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Sagar Rajput

Sagar works with the Crime team and covers South Mumbai and Prisons.

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HT Exclusive: Three SoBo schoolboys face section 377

The school’s chairman said they reported the matter to the police after the 10-year-old’s parents demanded expulsion of the other two students.

Updated on Jul 25, 2016 01:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

HT Exclusive: Man who duped over 40 women arrested

Shaikh would take money from his victims saying that he needed to start a business that could support them after marriage.

Updated on Jul 23, 2016 04:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Kidney racket: Hospital staffer, middleman held

The Powai police investigating the illegal kidney transplant case arrested an employee of Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital and a middleman on Saturday, taking the total number of arrests to six.

The employee, Nilesh Kamble, 36, is an organ transplant co-ordinator and received Rs8 lakh for overlooking forged documents, while the Mumbra-based middleman — who connived with the kingpin, Bhaijendra Bisen, 42, to make fake ID proofs — was identified by his first name Khwaja
Updated on Jul 16, 2016 11:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Daughter’s visa sealed Pillai’s fate

HT Exclusive: Decades on the run, Kumar Pillai’s luck ran out when his daughter went to the US consulate in Singapore for a visa

Kumar Pillai after extradition from Singapore on June 28, 2016. HT FILE(Hindustan Times)
Published on Jul 12, 2016 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Online fraud: South Bombay’s Cumballa Hill hospital duped of Rs 19.17 lakh

Cumballa Hill hospital in south Mumbai lost Rs19.17 lakh last year to an email from a fake account created in the owner’s name.

Cumballa Hill hospital in south Mumbai lost Rs19.17 lakh last year to an email from a fake account created in the owner’s name.
Updated on Jul 12, 2016 07:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

BMC officials helped road scam flourish: police

According to the police’s investigation, the scam begins when tenders are floated for the construct or reconstruction of roads

Potholes have surfaced on a flyover at Dadar.(Pramod Thakur)
Published on Jul 07, 2016 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai:

Day after stay on arrest is lifted, Gadoli encounter cops go missing

Two teams were dispatched to Chandigarh and Gurgaon to arrest the policemen and Pahuja

Gangster Sandeep Gadoli was shot dead(File)
Updated on Jul 01, 2016 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Mumbai woman loses Rs3 lakh to SIM fraud

The woman’s neighbour, too, was cheated of Rs11 lakh using similar modus operandi earlier this month

According to the police, the fraudsters bought goods worth Rs3 lakh using her American Express credit card, which she shares with her husband, and Rs9,000 using their Indus Bank account.
Published on Jun 25, 2016 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Jilted lover stabs girlfriend to death

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Published on Jun 23, 2016 12:08 PM IST

Jilted lover arrested for stabbing girlfriend to death

They got to know each other through the business and eventually got into a relationship. But their families opposed the marriage. The girl then decided to marry someone of her parent’s choice, which triggered the incident.

The police said the accused, Irfan alias Sameer Mohammad Umar Varsi, was taken into custody and during the course of interrogation the accused was arrested.(HT Photo)
Published on Jun 23, 2016 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Revenge attack at Arthur Road jail leaves 2 inmates injured

Prisoner planned attack on rival gang leader after his aide was assaulted in jail last month, say police; the injured have been admitted to JJ Hospital

Updated on Jun 17, 2016 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Gang busted for conning Mumbaikars with promise of Rs25-lakh KBC lottery

They used to first call an unsuspecting victim, claiming he has won a KBC lottery worth Rs25 lakh

One call to people that they have won the Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) lottery is all it took a gang to cheat people of lakhs of rupees. While the Worli police have busted the racket, they are yet to get to the exact number of people cheated and the money swindled.
Updated on Jun 13, 2016 09:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Con men swindle 72-yr-old Napean Sea Rd resident of Rs11.5L

Con men telephoned her credit card company using the cloned SIM and, pretending to be her, asked for her credit card details

Updated on Jun 10, 2016 01:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Case of cheating against Flipkart for delivering soap instead of Samsung phone

Anand Bhalakia, a resident of Walkeshwar, was excited to receive the new smartphone he had ordered, but was shocked when he opened the parcel and found it contained a bar of Nirma soap instead

