Bhatt was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years in jail in a 1996 case relating to planting drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer in Palanpur. He is currently lodged in the Rajkot Central Jail.
The police alleged that Kaskar and his associates had been threatening a prominent builder in Thane, in Dawood's name since 2013 and extorted Rs 30 lakh and four flats from him.
'Hundreds of engineers have complained that they are being threatened by criminals for allotment of contracts and extortion.'
Singh is being probed in an alleged extortion case and three men, allegedly his aides, have been already arrested for extortion.
A 27 year-old man had complained to the police that Suraj Revanna, the eldest son of Holenarasipura MLA H D Revanna, sexually abused him at his farmhouse in Ghannikada on June 16.
Digital house arrest is a tactic where cybercriminals confine victims to their homes in order to scam them. The offenders generate fear by making audio or video calls, frequently posing as law enforcement officers using AI-generated voices or video technology.
An MLA of Bihar's ruling Janta Dal-United has lodged an FIR against his son for allegedly threatening a shopkeeper for extortion. \n
One of the attackers threatened the victims with a pistol, while the others were armed with sticks, the official said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with allegations of bribery against him and carried out searches at various locations in Mumbai on Saturday, officials said.
Accused of rape under the stringent POCSO act, Arjuna award-winning Indian hockey player Varun Kumar has withdrawn from the FIH Pro League in Bhubaneswar to explore his legal options against the allegation, which he described as a "calculated attempt to extort money" from him.
The Mumbai international airport has received an email threatening to blow up its Terminal 2, with the sender demanding one million dollars in Bitcoin to prevent the blast, the police said on Friday.
"Was any of these statements made by the Home Minister in Singh's presence? Otherwise this is nothing but hearsay," the court said.
The case pertains to the issuance of mining leases in alleged violation of e-tendering process. The Allahabad High Court had ordered the probe.
Raees Siddiqui, who owned a bakery at Sakinaka in suburban Andheri, had filed an FIR against Azmi, lawyer S K Dubey and three others alleging that all the five had threatened him to sign a document effecting the transfer of a property to someone else.
While speaking to a TV news channel, car owner Vishwajit Mazumder said he had gone to a hospital in Noida Sector 50 with his sister-in-law and they were asked for some payment in cash along with photocopies of some documents.
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Saturday received a threat email from an unidentified person seeking Rs 200 crore, the communication coming a day after another email threatened that he would be shot dead if he did not pay Rs 20 crore, a Mumbai police official said.
A resident of Bilaspur Khurd village, Kumar said he demanded security from the police but was provided with only one constable.
The victim, Nilesh Dalsaniya, lodged a complaint, based on which Morbi city's 'A' division police on Thursday registered a first information report (FIR) against the woman, identified as Vibhuti Patel aka Raniba, and others including her brother Om Patel and manager Parikshit, said Pratipalsinh Zala, Deputy Superintendent of Police (SC/ST Cell).
The searches were carried out on June 14-15 at 10 premises in Prayagraj, Lucknow and Delhi, the agency said in a statement.
A former model who was one of the accused in a gangster's murder in an alleged fake police encounter in Mumbai was shot dead in a hotel in Gurugram months after she was granted bail, the police said on Wednesday.
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has attached over a dozen properties worth Rs 12.78 crore of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh including bank deposits, an apartment, and agricultural and fishery land in Sandeshkhali and Kolkata in West Bengal.
They said Wankhede did not appear for questioning on Thursday and the Central Bureau of Investigation will decide on the future course of action.
D'Souza's anticipatory bail plea was rejected by special CBI judge S M Menjonge.
The details of FIR made public on Monday show that independent witness K P Gosavi and one Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, were included by the NCB in the Cordelia cruise ship drug raid on October 2, 2021 on the directions of Wankhede.
A court directed the Delhi police to register an FIR against a woman on a man's complaint alleging that she had filed a false case of stalking against him last year to extort money.
Anishka was arrested on Thursday, while her father, also an accused in the case, was still at large. The Malabar Hill police station had registered an FIR on February 20 on Amruta Fadnavis's complaint.
The police produced Aniksha before sessions court judge D D Almale at the end of her previous remand.
The case was registered against the minister and four others earlier this week on the orders of the high court, after the local police allegedly did not act on the complaint filed with them.
Mishra was accused of sharing Pal's location from a Prayagraj court before the latter along with two policemen was shot dead on February 24.
A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the the Zee News Ltd's plea for direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR against Congress Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to influence the hearing before the News Broadcasting Standards Authority in connection with the alleged extortion bid case.
A Delhi court on Monday reserved for January 16 its order on a plea by Zee News Ltd for direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to "influence" the hearing before News Broadcasting Standards Authority in connection with the alleged extortion bid case.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta, which had allowed anticipatory bail to Surat resident Tusharbhai Rajnikantbhai Shah in a cheating case, got irked when it was informed that the businessman was remanded in police custody.
The CBI recently filed an FIR against Wankhede for allegedly seeking Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing the SRK's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case.
The ransom subsequently kept increasing to Rs 200 crore and Rs 400 crore each time a fresh email was sent.
The case of the CBI is that Wankhede and others accused had allegedly demanded Rs 25 crore bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan for not framing his son Aryan Khan following alleged seizure of drugs from a cruise ship.
Justice D K Singh passed the order overturning the acquittal by a special MP-MLA court in 2020.
The high court said the investigation has shown the crime proceeds were used for air travel and purchase of high-end branded gifts for Bollywood celebrities.
This is a first chargesheet against Singh, who is facing multiple cases of extortion.
Wankhede, who has been booked along with four others in the case, is likely appear before the CBI team in Mumbai, they said.
The district police said they were apprehended from Goa in a joint operation by the Haryana Police and the Delhi Police.
