Surat, July 17 (IANS) The Surat City Cyber Crime Cell on Friday arrested five members of an interstate cyber fraud network accused of cheating a resident of Rs 26.20 lakh through a fake share market trading and investment scheme, with investigators finding that the bank account used in the fraud is linked to 149 cyber crime complaints across India and suspicious transactions worth more than Rs 6.53 crore. According to officials, the fraud began after the complainant was added to a WhatsApp group…
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Patna, July 17 (IANS) The Bihar Police have intensified its crackdown on individuals displaying firearms on social media and those involved in attacks on police personnel, officials said on Friday. As part of a statewide campaign, the Police Headquarters has registered 102 FIRs, arrested 130 accused, and seized 40 illegal weapons in cases related to the online display of firearms between May 1 and July 14, 2026.According to the Bihar Police Headquarters, dedicated social media cells are function…
Bengaluru, July 14 (IANS) The Hebbagodi Police in Bengaluru on Tuesday registered an FIR against an unidentified person for allegedly creating a fake Facebook account in the name of M. Narayana, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Electronic City Division, and using it to fraudulently collect money from the officer’s friends and members of the public.The complaint in the case has been filed by DCP Narayana after it came to light that an impersonator had created a fake social media profile posin…
Valsad, July 13 (IANS) A man accused of creating forged e-mail accounts and fake official letterheads of a BJP MP to send recommendation letters to the State Bank of India (SBI) and obtain confirmed railway tickets under the special quota, has been arrested by the Valsad Cyber Crime Police within hours of the complaint being registered, officials said on Monday.The accused, identified as Pratik Dey, 30, originally from West Bengal and currently residing in Isanpur area of Ahmedabad, was arrested…
Jodhpur/New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday granted bail to a man accused of morphing a minor girl’s photograph and uploading it on social media, while imposing stringent conditions, including a three-year ban on the use of online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Thread and Snapchat. A single-judge bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the Jodhpur bench passed the order while allowing the bail plea of the accused in a case registered at Bheem police station in Rajs…
Hyderabad, July 8 (IANS) The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) has cracked a Rs 4.70 crore WhatsApp Boss fraud and arrested two mule account holders and agents. The TGCSB said on Wednesday that it took up the investigation following a complaint that an unknown fraudster impersonated the company’s Managing Director by creating a WhatsApp profile using the Managing Director’s name and photograph and committed the fraud.According to TGCSB Director Shikha Goel, the case was registered under Se…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with police and central security forces, is conducting simultaneous raids at 20 locations across Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Telangana, and West Bengal in connection with a terror conspiracy case, officials said on Wednesday.These raids are being carried out in connection with the NIA’s investigation into a terror-linked radicalisation case registered at the Visakh…
Surat, July 5 (IANS) The Surat Cyber Crime Cell on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of operating a Facebook-based brick sale scam that investigators say is linked to five fraud cases across Gujarat, including one recently registered at the Dumas Police Station in the city. Police identified the accused as Narendrabhai alias Gyanprakash alias Shivam Saraswat, a native of Gangashahar in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, who was living at Salasar Residency in Surat’s Godadara area.He has studi…
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) The Maharashtra government will constitute an expert committee to recommend stringent punitive provisions under existing laws to curb advertisements, hoardings, websites and social media content that incite sexual offences, said Minister Ashish Shelar in the State Assembly on Friday. He was replying to MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar who had tabled a non-government Bill seeking to prohibit advertisements, hoardings, websites and social media content that incite sexual offences.Respo…
Amaravati, July 1 (IANS) Issuing a stern warning to those misusing social media, Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday announced a special cell in his office to receive complaints from public. He said that complaints can be submitted with digital evidence such as screenshots, links, and videos. “We will examine every genuine complaint, forward it to the concerned officials, and ensure that legal action is taken,” the Deputy Chief Minister said in a video.He urged citizen…