Rs.7.5 cr-worth spurious ghee seized in Madhya PradeshOctober 8th, 2009 BHOPAL - Spurious 'ghee' (clarified butter) worth Rs.7.5 crore was sized from Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh, officials said Thursday. A joint team of the district administration and state's food and civil supplies department raided Manorama Food Products in Maksi industrial area Tuesday evening and seized 177 tonnes of ghee, mustard oil and edible oil.
One held with fake currency in Uttar PradeshOctober 5th, 2009 MEERUT - A 28-year-old man was arrested Monday from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh with fake Indian currency notes of Rs.2 lakh, police said. "Rajveer was arrested from the main Meerut city on a tip-off and fake currency mostly in the denomination of Rs.50 was recovered from him," Superintendent of Police (city) P.P.
Three held with fake postal stamps in Uttar PradeshSeptember 27th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - Three people were arrested from this Uttar Pradesh town with fake postal stamps worth Rs.700,000, police said Sunday. "The fake stamps are mostly of Rs.1 and Rs.5 denominations.
Two killed in cracker factory blast in Uttar PradeshSeptember 13th, 2009 AGRA - At least two people were killed in a blast in a fireworks manufacturing factory in a village near this Uttar Pradesh city Sunday morning, police said. The accident occurred in the Nagla Gola village, 20 km from Agra, around 9 Sunday morning.
Two held with counterfeit currency notesAugust 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men allegedly involved in smuggling of counterfeit currency notes into the country from Nepal were arrested in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Monday. Pramod Singh and Babadeen, both in their mid 20s, have confessed that they collected the consignment of fake currency notes -- supplied from Pakistan -- in Nepal.
Uttar Pradesh accounts for highest fake shootoutsAugust 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than 100 fake shootout cases were registered across the country last year -- and Uttar Pradesh tops the list, the government has admitted in parliament. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken informed parliament Tuesday that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) registered 103 fake shootout cases in 2008 as compared to 93 in 2007 and 122 in 2006.
Police to probe fake jobs scam at Rae Bareli rail coach factoryAugust 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh police has set up a team to inquire into media reports that some youth have been given fake appointment letters to work in a rail coach factory to be set up in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district, a police official said Wednesday. "Though no official complaint has been made in this regard, local media has reported that racketeers were taking bribe from gullible youths assuring them of jobs in the upcoming factory," district police chief D.C.
Gang selling fake gold biscuits busted in BhopalJuly 12th, 2009 BHOPAL - A gang selling fake gold biscuits to unsuspecting customers was busted with the arrest of five people here Sunday, police said. The modus operandi of the gang was simple.
Illicit liquor making unit busted in Uttar Pradesh schoolJuly 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police have busted a spurious liquor manufacturing unit that was operating from a school in a town in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district and recovered 560,000 litres of illicit liquor, officials said Wednesday. "Huge stock of spurious liquor was recovered during the raids conducted late Tuesday at the Siddharth Convent School in Chaksadar town in Ghazipur," police inspector D.P.
Two held over fake currency racketJuly 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man and a woman have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district for alleged involvement in a fake currency racket linked to Pakistan, police said Monday. Acting on a tip off by the Intelligence Bureau, the police raided a hideout in Tajpur village and nabbed the two Sunday night with counterfeit currency totalling over Rs.11 lakh (Rs.1.1 million).
Spurious ghee manufacturing unit raided in AgraJune 14th, 2009 AGRA - A spurious ghee, or clarified butter, manufacturing unit was raided and hundreds of tins of the adulterated product seized in this Uttar Pradesh city, police said Sunday. A police team along with health officers of the Agra Municipal Corporation raided the factory in Jharna nullah locality amid a dense babool forest and found ghee being manufactured from animal fat boiled in huge iron pans.
Illegal arms unit busted in Uttar Pradesh, four arrestedJanuary 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Four people have been arrested and charged with making firearms at an illegal arms manufacturing factory in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, a police officer said Friday. The factory was busted and a dozen country-made pistols were seized Thursday night after a raid was conducted on a tip-off in Bhudanpur locality of Azamgarh, about 270 km from here.
Six held for fake currency racket in Uttar PradeshJanuary 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six people allegedly involved in printing and circulation of fake currency notes were arrested in Uttar Pradesh, the police said Saturday. 'The six were nabbed Friday night from a hideout in Premnagar area in Bareilly (some 250 km from Lucknow),' police inspector Chandra Pal Singh told IANS on phone.
Fake currency rackets busted in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya PradeshJanuary 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW/BHOPAL - Five people have been arrested and fake currency with a face value of over Rs.100,000 seized in separate raids carried out in two towns of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, police said Saturday. Two people, including a woman, were held with counterfeit currency notes amounting to Rs.100,000 in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district Friday night, district police chief Lalji Shukla told IANS over telephone.
Five men arrested for dealing in weapons in Uttar PradeshDecember 26th, 2008 LUCKNOW - Five men were arrested and an inter-state gang dealing in weapons has been busted in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police detained the men in the early hours from the Chinhat locality of Lucknow.
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