KOLKATA: Two more persons have been arrested by Kolkata Police for running a fake call centre at Chowringhee and duping elderly Australians.Produced in a city court, one of those arrested was granted bail on medical grounds; the other was remanded in police custody till October 13 for further probe.The fresh arrests came after over 40 people were arrested in a recent raid at this illegal call centre...
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KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata, Barrackpore and Barasat have come across multiple cases where women — some of them teachers, lawyers or with respectable jobs — are receiving extortion calls from cyber crooks after they are being informed of receiving puja gifts in parcels sent through courier.Even as a victim tries to guess who sent them the parcel, she receives a second call, with the person claiming...
KOLKATA: The detective department recently raided a fake call centre that was spread over three floors at Chowringhee - in the heart of the city - which targeted senior citizens from Australia. A total of 40 employees, five of them women, have been arrested by the Anti-Rowdy Section. Fifty desktops, six hard disks, 12 mobile phones, three routers, two servers and 50 IP phones have been seized from the...
KOLKATA: Four persons were arrested at SSKM Hospital premises during Kolkata Police’s ongoing raids against medical touts between Sunday evening and Monday. They were allegedly defraudig patients and their families by promising them hospital admission in exchange for money. Three of the arrested persons — Abhishek Mullick, Dev Mullick and Ajay Valmiki — are residents of Bhowanipore. It has been...
KOLKATA: A group of youths from Kolkata who used to scam Canadian nationals from a fake call centre in Lucknow were arrested on Tuesday during simultaneous raids in Lucknow and Kolkata by officers of Kolkata Police’s cyber-crime department acting on Interpol alerts sent from Canada through the National Central Bureau (NCB), India.Kolkata Police had registered a suo motu case based on enquiry into a...
KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from her Kolkata Leather Complex area home on March 25 and whose body was found a week ago. The accused, Tufan Pramanik, is a cycle shop owner and had been hiding in the Dhapa landfill site for the past 60 hours.Pramanik was picked up from Khanaberia Sarderpara on Monday. "He was trying to get a job...
HOWRAH(WEST BENGAL): Fresh incidents of stone-throwing by unidentified people on police personnel, deployed in Howrah's Kazipara area which witnessed violence over the Ram Navami procession on Thursday, triggered tension in the area on Friday afternoon, an officer said.The police had to use batons to disperse a group of people who had gathered there. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were...