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Batala police busts extortion racket run by USA-based Gurdev Jassal, 2 hel
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Preliminary investigation reveals that on February 4, associates of Jassal fired on the petrol pump of a Kalanaur-based businessman. After continuous threat calls and a demand of Rs 1 crore, the businessman eventually paid Rs 50 lacs on February 11.
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Court extends police custody of man arrested in a bid to extort Rs 5 crore
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
A Delhi Court on Wednesday extended the police custody of a man of Gogi gang arrested in a bid to extort Rs 5 crore from a businessman. It is alleged that accused is a member of international extortion racket.
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CBI initiates preliminary inquiry into allegations of extortion racket in
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has initiated a preliminary inquiry on the allegations that an extortion racket is being run from Tihar and other prisons in Delhi.
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Assam Police apprehend 5 persons linked to major extortion network
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
In a significant achievement, the Indian Army and Assam Police successfully dismantled a major extortion network of NSCN (IM) in Upper Assam on Sunday and apprehended five persons involved in the racket, according to an official press release by the Ministry of Defence.
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ED files prosecution complaint against Atiq Ahmed's wife Shaista in case i
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Directorate of Enforcement (ED) filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) in the case of Atiq Ahmad and others before the Special Court (PMLA), Lucknow, UP, against Shaista Parveen wife of late Atiq Ahmad, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, pertaining to a case involving a m
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"Biggest extortion racket": Rahul blasts Centre over electoral bond scheme
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Adding to the chorus of opposition against the BJP-led Centre after the publication of the details of political funding through electoral bonds on the official portal of the Election Commission (EC), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday labelled the electoral bond scheme as the "biggest
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'Community very shaken': Extortion threats prompt Hindu community leaders
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The event, organised by the Vedic Hindu Cultural Society of British Columbia's comes in the wake of warnings by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of an extortion racket threatening local business owners.
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Punjab police bust extortion racket, 7 arrested
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Punjab Director General of Police, Gaurav Yadav, IPS, posted on X, "In a major breakthrough Batala Police has busted an extortion racket operated by Harry Chattha and has arrested a key associate after a brief encounter police fired back in self-defence, in which the accused was shot in the
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Punjab Police busts extortion racket, 2 operatives of Lawrence Bishnoi gan
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
AIG SSOC SAS Nagar Ashwani Kapur said "They have received intel-based inputs that some members of Lawrence Bishnoi gang are making threatening calls to extort businessmen and influential persons of Punjab and adjoining states, and are also planning to execute target killing in the area."
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8 arrested in connection with inter-state extortion racket in Punjab
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Eight people were arrested in connection with an inter-state extortion racket in Punjab's SAS Nagar district, the officials said on Saturday.
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Assam Rifles busts PLA's extortion racket in Imphal, arrest three cadres
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The official further said that one 9mm Pistol, 2 magazines and 30 rounds of ammunition, 2 Chinese hand grenades and one detonator were recovered from their possession.
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ED chargesheets NSCN-IM treasurer, others for collecting extortion money a
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The agency named Nsarangbe alias Pela alias Pela Nsa Zeme, his wife and others in the money laundering case involving a well-organized extortion racket run by the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah faction or the (NSCN-IM.)
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