Hyderabad: Task Force sleuths on Monday arrested three persons, including a former reporter, for involvement in a fake currency note racket. The trio planned to lure innocent people to exchange their genuine currency notes with fake notes in the ratio of 1:3. Police seized fake currency notes in 500-rupee denomination purported to be of the value of Rs 2 lakh. The accused are G Anji Reddy (27), real estate businessman...
12:44 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Two doctors, arrested by the CBI for allegedly manipulating admission process for post-graduate courses at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), were on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court. Additional Sessions Judge Justice R Kiran Nath granted bail to doctors Noopur Bajpai and Sonal on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 each with one surety of the same amount. "Both the accused are granted bail," the judge...
07:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Lille: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under formal investigation on Monday by authorities looking into a suspected prostitution ring in the French city of Lille, his lawyer said, following a day of questioning by judges in a closed courtroom. The investigation on suspicion of complicity in a pimping operation is the latest judicial headache for the Socialist ex-finance minister. The move could lead to a trial but it...
11:18 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Darjeeling: The bravery of a class 12 school girl resulted in the busting of a sex racket and the arrest of four people, including a married couple, in Darjeeling. A Rs 5,000 award was announced for the student whose efforts also resulted in a woman being saved from trafficking. The accused Nabin Thapa " arrested from Siliguri, and Vishal Labar and Samir Thatal " arrested from Darjeeling " have been...
05:58 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has asked for a status report on the probe into the liquor racket in the state to be submitted in three weeks from now. This has come after CNN-IBN reported that there was a nexus between the excise officials, the police and the accused in the racket. Meanwhile, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders met Governor ESL Narasimhan on Monday demanding resignation of all the...
04:03 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Surat: Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to buy a two-month-old infant girl for a sum of Rs 5000 in Surat. The trio, including a woman, tried to purchase the baby from a couple, who work as labourers. They claimed the baby would be handed over to Mumbai NGO that cares for under-priviledged babies. But when the NGO got wind of the scam, they informed the police. A...
09:34 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Lille: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken in for questioning on Tuesday by police investigating an alleged prostitution ring run out of the northern French city of Lille. Strauss-Kahn can be held for up to 48 hours and may then be placed under formal investigation for benefiting from misappropriated company funds. Investigators are trying to find out whether French executives used corporate expense accounts to fund sex parties with...
05:13 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Top Congress leaders and government officials in Andhra Pradesh are being probed by the police in connection with the liquor racket in the state. According to sources, some top leaders of the ruling Congress may be involved in the racket. Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister M Venkata Ramana, four MLAs and several excise officials have already been named in case for receiving bribes. Sources have further said that state Congress...
01:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the baby Falak case, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar. The police managed to arrest the man while he was trying to flee the capital. Meanwhile, a woman named Pratima was also arrested. She was a part of the human trafficking racket that allegedly exploited the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS in a battered and badly...
07:41 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Dismissing allegations of receiving kick backs from liquor syndicates, Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister M Venkata Ramana on Wednesday said he was ready to face any probe to prove his innocence. "I requested chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to order a through probe into these allegations. I am ready to quit my post within seconds if I am proved guilty. I have nothing to do with the person who...
02:10 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Hyderabad: In a shocking revelation that is certain to rock the Andhra Pradesh government and administration, state Excise Minister M Venkata Ramana has been accused of taking a Rs 10 lakh bribe to let the illegal liquor business run. The allegation has come from the man accused of running the illegal business. He has also revealed the names of top excise officials and politicians across party lines to the Anti-Corruption...
01:13 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday arrested two doctors in connection with their alleged role in the recent leaking of the post graduate medical entrance papers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Shahi Balender Bakshi and Vimal Dangi, who appeared in the entrance exam, were arrested by the police. The two doctors are believed to be part of a well-organised racket involved in leaking question papers of...
03:23 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Pune: The Social Security (SS) Cell has arrested a placement agent for running a sex racket. The investigation revealed that the agent was misusing photographs of good-looking women job applicants by showing them to his patrons. Dayanand Hangave (36), a resident of Thergaon, was arrested on Monday evening by officials of the SS Cell after a tip-off. The police suspect Hangave was acting as a middleman between call girls and...
12:43 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: In nationwide raids, NIA has arrested 14 people and smashed an international racket which involved in the smuggling and distribution of fake Indian currency notes being supplied by Pakistani agents through the porous Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders. According to a NIA spokesperson, there was information that few individuals belonging to Malda of West Bengal were engaged in organised smuggling and circulation of high quality and high value fakes...
09:09 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Hyderabad: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday busted a multi-crore fake currency racket being run in Hyderabad and arrested four people in connection with the case. Fake cash worth Rs 27,000 was recovered from the spot. The NIA conducted raids acting on a tip-off from an arrested gang leader in Kolkata. Sources in the agency said that those arrested were operating a nation-wide network and smuggled large sums in...
08:03 AM, Jan 08, 2012
The Opposition's demand for Chidambaram's resignation over 'conflict of interest' cornered the Lokpal-hit UPA further. ...
10:34 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Pune: The social security cell (SSC) of Pune police have arrested 52-year-Marathi actress of yesteryears for her involvement in a prostitution racket run at a row house in Orchid Palace society on NIBM road, Kondhwa. The actress was identified as Padmaja Vishwanath Bapat has been booked under several sections of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, along with two other women aged 28 and 30 who have been arrested in...
12:47 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Mumbai: In one of the biggest raids, police on Wednesday rescued as many as 119 women hailing from different parts of the country and arrested 30 persons, including pimps, from a building housing a number of brothels in South Mumbai. "We had information that illicit activities were going on in Krishna Building located on Pavwala Street on Grant Road. A team comprising 150 officers from the SS Branch and the...
10:43 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Days after CNN-IBN highlighted new routes favoured by fake currency smugglers, a major counterfeit currency racket has been busted in Thiruvananthapuram. The Thiruvananthapuram rural police have busted the racket which has roots across Kerala and other southern states. As many as eight people were arrested from Malda district in West Bengal in connection with the racket. Fake Indian currency amounting to Rs 2.19 lakh rupees were seized by the...
06:34 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: A prostitution racket was busted on Monday by the Delhi Police Crime Branch and six Uzbekistan nationals have been arrested. They were operating from a flat in the posh Greater Kailash-2 locality. The police are looking for the alleged agent who has been identified. This is the third such racket involving foreign nationals in the last two weeks. This came days after a high profile sex racket was...
09:31 AM, Jul 25, 2011
