Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) A SIM box racket was busted with the arrest of one person in connection with over Rs 3 crore cyber fraud case in Kolkata, the police said on Tuesday. The arrest was made for duping a Kolkata couple of over Rs 3 crore by threatening them with digital arrest.The accused, identified as Mohammad Amjad (38), was arrested on Monday after the police conducted a raid in Amherst Street in central Kolkata.Police sources said the name of the accused was learnt after interrogating Abi…
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Mumbai, Feb 12 (IANS) Amid the continuing political controversy over the fatal plane crash involving former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday questioned the credibility of the ongoing investigation and echoed NCP (SP) legislator Rohit Pawar’s allegations of “foul play” and “sabotage”.Addressing a press conference, Raut mounted a sharp attack on both central and state investigative agencies, alleging that they were functioning under p…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the government has cancelled 12 lakh SIM cards for the cyber security, blocked IMEI of 3 lakh mobiles, and arrested 20,853 accused till December 2025. Delivering the keynote address at the National Conference on “Tackling Cyber-Enabled Frauds and Dismantling the Ecosystem”, organised by the CBI and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), HM Shah said that multiple government agencies are working together in a c…
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has seized cryptocurrency equivalent to $12,000 and Rs 13.5 lakh unaccounted cash during searches at six locations in Ahmedabad in connection with an investigation into large-scale illegal call centre operations involved in cheating foreign nationals, mainly citizens of the United States.The ED, Hyderabad Zonal Office, conducted search operations on February 4 under PMLA, 2002.The Central agency said in a press release on Monday that th…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of selectively deleting voters from the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators in the state through the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR).“In Assembly constituencies with Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, names of a maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 voters are deleted. Whereas, in the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators, the nu…
Hyderabad, Jan 30 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint before a Hyderabad court against former CISF Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Roop Singh Meena under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.The ED’s Hyderabad Zonal Office said in a release on Friday that it filed the Prosecution Complaint (PC) in Rangareddy Court, and the court has taken note of the same.The Central agency initiated an investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by …
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has arrested Punit Garg, ex-Director of Reliance Communications (RCOM) Ltd, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the over Rs 40,000 crore bank fraud and money laundering case, an agency statement said on Friday.The probe shows Garg diverted proceeds of crime to offshore entities and used these proceeds of crime for financing the overseas education of his children. He also fraudulently sold an $8.3 million luxury condo…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought sealed-cover status reports from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on their ongoing probes into alleged large-scale bank frauds linked to Reliance Communications Ltd (RCOM), its group companies, and promoter Anil Ambani. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the two Central agencies to apprise the top court of the progress made in the investig…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday slammed the BJP and said a change of government is needed at the Centre. The Diamond Harbour MP’s clear message was that it is not Bengal that needs to change, but the ‘landlords’ of Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted the West Bengal government with a new slogan, ‘Change is needed, we need a BJP government’.Abhishek Banerjee used this statement as a ‘weapon’ to launch a counter-attack.Addressing a…
Gurugram, Jan 18 (IANS) A Special Court (PMLA) in Gurugram has declared Jitender Kumar Garg and Sunil Jindal — promoters and directors in various companies of SRS Group — as fugitive economic offenders in the more than Rs 2,200 crore investment fraud involving funds collected from public and banks, an ED official said on Sunday. The declaration by the Special Court was issued on January 15 under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (FEOA), the ED said in a statement.Jindal, according to E…