Eight booked for cheating bank of Rs.2.5 crore

October 28th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Two people were arrested and at least 5 kg of heroin, worth Rs.25 crore in the international market, was seized from them in this Punjab city, police said Wednesday. District police chief P.K.

October 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An NGO head has been booked for allegedly using forged identity cards of various ministries, police said Sunday. A case was slapped earlier this week against Chaudhary Jamshed Alam who claims to run an NGO named Delhi State Council of International Human Rights Protection Association.

October 5th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The worst floods in over a century have left a trail of destruction estimated at Rs.12,225 crore, the Andhra Pradesh government has said while asking New Delhi for immediate assistance of Rs.6,000 crore. In a memorandum to United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister K.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against the promoter of a private hospital in Ghaziabad for allegedly cheating the State Bank of India of Rs.64.4 million, officials said Thursday. "A case was registered against Dr.

September 29th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Police Tuesday registered a case against a middle-aged couple here for attempting to commit suicide by swallowing some poisonous substance. A police official said Varinder Jain and his wife Shashi Jain, who run a departmental store in Sector 19 and stay in a flat above the shop, were booked for attempting suicide by eating a poisonous substance, probably sulfas tablets.

September 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - An antique idol of Lord Buddha weighing 25 kg and costing Rs.25 crore in the international market has been recovered by police in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district, officials said Thursday Pretending to be customers, personnel of the special operations group (SOG) approached three people in Sultanpur -- who are now under arrest -- and struck a deal with them, said Inspector Dhirendra Shukla of the SOG. The idol, estimated to be about 300 years old, is made of ashta dhatu (eight metals).

September 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Realty firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) Monday denied having evaded taxes but said it would pay tax on additional income of Rs.350 crore following raids by the income-tax department last week. Income-tax department officials had conducted raids on HDIL office premises and promoters' residences Sep 11-12.

August 22nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Police in Andhra Pradesh's temple town of Tirupati Saturday booked a case of theft and cheating against the chief priest of a temple under the control of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) for having mortgaged its jewellery to a private lender to raise money for personal use. The police also arrested a private lender who gave the priest Rs.1 million for pledging the jewellery and recovered seven gold items weighing over one kilogram.

August 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A scam in the withdrawal of old age pension that was unearthed last week in Uttar Pradesh has opened a pandora's box, with the fraud expected to touch Rs.120 million as investigations dig deeper. A fraud of Rs.9.1 million in an old age pension fund scheme of the central government was first detected in Sitapur district Aug 14, but the figure has already touched Rs.18 million within a week.

August 18th, 2009 NASHIK - A city court Tuesday granted police custody till Aug 25 to civic contractor Ramrao T. Patil in a Rs.10-crore cheating case, according to a police official.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly cheating more than 75 credit card holders of more than Rs.4 crore, police said Saturday. "Ravi Kumar Sindhu, a resident of Paharganj area, was arrested from Sarojini Nagar area of south Delhi Wednesday.

June 19th, 2009 RANCHI - Unidentified men Friday looted Rs.33 lakh (Rs.3.3 million) at gun point from a bank in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, police said. According to police, around half a dozen robbers entered UCO Bank near Malvia Road in Hazaribagh town at 11.30 a.m.

June 16th, 2009 AGRA - A day after Rs.2.5 million were looted by three men from a petrol station owner, who was shot in the leg for resisting the robbery, police here said Tuesday that they were clueless about who had committed the crime. Captain (retired) Ram Singh was robbed Monday morning while he was about to enter the Transport Nagar branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) to deposit the money collected from his petrol pump station in Lawyer's Colony.

April 22nd, 2009 Man booked with kidnapping, killing La. coupleNEW ORLEANS — Police say a man turned himself in Tuesday and was booked on charges of kidnapping two teens from an apartment and fatally shooting them in an abandoned house in New Orleans.

January 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - An accountant of Union Bank of India has allegedly robbed his organisation of Rs.870,000 during his stint at two Chandigarh branches of the bank in 2004, a police officer said Wednesday. A case of cheating was registered against the accused, H.K.