MUMBAI: The Mumbai anti-extortion cell has arrested eight persons for allegedly threatening to kill a finance broker, a Chembur resident, unless he paid him Rs 5 crore. The broker had been receiving threat calls from the little known Suresh Pujari gang, which would use internet...
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Eight held for threatening to kill broker in Mumbai
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Gangster Satam’s kin targets builder for extortion, held
MUMBAI: A nephew of fugitive gangster Guru Satam who was threatening a city based builder to pay up extortion sum of Rs 50 lakhs was arrested by the city crime branch on Saturday. Narayan Satam alias Pankaj (32), who is a resident of Parel was arrested after he arrived at a particular...
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Eight held for threatening to kill broker
MUMBAI: The Mumbai anti-extortion cell has arrested eight persons for allegedly threatening to kill a finance broker, a Chembur resident, unless he paid him Rs 5 crore. The broker had been receiving threat calls from the little known Suresh Pujari gang, which would use internet calling cards...
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Shakeel brother-in-law held for extortion
MUMBAI: Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit (40), the brother-in-law of gangster Chhota Shakeel, was arrested by the crime branch in a 12-year-old extortion...
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Shakeel aide held over plan to kill ex-journalist
Mumbai: The anti-extortion cell (AEC) of the crime branch has arrested Sayyed Abbas Tublani (47), an old-time conduit of...
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Three suspected Chhota Shakeel men arrested for extortion
Mumbai: Three suspected associates of gangster Chhota Shakeel were on Friday arrested by the anti- extortion cell of Mumbai crime branch for threatening a builder. Faisal...
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Gangsters caught in Mumbai
MUMBAI: If the new modus operandi of the gangsters is to be taken seriously, the underworld is resurfacing again. In a joint operation of Mumbai crime branch and navi Mumbai police, four gangsters of the Chhota Rajan gang were arrested for threatening and forcing a Dahisar based developer for settlement of his project. The accused's mentor, Aftab Alam alias Haji...
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Three gangsters, one a cop's son, get 10-year jail
Pune: A special court here sentenced three gangsters, including the kingpin and son of a policeman, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and imposed Rs 10 lakh penalty on each under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act on Thursday. The convicted accused were involved in the sensational theft of an automated teller machine containing Rs 10.5 lakh from the Kasarwadi branch of the Union Bank of India in October 2009 and an armed assault-cum-robbery at a jewellery shop in Sheetalbaug in Bhosari in March 2010. District government pleader Ujjwala Pawar told TOI: "Convictions under MCOCA are a rarity considering...
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Chhota Rajan coming to India on Friday; all cases handed to CBI
Long-absconding mafia don Rajendra Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan will be brought to India from Indonesia early on Friday and all cases against him shall now be investigated by the CBI, officials said on Thursday. Maharashtra's Additional Chief Secretary K.P. Bakshi told media persons in Mumbai that Rajan, who was arrested by Indonesian police on October 26, was escorted amidst tight security to the Bali airport for a flight to India, which is scheduled to land in New Delhi around 4 a.m. on Friday. In a surprise development, he said all cases pending against the mafia don will be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which will now probe them. "The CBI is the nodal agency and...
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Mohammed Ali chargesheeted
MUMBAI: The city crime branch on Monday filed the charge sheet in the smuggling of red sander case involving diesel don Mohammed Ali Shaikh and others. Police filed the chargesheet just two days after the court acquitted Mohammed Ali in scrap dealer Chand Sayyed Madar case. Deputy commissioner of...
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Bengaluru: Arrested Shakeel men being grilled for ISIS links
BENGALURU: Following information from central intelligence agencies, the Central Crime Branch police are grilling the three associates of gangster Chhota Shakeel, who were arrested for possible links with the ISIS. The CCB police arrested Syed Niyamath, Rahman and Safeer Ahmed from Bismillah Nagar near Mico...
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Hooch toll 97; 2 more held; Rs 1 lakh aid for victims' kin
The toll due to consumption of spurious liquor in Malad area of Mumbai climbed to 97 today with the death of seven more persons in the last 24 hours even as police arrested two bootleggers in connection with the incident. "The death toll has risen to 97 while 46 persons are still undergoing treatment in various hospitals of the city," Mumbai's Deputy...
