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The Hindu
4 days ago
- The Hindu
Ayodhya police bust ₹3.85 crore ‘prasad' scam carried out during Ram Temple consecration
In an astonishing revelation by the Ayodhya police, a cyber scam worth ₹3.85 crore was unearthed recently, where devotees were manipulated for deception in the name of prasad for Ram Lalla. The kingpin of the fraud named Ashish Singh, a resident of Ghaziabad exploited the spiritual fervour among devotees since January 22, 2024, through a fake website offering Ram Temple prasad delivered to their doorsteps. Mr. Singh, launched a fake portal, just weeks before the 2024 consecration ceremony, collecting orders from more than six lakh domestic and international devotees between December 19, 2023, and January 12, 2024, offering free delivery of prasad, commemorative coins, temple replicas and idols of the Ram temple, charging a facilitation fee from Indian and overseas devotees. Accused arrested Through his website, the accused collected payments via multiple digital gateways, amassing ₹10.49 crore in transactions, with ₹3.85 crore of which was for prasad delivery alone, while the rest came from sales of other items. The issue was flagged by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust authorities, who noticed suspicious online activity. A police case has been registered under various sections related to cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of items, IT act etc. The accused was arrested when he returned from a foreign trip of the United States. Refund The Ayodhya Police successfully refunded ₹2.15 crore to 3,72,520 victims, marking the largest such refund in a cyber fraud case in the State. In recent weeks, the state police intensified efforts to nab cyber fraudsters, with seven interstate accused, who were involved in cyber fraud by creating online IDs through Cricbuzz and Fairplay apps and promising to make customers play games and double their money, have also been arrested in Lucknow.
CBS News
7 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Three recent Colorado moose attacks all involved people with their dogs
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is urging caution after three separate moose attacks in three days across the state. The department says it's mostly a coincidence that all of the attacks happened in a stretch of only a few days. The incidents range from Fairplay on Friday, May 30, to Grand Lake on Saturday, May 31, and one in Steamboat Springs on Sunday, June 1, where a woman was actually flow to a hospital because of her injuries. In all three incidents, the people attacked had dogs with them, and in the Fairplay attack the dogs were not on a leash. CPW said without question unleashed dogs are by far the most prevalent instigation for moose attacks in Colorado. "If you have your animal off leash, you're not only potentially adding that danger and injury to your animal, but also to yourself," Rachael Gonzales, a spokesperson for CPW. "So a lot of times your dogs, their instinct, they're going to run back towards their human, which then that turns that animal, in this case, a moose, back towards you as well." In Friday's incident in Park County, two women walking with their dogs were trampled by a moose. They escaped by climbing onto a roof and used a fire extinguisher to haze the moose away. CPW said no serious injuries were reported. Saturday was a more serious attack in Grand County. A cow moose charged a couple and knocked a woman to the ground, who then crawled under a small storage area next to their house, according to CPW. Her partner shot and killed the moose in self defense. A calf was later euthanized by CPW due to concerns about its ability to survive in the wild without its mother, and inability to be rehabilitated. Sunday brought yet another attack in Routt County, where a woman walking leashed dogs was seriously injured by a cow moose. A man who was paddleboarding close to the attack in River Creek Park stopped to help and was also kicked. The park, located in Steamboat Springs, is now closed through Wednesday as CPW assesses the area. "In that case, she had her dogs on a leash," Gonzales said. "Unfortunately, she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time." The best advice? Keep dogs on a leash and give moose plenty of space. Gonzales said you can watch for a few signs a moose is getting irritated, and more likely to charge. "Things like licking its lips, its ears are pinned back ... the little heckles and hairs on its back are going to be sticking up. It may be pacing back and forth," Gonzales explained. "Keep an eye on those signs, because if you start to see that, that's your signal that that moose is uncomfortable for whatever reason."
