Tag: Extortion

Bhubaneswar: A bar owner and his employees were brutally thrashed by more than 20 miscreants who allegedly tried to extort money from the bar. The incident occured in the Laxmisagar area of the city on Monday night. According to information, the bar owner Satyaranjan Mohanty, who is also Odisha Bar Association General Secretary, and his […]

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate police on Friday filed another charge sheet against gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalasamanta, charging them with extortion and tender fixing in the twin city. The 230-page charge sheet, submitted before the sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM), Cuttack, also named 28 others including Pramod Patra alias Bhuan, Yug Prakash Kanungo, Sangram Routroy, Nirmal Rout […]

Mumbai: Police in Maharashtra’s Thane have detained Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar, brother of absconding mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, for questioning in an extortion case, official sources said late on Monday. Kaskar was picked up from his south Mumbai residence by a team of Thane Anti-Extortion Cell headed by former ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma. The action […]

Pathankot: A 21-year-old girl was booked for allegedly extorting Rs 8 lakh from a Railway employee here after blackmailing him, police said today. The girl, identified as Anita and hailing from Himachal Pradesh, befriended the railway employee working as Ticket Traveller(TT) some months ago, police said. Later, she threatened the TT of filing false case […]

Daringbadi: The Daringbadi police of Kandhamal district arrested two persons from Simonbadi for indulging in extortion by posing as Maoists here on Tuesday. The two accused have been identified as mastermind Krupakar Mukhi alias Banua of Simonbadi and Alok Digal of Gudumaha village under K Nuagaon police limits of the district. Police said the duo […]

Cuttack: The special squad of Commissionerate Police today nabbed dreaded criminal Sakil from his house in Kesharpur in Cuttack on charges of robbery and extortion. One of Sakil’s associates has also been arrested by police. As per reports, Commissionerate Police’s special squad raided Sakil’s house and arrested him. Police have also seized one four-wheeler and […]

New Delhi: The Government has compulsorily retired almost a dozen senior tax officers on charges ranging from extortion, bribe and sexual harassment. The axe has fallen on about 12 senior officers of the rank of Chief Commissioners, Principal Commissioners and Commissioners of Income Tax (I-T) Department under FR (fundamental rule) 56 (j) of Central Civil […]

Koraput: Three persons were arrested by Salur police from Vijaynagar in the bordering area of Koraput and Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, on charges of extorting money from people by posing as Maoists. According to police sources, one bike, one mobile phone and around Rs 1.5 lakhs were seized from their possession. However, police is yet […]

Bargarh:  Police on Wednesday arrested a gang of four persons in Bargarh for allegedly demanding extortion by posing as journalists.  According to sources, while one of the miscreants has been identified as Tapan Kumar Sahu from Bhaskarasahi in Khurda, the others are Anuj Aggarwal from Noida, Bishal Gambhir from Bulandshahr and Imran Khan from Ghaziabad. […]

New Delhi: India on Thursday dismissed Pakistan’s claims of cracking down on terrorists and terror groups as “hoodwinking” the international community and accused it of maintaining “double standards”, after reports that the US government has confirmed in a London court that fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is in Karachi. “The location of Dawood Ibrahim is […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, the anti-extortion wing of the Commissionerate Police has arrested gangster Raja Acharya on charges of extortion. Raja was reportedly picked up by police and interrogated at the Capital Police Station this morning. This comes a day after the twin city police announced the formation of an anti-extortion task force under […]

Cuttack: Raising serious concern over law and order situation, a woman and her two sons allegedly ransacked a shop close to Nischintakoili police station here over extortion on Saturday. According to sources, a man first barged into the shop and ransacked a computer. Later he went on a rampage and broke other items in the […]

Berhampur : Defying claims of police to present a crime-free Dussehra and take strong action against extortion, miscreants hacked a youth and his sister at Laxmi Nursingha ward under Bada Bazar police limits here in the district on Saturday. As per sources, the duo was attacked by the assailants for refusing to pay extortion money. […]

Cuttack: Sending a clear message to criminals seeking to thrive on extortion, Commissionerate Police on Wednesday night arrested two youths who threatened a builder at gunpoint and demanded Rs 20 lakh. Addressing a presser, Cuttack DCP, Prateek Singh today informed that the two accused – Jitendra Parida and Govinda Sahu have been arrested and two […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as six people including five journalists were arrested by Commissionerate Police on the charges of extorting Rs 1.5 lakh from a private company on Monday. As per reports, the five journalists were reportedly working for a web-channel. All of them were arrested by Khanagiri police. #Bhubaneswar: Six people including five journalists working […]