Five held in multi-crore cyber fraud cases across India
Mumbai: The Vakola police arrested five individuals from Rajasthan and Thane on Saturday for their alleged involvement in multiple cyber fraud cases across the country.
The accused are identified Fujeel Ahmed Ansari, 21, Miraj Akram, 24; Mohammad Ansari, 27, from Bhiwandi in Thane district; Rajkaran Tanwar, 19; and Karan Segar, 19, both residents of Jaipur. They were allegedly responsible for converting the funds into cryptocurrency after transferring.
Investigations began after a complaint by a 26-year-old resident of Santacruz (East) who lost ₹3.4 lakh in a task-based fake job scam. During the investigation under Inspector Amar Patil, the leading police team traced back the bank transaction records to fraudulent activity in accounts based in Rajasthan and apprehended Tanwar and Segar.
Patil said that Mohammed Ansari operated around bank accounts not registered in his name, and his interrogation led to the identification and arrest of the remaining two accused. Patil further added that the group is suspected of defrauding people across the country of approximately ₹30 crore.
During the past four months, three cyber fraud cases were registered in Mumbai West, East, and North cyber police stations involving losses of ₹ 7.27 crore, ₹41 lakh, and ₹14 lakh, respectively.
More such cases involving losses of ₹22 lakh and ₹48 lakh were reported in Pune, Bilaspur, and Chhattisgarh. The accused are remanded to police custody till April 28 after appearance in court.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
