8 arrested for operating fake online lottery scheme
Thane, Jan 4 : Eight persons were arrested and electronic equipment was seized in police raids into a sham online lottery scheme being operated using unauthorised software mimicking a government-approved one, Navi Mumbai police said Friday.
Inspector Jagdish Kulkarni of Navi Mumbai police's Crime Branch said agents were running this parallel lottery scheme from places like Nashik, Kolhapur, Latur and Ratnagiri and it was causing losses to the government.
The police operation began following a tip-off that such a lottery scheme was being carried out from a premises in Koparkhairane in Navi Mumbai, he said.
He identified the arrested persons as Anil Pawar, Usman Gani Hussain Tiddikal, Abdulkudus Mohmmad Yakub Shaikh, Sandeep Kute, Ravindra Ghuge, Samir Deshpande, Sanjay Alandkar and Sachin Achrekar.
The official said Tiddikal was the mastermind of the racket and had supplied the unauthorised software to Pawar.
Five computers, six laptops, 37 hard disks, scanners, printers, adaptors and result sheets were seized in the raids, he added.
A case had been registered under the Indian Penal Code, the Maharashtra Lottery Act and the Maharashtra Gambling Act and further probe was underway by Crime Branch teams, he informed.
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Hit by car, delivery agent dies after falling from flyover in Delhi
New Delhi (PTI): A food delivery agent died after falling from the Dabri flyover in southwest Delhi when his scooter was allegedly hit by a car on Thursday morning, police said.
The car driver fled from the spot, police said.
A PCR call was received at 7:35 am informing that a person had fallen from the Dabri flyover on Pankha road and required immediate medical assistance, they said.
A police team rushed to the spot and found a damaged scooter and a car on the flyover. The scooter rider sustained serious injuries and was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital in an ambulance, where doctors declared him dead, they added.
According to police, the victim was identified as Rajkumar, a resident of Jharkhand's Godda district. He was working as a delivery executive with a private food delivery service in Delhi.
The car involved in the accident bears a Delhi registration number and is registered in the name of a Dabri resident, police said.
"The body has been preserved in a mortuary and efforts are underway to apprehend the absconding driver," a senior police officer said.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and an investigation is underway to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the accident, police said.
