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Hindustan Times
11 hours ago
- Hindustan Times
No CET outside Maharashtra: Minister
MUMBAI: MUMBAI: From next year, students from outside Maharashtra taking the Common Entrance Test (CET) for any course offered by an institution in the state will have to travel to an examination centre in the state. The CET is essential for admission to professional courses such as engineering, pharmacy, law etc. Addressing the media on Thursday, higher and technical education minister, Chandrakant Patil, said this decision was taken to prevent malpractices in the exam. Citing an example, he noted the results of the five-year law entrance exam, announced on Wednesday night. They revealed that four students from a single exam centre in Patna secured 100 percentile. Three of the students had taken the exam in the morning session on April 28 and the fourth in the second session. The examination centre will now be investigated for suspected irregularities. 'The investigation will be handed over to the Crime Investigation Department (CID),' said Patil. The admission process for various courses is implemented through more than 16 entrance exams in coordination with the Admission Regulatory Authority (ARA) and the CET Cell. Every year, more than 1 million students take the CET for admission to various courses, of which more than 25,000 students take the exam at centres outside the state. The Mumbai Crime Branch had taken action in March last year against an admission racket that was extracting money from students by tempting them to raise their percentile in the CET exam conducted for admission to various courses. The police had arrested three people from Delhi. Against this backdrop, the state higher and technical education department has decided to close examination centres outside the state from next year.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Brother of key accused & cousin held in Rs 792 crore Falcon investment scam
Hyderabad: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested two more persons in connection with the Rs 792 crore Falcon investment fraud case, bringing the total number of arrests to nine. The police also seized three luxury cars and property documents from the accused. Sandeep Kumar, one of the arrested, worked as operations head of Capital Protection Force Pvt Ltd, the organisation behind the Falcon Invoice Discounting Application. He is the younger brother of the company's chairman and managing director, Amardeep Kumar. The second accused, Ravi Kumar, is his cousin. The suspects used the Falcon Invoice Discounting Application to create fictitious transactions under the names of well-known multinational companies, enticing investors with the promise of substantial short-term returns. They collected Rs 4,215 crore from 7,056 individuals. About 4,065 of these depositors lost a total of Rs 792 crore. After the case was filed in Feb of this year, Sandeep fled to Dubai, but later re-entered India illegally via Nepal. He initially sought refuge in Bihar before moving to Odisha and finally arriving at his cousin Ravi's residence in Hyderabad. Following his arrest, officials confiscated three luxury cars worth Rs 2.5 crore, including a Mercedes-Benz and a Range Rover, as well as property documentation worth Rs 10 crore. The CID is investigating three Falcon investment cases against the accused, while eight additional cases have been registered in six other states. Investigations revealed that Sandeep had transferred over Rs 8.45 crore to personal accounts. The CID continues to search for the remaining suspects.
Time of India
30-05-2025
- Time of India
2 more accused held from Chennai in inter-state organ trafficking case
1 2 3 Hyderabad: Two more accused in the inter-state human organ trafficking case have been arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID), bringing the total number of arrests to 15. The organ racket was busted earlier this year at Alakananda Hospital in Saroornagar where illegal kidney transplants were done. The latest arrests include two Chennai residents – Shankaran alias Sai Shankaran (56) and N Ramya (36). They were picked up on May 26 from Chennai by a special CID team from Sangareddy. Authorities seized a passport and two mobile phones from their possession. Both were sent to judicial remand on Thursday. "The two supplied kidney transplant donors. They were identified based on the victim's statements and other evidence including hotel stay records of the victims in Hyderabad," a CID official said. According to investigators, the suspects targeted poor people from Tamil Nadu, luring them to Hyderabad with false employment promises. "For each illegal transplant, the accused received approximately Rs 10 lakh, with Rs 4-5 lakh being paid to the donors," said an official statement from CID director general Shikha Goel. The case was initially registered at Saroornagar police station under various sections of BNS and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act before being transferred to the CID on April 24. The investigation has revealed a broader network involving several other suspects from Bengaluru. The CID team led by SP S Srinivas is currently pursuing seven more suspects who remain at large.
Indian Express
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Rajasthan govt employee and former assistant to ex-minister detained on spying charges
The Rajasthan Police's Crime Investigation Department has detained a former assistant to a senior Congress leader on allegations of spying for Pakistan. Sakur Khan Manganiyar, who was arrested in Jaisalmer Wednesday evening, is a government employee and an ex-assistant to a former minister of Congress. According to police sources, Khan travelled to Pakistan several times in the last couple of years and was in touch with some people over there. This comes at a time when security agencies in India have been making a spate of arrests over espionage allegations in the backdrop of the Pahalgam terror attack and the escalating border tensions between India and Pakistan. The attack, which killed 26 people – including a Nepal citizen – led to India conducting strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan on May 7. At least 10 people – including a personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force and a travel influencer, Jyoti Malhotra — have been arrested for spying and leaking sensitive information to Pakistan in the aftermath of the strikes and escalating border tensions. Jaisalmer Superintendent of Police Sudheer Choudhary confirmed Khan's detention for questioning but added that 'further details will be given by the intelligence branch of the state police'. According to sources, Khan, a resident of Manganiyar's Dhani in Baroda village near the Pakistan border, has been under the scanner for some time, with his two bank accounts also under police surveillance. Sources said the former minister was also being probed. Calls to the minister have so far gone unanswered. Sakur will be moved to Jaipur soon for further investigation by security agencies, sources said.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Time of India
7th arrest made in Rs 2.86 crore IDBI loan fraud; Mumbai bank manager held for forged Kisan Credit scheme
Tired of too many ads? go ad free now HYDERABAD: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Telangana police arrested an IDBI bank manager from Mumbai in connection with the Rs 2.8 crore fraud case registered in 2021, bringing the total number of arrests to seven. This latest arrest comes two weeks after five others were taken into custody in the same arrested was identified as Bukya Suresh (37), currently serving as the IDBI bank manager at the Mumbai CBD Belapur office. He had previously worked as an assets officer at the Sattupally branch. Suresh was produced before the local magistrate on Saturday and sent to judicial case pertains to Rs 2.86 crore fraud in which bank officials allegedly sanctioned unauthorised loans to 305 individuals between March 2015 and September 2016. The fraudulent scheme included Rs 2.61 crore disbursed as Kisan Credit Card loans to 279 farmers and Rs 25 lakh in microloans to 26 scam came to light during an internal audit for FY 2018-19, which revealed procedural lapses and suspicious financial transactions. A subsequent investigation by the bank, along with the revenue authorities, confirmed that the pattadar pass books submitted for loan approvals were main accused in the case include Nallagopula Ramesh, the former branch head of Sattupally IDBI, and Chettipogu Suresh, a business correspondent of the bank, who allegedly colluded with associates to process loans using fake documents. The case was registered under relevant sections of the IPC.
