Mumbai Mar 21 PTI Two people were arrested for alleged irregularities to the tune of nearly Rs 200 crore in connection with Goods and Services Tax payments an official said on Monday Two firms had cheated on tax by issuing fake invoices and transferring input tax credit ITC as per a probe conducted by the GST department after which its owners were held he said In both cases by issuing fake invoices of Rs 197 crore without supply of goods and transferring ITC of Rs 29 crore fake deduction of Rs 29 crore has been made available to the recipients which was a violation of Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Act the official informed Both the accused have been remanded in judicial custody PTI ZA BNM BNM BNM

Mumbai Feb 17 PTI The cyber police in Mumbai have arrested two persons for allegedly helping cyber fraudsters by opening bank accounts for them using forged documents to deposit money they cheated of victims an official said on Friday Based on technical analysis and specific information the cyber police team apprehended Kurla resident Azar Anis Ansari 21 who allegedly opened bank accounts and nabbed Rajkumar Pandey 37 who allegedly provided fake Aadhaar cards from Antop Hill the official said The arrests were a result of an investigation into a cyber fraud case wherein a woman was cheated by a man she met on a matrimonial site he said The fraudster had befriended the victim on a matrimonial site and had promised to marry her he said After few days the accused told the victim that he was caught at Delhi airport with 2 lakh and needed money for release following which the woman deposited Rs 4493 lakh in the bank accounts provided by the fraudster the official said After receiving the money the accused stopped all communication with her following which she realised that she had been duped he said During the probe the cyber police found that the bank accounts had been opened using fake documents and a gang was involved in the operation he said The gang allegedly opened bank accounts using fake documents and provided them to cyber fraudsters to deposit money they cheated of people the official said The cyber police have recovered 43 Aadhaar cards copies of PAN cards among other documents from the arrested accused he said adding that further probe is underway PTI DC ARU ARU

Mumbai Jan 20 PTI The Mumbai polices crime branch has busted a racket involved in issuing fake degree certificates and marksheets of UGC-affiliated private universities and arrested two persons an official said on Thursday Acting on a tip-off the Unit-11 of crime branch raided Prime Sapphire Education an establishment in the western suburb of Borivali on Wednesday an official said The police had received information about a racket involved in issuing fake certificates and marksheets he said During the raid the police found that the accused had charged money online and in cash to issue fake degrees and marksheets of private universities from Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Jaipur Rajasthan Arunachal Pradesh Manipur Delhi Himachal Pradesh Karnataka Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh he said The action was taken based on a complaint lodged by a 23-year-old student who was cheated of Rs 131 lakh for a degree from Gujarats Sabarmati University and a marksheet and degree certificate of a Madhya Pradesh-based private university the official said The police seized degree certificates and marksheets of more than 200 students from the spot he said adding that a laptop two hard discs cash pen drives and other related documents were also recovered The accused allegedly collected money from students and took them to private universities where they would mark a particular students attendance for the next three years in one day The duo would also write answer sheets of all examinations of these three years on the same day deputy commissioner of police Sangramsingh Nishandar Detection-1 said In some cases students received degree certificates and marksheets without attending college and sitting for exams he said The arrested accused were produced before a court which remanded them to police custody till January 27 the official added PTI DC ARU ARU

Mumbai Jan 20 PTI The Mumbai polices crime branch has arrested two persons involved in issuing bogus degree certificates and marksheets of UGC-affiliated private universities of several states an official said on Thursday Acting on a tip-off the Unit-11 of Mumbai polices crime branch raided Prime Sapphire Education an establishment in the western suburb of Borivali on Wednesday an official said The crime branch had received information about a racket involved in issuing fake certificates and marksheets he said The accused issued fake degree certificates and marksheets of private universities and charged students lakhs of rupees for the same the official said adding that further probe is underway PTI DC ARU ARU

Mumbai Dec 30 PTI Two persons were arrested on Thursday in connection with the murder and robbery at a State Bank of India SBI branch in the western suburb of Dahisar here police said Inspired by a YouTube video the accused Dharmendra Yadav 21 and his cousin Vikas 19 both natives of Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh opened fire and robbed the bank on Wednesday afternoon an official said The accused wore masks and decamped with Rs 25 lakh in cash after firing a round at the bank Sandesh Gomare 25 an outsourced bank employee was killed while another person was injured in the incident it was stated The police nabbed the duo from their residence in Dahisar within hours after the robbery the official said Prime accused Dharmendra had purchased a weapon from Uttar Pradesh seven months ago and brought it to the city last month to commit the robbery he said The brothers had allegedly recced the spot and one of them left behind a slipper at the scene on the basis which the police zeroed in on their location with the help of a sniffer dog the official said The police have recovered cash and the weapon used in the crime he said adding that the duo has been arrested under section 302 murder and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code PTI ZA ARU ARU

Mumbai Nov 23 PTI A Nigerian national and one more person have been held for allegedly cheating a senior citizen of Rs 1285 lakh by promising attractive returns on investment into a business to provide raw material for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing a Mumbai cyber police official said on Tuesday As per the complaint filed by the senior citizen with central region cyber police station on October 27 he had received an email from the accused who posed as London-based manufacturers of a COVID-19 vaccine the official said The duo told the victim they were looking for an agent to source raw material for the vaccine from India He was promised 60 per cent commission The victim was asked to deposit Rs 1285 lakh in various accounts which he did The duo then stopped all contact with the victim who realised he had been duped the official informed The arrested persons have been identified as Nigerian national Patrick Eneugwe Chukulube 34 currently staying in Panvel in Navi Mumbai and Kharghar resident Muzammil Pawaskar 26 he said We have seized nine mobile phones two SIM cards a passport with a fake name from them We believe they have cheated more people using this modus operandi They have also cheated a Chennai-based woman of Rs 20 lakh in this manner We are probing the official said PTI DC BNM BNM BNM