New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Two brothers, both convicted to life imprisonment in a 1996 Delhi murder case and absconding for nearly a decade, have been arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch in separate operations conducted in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. One of the accused, Firasat Ali, was also wanted in a sensational 2006 Mumbai contract killing case involving the brutal murder and dismemberment of a man. According to the Delhi Police Crime Branch, the arrests were made by a team of the Anti-…
Latest Mumbai Police News & Updates
Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) The Economic Offences Department (EOD) of the Mumbai Police has arrested a man accused of operating an alleged Ponzi scheme that cheated 42 investors of nearly Rs 30.26 crore by promising lucrative returns through a stock market investment platform, officials said on Saturday. According to the investigators, the accused allegedly induced investors to invest through the Investok app by assuring monthly returns ranging from two to five per cent on stock market investments.The…
Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) Actress Priyanka Chahar Chaudhary reacted with a protective ‘nazar ka teeka’ after a tree crashed onto the parked car of actor Kshitij Dholakia, son of television star Urvashi Dholakia.The ‘Naagin 7’ actor took to her social media account to reveal that a massive tree had collapsed onto his parked vehicle, extensively damaging it.Priyanka in the video said that she is putting the ‘nazar ka teeka’ on him to keep him safe especially after he narrowly escaped the accident. She…
Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) The Cyber Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police has busted an organised cyber fraud syndicate allegedly involved in cheating investors of more than Rs 1.07 crore through fake online share trading schemes. As part of the operation, police arrested six individuals accused of orchestrating the fraud by luring victims with bogus investment opportunities, officials said.According to the Cyber Police, the accused allegedly carried out the fraud by operating through WhatsApp groups, f…
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) A 55-year-old man identified as Aslam Isak Shaikh, died on Thursday after falling into an open manhole on Khairani Road in Mumbai’s Sakinaka area, triggering a police case and allegations of serious negligence during ongoing drainage repair work.According to officials from Sakinaka Police Station, repair work on the water drainage system was underway on Khairani Road when the incident occurred.The pedestrian, a resident of Yadav Nagar in Sakinaka, reportedly fell into …
Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) A 60-year-old pedestrian, identified as Aslam Isak Shaikh, accidentally fell into a water drainage channel through an open manhole on Khairani Road in Mumbai’s Sakinaka area on Thursday while repair work on a drainage grill was underway. The Mumbai Fire Brigade was immediately alerted, and after a search operation, his body was recovered. According to a police officer from the Sakinaka Police Station, the body of the man who fell into the drain has been recovered and sent t…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) Amateur radio operators (HAMs) are finding it difficult to reunite a mentally challenged woman from West Bengal, whom they traced to Mumbai, with her family. The woman, mother of a 20-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter, allegedly lost her mental balance after facing torture from her husband, relatives said.Thereafter, she started straying from home.”About six years ago, she was traced to Gujarat and brought back to her matrimonial home in Gangarampur, Uluberia, in the…
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) A horrific and heart-wrenching incident on Tuesday has come to light from the Chembur area of Mumbai, where a massive tree suddenly collapsed onto a school bus. The catastrophic accident has left ten students critically injured, and tragically, one young female student has lost her life. The shocking incident has sparked widespread grief and outrage across the city. Emergency responders and locals launched a massive rescue operation on a war footing to extract the trapped …
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) New details have emerged in the investigation into the alleged plot to poison a large number of people during the Muharram procession in Mumbai. Accused Faiyaz Premji allegedly told the police that his intention was not to kill anyone but to cause distress during the Muharram procession. According to investigators, he had even conducted a trial run before the incident to determine the dosage that could prove fatal. Based on the results, he allegedly prepared one-gram packe…
Mumbai, June 29 (IANS) Investigators probing the alleged mass poisoning attempt during a Muharram procession in Mumbai have uncovered what they describe as a meticulously planned operation involving online purchases, AI-assisted research, and thousands of poison-filled capsules prepared over several days. According to Mumbai police sources, 39-year-old Fayaz Premji, a Pune resident who was arrested on June 27 near Rahmatabad graveyard, allegedly intended to poison thousands of people by distribu…