The arrested are identified Kiran D, 34, of Talaghattapura and Neeta, 33, of Kasavanahalli near Parappana Agrahara in the city. Neeta’s husband and the prime suspect, Manoj Kumar, 41, is at large, said the police.
“We received a tip-off that Kumar had conspired a large scale online cheating. He was planning to move out of Bengaluru and a search is on for him,” Inspector General of Police (CID) Hemanth Nimbalkar told reporters.
The police seized a debit/credit card printing machine, a machine reader, a writer machine, two card embossing machines, a SIM card imaging machine, a thermal printing role, VISA/ MasterCard holograms, electronic data capture machines and 2,762 debit/credit cards without names and numbers, three phones, two modems, six bank passbooks, 16 cheque books and two cars from the suspects, Nimbalkar said.
The suspects used skimming machines to retrieve confidential data from credit/debit/ATM cards. The skimming machines read and store the confidential data of cards once they are swiped. The gang prepared fake credit/debit/ATM cards using this data. They used the fake cards for online purchases and withdrawal of funds. Sometimes, they hacked accounts of not so reliable websites and stole the data, he added.
Kumar, a BBA graduate, was been involved online cheating for the last 14 years. He was first booked by the Chennai police in 2002. The Maharashtra police arrested him in 2003 and he spent about an year in jail. He did not commit any offence for five years after his marriage in 2005. He resumed online cheating a few years later and the Tamil Nady police booked two cases against him in 2011 and 2012, Nimbalkar said.
He fled to Malaysia in 2011 where he came in contact with hackers especially from Indonesia and Malaysia.
He would receive information of Indian credit cards used in those countries and share that information to hackers there.
This resulted in huge illegal operations and the police found it difficult to arrest the suspects, Nimbalkar said. The Bengaluru police booked a case against Kumar in 2014 when after was involved in a crime in Indiranagar.
The Cyber Crime police of CID arrested him and his wife in December 2015. He came out on bail and continued his operations, the IGP said.
The police have advised public to be cautious while using credit/debit cards. The card swiping should happen in the presence of card holders. Sometimes, cards are taken inside outlets/hotels/shops which may be swiped in skimming machines to retrieve data before swiping them for payment. * Use only secure sites for online transactions.
* Purchase merchandise from a reputable source.
* Reconcile credit card statements to avoid unauthorised charges
* Don’t entertain unsolicited emails seeking card information
* Don’t use cards at places having spy cameras
* Frequently change cards secret numbers
* Immediately contact banks in case of withdrawals or purchases without your notice
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Indore, May 18: The district district court sentenced a 45-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for putting “chastity lock” on his wife's genital area.
Special additional sessions judge A K Singh found Sohan Lal Chouhan guilty under sections 326 (causing grievous hurt) and 498 A (subjecting married woman to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.
Meanwhile, public prosecutor Jyoti Tomar said Chouhan was arrested in July 2012. Out of the 14 witnesses presented before the court, three — including the couple's son and daughter — had turned hostile.
"However, the son admitted Chouhan had not allowed him to meet his mother in the last four years," Tomar said. "Besides, the statements of the doctor who had removed the “lock”, the policeman who had recovered the key from Chouhan and an independent witness helped in nailing Chouhan," he added.
Chouhan's cruelty had come to light after his wife tried to commit suicide by consuming poison. While trying to insert a tube to extract the poison, hospital doctors were stunned to see the genitals “locked”. She then revealed her husband had done this by performing a crude surgery on her four years ago. In a statement, she said that her husband suspected her of having an extramarital affair.
The woman was married to Chouhan when she was 16 years old. The cruelty came into limelight after she consumed pesticide after Chouhan tried to rape their elder daughter.
All the Indian Americans charged are from the Chicago area.
Ankur Roy, Akash Patel, and Dipen Desai, have been charged with six counts of health care fraud each in an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury last Wednesday and unsealed Tuesday.
