Man Cheated In Pune

A 41-year-old businessman from Pune was allegedly cheated of Rs 55 lakh on the pretext of getting a franchise of a team in USA Cricket League, police said on Tuesday.

Three persons were arrested for allegedly posing as Income Tax officials, duping a Pune resident of Rs 20 lakh and giving him dummy currency used in children's board games, Mumbai police said on Saturday.

The man accused of igniting the fire in a three-storey building here that left seven persons dead and nine injured, had spent more than two months in Pune jail in 2018 in a case of cheating and was out on bail, police said on Sunday.

Pune police have issued a lookout circular against KP Gosavi, one of the independent witnesses of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the cruise ship drugs seizure case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered here, a top official said.

A self-proclaimed godman was arrested on Friday for allegedly cheating a person to the tune of Rs 2.51 lakh by promising to cure his father's thyroid cancer, a Pune rural police official said.

A woman in Pune and a man in West Bengal - both without any history of foreign travel - tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, signalling a worrying trend as COVID-19 cases in India neared 315. People braced for the nationwide "Janata Curfew" on Sunday from 7 am and 9 pm - billed as a day of voluntary social distancing and widely seen as a pi...

A Bengaluru resident, who had recently visited the United States, has been tested positive for coronavirus, which has infected 47 people in India so far. Other fresh cases reported today include one each in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Punjab and two in Pune. A man and woman from Pune tested positive for the virus after returning from Dubai. The...

Police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating several shopkeepers in Maharashtra's Thane, Pune and Nashik by making phone calls in a woman's voice, police said on Friday.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has announced that schools and colleges in Mumbai will remain closed today to ensure that students are not put at risk due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall over the last few days. At least four persons died in rain-related incidents across Mumbai, Pune and Palghar districts through the day while a man went...

Nipah Virus Kerala: The condition of the 23-year-old college student infected with Nipah virus and admitted to a private hospital in Ernakulam has improved, the government said today. The National Institute of Virology, which tested his blood samples, had confirmed the presence of the virus yesterday. Five more people, including two nurses, are dow...

Several towns and cities in Maharashtra remained on edge as after a day of angry protests, Dalit groups called for a shutdown in the state on Wednesday. The police said they have made elaborate arrangements in view of the call, and while schools have made no announcement regarding closure, a school bus owners' association said buses will not ply in...

Alleging that a builder has cheated him of Rs 2 crore in a land deal, a lab technician is hoping cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who was the former brand ambassador for the developer, will help him get justice.

This real-life Bunty and Babli pair played their cards so well, the dealer in foreign currency they cheated never realised their malicious motive till they had relieved him of 15,000 euros (about Rs 9 lakh). Somewhat like the Bollywood movie Bunty aur Babli about a man and a woman who dupe people by taking on different guises, the woman who did a B...

A 41-year-old businessman from Pune was allegedly cheated of Rs 55 lakh on the pretext of getting a franchise of a team in USA Cricket League, police said on Tuesday.

Three persons were arrested for allegedly posing as Income Tax officials, duping a Pune resident of Rs 20 lakh and giving him dummy currency used in children's board games, Mumbai police said on Saturday.

The man accused of igniting the fire in a three-storey building here that left seven persons dead and nine injured, had spent more than two months in Pune jail in 2018 in a case of cheating and was out on bail, police said on Sunday.

Pune police have issued a lookout circular against KP Gosavi, one of the independent witnesses of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the cruise ship drugs seizure case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered here, a top official said.

A self-proclaimed godman was arrested on Friday for allegedly cheating a person to the tune of Rs 2.51 lakh by promising to cure his father's thyroid cancer, a Pune rural police official said.

A woman in Pune and a man in West Bengal - both without any history of foreign travel - tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, signalling a worrying trend as COVID-19 cases in India neared 315. People braced for the nationwide "Janata Curfew" on Sunday from 7 am and 9 pm - billed as a day of voluntary social distancing and widely seen as a pi...

A Bengaluru resident, who had recently visited the United States, has been tested positive for coronavirus, which has infected 47 people in India so far. Other fresh cases reported today include one each in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Punjab and two in Pune. A man and woman from Pune tested positive for the virus after returning from Dubai. The...

Police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating several shopkeepers in Maharashtra's Thane, Pune and Nashik by making phone calls in a woman's voice, police said on Friday.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has announced that schools and colleges in Mumbai will remain closed today to ensure that students are not put at risk due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall over the last few days. At least four persons died in rain-related incidents across Mumbai, Pune and Palghar districts through the day while a man went...

Nipah Virus Kerala: The condition of the 23-year-old college student infected with Nipah virus and admitted to a private hospital in Ernakulam has improved, the government said today. The National Institute of Virology, which tested his blood samples, had confirmed the presence of the virus yesterday. Five more people, including two nurses, are dow...

Several towns and cities in Maharashtra remained on edge as after a day of angry protests, Dalit groups called for a shutdown in the state on Wednesday. The police said they have made elaborate arrangements in view of the call, and while schools have made no announcement regarding closure, a school bus owners' association said buses will not ply in...

Alleging that a builder has cheated him of Rs 2 crore in a land deal, a lab technician is hoping cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who was the former brand ambassador for the developer, will help him get justice.

This real-life Bunty and Babli pair played their cards so well, the dealer in foreign currency they cheated never realised their malicious motive till they had relieved him of 15,000 euros (about Rs 9 lakh). Somewhat like the Bollywood movie Bunty aur Babli about a man and a woman who dupe people by taking on different guises, the woman who did a B...