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KOLKATA: The city cops have nabbed a 29-year-old youth who had been cheating US residents - especially those at Baltimore - for the past three years. The tip-off had come from the FBI. Accused Danish Ahmed (29), a resident of Beniapukur, was nabbed from near Circus Avenue on Tuesday around 11.30pm."During a search, Rs 4.9 lakh in cash and 13 costly wrist watches of some popular brands, believed to have...

MUMBAI: The city police have busted a baby-selling racket and have rescued two newborn babies who were sold for Rs 5 lakh each in illegal adoption process. Five women have been arrested in the case which includes kingpin of the racket Julia Lawrence Fernandes, a bogus doctor and three touts from Rafiq Nagar in Govandi.What has baffled the police is the fact that Julia, who has at least seven offences of...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police head constable has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the Mahendra Park area. The woman in her complaint alleged that the accused had lured her on the pretext of marriage but later refused to. According to the police, the accused cop has been identified as Balwinder. He is posted in the first Batallion. Police said the accused and the victim started speaking to each...

THANE: A man who allegedly abducted his live-in partner after a dispute was arrested in Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Monday.The 34-year-old accused stopped the victim, who works in a bar, when she was returning home on Sunday but her screams alerted police, he said. "The woman was rescued. The victim's mother and sister have also been booked. Further probe is under...

CHENNAI: Tambaram police arrested a man for cheating two people of 31 lakh under the pretext of getting them a job at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). He was remanded to judicial custody on Saturday.Police identified the accused as Sathyendra Nair, 50. Nair befriended the complainant Rathna Kumar, 30, when he frequently visited Kumar's hotel in West Tambaram and claimed he was a contract worker with the...

KALYAN: Mahatma Phule Police in Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district has arrested six people for carrying out a rally without permission near the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj located near Durgadi Fort in Kalyan and disrupting the traffic.The action was taken on Sunday evening after an FIR was registered on complaint of some Hindu organizations.The police — who filed complaint on basis of...

NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old woman and her four associates have been arrested in connection with the robbery of 17 gold biscuits in the Paschim Vihar area of west Delhi. The accused have been identified as Sonu Suri, a resident of Tagore Garden Extension, Navneet (34), Mohsin Khan (29), Dheeraj (22), and Ankit Porwal (22), all residents of Khayala.The incident occurred on September 22 when a PCR call was...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police arrested Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday morning at his Chandigarh residence in connection with a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, registered against him in Jalalabad of Fazilka district in 2015.Khaira’s arrest has the potential to strain relations between Congressand AAP, both constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc.The...

NEW DELHI: A 49-year-old suspended teacher who allegedly threatened a deputy director in the education department who initiated a departmental inquiry against him was arrested, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as Sunil Kumar, a resident of Najafgarh, they said.On Sunday, the complainant, deputy director in the education department, had reached the Najafgarh police...

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday detained several suspects as part of a multi-state crackdown on the nexus among terrorists, gangsters and drug smugglers connected to Canada-based designated terrorist Arsh Dalla and other dreaded criminals.Raids were carried out in as many as 53 locations across six states — Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, UP, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand — and the UT...