Extortion

Three people including the Indian mastermind of Tamil Nadu and Cambodia-based "hi-tech extortion gang" have been arrested by the police following complaints by several social media users.

Another case has been registered against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh for allegedly extorting money from the relative of a builder and kidnapping him for ransom, police said on Friday.

Mumbai police have registered an FIR against senior IPS officer Param Bir Singh, five other police personnel and two more persons for allegedly demanding Rs 15 crore from a builder to withdraw cases against him, an official said on Thursday.

Gangster Dawood Ibrahim's aide Yusuf Bachkana was arrested by Mumbai's anti-extortion cell on Tuesday, informed Mumbai Crime Branch.

Police have arrested a 40-year-old woman on charges of extortion and blackmailing people and seized a country-made pistol and 15 live rounds from her possession in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind city, an official said on Sunday.

The NIA has arrested an arms trafficker from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, who was involved in an extortion case, in which Khalistani terrorists are also named, an official said on Sunday.

A software engineer and his two associates have been arrested for allegedly demanding Rs 1 crore from a businessman and threatening to upload his morphed pictures on social media platforms, the police said on Sunday.

Two men and a woman, accused of extortion using dating app Tinder, have been arrested in Delhi. While two of them are software engineers, the third is an MBA graduate.

US President Joe Biden said the ransomware attack centred on Kaseya seems to have inflicted only "minimal damage" on American businesses.

Two men riding a motorcycle allegedly opened fire outside the house of a 48-year-old man in a bid to extort money in southwest Delhi on Tuesday morning, police said.

Hackers behind a mass extortion attack via Kaseya that affected hundreds of companies worldwide have demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom, according to a posting on a dark website.

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has been issued fresh summons by Enforcement Directorate (ED) for appearance on July 5 in a money laundering case investigation being conducted against him and others, officials said on Saturday.

The NIA conducted searches at nine locations in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh on Thursday in connection with a case relating to threatening and extorting money by Khalistani terrorists in Punjab's Moga, an official said.

A 33-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a person in the national capital, police said on Saturday.

Two people have been charged for extorting money from a shopkeeper in Punjab's Phagwara, an official said.

Three people including the Indian mastermind of Tamil Nadu and Cambodia-based "hi-tech extortion gang" have been arrested by the police following complaints by several social media users.

Another case has been registered against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh for allegedly extorting money from the relative of a builder and kidnapping him for ransom, police said on Friday.

Mumbai police have registered an FIR against senior IPS officer Param Bir Singh, five other police personnel and two more persons for allegedly demanding Rs 15 crore from a builder to withdraw cases against him, an official said on Thursday.

Gangster Dawood Ibrahim's aide Yusuf Bachkana was arrested by Mumbai's anti-extortion cell on Tuesday, informed Mumbai Crime Branch.

Police have arrested a 40-year-old woman on charges of extortion and blackmailing people and seized a country-made pistol and 15 live rounds from her possession in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind city, an official said on Sunday.

The NIA has arrested an arms trafficker from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, who was involved in an extortion case, in which Khalistani terrorists are also named, an official said on Sunday.

A software engineer and his two associates have been arrested for allegedly demanding Rs 1 crore from a businessman and threatening to upload his morphed pictures on social media platforms, the police said on Sunday.

Two men and a woman, accused of extortion using dating app Tinder, have been arrested in Delhi. While two of them are software engineers, the third is an MBA graduate.

US President Joe Biden said the ransomware attack centred on Kaseya seems to have inflicted only "minimal damage" on American businesses.

Two men riding a motorcycle allegedly opened fire outside the house of a 48-year-old man in a bid to extort money in southwest Delhi on Tuesday morning, police said.

Hackers behind a mass extortion attack via Kaseya that affected hundreds of companies worldwide have demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom, according to a posting on a dark website.

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has been issued fresh summons by Enforcement Directorate (ED) for appearance on July 5 in a money laundering case investigation being conducted against him and others, officials said on Saturday.

The NIA conducted searches at nine locations in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh on Thursday in connection with a case relating to threatening and extorting money by Khalistani terrorists in Punjab's Moga, an official said.

A 33-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a person in the national capital, police said on Saturday.

Two people have been charged for extorting money from a shopkeeper in Punjab's Phagwara, an official said.