100 residents file complaint against conman

September 19th, 2009 Yale suspect's attorney complains about news leaksNEW HAVEN, Conn. — An attorney for the Connecticut man accused of killing a Yale University graduate student says he'll file a complaint over information about the case leaked by anonymous law enforcement officials to the news media.

August 21st, 2009 RAWALPINDI - Pakistani police have booked three men for posing as journalists and using the names of a private TV channel and a newspaper to blackmail residents of this garrison town adjacent to the federal capital Islamabad. Quoting police sources, Online news agency said the cases were registered on the complaint of Kaneez Fatima, a resident of the Mohra Faqiraan Damiyal neighbourhood, who said that a man named Jaffar Shah had been extorting money from drug smugglers, mini cinema runners and other businessmen by posing as the crime reporter of a private TV channel.

July 15th, 2009 Complaint against coach Pitino won't be prosecutedLOUISVILLE, Ky. — A prosecutor is declining to pursue a complaint filed with police by a woman embroiled in an alleged extortion attempt involving Louisville coach Rick Pitino.

July 3rd, 2009 WELLINGTON - A woman who complained to police about an unwanted sexual encounter with a former New Zealand minister has dropped the case, police said Friday. Richard Worth, a lawyer, resigned as minister of internal affairs in the conservative National Party government last month after the Korean businesswoman lodged her complaint.

June 22nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A large number of accountants have been appointed in Gujarat to calculate and maintain the record of cash and jewellery recovered from alleged conman Ashok Jadeja, police said here Monday. "With millions of rupees and jewellery being recovered from the residences of Jadeja, his agents and relatives since his arrest in Ahmedabad, keeping record of the recoveries has become a problem.

June 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Five young men allegedly raped a 19-year-old college student and circulated a video clip of the assault in Maharashtra's Thane district. Three men have been arrested, police said Saturday.

June 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ashok Jadeja, accused of duping large numbers of people of huge sums of money while posing as a godman, says he just ran a scheme of multiplying people's money without forcing them to invest. Jadeja told police Saturday that people "voluntarily" offered him money and he had never asked them to invest in his scheme, a crime branch official said here.

June 10th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Alleged conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of cheating large numbers of people of huge sums of money, had bought land worth Rs.33 crore in various parts of the country, police Wednesday quoted his aide Shaitan Singh as saying. Singh provided this information to the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) Wednesday, a senior crime branch official said.

June 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ashok Jadeja, the alleged conman who has been charged with duping thousands of people across the country, faced more trouble Tuesday when police here started investigating into a deal in which he is suspected to have grabbed panchayat land illegally and built his home and other property on it. A crime branch police officer said the land of about 300 square metres belongs to Makarba village panchayat on the outskirts of Ahmedabad where Jadeja is alleged to have built his house, six shops and a temple in 1996-97.

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Police are investigating if arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman, made investments in the stock market and real estate last year. Jadeja and his wife Neetu were arrested by police May 31 while trying to flee with Rs.1.98 crore (Rs.19.8 million).

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A city court Monday allowed police to interrogate till Thursday Maanbai Rathod, an aunt of conman Ashok Jadeja who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman. Maanbai was first detained for questioning by the Gujarat police after she was picked up from her Naroda home Sunday afternoon.

June 7th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Police Sunday detained for questioning a close relative of arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman, officials said. "We have detained for questioning a close relative of Jadeja, who is suspected to have been the mastermind behind his long cheating record across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat," a senior crime branch official said.

June 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Police has decided to seek custody of conman Ashok Jadeja for duping tribals in the state's Mathura District. An FIR was lodged against Jadeja, his wife and eight others for swindling 22 members of the Bhaatu and Sansi tribes in Mathura District by posing as a godman.

June 5th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ahmedabad police said Friday they could question some Bollywood producers in connection with arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who duped thousands of people by posing as a godman. "We are going through a diary recovered from Jadeja which has a large number of names.

May 31st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A conman who duped people in Rajasthan by claiming he had spiritual powers to triple their money was arrested here Sunday with Rs.1.9 crore (Rs.19 million) in cash, police said Sunday. The Crime Branch arrested Ashok Jadeja from Shyamal Charrasta locality here.