
Patna: Self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba on Monday moved the Patna High Court challenging the legality of the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by a court in Araria in Bihar against him. Vindhyachal Prasad Singh, an advocate, filed the application on behalf of the Baba. The court of Araria Chief Judicial Magistrate Satyendra Razak had issued a warrant of arrest on Saturday on the basis of an FIR filed on April 21...

04:17 PM, May 21, 2012

New Delhi: A local court in Bihar on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant against spiritual leader Nirmal Baba in connection with a cheating and forgery case. Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Araria district of Bihar issued the arrest warrant against the Delhi-based spiritual leader. The court's order comes in connection with a forgery case filed in Forbesganj court last month. Nirmal Baba has been in the line of fire after...

04:17 PM, May 19, 2012

New Delhi: Family members and well-wishers of Dana Sangma, the Amity University student who allegedly committed suicide after being caught cheating in a exam, on Friday alleged that Haryana Police was not serious about probing the case and demanded its transfer to the CBI. The victim's elder sister Balsame M Sangma and her cousin Victor D Sangma said only a CBI inquiry can bring out the truth in the case,...

02:19 PM, May 18, 2012

Lucknow: The Lucknow Police have registered an FIR against him self-styled godman Nirmal Baba. Nirmal Baba has been charged with cheating, fraud and impersonation under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. The Police acted following a local court order based on a complaint filed by an 17-year-old. Tanya Thakur complained after watching the baba's TV show Nirmal Darbar in which he offers solutions to people's problems. Sections under which...

01:06 PM, May 12, 2012

Mumbai: A 45-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday by a squad led by the additional police commissioner (western region) for allegedly impersonating a NASA scientist and cheating single women on matrimony sites. According to cops, the accused, identified as Atul Sharma, a resident of Lokhandwala in Andheri (West) used to meet eligible single women through matrimonial websites. He would make wedding plans with them, and lure them into investing huge...

12:54 PM, Apr 25, 2012

CHENNAI: A teenage girl studying in class nine committed self-immolation at Ayanavaram on Thursday.Inspector Kanagaraj told Express that V Kavitha (13), a resident of P E Koil Street in Ayanavaram, was a student at a private school in the same area. On Wednesday, Kavitha appeared for her social science paper. During the course of the exam, the invigilator found that her answer sheet was with a student sitting behind her.Kavitha...

08:53 AM, Apr 20, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court Wednesday directed actor Genelia D'Souza to appear before it personally or through her lawyer in a cheating case related to the purchase of a house from a company for which she was brand ambassador. The court asked for April 25 appearance to explain why her name should not be included in the first information report (FIR), said Balaji, counsel of the petitioner Chatta Tirupathaiah....

07:45 PM, Apr 18, 2012

Pune: Three students pursuing their final year in hotel management from the Metropolitan Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology vandalised three ATM centres in Hadapsar in the wee hours on Monday. The reason they gave the police later was that an ATM had cheated them. Two of them were arrested, while one met with an accident and will be arrested on discharge from hospital. The arrests were made under Sections...

05:59 PM, Apr 17, 2012

New Delhi: A sports teacher was allegedly beaten with by an iron rod by a class ninth student in Noida. Police say the boy was upset after the teacher caught him cheating during an exam and he was failed. Police say the boy and his father even approached the school Principal for leniency, but when refused, the angry student took on the teacher. The student has been absconding after the...

09:01 AM, Apr 11, 2012

Sonepat: In a shocking incident on Friday, two youths allegedly ran their car over a school teacher in the town of Sonepat in Haryana, for not allowing one of their friends, a Class 12 student, to cheat in board examinations. Rakesh was a Hindi teacher at Ramjas School in Sonepat. Vikram and Hari Om, the two accused, had pressed him to let their friend cheat in Class 12 board examinations....

07:01 AM, Apr 09, 2012

Jammu: Taking serious view of a media report alleging use of "unfair means" to benefit son of a Jammu and Kashmir minister, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday summoned him and ordered a probe by the Crime Branch into the case. "The Chief Minister has asked Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed to explain facts in the matter," an official spokesman said tonight. The case allegedly also involves some Board of...

11:50 PM, Jan 30, 2012

CHENNAI: Former Assembly Speaker K Kalimuthus brother lodged a complaint with the Police Commissioner on Friday, alleging that four persons, including DMK chief M K Karunanidhis daughter Selvi and her relative Uma Maheshwari, cheated him of Rs 69 lakh after promising to make him a member of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC). In his complaint, K Nallathambi, a former additional public prosecutor from Madurai, alleged that he approached...

10:38 AM, Jan 14, 2012

New Delhi: Terming the registration of a case of cheating against Kiran Bedi as a "very serious matter", activist Swami Agnivesh on Sunday said the Team Anna member should explain her conduct to clear her name. "It is not that somebody has gone to a police station with a complaint and police registers a case. The court has taken cognisance and has ordered police to register a case. This shows...

12:04 PM, Nov 27, 2011

New York: Actress Demi Moore has confirmed that she is calling off her six-year marriage with actor Ashton Kutcher following reports he cheated on her. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that...

11:51 AM, Nov 18, 2011

Rio De Janeiro: A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house. Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo, 64, in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state. The floor of the roughly 130-square-foot (12-square-meter) cellar was littered...

12:07 PM, Jan 28, 2011