre in Pitampura, arresting 19 people involved in a loan and insurance scam.The scammers posed as finance company representatives, luring victims with loan offers and insurance schemes.Victims were tricked into paying p ...Read More >
According to the police, the investigating teams travelled nearly 2,800 kilometres to nab the accused from Maharashtra's Nashik. Police said the accused, identified as Bachchu Jha, a former Applied Mathematics professor, had threatened the institute's manager over the phone on April 2, warning of a bomb blast if the money was not paid. "The call triggered panic and led to the registration of a case at Ashok Vihar police station. The caller introduced himself as "Babla Gujjar from Noida" and at ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) A threat to blow up a coaching institute in northwest Delhi was foiled with the arrest of a 31-year-old man who allegedly demanded Rs 21 lakh and posed as a gangster, police said on Monday. According to the police, the investigating teams travelled nearly 2,800 kilometres to nab the accused from Maharashtra's Nashik. Police said the accused, identified as Bachchu Jha, a former Applied Mathematics professor, had threatened the institute's manager over the phone on April 2 ...Read More >
Delhi Police have dismantled a large interstate operation manufacturing and distributing fake life-saving drugs, seizing counterfeit medications and exposing a complex network of fraudulent GST firms used to launder the illicit proceeds. Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersKey PointsDelhi Police busted an interstate racket manufacturing and supplying spurious life-saving medicines, arresting six people.Counterfeit drugs worth approximately Rs 2 crore were seized, including fake versions of medicines ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 22-year-old man has been arrested by the Customs officials for allegedly smuggling hydroponic weed valued at Rs 9.81 crore sourced from Bangkok. Interception & Recovery Details According to the police, on the basis of specific intelligence, one passenger namely Ravi Rajpoot, a resident of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, was intercepted in the wee hours of Sunday after he arrived at CSMI Airport, Mumbai from Bangkok by Thai Airways flight. Upon opening his trolley bag, 10 pink coloured plastic ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) The Delhi Police has busted an organised interstate racket involved in manufacturing and supplying spurious life-saving medicines, arresting six persons and seizing counterfeit drugs worth around Rs 2 crore, an official said on Sunday. During the operation, the police also exposed a network of fake GST firms used to generate bogus invoices and launder proceeds of the illegal trade, with investigators estimating the fake billing to the tune of nearly Rs 50 crore. Accordin ...Read More >
The arrests followed late-night raids on Monday at Med-Life hospital, Ahuja Hospital, and Priya Hospital in the Kalyanpur area, conducted jointly with the health department led by the Chief Medical Officer Haridutt Nemi, Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal said. The investigation suggests the possible involvement of six to seven more hospitals, police said, adding that further arrests are likely in the coming days. The police arrested hospital owners Dr Preeti Ahuja, 50, her husband Dr Surjeet ...Read More >
Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. Solana-based Drift Protocol has suffered the largest exploit of 2026 to date, losing nearly $300 million in a "highly sophisticated operation" that has raised concerns about the growing threat of human-targeted attacks in the crypto space. On Wednesday, Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Drift Protocol was the victim of an exploit that stole hundreds of millions of dollars ...Read More >
Kanpur (UP), Apr 1 (PTI) The probe into an alleged illegal kidney transplant racket in Kanpur has intensified, with police issuing lookout notices against four key accused doctors and expanding the investigation into a suspected multi-city network, a senior official said on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal said lookout notices are being initiated against four doctors -- Rohit alias Rahul, Anurag alias Amit, Afzal and Vaibhav -- who are currently absconding and are believed to be cent ...Read More >
Kanpur (UP), Apr 1 (PTI) The probe into an alleged illegal kidney transplant racket in Kanpur has intensified, with police issuing lookout notices against four key accused doctors and expanding the investigation into a suspected multi-city network, a senior official said on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal said lookout notices are being initiated against four doctors -- Rohit alias Rahul, Anurag alias Amit, Afzal and Vaibhav -- who are currently absconding and are believed to be cent ...Read More >
Srinagar, Mar 31: The Economic Offences Wing, Srinagar of Crime Branch J&K said that it has filed a chargesheet before the Court of City Judge Srinagar, unraveling a major property fraud worth more the fifty-five lakh rupees in Srinagar, officials said. In a statement, an EOW Kashmir spokesperson stated, "The Economic Offences Wing, Srinagar of Crime Branch J&K has filed a chargesheet in case FIR No. 10/2026 under Section 420 IPC against Mehraj-Ud-Din Dar S/o Abdul Ahad Dar, a resident of Alamd ...Read More >
A 73-year-old retired superintendent of the central excise department in Mumbai was cheated out of Rs 3.77 lakh after a cyber fraudster, posing as a Mahanagar Gas Limited official, made him install a malicious application on his smartphone, the police said. According to the police, the complainant lives in Mulund (East) with his wife. On March 14, he received WhatsApp messages from an unknown number claiming his gas bill was unpaid and warning that his connection would be disconnected by the ev ...Read More >