France 24
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- France 24
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Time of India
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Laundering via betting app: Bail for 2; ‘role likely limited to software devpt, IT support'
Mumbai: Observing that prima facie, there are reasonable grounds to believe that they are not guilty and that their role was limited to software development and IT support for the betting-gaming Fairplay app , a special PMLA court on Tuesday granted bail to two brothers arrested in Feb in the Rs 4,500-crore money laundering case pertaining to the app. It said gaming and betting are not scheduled offences under PMLA. The judge said there was no complaint that the two, Chirag Shah (36) and Chintan Shah (34), cheated anyone. "As such, the amount generated by betting and gaming only cannot be taken as proceeds of crime... The amount credited to the accounts of the company of the accused are legitimate dues received... for the services provided by them," said special judge A C Daga. The judge rejected the argument that IT professionals should know the clients' source of funds, saying such a requirement would bring commercial transactions to a standstill as there is no mechanism for this. "There is nothing on record to show the accused were part of cheating. If [they knew] that Fairplay and its directors cheated the public at large and still continued to contribute and accept the amount, then it could have been said they assisted in the concealment and integration of the proceeds of crime, but that is not [ED's] case," the judge said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Switch to UnionBank Rewards Card UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo The ED recently filed a chargesheet against 11 accused, including the Shahs, key player Krish Shah who is absconding, Siddhant Iyer, and Fairplay group, along with associate companies. Fairplay has no legal presence in India, and no entity registered to carry out such business activities in India. It has obtained neither a GST number nor a PAN card in this regard. ED said the platform was engaged in unauthorised broadcasting, which has been settled, but that does not mean the crime never occurred and facilitated illegal betting operations, including those related to IPL and the 2024 LS polls. Senior counsel Pranav Badeka and advocate Gaurav Parkar, who represented the Shahs, said their company, Wohlig Transformation, only provided software development and IT support "at arm's length", received Rs 2.4 crore for it, and paid tax on it. The judge found the brothers' statements given in custody and their WhatsApp chats to be insufficient to establish a direct involvement in cheating or their knowledge of the proceeds of crime.
Indian Express
20-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
‘How can tech developers know payment fund source?': Court grants bail to techies in Fairplay betting app case
A special court on Tuesday granted bail to tech developers Chirag Shah and Chintan Shah — who were arrested in the Fairplay online betting app case — while noting whether an IT professional providing services for software development was required to know the source of funds of a person who has directed them to develop an application. Chirag Shah and Chintan Shah were arrested for providing software and technical infrastructure for the app. The court also observed that all business transactions would come to a standstill as there was no mechanism to clarify the source of the income from which the person giving orders and obtaining services is paying the amount. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had last month filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against Fairplay Sport and two of its companies, its founder, Krish Shah, and others including brothers Chirag and Chintan, who formed Wohlig Transformation Pvt Ltd for software services to the app. The court said that the role of the two brothers was limited to the extent of developing software and providing IT support and they had received legitimate dues for their services. 'IT professional who is providing services regarding software development… whether is required to know the source of funds of the persons (who) have directed them to develop the app. In case, this question is answered in affirmative, then in the commercial world, clearly all the business transactions will come to standstill as there is no mechanism to clarify from which source the person who is giving orders and obtaining services is paying the amount,' special judge A C Daga said. The ED had alleged that Fairplay lured individuals into betting schemes including on the Indian Premier League and the Lok Sabha elections 2024, promising them returns and wins. However, the platform deliberately manipulated odds and routed the money through a complex web of shell companies to conceal the origins of the funds for their personal gain. The Shah brothers sought bail stating that their company provided services to Fairplay and received Rs 2.4 crore for it, on which they duly paid tax and had therefore no connection with the allegations of money laundering. The court said that the transaction between Fairplay and the Shah brothers' company are not fake as they are seen to be legitimate from bank to bank. It said that the brothers played a significant role in development and technological operations of Fairplay's platform, including monitoring its website traffic and user engagement. When the ED had claimed that they were aware of the cheating, the court said prima facie evidence showed they were aware Fairplay was allegedly indulging in online betting and that this was not a scheduled offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The court also said that while the main FIRs probed initially were quashed by the Bombay High Court in February, others filed later did not name the Shah brothers as accused. Other accused persons, including Krish Shah, are named as absconding accused.