The three, who owned and operated Selectcare Health Inc, which provided outpatient physical and respiratory therapy in Park Ridge and Skokie, were charged with submitting more than $4 million in false billings to Medicare between March and July 2011.
Roy, 36, of Miami was arrested Tuesday in south Florida, while Patel, 33, of Morton Grove, and Desai, 33, of Chicago, will be ordered to appear for arraignment on a later date in US District Court in Chicago.
According to the indictment, the three allegedly submitted $4,009,094 in false billings for services that were purportedly provided between April 2010 and April 2011, resulting in payments totaling approximately $2,214,424 from Medicare and $320,881 from Blue Cross Blue Shield.
The indictment seeks forfeiture of $2,535,305 in alleged fraud proceeds, including $446,974 in funds withdrawn by cashiers' cheques that were seized by the FBI in July 2012.
In a second case Dr. Nalini Ahluwalia, 58, was charged with one count of violating the anti-kickback law for allegedly receiving $1,000 in exchange for referring two patients to a home health care agency in Aug 2012.
The charges demonstrate that "we will not tolerate medical professionals and providers who abuse our healthcare system," said Gary S. Shapiro, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
The girl was abducted April 15 and kept hostage for two days without food and water in a flat owned by the attacker, said to be in his 30s. He lived on the ground floor of the building in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar, in which the victim's family also stayed, police said.
The girl is now batting for her life in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The girl who was earlier admitted to Swami Dayananda Hospital in East Delhi was shifted to AIMS after public outcry and as the girl's condition turned serious. It is learnt that the girl's throat was cut and her genitals were badly mutilated.
The father of the girl said Friday that the police had offered him Rs.2,000 to keep quiet, and advised him to "thank god that his daughter was alive".
"We went to the police to register an FIR (First Information Report) but they refused. They never tried to find her, and instead drove us away," the father of the victim told reporters here outside the Swami Dayananda Hospital.
The father said that when the family finally found the girl Wednesday, the police told the family to not highlight the issue, and offered them Rs.2000 to keep mum.
"The police told us that we should not highlight the issue in the media and gave us Rs.2,000 as kharcha-pani (for expenses and refreshment)," said the father, adding that the police further told them to "thank god that his daughter was alive".
"The police told us to take our daughter home and pray for her recovery," said one of the girl's relatives.
The girl was raped repeatedly, and rescued when members of her family heard her screams Wednesday evening, police said.
A doctor treating the child said her condition is "serious" and the "next 24-48 hours are critical".
Earlier, a large gathering of protestors gathered outside the hospital and shouted slogans, demanding the resignation of the Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit. They also demanded that the accused be immediately shot dead.
Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), March 19: At least 37 people were killed and another 15 injured, including five foreign nationals, when a bus plunged into a river in Khed area Tuesday on the Mumbai-Goa highway near here, officials said.Among the victims are at least five foreign nationals but authorities could not confirm whether they were killed or injured in the accident.The accident took place around 3.50 a.m. when the Goa-Mumbai bus belonging to Mahakali Travels suddenly lost control on the Bharna bridge over Jagbudi river and crashed into the river, 190 km from Maharashtra capital Mumbai, said B.L. Shinde, an official from the highway department."So far, 37 bodies have been removed from the site and there are some more injured passengers, including five whose condition is serious," Shinde told.The injured, among them the bus driver have been taken to hospitals in Khed and Chiplun and some of the critical victims have been taken to Mumbai.According to preliminary and eye-witness reports, the accident occurred when the ill-fated bus was attempting to overtake another vehicle, though the exact cause has yet to be determined.This is considered among the worst accidents on the treacherous Mumbai-Goa highway. Traffic movement has been completely stalled on the highway after the accident.Home Minister R.R. Patil Monday informed the Maharashtra assembly that 828 people have been killed and 2,411 seriously injured in road accidents on the Mumbai-Goa highway in the past three years.Presently, seven highway police help centres are responsible for manning traffic on this highway and the requirements of increasing the number of such centres would be examined, Patil had said.Following persistent demands by locals and tourists alike, the work on the four-laning of the highway is currently underway.
