Bengaluru, April 25: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) edged past Royals Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a high octane encounter on Wednesday by 5 wickets at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. CSK needed 16 off the last over. While it was Bravo who pummeled 10 off the first two balls to keep Chennai win the game, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni who brought the win with a six. Couldn't have been a better finish to the game. Dhoni played the captain's knock of unbeaten 34-ball 70. He clobbered 7 sixes and 1 four to knock Virat Kohli's RCB out of the game.
Earlier, batting first Quinton de Kock and Virat Kohli provided a commendable start to the home team. Kohli who was just 18 runs short of completing 2000 IPL runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium scored just 18 runs before perishing to Shardul Thakur. It was the South African pair of de Kock and AB de Villiers who raged a storm in Bengaluru as they kneaded a 103 run partnership off 53 deliveries. The Proteas duo shared 14 maximums and three fours amongst them. While de Kock struck 4 sixes and 1 four en route his 37-ball 53, ABD pummeled his way to 30-ball 68 with 8 sixes and two boundaries. However, Bravo and Tahir pulled things together for the visitors as RCB lost two of the batsman in quick succession. Tahir picked ABD and Corey in the same over. It was Mandeep Singh who stroked a cameo of 17-ball 32 to stretch RCB's start to a good one. However, RCB lost three wickets in the last over. Washington Sundar's 4-ball 13 helped the hosts get over the 200 run mark.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