New Delhi: Srinivas Louis, the man arrested in Mysuru on Saturday for allegedly sending hundreds of hoax bomb threat emails to several institutions, including courts, in Delhi-NCR and other parts of the country, allegedly used tech tricks like IP spoofing and used a VPN to conceal his identity and location.Using a series of forged documents and following a strict technical discipline, the 47-year-old managed to send Delhi Police on a wild goose chase for weeks before they finally zeroed in on hi ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sexual assault case involving godman and astrologer Ashok Kharat has found that the accused has allegedly exploited more than 150 women. The SIT on Monday visited Khara's office in Nasik and confiscated two laptops and a mobile. From the documents and other data retrieved from the devices, the police has found that the godman sexually exploited more than 150 women on the pretext of improving their lives and resolving their personal and ca ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Mar 11 (PTI) Four people who supplied SIM cards allegedly used in online betting and gaming frauds were arrested here, police said on Wednesday. The Cyber Crime Police arrested the four accused in connection with a case registered after a 36-year-old here lost Rs 1.5 crore in online cricket betting fraud. "They supplied SIM cards in the names of their family members and friends, which were used in online betting and gaming frauds through fake social media advertisements," a release ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Cyberpolice arrested a fraudster, who duped a victim to the tune of ₹32 lakh, from his house in Mumbai. He was linked to a Chinese national, who is the kingpin of crypto fraud.According to cybercrime DCP V. Arvind Babu, Ansari Mohammed Umar Murad alias Umar had cheated several people in online trading. "We received a complaint from a person who fell victim to an investment fraud."The victim said he clicked on the advertisement that purportedly claimed to be of the Aditya Birla Group. ...Read More >
New Delhi: Taking note of an increasingly familiar pattern of gangsters moving across jurisdictions in Delhi and its surroundings, Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to consider enacting a legislation empowering a single agency to pursue organised crime syndicate members in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) states unhindered and produce them before a special court in Delhi, Noida, Faridabad or Gurgaon."Why not a law to cater to the entire National Capital Region? Create exclusive sp ...Read More >
PUNE: A day after being sent to judicial custody, the Pimpri-Chinchwad police on Tuesday arrested prime accused Sheetal Tejwani Suryavanshi in connection with the alleged ₹21 crore stamp duty waiver and land registration fraud. She was produced before the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), which remanded her to eight days' police custody, although the police had sought a 10-day remand. In its remand application, the police told the court that their probe revealed deliberate manipulation of ...Read More >
New Delhi: Assets worth more than Rs 5 crore of some Punjab-based agents have been attached under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to illegally sending Indians to the US through the "dunki" route, the ED said on Monday. The investigation stems from a clutch of FIRs registered by police in Punjab and Haryana in connection with the deportation of 330 Indian nationals to India on military cargo planes by the United States in February. Also Read| Mapping the Dunki route: How Indians ...Read More >
New Delhi: Assets worth more than Rs 5 crore of some Punjab-based agents have been attached under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to illegally sending Indians to the US through the "dunki" route, the ED said on Monday. The investigation stems from a clutch of FIRs registered by police in Punjab and Haryana in connection with the deportation of 330 Indian nationals to India on military cargo planes by the United States in February. Also Read| Mapping the Dunki route: How Indians ...Read More >
According to the probe agency's final report, the group layered the flow of illicit funds through 111 shell companies, routing about Rs 1,000 crore via mule accounts The CBI has filed a chargesheet against 17 people, including four Chinese nationals, and 58 companies for their alleged roles in a transnational cyber fraud network that siphoned off over Rs 1,000 crore through a sprawling web of shell entities and digital scams, officials said on Sunday. After busting the racket in October, inves ...Read More >
Terror handlers in Jammu and Kashmir are now recruiting educated youths with no criminal or separatist background to evade security forces. This new strategy contrasts with past methods favoring those with established terror links. Investigators are probing a "white collar terror module" involving doctors, highlighting a deliberate ploy to use qualified individuals as a cover for illicit activities. Youths with no past criminal record or separatist affiliation are now preferred for recruitment ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) A Delhi court on Friday allowed the ED 14 days' custody of Gurugram builder and director of the Ocean Seven Buildtech Pvt Ltd (OSBPL), Swaraj Singh Yadav, in an alleged money-laundering case. Yadav was produced at the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Shefali Barnala Tandon around 2:25 am on Friday after being arrested in a money-laundering case linked to allotments made under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Union government's flagship scheme. The agency sai ...Read More >
Jaipur: Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Sachin Mittal assumed charge as the new Jaipur Police Commissioner from his predecessor Biju George Joseph at an official ceremony held at the Commissionerate Saturday.Outlining his key thrust areas after taking office, Mittal said addressing cybercrime would be his topmost policing priority. "There has been a sharp rise in cybercrime, and the challenge is that its modus operandi keeps evolving. We will make the best use of available resources ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Goa for allegedly cheating a woman and her family of Rs 1.10 crore by offering her employment in a fake company. He had also falsely claimed to be associated with Unesco India and installed CCTV cameras to monitor them.The woman, a resident of Dwarka, has filed a complaint through the national cybercrime reporting portal, alleging that she was defrauded by Kunal Satish Helkar, a 24-year-old resident of Pune in Maharashtra, with fake job offers, c ...Read More >
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