Ahmedabad: The Crime Branch has booked three individuals, including suspended police constable Aakash Patel, for extorting money while posing as Crime Branch officers. The trio allegedly intimidated citizens with false accusations under the Foreign Currency Act and extorted money from them. Aakash has been arrested, but his accomplices, Prithvirajsinh Gohil and Satvik, remain at large. According to the Crime Branch, on December 27, the suspects approached Mihir Patel, a resident of Sentoja Pa...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad City Crime Branch on Friday detained 51 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who will now be deported back to their country. During this operation, the crime branch interrogated 250 individuals and carried out a thorough probe, which revealed that these illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were filling Chandola Lake with processed waste and had built houses on the lake site for themselves. It was further uncovered that these Bangladeshi infiltrators had blocked the Narmada pipeli...Read More

Ahmedabad: In a major operation, the Ahmedabad City Crime Branch has nabbed around 51 individuals of Bangladeshi origin on the suspicion of living in India illegally. The police detained these individuals after questioning around 200 people in the case. The 51 individuals who have been detained for living illegally in the city were found to have fake forged documents on them. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ajit Rajian stated that more than 200 individuals have been questione...Read More

Surat: The CID Crime branch has registered a case against 15 individuals for their alleged involvement in a stockbroking scam worth Rs 2.75 crore. This action follows accusations made by stock brokerage firm Zerodha Ltd against Surat resident Kishan Soni for fraud. Soni initially joined the company as a client in 2018 and later became a personal client associate in 2020, assisting people in opening Demat and trading accounts, earning commissions in the process. Over time, he opened 432 accoun...Read More

Kalupur: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch apprehended two individuals near Kalupur metro station and confiscated 1 kg of charas from them. The accused, identified as Rauf Raees Qureshi and Mohammad Wasim Abrar Hussain Kidwai, both hail from Uttar Pradesh. Acting on a tip-off, the police found 1.138 kg of charas valued at Rs 1,70,700 on the accused duo, who have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Authorities are also investigating to locate Salman, a Gomt...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch today nabbed two individuals and seized one kilogram of MD drugs valued at Rs. 1 crore from them in the Sarkhej area of the city. Acting on a tip-off that some individuals were hiding large quantities of MD drugs, the Crime Branch police conducted searches and raids in various locations in the Sarkhej area from late night to morning. During this operation, two suspects were detained, and approximately one kg of MD drugs was recovered from them. The drugs ...Read More

Ahmedabad: The City Crime Branch on Saturday arrested a 34 years old man from Karnal in Haryana for allegedly defrauding multiple individuals in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar by posing as a PMO officer. The accused, Bharat Chhabra, posed as a senior official from government offices, including the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the Gujarat Secretariat, and central intelligence agencies. Chhabra was apprehended at a salon in Rameshnagar, Sector-13, with the assistance of the Civil Lines police in K...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Local Crime Branch today seized over 200 kg of narcotics found in a truck. The cops also arrested three individuals who intended to deliver the illegal stash in Vatva GIDC. Acting on a tip-off, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch searched the truck and recovered an estimated quantity of over 200 kg of marijuana and MD drugs. The three accused who have been arrested in the operation hail from Odisha and had transported these narcotics in a truck with the intention of delivering them to s...Read More

Ahmedabad: The city crime branch on Tuesday arrested two members of the Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) for allegedly spreading false information that the Gujarat government plans to demolish 25,000 temples and inciting Hindus. According to the FIR with the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), the arrested individuals, Ranchhod Bharwad and Bachu Ladva, made a video statement that was posted on X, claiming that the government would demolish Hindu temples. The police are yet to establish the co...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Local Crime Branch police arrested six men from Palwal, Haryana, for deceiving BJP workers by claiming to be officers of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). On June 20, a BJP worker from Bopal approached the city crime branch, reporting that a man claiming to be a PMO officer attempted to cheat him out of ₹12 lakh by telling him it was an investment in a farmhouse project on Jaipur Highway in collaboration with a former chief minister of Rajasthan. The false PMO officer c...Read More