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New Delhi: For over a decade, Ashutosh Pandit lived as invisibly as a ghost.After allegedly orchestrating a Rs 17-crore fraud against Indian Overseas Bank in Pune in 2013, the director of House of Laptops, a private company, vanished into the ether.By the time CBI took over the case from the economic offences wing of Mumbai Police, the trail had gone cold. In April 2018, a court officially declared...

MUMBAI: Observing that the prosecution utterly failed to establish that the fake currency notes were in his possession and recovered from him which led to his arrest four years ago, a sessions court on Friday acquitted a 35-year-old man. Acquitting Nimesh Choutaliya, the judge said,"... the prosecution has utterly failed to establish the fact that he was possessing counterfeit currency notesand he had...

KOLKATA: Passenger count in Kolkata Metro crossed the 8 lakh mark on Sasht on Friday.After a gap of 1,474 days, the North-South Metro carried more than 8 lakh passengers. The last time the city lifeline registered 8 lakh ridership was on 7 October 2019.On Friday, the North-South Metro carried 8,00,033 passengers with 289 services.The maximum passenger count of 83,498 was recorded at Dumdum, followed by...

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...

KOLKATA: A city-based businessman living at Tiljala has filed an FIR and sought legal aid from the ministry of home affairs after discovering that his wife of 14 years is a Bangladeshi national with a fraudulent Indian passport. According to his lawyer, he came to know about this after his wife made a case under Section 498A against him.In the complaint, she alleged that she had suffered the miscarriage...