The Malabar Hill police registered a case of cheating against online shopping portal Flipkart for delivering a bar of soap to a customer who had ordered a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 08, 2016 09:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Boiled egg at Rs 100, a phone call worth Rs 500: That’s the price inmates pay inside jails

Inside the jails, the saying ‘you are innocent till proven guilty’ works the other way round ---- ‘you are guilty till proven innocent’

Accused who are lodged inside for murders are the most-respected ones inside. Every barrack has a leader to whom the other inmates have to stoop(Hindustan Times)
Published on Jun 01, 2016 01:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Jail fights on who’s the boss

One of the biggest reasons for such power-fights is overcrowding, especially in Arthur Road Jail, which has a capacity of 804 inmates but houses over 2,400

In 2010, gangsters Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa had a violent turf war when they were lodged in the Arthur Road Jail(HT)
Published on Jun 01, 2016 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Gurgaon cops booked for Mumbai encounter

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Published on May 28, 2016 09:29 AM IST
BySagar Rajput & Bhadra Sinha

Gangster, girlfriend and dhokha: Gurgaon cops booked for Mumbai encounter

The Maharashtra Police has registered a murder case against five Haryana Police crime branch officials for allegedly killing Gurgaon-based Sandeep Gadoli in a fake encounter in a Mumbai hotel in February.

Gurgaon-based gangster Sandeep Gadoli was gunned down, allegedly in a fake encounter, by Haryana Police crime branch officials at a Mumbai hotel in February, 2016.
Updated on May 28, 2016 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | BySagar Rajput and Bhadra Sinha, Mumbai / New Delhi

Gurgaon gangster Gadoli’s girlfriend named in ‘fake encounter’ FIR

The girlfriend of gangster Sandeep Gadoli, who was killed in an alleged encounter by Gurgaon Police in a Mumbai hotel in February, has been named as one of the accused, along with eight policemen, by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).

Sandeep Gadoli, who kept Gurgaon Police on their toes for over two decades, was killed in an encounter at a hotel in Andheri East on February 7.(HT file photo)
Updated on May 28, 2016 08:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Woman stabbed to death in Kurla

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Published on May 25, 2016 05:57 AM IST

To avoid burglaries, don’t share your vacation plans online: Mumbai cops

House break-ins are a major concern for the city police, especially during the vacation period. Over the past few weeks, several such cases have reported in the eastern suburbs. To curb this, the number of policemen on patrol has been increased, especially at night.

In this file photo, Mumbai police can be seen patrolling a road.(Vijayanand Gupta/HT Photo)
Updated on May 25, 2016 03:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

American tourist tries to enter Gateway of India with knife, detained

An American tourist was detained by the Colaba police after he tried to enter the Gateway of India with a bayonet, a sword-like blade that can be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle or used on its own. He was questioned and released after it was found he had no intention of using it.

An American tourist was detained by the Colaba police after he tried to enter the Gateway of India with a bayonet, a sword-like blade that can be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle or used on its own.
Updated on May 20, 2016 11:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

2 ‘Chhota Rajan men’ abduct and rob 73-year-old of Rs 3 lakh

A 73- year- old merchant was kidnapped and robbed of cash and valuables worth Rs3 lakh by two people in a taxi near Dadar on Friday, the Matunga police said. The man was taken to Mulund check naka, where the accused, who said they were from the Chhota Rajan gang, told the taxi driver to drop him to his home in Ghatkopar.

Representational Image ( Shutterstock)
Updated on May 15, 2016 10:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

8 cops hit me with belts : Discharged Malegaon accused recalls ordeal

Shiv Narayan Kalsangra, one of those discharged in the Malegaon blast case, recalled his ordeal in custody on Friday, saying that more than eight ATS cops would assault him with belts together. He said he would be given medicines before being produced in court.

Police officials stand guard at a blast site outside a mosque in Malegaon, on 9 September, 2006. Reuters
Updated on May 14, 2016 11:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Man held for blackmailing minor with morphed photo

Cops say he got her number, photo from a search for her name on a caller-ID app

Published on May 10, 2016 01:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai
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