Thane:

Police have arrested a 30-year-old man from Khagaria town in Bihar for cheating a Navi Mumbai resident to the tune of more than Rs 14.88 crore in a share trading cyber fraud, an official said on Friday.

The Navi Mumbai police’s Cyber Cell tracked down and nabbed the accused, identified as Sujitkumar Madankumar Singh, who has connections in Cambodia where he worked at call centres and duped Indian citizens in scams, he said.

Senior inspector Gajanan Kadam of the Cyber Police station said an FIR was registered under relevant provisions of the new criminal code BNS and the IT Act on a complaint of the victim.

According to the complainant, between January and August 2024, he was cheated of Rs 14,88,91,665 in an online share trading scam.

Fraudsters lured the Navi Mumbai resident after assuring him of lucrative returns in investment in share trading, the police said.

Police worked on several leads, including technical and intelligence inputs, and zeroed in on the accused who was from Bihar. A police team rushed to the northern state and arrested him from Khagaria town, Kadam said.

During interrogation in police custody, it was revealed that between June 2023 and January 2024 and again February 2024 to June 2024, Singh was in Cambodia, where he worked in call centres and cheated Indians in cyber frauds, he informed.

He used to purchase SIM cards in India and supply them to his associates in Cambodia. Singh was a member in several Telegram groups and was connected to people from the Southeast Asian nation, said the inspector.

Primary probe revealed he was in contact with other associates in India as well, the official said. 

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Mumbai:

The main accused in the murder case of a 20-year-old girl in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai last week has been arrested, police said today.

Dawood Shaikh was arrested from Karnataka’s Gulbarga district.

The victim, Yashashree Shinde, had been reported missing, and her body was found dumped in the bushes near a railway station in Navi Mumbai’s Uran on Saturday. 

According to officials, the body bore multiple injury marks and stab wounds, indicating that she was murdered very brutally. 

“Our initial investigation suggests the woman was murdered after a love affair went wrong. The girl’s boyfriend had also gone missing with the girl and is yet to be found. He is the primary suspect. A case of murder has been registered and five police teams have been formed to trace him,” an official had said. 

She was a resident of Uran and used to work in Belapur, about 25 km away. 

Earlier, a man, identified as Mohsin from Karnataka, was taken into custody by the Navi Mumbai police. Police got information from phone call details that he was in constant contact with Yashashree.

They are investigating his connection with the main accused.

Mohsin is likely to be brought to Uran today for further interrogation.

Thane:

Three masked men opened fire multiple times and looted jewellery worth more than Rs 11 lakh from a shop in Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar area, a police official said on Monday.

The incident took place at 10 pm on Sunday, the Kharghar police station official said.

“Wearing black clothes and armed with revolvers, the three entered the shop, threatened the staff, assaulted them and looted jewellery worth Rs 11.80 lakh. In three minutes, they shot four to five rounds though no one was injured,” the official said.

A video of the incident, in which the three persons can be seen fleeing from the site of the crime on a motorcycle with people trying to give chase, went viral on social media.

WATCH: Footage of a robbery with a gun point at a jewellery store caught on CCTV.

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— Your Matterz (@YourMatterz) July 29, 2024

A case was registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Arms Act for dacoity and other offences, the official said, adding efforts were on to nab the trio. 

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Navi Mumbai:

Several people are feared trapped after a three-storey building collapsed in Navi Mumbai’s Shahbaz village on Saturday morning.

Navi Mumbai Deputy Fire Officer Purushottam Jadhav said that two people have been rescued and two are likely to be trapped.

“We received a call about a building collapse at 4.50 am. Two people have been rescued. Two people are likely to be trapped and rescue operation is underway to rescue them,” Jadhav told ANI.

Kailas Shinde, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner, said that rescue operations are underway.

“The building collapsed around 5 am. It is a G+3 building. Two people have been rescued and two are likely trapped. The NDRF team is here, rescue operations are underway,” Shinde said.

Further details are awaited.

Earlier on July 20, parts of the balcony of a building named Rubina Manzil collapsed in the Grand Road area of Mumbai, in which one person died and 13 others were injured.

The incident took place at 11 am on July 20, close to the Grant Road Railway Station.

The continuous rainfall in Maharashtra has brought Mumbai to a standstill, disrupting public transport services and causing inconvenience to countless commuters.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued orange alert for Madhya Maharashtra on July 28.

Several regions in Maharashtra are currently facing continuous heavy rainfall, leading to severe waterlogging and extensive traffic snarls in many cities, including Mumbai.

 

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Thane:

A case has been registered against two individuals for allegedly handling and storing a hazardous petroleum product without proper permits in Navi Mumbai’s Uran town, police said on Wednesday.

The FIR was filed on Tuesday at the Uran police station under provisions of the Essential Commodities Act and Petroleum Rules against the accused identified as Anmolsingh Sethi and Kavishi Singh, they said, adding the product’s stock worth nearly Rs 14 lakh was also seized.

The duo had handled and stored process oil 40, a highly inflammable substance, without permission from relevant authorities at a parking area in Uran in April, said the police.

The FIR was registered following the receipt of laboratory reports confirming the hazardous nature of the substance.

The police seized the petroleum product’s stock valued at Rs 13.80 lakh, along with a container truck and other vehicles worth Rs 21.40 lakh, according to the police.

The accused handled the hazardous chemical despite lacking the necessary permits and being aware of the potential risks to human safety due to the highly inflammable nature of the substance, they said. 

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Thane:

A 48-year-old man from Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra allegedly lost Rs 1.36 crore to cyber fraudsters who lured him to invest in share trading, police said on Sunday.

Based on a complaint, a case under section 420 (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act has been registered at the cyber police station against two persons and an organisation named Angel One, an official said.

A probe has been initiated, but no arrests have been made so far, senior inspector Gajanan Kadam said.

According to the police, the fraud occurred between January 20 and March 13.

The accused contacted the complainant, a resident of Jui Nagar, on WhatsApp and provided him with information on share trading and assured him of substantial returns on his investment, he said.

The complainant was asked to transfer Rs 1.36 crore into different bank accounts for investing in the stock market, the official said.

However, when the complainant did not receive any money from the accused, he realised that he had been cheated and approached the police, he said. 

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Thane:

A 29-year-old man from Navi Mumbai has allegedly been cheated of Rs 20.22 lakh after being lured by fraudsters with an online job offer promising lucrative returns, police said on Sunday. The Navi Mumbai cyber police have registered an FIR in this connection against four persons, they said.

The accused contacted the victim, hailing from Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai, between October 5 and 10 through a Telegram ID and WhatsApp and offered him a pre-paid online task promising lucrative returns. They also asked him to make payments in certain accounts, a cyber cell official said quoting the complaint.

The victim did the job and also made payments worth Rs 20,22,444. After completing the task, when he sought a refund of the amount paid and also returns for the work completed by him, the accused gave evasive replies, the police said.

The victim lodged a complaint, based on which the cyber police on Saturday registered a case against four persons under Indian Penal Code Sections 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) as well as provisions of the Information Technology Act, the official said.

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