On February 02, 2012 Times of India reported that cops on Wednesday arrested an IAS officer for his alleged involvement in a Rs 125 crore scam. Additional secretary Debaditya Chakraborty is the first senior babu in Bengal to be put behind bars for graft during a previous stint in a PSU. R M Jamir, a retired IAS officer, director of a PSU at the centre of the scam, was also held. The arrests were confirmed by DIG, CID (operations) K Jayaraman. The two will be produced in court on Thursday, he said. Several agencies, including the detective department of Kolkata police, were investigating the scam for quite some time but had not received permission to arrest the IAS officer, sources said.

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On February 02, 2012 Mumbai Mirror reported that a 40-year-old woman has been arrested for conning men into marrying her 18-year-old daughter (or other women) and then running off with their money. The anti-human trafficking cell of Thane police says four cases have been registered against the two across four states. The daughter has also been arrested. According to Thane police, which arrested the two on Wednesday, Nirmala Baviskar and her daughter Kajal would meet the families and fix the wedding. In some cases Kajal was to be the bride, and in some cases, police say, other women would pose as brides. Senior inspector V N Karkud said that these other women were from poor families and had been lured by the accused in lieu of jobs.

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On February 02, 2012 DNA reported that the Pawar family from Rajasthan allegedly wears rags to strike gold! The Cantonment police recently took into custody Ketaram Mansingh Pawar (55) for his alleged involvement in duping a former Navy officer to the tune of Rs. 5 lakh. Pawar had allegedly approached the victim, Devendranath Deenanath Sood (63) of Mohammedwadi, posing himself as a labourer who had found an ancient treasure at a construction site. He extracted money from the victim under the garb of selling gold at throwaway price. However, he allegedly made shocking revelations to the Cantonment police.

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On February 01, 2012 Mumbai Mirror reported that a domestic help who had kidnapped her employer’s 18-month-old son from their home a week ago was traced to a remote village in Assam, by Nalla Sopara police. Police say Asma Begum (20) kidnapped the Umesh and Disha Rane’s youngest son Prem, from their Shivam Apartments flat, because the family refused to give her a loan.

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On February 01, 2012 Mid-Day reported that harassed and tortured, a 10-year-old rape victim was so incoherent in her narration of the horror she went through that the Nigadi police could make no headway in the investigation of the case. The police finally achieved a breakthrough when the alleged tormentor of the girl walked into the police station to lodge a missing complaint and aroused their suspicion.

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On February 01, 2012 Mid-Day reported that at first glance the premises appeared to be a model-coordinating agency, one of many flourishing in Versova. However, on Monday the special squad of Additional Commissioner of Police (West Region) Vishwas Nangre-Patil arrested two pimps and rescued a model and another woman from a sex racket flourishing at a flat in New MHADA Colony, Versova.

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On February 01, 2012 DNA reported that investigating a ‘robbery’ committed at the corporate office of ITD Cementation India Limited in Bandra recently, the police sensed something fishy. Two of the security guards had claimed that they were gagged and tied to their seats by the burglars at knifepoint, and that the burglars stole the projector and some other valuables. As it turned out, it were the guards who stole the projector. Investigating officer sub-inspector Sanjay Patil, said, “The accused planned to open a mini-theatre in their hometown in Kolhapur to screen blue films.” The accused said that they came up with this plan after finding out that there was great demand for blue films in their hometown.

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On January 30, 2012 Times of India reported that police on Monday claimed to have busted a fake marksheet racket with the arrest of four people in Washermenpet. Seals of various government departments and some screen printing equipment were seized. Jayaraman (62) of Kalmantapam in Royapuram, Perumal (72) of Royapuram, Durai Paul (52) of Neithvoyal in Ponneri and Murthy (40) of Thangal near Tiruvottiyur, who were running the racket for nearly three years, were nabbed based on a complaint from Arunkumar (28) of VOC Nagar in Washermenpet. The accused were later remanded in judicial custody.

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On January 30, 2012 DNA reported that City police have caught two thieves who had a hideout in a sewage chamber. After committing theft they would hide their booty in the chamber. Police were clueless about these thieves. Palasia police finally caught Jeetu Banjara and Shoren, both tribals. They might be behind more than a dozen thefts in the locality. Residents of Bagh Tanda in Dhar district, they had been staying in Indore for the last one year. They would hide in the chamber in the day and come out of it in the night to commit thefts.

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On January 30, 2012 Mid-Day reported that police registered a complaint against Shiv Sena leader Prafulla Mhatre and seven other party men (as reported by Mid-Day on October 11, 2011) for trying to extort cash and grab a free-of-cost flat from a Vashi-based developer ('Cops book 8 Sainiks for extorting builder'). Three months later, the neta has been accused of molesting a receptionist in the same office.

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