Kolkata, March 11: A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped in the wee hours of Monday in the city's Jadavpur area. Two of the accused have been arrested, police said."Following a complaint of gang-rape we have arrested two persons. The 14-year-old victim was allegedly raped and at least three to four persons are suspected to be involved," Deputy Commissioner (Jadavpur) Sujay Chanda said."A medical test on the victim to ascertain rape will be conducted soon," Chanda said.According to police, the victim, along with another girl, had gone for a bath to a pond in the locality at around 3 a.m. on the occasion of Maha Shivratri. Two young men started teasing the girls. While her companion fled the spot, the victim was forcibly taken by the youths to a building still under construction and raped.The incident comes just two days after West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman and former Supreme Court judge Asok Kumar Ganguly said West Bengal "was not lagging behind Delhi in the number of atrocities on women, and may have (even) surpassed the the national capital (in such crimes)".
Rio de Janeiro, March 9: Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for ordering the murder of estranged girlfriend Eliza Samudio in 2010.The ex-Flamengo player was found guilty by a jury of five women and two men at a court in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais state Friday. He was also convicted of hiding the model's body and kidnapping the couple's son, reports Xinhua.Despite admitting to knowing that Samudio had been strangled and her remains fed to dogs, Fernandes denied ordering the assassination. Defence lawyers said they would appeal the decision.Fernandes had already been convicted of kidnapping Samudio and forcing her to terminate her pregnancy for which he had served a prison term of four years and six months."I expected more. They made it easy on him," the victim's mother, Eliza Silva Samudio, said.The judge said Fernandes' sentence was reduced due to his confession. The 28-year-old was captain of the Flamengo outfit that won the Brazil Serie A title in 2009 and was reportedly a contender for a berth in Brazil's national team."These crimes received a lot of attention not only because one of the defendants was a famous football player but also because of the plot that they involved and because of the mystery of where the victim's remains were hidden," Judge Marixa Fabiane Lopes Rodrigues said.
The multi-count indictment filed last month against top officials of the Dibon Solutions of Texas -- Atul Nanda, Jiten 'Jay' Nanda, Siva Sugavanam, Vivek Sharma, Rohit Mehra and Mohammad Khan - alleges that the company paid H-1B visa-holding employees only when there was work.
According to the 15-page indictment filed last month and unsealed this month, Nanda brothers - the owners of the company - along with others named in the court conspired to fraud the H-1B system.
The indictment alleges that Dibon hired foreign workers on H-1B visas and instead of paying them, used them to work for a third company and gave them the salary only when they worked for the third company.
The company "sponsored the workers on H-1B visas with the stated purpose of working at Dibon headquarters in Carrollton, Texas, but, in fact, required the workers to provide consulting services to third-party companies located elsewhere," the indictment alleges.
"Contrary to the representations made by the conspirators to the workers (and the government), the conspirators paid the workers only when the conspirators placed the workers at a third-party company and only if the third- party company actually paid Dibon first for the workers' services," it said.
Additionally, in Dibon's visa paperwork, it falsely represented that the foreign workers had full-time positions and were paid an annual salary, as required by regulation to secure the visas, the indictment alleges.
This scheme provided the company with skilled foreign workers who could be used on an "as needed" profitable because it required minimal overhead and Dibon could charge significant hourly rates for a computer consultant's services.
Accordingly, the company charged substantial profit margin when a consultant was assigned to costs when a worker was without billable work.
"This scheme is known as "benching." Benching Department of Labor (DOL) as "workers who are in non-productive' status due to a decision by the employer, such as lack of work."
Dibon actively recruited H-1B workers and "benched" them, the indictment said.
According to the charge-sheet Dibon's "benching" scheme was facilitated by the company as a staffing company.
Dibon employed H-1B work with third-party companies. "The design of the H-1B system worker to perform services for the petitioning company, ie Dibon. In fact, regulations required that a petitioning company inform the government in petitions if the workers were assigned to a different location that the petitioning company's address-which Dibon did not do," it said.
Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy said they were improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which were triggered with timers. He described them as "powerful blasts".
The terrorists were suspected to have used a mixture of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) and ammonium nitrate in the blasts to cause maximum damage.
Unlike in the blasts in Pune, where the terrorists used new bicycles, they planted the bombs on old bicycles in Hyderabad.
Naga Sai, an officer in the bomb disposal squad, said they had not yet reached to any conclusion with regard to the nature of explosives.
He pointed out that unlike in the 2007 blasts, no splinters and balls were found at the blast site.
He said even a small quantity of explosives in a crowded place can cause a large number of casualties.
The officer also said terrorists did not keep distance or time between their targets.
"Both the places are close to each other and the second blast took place immediately after the first one."
Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and forensic experts were gathering clues at the blast scenes well past midnight.
They will be joined by more officials f
eb 21: When Nirbhaya was gang raped and murdered, the Supreme Court said Indian capital was not a safe place for women. Now after Nikhila’s kidnap attempt in the heart of Hyderabad, same doubts are being expressed about the safety of women in the AP capital.
Nikhil More the software professional depended on her own wisdom and courage to escape an apparent rape attempt. No police came to her rescue, though she screamed in terror on public roads. This shows the shallowness of our security system and the dependability of our cops. The traffic policemen who leave the traffic haywire and rush to collect ‘Mamools’ when they find a loaded lorry, are not worried even if women were kidnapped or raped on public roads.
Though police claim that they nabbed the criminals within 24 hours of the crime and boast of their greatness, allowing this offence to happen is itself a clear evidence of the shallowness of the security system. In Nikhil’s case a person who sat by the side of the auto driver turned out to be his accomplice in the crime. It is a common sight in Hyderabad for auto drivers to take their friends in the front seat. To take a second person in the driver’s seat is an offence. Still, police take their regular tips and won’t bother about such violations. It is mostly this second person that turns an accomplice in crimes committed by auto drivers. If Nikhil More had not jumped down from the auto, what would have happened later would be unimaginable. What is the use if the police catch the criminals after a woman was raped or killed?
Nikhil More of Vengurla village in Sindhurga district of Maharashtra is a design engineer working in a software company in Amirpet. She is living with a friend in Narayanaguda in a rented house.
Nikhil went to a beauty parlour in Madhapur after her duty on Tuesday evening. There she boarded a sharing auto to Mytrivanam in Amirpet. There was another person sitting by the driver’s side. All other passengers who boarded the auto got down before the auto reached Mytrivanam, excepting the auto driver’s accomplice sitting by his side.
When Nikhil was alone in the auto, the auto driver diverted the vehicle from the main road. When Nikhil grew suspicious as the driver has been going round for an hour, she called a friend on her mobile and told him what was happening. Auto driver snatched the phone from her, told her friend that they would be coming to Punjagutta in 15 minutes and kept her cell phone with him. Nikhil was shocked when auto driver’s friend caught her tightly, preventing her attempts to jump down. When she screamed, he tightly closed her mouth with his hands. Nikhil some how managed to bring out the pepper spray she was carrying in her bag, escaped by spraying it on the person holding her and jumped down from the auto. She sustained a head injury as she jumped down from a moving vehicle. Navin a software engineer coming that way on his two wheeler behind the auto, rushed her in 108 ambulance to hospital. She is recovering now.
Nowhere in this incident, there was police intervention. Police who boast of catching the criminals within 24 hours, should explain why they could not make Hyderabad a safe place for women.
Police set up CC cameras at important junctions. But they watch these cameras after a crime was committed and catch the criminals as they did in this case. But if the CC cameras were watched by a policeman all the time live, he would see a crime as it happens and would be able to prevent it, instead of allowing it to happen and then nab the criminal. It is better if policemen realize that they should first prevent a crime from happening and not boast about their ability in nabbing the criminals fast, after allowing a crime to happen.
