Jaipur: A first information report (FIR) was lodged against two producers of Sanjay Dutt-starrer 'Sher' for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 1.58 crore while shooting in this Rajasthan capital in July, police said. Surendra Kalra, who provided logistics support during the shooting of the movie, alleged that the various cheques provided by the two producers, Dhillan Mehta and Hiren Gandhi for his services were dishonoured, they added. Sub inspector...
10:48 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Gurgaon: Reebok India's sacked MD Subhinder Singh and former COO Vishnu Bhagat were on Wednesday arrested along with three others for their alleged involvement in a Rs 870-crore fraud in the company. Singh, Prem along with the three others - Sanjay Mishra, Prashant Bhatnagar and Surakshit Bhatt - have been arrested and will be produced tomorrow in court where "we will seek their custody", said Assistant Commissioner of Police Bhupinder...
10:49 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Hyderabad: A law grad and a woman affiliate employee of the Income Tax Department allegedly teamed up to steal tax refunds right under the nose of the I-T top brass. Central Crime Station (CCS) sleuths sniffed out the scam before it built up to astronomic proportions and arrested the Bunty and Babli duo, and four associates of theirs, on Wednesday. Damage done by then: Rs 1.15 crore. Tax consultant Shaik...
02:26 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Police investigating the complaint of the swindling of about Rs 22 lakh from the ATM counters of a new generation bank have found that the gang which committed a similar fraud in Kollam was behind the crime. The suspects - Kuldeep Singh, Sunny Gupta, Ramandeep Singh and Sumit Gupta - are now in judicial custody in Kollam district jail. The city police will take them into custody from the...
04:16 PM, Sep 05, 2012
London: Thousands of Indian and other non-EU students are facing an uncertain situation due to the possibility of a major university here losing its licence to admit overseas students as part of a crackdown on student visa abuse. The London Metropolitan University, which has offices in New Delhi and Chennai, is one of the major destinations for Indian students coming to the UK. The university's licence to admit non-EU was...
10:28 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Chennai: In what has come as a shock to those utilising post office schemes through intermediaries, a woman postal agent was arrested in Tiruvottiyur on Sunday for allegedly conning several customers and swindling deposit money. Police sources said Amirthammal, a resident of Tiruvottiyur, had been a postal agent for over two decades. Her work involved getting people into opening deposit accounts at post offices and in some cases offering them...
12:32 PM, Aug 27, 2012
An IBN Cobrapost expose has revealed how a full fledged nexus between corrupt police officials, touts and railway clerks defrauds the system. ...
10:35 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Chennai: A 28-year-old software engineer was arrested on Monday for cheating as many as 18 candidates promising them jobs in a popular software company and cheating them to the tune of Rs 36 lakh. The sleuths of Central Crime Branch arrested the engineer following complaints that he had taken Rs 2 lakh cash from each candidate and had mailed them fake appointment orders. He had allured them with an online...
02:35 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Mumbai: A sales executive working with NBS International Limited, a subsidiary of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, cheated a customer to the tune of Rs 9 lakh, after luring him with the prospects of immediate delivery of a Mahindra XUV 500 Sport Utility vehicle. On Sunday, the DB Marg police arrested the 26-year-old executive Azar Akhtar Ahmed on charges of cheating. According to the police, Abdul Wali Siddiqui (19), a resident...
05:35 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has decided to frame rape charges against a man who married a girl after converting her to Islam without informing his marital status that led to a failed suicide attempt by his new wife. Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval allowed framing of charges against Jamal Nasir for the offence of rape and also abetment to suicide, concealment of former marriage, fraudulent marriage and cohabitation by...
03:51 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New York: There seems to be some bad news for the students planning to study abroad. After Tri-Valley University, another US college is in a visa fraud row. The CEO of Herguan University in California, Jerry Wang, has been arrested for fraud. The college, incidentally, attracts a large number of Indian students. Federal authorities raided the private 'unaccredited' college in Sunnyvale in California, arresting the CEO of the Herguan University,...
08:20 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Mumbai: The LT Marg police arrested a man claiming to be a BJP member for demanding a sum of Rs 5 lakh from a shop owner at Kalbadevi on Sunday. The accused, Sanjay Ramlakhan Gaud (37), was produced at Esplanade court and was remanded in judicial custody. He was released on bail on Monday. According to the LT Marg police, Gaud was demanding the money from one Laxman Dharmani (46),...
02:53 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: Four people, including a private medical practitioner and his son, were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a fraudulent admission into a dental surgery course, officials said on Thursday. The accused persons, who were arrested from Ashok Vihar in north Delhi on Wednesday, were presented before CBI Special Judge Anu Malhotra on Thursday. Two of them were sent to judicial custody while the...
12:46 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Hyderabad: In yet another case of a financial institutions cheating clients, a city-based financial services company shut shop duping thousands of customers to the tune of over Rs 10 crore. About 500 depositors of the company, on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with the city police demanding action against the owner of the company. According to the victims, V Sai Ramesh, who started the City Financial Management Services, Musheerabad, in November...
12:48 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New York: An Indian-American couple has been charged by US federal authorities for running a healthcare fraud scheme in which they claimed over $8 million through false medical bills. Usha Shah and Deepak Shah, both 63, of Michigan were charged in a federal indictment for their participation in a series of separate Medicare fraud schemes involving home health services, US Attorney Barbara McQuade said. According to the indictment, the Shahs...
10:32 AM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to spread awareness among public about fake notes, the Reserve Bank has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes. With a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai', the website - www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in - gives visual presentation with pointers on currency notes of 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 rupee denominations. Consumers have the option to download posters of these currency notes, which...
10:29 AM, Jul 08, 2012
Ranchi: The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has filed five cases of irregularities in appointments of state administrative officials, lecturers and doctors, an official said on Friday. "Total five cases have been lodged in different examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission(JPSC). The FIR has been lodged against former JPSC chairman Dileep Prasad, its members, and 19 administrative officials selected through second JPSC examination in 2006-2007," a CBI source told...
12:38 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Washington: GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials on Monday described as the largest case of healthcare fraud in US history. The agreement, which still needs court approval, would resolve allegations that the British drugmaker broke US laws in the marketing and development of pharmaceuticals. GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil to patients under age 18 when it was...
09:54 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New York: An Indian-American businessman, who was a former fund-raiser and key figure in the senate seat scandal of now jailed Chicago governor Rod Blagojevich, was arrested on Wednesday on charges he paid bribes to physicians for patient referrals and filed false income tax returns. Raghuveer Nayak, 57, was charged in a 19-count indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury last week and unsealed following his arrest, US...
12:46 AM, Jun 21, 2012
