Aizawl, May 9 (IANS) Seventeen prisoners, including convicts and undertrial prisoners lodged in Mizoram’s Lunglei district jail, were allegedly illegally released using forged court documents and fake release orders, police said on Saturday. Most of the released inmates have since been traced and re-arrested.According to Mizoram Police, the 17 prisoners — including those convicted or facing trial under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Su…
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Srinagar, May 5 (IANS) The J&K Police’s Crime Branch said on Tuesday that it has arrested a government employee involved in a fraud case of forgery and illegal appointments.Officials of the Crime Branch Jammu said that the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of Crime Branch Jammu and Kashmir has arrested a Health Department employee in connection with a long-pending fraud case involving alleged forgery and illegal appointment.The arrest was made in FIR No. 19/2017, registered under Sections…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a purchaser arraigned in a decades-old forged Will and property fraud case from Tamil Nadu, holding that mere purchase of disputed property for valuable consideration, without specific material showing involvement in forgery or conspiracy, cannot justify criminal prosecution. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta set aside a Madras High Court order which had refused to quash proceedings against the …
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has arrested a bank employee for allegedly facilitating a large-scale cyber-fraud racket that cheated multiple victims out of several crores of rupees through fake bank accounts and online scam networks.According to the press release issued on Sunday, the accused, identified as Irshad Malik (35), a resident of Ghaziabad and an employee of RBL Bank, was arrested for his alleged role in “facilitating the opening of a fraudulent bank acco…
Guwahati, April 7 (IANS) Assam Police have registered a case against Congress leader Pawan Khera that includes multiple charges of forgery, defamation and criminal conspiracy linked to remarks targeting the family of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, officials said on Tuesday. The First Information Report (FIR), lodged on April 6 at the Crime Branch Police Station in Guwahati, was filed on the basis of a complaint by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, the Chief Minister’s wife.The complaint accuses Khera…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) A case has been registered at Chembur Police Station against a former municipal corporator for allegedly contesting elections using a fake caste certificate and defrauding the government as well as the public. Based on a complaint, Chembur Police have registered a case against former corporator Ramesh Kamble under IPC Sections 193, 199, 406, 420, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, and 471 for forgery, cheating, and criminal breach of trust. Further investigation is underway.Acc…
Bhopal, Jan 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s Indore Sub-Zonal Office has filed a charge sheet before the Indore Special Court in the money laundering case involving Kishore Wadhwani, Nitesh Wadhwani, Poonam Wadhwani, and M/s Dabang Duniya Publications Private Limited, a press statement said on Tuesday. The charge sheet was lodged on October 30, 2025, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, and the court took cognisance of the offence on January 12, 2026. The …
Pune, Jan 4 (IANS) In a home loan fraud case, a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court in Pune sentenced two former officials of the Central Bank of India and a co-borrower to imprisonments varying from three to two years each, an official said on Sunday. Delivering its order on sentence, the Special Court on Saturday sent Nandkishore Khairnar, the then Central Bank of India Manager from the Pimpri Branch in Pune, and Ravi Bhushan Prasad, the then Assistant Manager of the bank, to r…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) Former Kerala Minister and ruling Left Front legislator Antony Raju has suffered a major legal and political setback after the Nedumangad Judicial First Class Magistrate Court on Saturday sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment in the ‘thondimuthal’ (material evidence) tampering case. Raju is a serving MLA of Janadhipathya Kerala Congress, an LDF member.Earlier in the day, he was found guilty and the sentence was delivered in the evening.However, the court …