Visakhapatnam,
Feb 17: SIMS MD Surendra Gupta who cheated several gullible investors
and vanished, surrendered before the police amid high drama.
Customers
who were cheated, staged dharna at the Visakhapatnam 4 Town police
station where he was being questioned by the police. They asked the CI
Hussain to hand him over to them so that they could collect their money
from him straight away.
Police advised the customers to
maintain restraint, saying that they had to enquire about Gupta’s assets
and his bank accounts. SIMS Company reportedly collected more than Rs.
500 crore in the name of multi-level business and brought the shutters
down.
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Nellore, Feb 12: In a spine-chilling incident, some youngsters entered a house and murdered a mother and a daughter in this town in broad day light on Tuesday. While they both died on the spot, the condition of the father is serious.There are two versions to the tragedy. While some say that five youngsters entered the house to avenge the rejection of love by Bhargavi, the daughter, who is a student of medicine, police are also probing the angle of robbery.Locals caught and thrashed the attackers and handed them over to the police. Eyewitnesses said there were five assailants and two had escaped. The three caught were identified as Intiaz, Vamsi Krishna and Murali Manoj Kumar. Initial reports said while Vamsi Krishna and Murali Manoj Kumar are students, Intiaz is a carpenter. The three accused are now being questioned by the police. Dinakara Reddy is principal of a pharmacy college in Prakasham district. His wife Sakuntala and daughter Bhargavi, an MBBS student were alone in the house when they were attacked. Reports said the assailants tried to drug the mother and daughter and when they resisted, they stabbed them indiscriminately. When Dinakar Reddy came back at the time of attack, he was also stabbed by the maniacs. Locals came rushing in the mean time and caught them. After thrashing the three, they handed them over to the police. It is learnt that Intiaz was working as a carpenter in the house of Dinakar Reddy. Police said they suspect that this could be an attempt to rob the family. There is also another version that there could be a rejected love angle to the ghastly incident.Locals obstructed the police when they were taking the accused in their jeep. They demanded that the three accused be shot dead on the spot. They shouted “hand them over to us. We will kill them”.
The grotesque incident has occurred in the Sitaphalmandi area in Secunderabad. It was discovered that one 63-year old Sitaramaiah has been sexually assaulting a 13-year old neighbour for the past three months.When the girl complained of severe pain in the stomach, her parents took her to a hospital where doctors disclosed that the girl was sexually assaulted.
When the shocked parents accosted the victim, the girl blurted out the truth. The girl allegedly told the parents that Sitaramaiah has been threatening her to kill if she dared to tell the truth to any one. Hence, she has been keeping quiet and silently suffering the pain.
While the old man disappeared from the house, the police took his family members into custody and questioning them. It is said that the culprit and the girl’s family members are known to each other and were doing catering contracts jointly.
The boss, who allegedly forced her to add him up in her Facebook account, when she joined his company had continued to stay in touch with her through social networking website. The man, who apparently had a beast in him, couldn't control his lust. One fine day (December 10) he reportedly left for Eluru and met this ex-employee. He presumably acted as if he just got a call that his father met with an accident and pleaded her to accompany him till Hyderabad from Eluru.
The tour was successfully planned by the wicked boss and the innocent employee blindly trusted him. On their way back to Hyderabad, the accused spiked her drink with sedatives. After consuming the drink her boss offered her, the woman lost her consciousness. She was then taken to his house in Balanagar area of Hyderabad where he raped her for two days. Two days later, the father of the girl lodged a complaint with Kukatpally police. The cops tracked him, rescued the victim and arrested the accused. Manager was today produced before the court. He was charged with kidnap and rape.
As rightly said by Mahatma Gandhi, Literary education is of no value if it is not able to build up a sound character.
While the incident that took place in Delhi involved illiterates, here the sophisticated rape was done by an educated person who worked as a manager. And it was women who had to pay price for the wicked thoughts of men.
Message to girls: Never blindly believe men just based on their education and position because education and character are two different things. Although end of all knowledge is to build up a sound character, how many of them are looking education from that angle? A million dollar question! Therefore, it's always safe to 'avoid tours and drinks' offered by someone out of your family.
