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Time of India
7 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Burglar who invested 10L, disguised as woman held
Mumbai: A 44-year-old man who amassed enough wealth through committing burglaries to be able to invest in properties has been arrested by Malad Police. Ranjit Kumar Singh alias Munna, the accused, would take up a disguise and dress up as a woman before he set out for committing crimes Police have recovered a machine in which he would melt the stolen gold and silver ornaments before selling them. On March 17, the Malad Police had received a complaint about a break-in at a house located near NL School. The burglar had scaled up a floor and entered the house through the window. He robbed cash and ornaments worth Rs 4.5 lakh. A team supervised by DCP Anand Bhoite, ACP Hemant Sawant and senior inspector Vijaykumar Panhalkar and comprising inspector Sanjay Bedwal and detection officer Tushar Sukhdeve, made inquiries in the neighbourhood and analysed CCTV footage. On tracing Singh and questioning him, they learnt that he was involved in eight break-ins in the past three months at Borivli, Kandiali, Malad West and Dindoshi. He had never been arrested earlier for any of the crimes. Singh was a resident of Kharodi village in Malad and a native of Bihar. Police discovered that Singh had paid an individual Rs 10 lakh to invest in a plot of land in Bihar and purchased a house for Rs 6 lakh in Malwani from the ill-gotten wealth. tnn
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Time of India
Fraudster hacks woman's email, dupes her of 6.1 lakh in Malad
Mumbai: A 30-year-old woman's email was hacked by a fraudster, her bank OTPs accessed and her credit card misused to the tune of Rs 6.16 lakh. The woman told the police that she had never used her credit card for any transactions nor had she shared OTPs with anyone. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The Malad Police registered an FIR and are probing further. The woman lives in Malad with her family and works in a private firm. She uses four credit cards. The incident dates back to July 2024 but an FIR was registered on April 29 after preliminary inquiries. On July 21 last year, the woman was home when, around 1pm, she received an email about one of her credit cards being used for a transaction of Rs 50,900 on a credit card payment portal. Shortly afterwards, she received an email about another credit card being used for a transaction of Rs 99,764 on a credit card payment portal. She received a string of emails thereafter about each of her four credit cards being used. Some of the cards were used for buying shoes and others were used on credit card payment portals. She lost Rs 6.16 lakh collectively. The woman told investigators she was taken aback as nobody had called her to ask for OTPs nor shared any fraudulent link with her. She added that neither she nor her family members had used the credit cards for any online transactions. She said she hadn't shared her credit card information with anyone either. She tried reaching out to the four banks after the fraud, but did not get a satisfactory response from them. She then lodged a complaint on the National Cyber Crime portal. She suspected that her email had been hacked and the OTPs accessed by fraudsters. She then decided to approach the police.
