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Indian Express
a day ago
- Indian Express
Pune police kill wanted criminal Hatti in encounter in Solapur
Pune police Sunday gunned down a 'notorious criminal on record' during an armed encounter in the Solapur district. The man, identified as Rahim Shaikh, who also went by the aliases Shahrukh and Hatti, had been on the run for five months. According to a senior police official, a team from the Pune Crime Branch located Hatti in Lamboti village in Mohol, Solapur district. The team, assisted by officers from the Mohol police station, intercepted him around 5 am. As the police attempted to apprehend him, Hatti reportedly opened fire. Police returned fire, fatally wounding him at the scene. Hatti had been booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and was wanted in connection with multiple serious offenses. Among the most recent was the armed robbery of a food delivery worker, which took place on May 14 in the Sayyad Nagar area of Pune's Hadapsar neighbourhood. The delivery worker, Umar Shakeel Shaikh, 21, reported that he had been held at knifepoint by two men. Police later identified the suspects as Hatti and Noman Sayyad, 20, another known offender. Sayyad was arrested soon after the robbery, while Hatti remained at large. Shaikh, a resident of Mohammadwadi, filed a First Information Report at the Kalepadal police station, which launched the investigation. According to authorities, Hatti and Sayyad were also involved in a separate incident on March 12, in which a senior citizen was assaulted in Sayyad Nagar.
India Today
24-05-2025
- India Today
Pune Police bust fake call centre duping Americans of Rs 25 lakh daily
Pune Police have busted a fake call centre that allegedly duped American citizens of over Rs 25 lakh daily by threatening them with digital arrests. Five individuals have been arrested, and more than 120 others are under on a tip-off from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, the Pune Crime Branch, Cyber Police, and local police jointly raided the facility — Magnetel BPS & Consultants LLP — on the intervening nights of Friday and Saturday. The illegal call centre has been operating from a floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Kharadi since August 2024, functioning during US time arrested individuals have been identified as Sarjeetsingh Girawat Singh Shekhawat from Rajasthan, and Abhishek Ajaykumar Pandey, Shrimay Paresh Shah, Laxman Amarsingh Shekhawat, and Aaron Aruman Christian from Gujarat. Three suspects remain absconding. The mastermind of the operation has been identified as Karan Shekhawat, and an FIR has been registered against 123 call centre employed over 120 calling agents, including a dozen women, most of whom worked night shifts. Police have detained them for questioning, and cases are likely to be filed based on their Commissioner of Police Ranjan Kumar Sharma said to the news agency PTI that the accused targeted US nationals — mainly senior citizens and retired individuals — by falsely claiming their bank accounts had been linked to drug trafficking or other fabricated crimes. Victims were then threatened with arrest and coerced into purchasing gift cards, which were subsequently used by the fraudsters for personal accused used caller masking software to impersonate US government officials and followed detailed scripts to deceive victims,' said Sharma. He added that agents were paid approximately Rs 25,000 per have seized 64 laptops and 41 mobile phones, many containing suspicious applications, VPN software, and contact databases of thousands of US PTI inputs IN THIS STORY#Pune#Maharashtra