A hardworking Indian immigrant who hit the lottery for a $1 million last summer was apparently lethally poisoned with cyanide only a single day after officials cut the check for his winnings.
Urooj Khan, 46, paid $60 for two lottery tickets at a Chicago 7-11 in June, and, upon scratching the second one, reportedly leaped in the air and repeatedly shouted, 'I hit a million!'
Days later, with his wife and daughter at his side at the same convenience store in West Rogers Park in which he bought the winning ticket, Khan gleefully - and fatefully - accepted an over sized, mock check from lottery officials, The Chicago Tribune reports.
A check for the $425,000 in prize money, however, wasn't actually cut until July 19. The next day, or July 20, Khan reportedly eturned to his home from work in Chicago's Far North Side, ate dinner and adjourned to bed shortly thereafter.
But the quiescence of Khan's day - and life - was brutally interrupted a short time later when the suddenly wealthy entrepreneur woke up screaming in excruciating pain from his bed.
His frantic widow, Shabana Ansari, and daughter rushed to his side. The stricken Khan was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where doctors pronounced him dead, according to The Tribune.
Meanwhile, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, which conducted an autopsy, found no sign of foul play. And so he was laid to rest Rosehill Cemetery, The Tribune reports.
But within a week of Khan's death an apparently suspicious and unidentified relative asked the M.E. to look more closely into Khan's death, Medical Examiner Stephen J. Cina told the paper.
The ME subsequently conducted a comprehensive toxicology examination of Khan's corpse, and startlingly determined the Indian immigrant had died from a lethal amount of the poison cyanide.
The Chicago Police Department is now treating Khan's death as a homicide, and is even considering exhuming his body to learn exactly what happened to the unfortunate immigrant.
Khan emigrated to the U.S. during the 1980s, and through hard work and discipline, reportedly saved sufficiently to open first one - and eventually three Chicago dry cleaning shops.
Pune, Jan 5: Siva Kumar who is charged of murdering Osmania University student Aruna has died in a local hospital.According to information, Siva Kumar who jumped off train while being brought to Hyderabad after arrest in Pune succumbed to injuries, Siva Kumar jumped from speeding train in a bid to escape or end his life.It may be recalled that Aruna was found dead, hanging to a ceiling fan in the house of Siva Kumar. Siva Kumar's parents complained to the police that they were not in town and were shocked at finding the body of the girl on their return. However, police found that Aruna became pregnant and when she insisted on marriage, Sivakumar murdered her with the help of his brother Prabhu and friend Praveen. Siva Kumar was absconding since the murder. Police have taken his brother and friend into custody. During their interrogations, they found that Siva Kumar escaped to Pune. The location of his mobile phone also confirmed that he was at Pune. A special team of the Task Force which was sent to Pune arrested him on Friday morning.
New Delhi: Fresh facts have emerged in the case of a minor girl molested in a bus in New Delhi with police arresting her teenaged brother for allegedly raping her six months ago and molesting her thereafter.
The tragic story of the girl unfolded on Sunday after the 16-year-old girl recorded her statement with police.Her brother Nazakkat Ali (19) was arrested following her complaint.The girl was molested on Saturday night allegedly by a conductor when she had ran away from her house following harassment by her family.
The conductor Ranjit Singh was arrested in connection with the case, which comes close on the heels of the brutal gangrape of a girl in a moving bus in south Delhi.Police went to her house in west Delhi’s Khyala on Sunday to record her statement during which she told investigators about her ordeal.
A senior police official said her father had married thrice and they were living with his third wife. She claimed that there were problems in the family.“She also told us that her brother had raped her six months ago and was molesting her thereafter. We have arrested the boy,” the official said.
On Saturday night, the girl had left her house at around 9:30 pm and when the bus reached Mandi House at around 11pm, police personnel noticed the girl inside the bus alone crying.A case of kidnapping was found registered about her at Khyala police station after her family approached police.
