Surat, July 16 (IANS) The Surat City Cyber Crime Cell has arrested a 30-year-old man accused of facilitating the movement of money in an alleged online investment fraud in which a complainant was cheated of Rs 46.16 lakh through a fake share market and forex trading scheme.According to officials, the complainant was added to a WhatsApp group where the fraudsters shared purported share market and forex trading tips and claimed that trading through their application would generate high returns.The…
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Ahmedabad, July 1 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Wednesday appointed senior IPS officer Anupam Singh Gahlaut as the new Ahmedabad City Police Commissioner, transferring him from his present post as Surat City Police Commissioner.According to a notification issued by the Home Department, Gahlaut, a 1997-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been appointed to the vacant cadre post of Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad City.The post has been downgraded from an ex-cadr…
Surat, June 19 (IANS) A prompt response by Surat Police to a suicide alert led not only to the rescue of a woman in acute distress but also to the exposure of a cyberblackmail racket and the reconciliation of a strained marriage.According to officials, the Amroli Police Station in Surat received information about a woman in her thirties who was reportedly on the verge of ending her life.Acting immediately, a police team reached her residence, but she was not found there. A subsequent search led …
Gandhinagar, June 18 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Thursday arrested a 45-year-old man who had been absconding for nearly a year in connection with an extortion case registered at Adalaj police station in Gandhinagar district, where the accused allegedly demanded money from a spa owner while claiming to be a journalist. Police identified the accused as Sunil Brahmbhatt, a resident of Hanspura in Naroda of Ahmedabad. He was wanted in a case registered under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyay…
Gandhinagar, June 11 (IANS) Surat police personnel rescued a man from a locked seventh-floor flat after he allegedly consumed a poisonous substance in an attempt to take his own life, officials said on Thursday. The incident occurred on the evening of June 8 when Surat City Police received a distress call from a woman who reported that her husband had allegedly consumed a poisonous substance and appeared to be attempting suicide.She sought immediate assistance to save his life.Following the call…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) ‘Donate Life’ founder Nilesh Mandlewala and haemophilia survivor Dr Suresh Hanagavadi have appealed for organ donation of brain-dead patients and reservation in jobs for those affected with haemophilia, respectively.Both of them will be presented the Padma Shri by President Droupadi Murmu during a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday.The Padma Shri awardees expressed gratitude to the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for the recognition…
Surat/Gandhinagar, May 8 (IANS) The Surat Police on Friday traced and reunited 696 missing persons, including 257 children, with their families in four months as part of ‘Operation Muskaan’, following a large-scale re-investigation of missing cases registered over the past 18 years. The Missing Cell of Surat Crime Branch conducted the operation between January and April after reviewing old case records and reopening long-pending investigations.Police said the initiative focused on cases from acr…
Bengaluru, Jan 30 (IANS) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a major inter-state drug trafficking syndicate and clandestine drug manufacturing lab in Karnataka’s Mysuru, the official statement by the NCB stated on Friday. The statement said that the drugs valued at about Rs 10 crore in the street market, along with cash of Rs 25.6 lakhs, a Toyota Fortuner vehicle and various chemicals weighing more than 500 kilograms have been seized in the case so far. “The Unit located in Hebbal Indu…
Surat, Dec 30 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) youth leader Shravan Joshi and his associate Sampat Chaudhary were arrested by Surat Police on Tuesday, for allegedly extorting money from ration shop owners. Both are currently in police custody and being interrogated for the charges.Shravan Joshi, the general secretary of AAP youth wing, was booked and subsequently arrested after a ration shop owner in Limbayat area of Surat city filed police complaint against him and his aide, accusing them of arm-tw…