Day: June 28, 2024

An 18-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide in her room last night in Ramgarh Pachwara police station area of Rajasthan's Dausa district, police said on Thursday. The girl's mother and elder sister were sleeping outside the room when the incident happened on Wednesday night. When they woke up later in the night, they found her dead, family members said. Assistant Sub-Inspector Hansram Doi said Sunita Meena had returned from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh on June 19 after taking an examination for the Basic School Teaching Certificate (BSTC). Her body was handed over to family members after post-mortem and the matter is being further investigated, he said.   An 18-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide in her room last night in Ramgarh Pachwara police station area of Rajasthan's Dausa district...

A 62-year-old woman from Thane lost nearly Rs 1.5 crore after being lured with "high returns" on investments, an official said on Thursday. Police have named seven persons in the FIR, he said. The resident of the Kavesar area told the police that she was in touch with the accused between April and June. The accused provided the woman with links and added her to a WhatsApp group before goading her to "invest" a total of Rs 1,45,35,6000 saying she would get "high returns", the official said. However, the woman did not get any returns on her money even after following up with the accused. She then approached the police, said the official from Kasarwadavli police station. Police have identified the accused as Ushma Shah, Sunita Kumari, Abhijit Gandhi, Vivek Patel, Ketan Marwadi, Juni V Patel, ...

In a development concerning the alleged Rs 25,000-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam, the Mumbai police and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are at loggerheads over the closure report filed before a court here. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the city police on Thursday opposed the central agency's plea against closing the case, citing that the apex cooperative bank did not suffer any unfair loss due to the purported fraud. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was named as an accused in the original case registered by the EOW. While the police sought to close the case as they found no significant loss to the bank, the ED intervened, expressing concerns that accepting the closure report would impact their ongoing money laundering investigation linked to the scam. The ED ha...

In a development concerning the alleged Rs 25,000-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam, the Mumbai police and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are at loggerheads over the closure report filed before a court here. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the city police on Thursday opposed the central agency's plea against closing the case, citing that the apex cooperative bank did not suffer any unfair loss due to the purported fraud. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was named as an accused in the original case registered by the EOW. While the police sought to close the case as they found no significant loss to the bank, the ED intervened, expressing concerns that accepting the closure report would impact their ongoing money laundering investigation linked to the scam. The ED ha...