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Deepshikha Nagpal to file an FIR against ex-husband Keshav Arora
TV and Bollywood actress, Deepshikha Nagpal, who had recently patched up with ex-husband Keshav Arora, seems to be facing problems in her married life again. The actress had filed a police complaint last year too when he threatened to kill her. Things seem to have gotten worse for Deepshikha as she will be filing an FIR against Keshav this time. The 'Madhubala' fame actress is planning to file an FIR against her former husband Keshav Arora for trespassing her house, theft and physically assaulting her at Bangur Nagar police station in Mumbai. When contacted, Deepshikha confirmed the news and said, "I am on my way to the police station. I am going to file an FIR. Keshav (my ex-husband) had...
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KRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen snow off the side of a wooded cul-de-sac thirty minutes from the more slushy detritus of Detroit. It was thirty-four years ago that Kristine had been snatched, exploited like a new toy, then re-gifted to the world as a mere conjecture of what she’d been when new. A mailman had discovered Kristine on his regular route here in Franklin Village, only ten minutes from my boyhood home. He’d banked his mail truck and walked toward swaths of color off the side of the road. There was no blood at the drop...
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Wanted gangster Chhota Rajan arrested in Bali, government says he will be brought to India
The first person Mumbai Police contacted when doubts emerged for a brief while Monday over the arrest of Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan was a trusted informant settled abroad who had acted as their emissary with the fugitive. The reply came in the form of a text message: “He is not in communication since the last two days.” This unofficial confirmation was followed by official word from the CBI that one of India’s most wanted gangsters had indeed been arrested in the Indonesian resort island of Bali on a tip-off from Australian Federal Police, ending a 28-year-old global manhunt — Rajan is expected to be deported to India soon. Read: Who...
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Cops take heart from convictions of Salem & Gawli
MUMBAI: The recent convictions of gangsters Abu Salem and Arun Gawli in separate murder cases has come on the heels of a string of court reversals for the police. In the past, several depo8r8ted gangsters have walked fr8ee as ca8ses fell flat either due to lack of proof, missing do8cuments or "weak" witnesses. On Monday, a special TADA court convicted Salem in the 1995 murder of builder Pradeep Jain. The police have credited this conviction to various factors including a good team of officers, proper collection of technical and documental evidence, taking care that...
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Underworld don Chhota Rajan faces six MCOCA cases
Mumbai: Chhota Rajan, alleged underworld gangster and former aide of Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar has at least six serious criminal cases against him in the city where the Mumbai police has secured a conviction and he is a wanted accused in the cases. Incidentally, the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) has been applied in all...
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Arms dealer & six others arrested, 11 pistols seized
PUNE: The crime branch of the Pune police arrested Ahmednagar-based arms dealer Mateen Shaikh and some members of the Chhota Rajan gang and recovered 11 pistols, 29 rounds and a car together worth over Rs 11.23 lakh from them, making it the highest recovery of weapons so far in 2017. The gang members were Prashant Dhumal from Parvati and Swapnil Kulkarni from Balajinagar and purchasers Pandharinath Sangle, Shahnawaz Shaikh, Mazhar Shaikh and Zafar Khan all from Ahmednagar, Latur and Shirur. Joint commissioner of police...
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Gangsters of Punjab
Dhanaula’s parents, too, were elected councillors last year. (Source: Express photo by Kamleshwar Singh) The April 30 killing of gangster-turned-politician Jaswinder Singh alias Rocky in Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh has shone a light on the network of criminals in Punjab, the impunity with which they function, even from jails, as law enforcers watch helplessly. Police say hundreds of criminals have been arrested in several raids on gangs, but that is not deterring new members from joining them. Young men enter as petty criminals, hoping to realise their dreams of the high life, money, and some nurturing ambitions of gaining political power, as the lines between crime and politics blur. “Just...
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Kiku aka Palak from 'Comedy Nights..' detained for offending Guru Ram Rahim
Looks like trouble doesn't seem to end for Palak aka Kiku Sharda of 'Comedy Nights With Kapil'. The actor was in news recently for hurting religious sentiments after he mimicked Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. The latest update on the news is that the comedian has been detained under Baba's followers' custody. Though no official confirmation has been made, but, according to reports, Kiku will be taken to Haryana for interrogation on this case. Kiku had apologized earlier for mimicking Baba Ram Rahim. The actor also tweeted his apology and said the act wasn't intentional. The act was not planned as a spoof but was just a coincidence. Doston the act on TV was not to hurt anyone's feelings. My...
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