From toll booth to tattoo parlor: Delhi Police nail extortion gang linked to Canada-based crime bossDelhi Police dismantled a major extortion ring. The gang operated across the capital. Eight suspects got arrested. They had links to Gurjan...
16 May, 2025, 03.26 PM IST
Kidnapped by 'friends': How a gang used social media to trap victims and extort lakhsIn Jaipur's Pratap Nagar, four gang members were arrested for kidnapping and extortion via a social networking app. They lured a young man,...
21 Mar, 2025, 11.34 AM IST
Bollywood’s dark past is threatening to returnBollywood faced a downturn in 2024, leading to a 30%-40% decline in box office collections. This decline has heightened fears of rising cri...
27 Dec, 2024, 07.57 PM IST
More than 100 Khalistanis arrested this year for targeted killings, violence"These criminals have been engaged in planning and commissioning serious crimes, including contract and revenge killings, in association wi...
30 Sep, 2023, 03.41 PM IST
Once known for Aravalis, Nuh now a hotbed of crime, religious violenceHaryana's Nuh district has gained notoriety in recent years as a hotspot of cybercrime, cattle smuggling, illegal mining and religious viol...
06 Aug, 2023, 03.27 PM IST
Delhi Police and FBI collaborate to bust extortion gang targeting US citizensAccording to a TOI report, the joint operation led to the arrest of four suspects in Delhi, with an additional two members apprehended in t...
19 Jun, 2023, 03.02 PM IST
Khalistan ideologue, associates of criminal gangs among 6 arrested by NIA during nationwide raidsThe NIA investigations have so far shown that many criminals, who were leading gangsters in India, had fled to countries like Pakistan, Can...
23 Feb, 2023, 01.28 PM IST
Kolkata: Three arrested in connection with kidnapping, extortion, fraud job racketThe job aspirants were promised to give jobs in America in lieu of huge money taken for the jobs, police said. The Bidhannagar Commissioner...
25 Sep, 2022, 10.50 PM IST
Chinese loan app racket busted in Gurugram, four heldAccording to the police, the culprits were running call centres in Gurugram and Noida. Four persons have been arrested in connection with t...
10 Sep, 2022, 11.52 PM IST
Extortion by frauds posing as Lawrence Bishnoi gang: Another case crackedFraudsters , not connected to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, pose as its members and try to extort money from businessmen and famers.
04 Sep, 2022, 01.09 PM IST
Bihar police bust fake police station in Banka, seven arrested so farThe gang was conducting their operation under the nose of the Banka police and Banka administration brazenly using police uniforms of sub-i...
23 Aug, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
A genuine fake Thana that almost got awayTake the case of the police station in Banka, Bihar, which last week was found to be not a police station after all. For eight months, a ga...
22 Aug, 2022, 11.11 PM IST
How a 23-year-old Mumbai boy pulled off a Special 26 on AmericansShahgar Thakkar, or Shaggy, made nearly Rs 500 crore in one year by duping Americans till his game was busted by a disgruntled employee.
10 Oct, 2016, 03.33 PM IST
Three fake call centres in Mumbai made Rs 500 crore by duping US citizensThane police busted the racket run by fake call centres, who may have robbed US citizens of Rs 500 crore in the last one year.
06 Oct, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
2015 Rajasthan crime scene: ISIS suspect Mohd Sirajuddin's arrest, gangster Anandpal Singh's escapadePolice said Sirajuddin got involved in activities of ISIS about five months ago and was in touch with people of similar ideology from withi...
02 Jan, 2016, 01.25 PM IST
Cops bust gang led by Chhota Rajan's aide which indulged in extortionThey were arrested under section 387 (extortion) of IPC by the anti-extortion cell last month and are currently in judicial custody, police...
11 Jul, 2015, 10.58 PM IST
- Kidney scam: Chhota Shakeel threatened 'Dr Horror', say cops
Doctor Santosh Raut alias Amit Kumar, the alleged mastermind of the kidney racket, had received extortion calls from gangster Chhota Shakee...
01 Feb, 2008, 06.25 PM IST