In a significant success for the Enforcement Directorate, Dubai Police yesterday arrested Ravi Uppal, one of the two prime accused in the Mahadev Book online betting syndicate.
Police seized Rs 34 lakh in cash and coins, as well as a large quantity of gambling chips and cards. The total value of the seized items is estimated to be over Rs 1 crore.
The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested three people, including a couple accused of selling their children to arrange money for buying drugs and rescued a one-month-old baby girl from Andheri on Friday. A search for the second two-year-old son is going on.
The First Information Report (FIR), filed at Matunga police station in the case of a Rs 15,000 crore fraud involving the Mahadev betting app, was transferred to the Mumbai crime branch on Wednesday.
The Mumbai Crime Branch on Wednesday apprehended a 17-year-old individual from Latur district who is suspected of issuing threats to the Mumbai Police via X handle.
The Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Crime Branch recovered MD drugs and hydroponic weed from Dharavi and Dahisar areas of Mumbai, police said on Saturday.
According to the press release, the accused is 10th passed and resides at Mumbra in Thane district with his wife and child and has no previous criminal record.
The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested five people from different states of the country who were accused of cheating working-class people by promising them jobs abroad, police said on Thursday.
A unit of Mumbai crime branch arrested a 58-year-old man absconding in the case related to the seizure of mephedrone (MD) drugs worth Rs 16 crore from a factory in Maharashtra's Solapur, officials said on Saturday.