On April 27, 2012 The Pioneer reported that five persons, including a former Air Force official, have been arrested by the Central Delhi police for cheating unemployed youth in the name of promising them jobs in the Indian Railways. The gang used to lure youths that they would provide them government jobs and later dupe them after taking a considerable amount of money from them.

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On April 27, 2012 Mid-Day reported that the two accused had planned to sell the booty to bar dancers, but were exposed when cops arrested them, mistaking them as members of the gang responsible for the Malad double murders TALK about an anticlimax. Cops may have failed to trace perpetrators of the chilling Malad double murders, but their attempts to that end helped Crime Branch officers from unit 11 arrest two men who had robbed 11 sets of salwar kameez from a showroom in Natraj Market in Malad.

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On April 27, 2012 Mid-Day reported that resident doc who told woman in labour to come back in a few days suspended. The doctor blamed for negligence which led to a woman delivering a stillborn baby in the corridor of Kamala Nehru hospital on Tuesday, has been suspended and an investigation will commence shortly.

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On April 26, 2012 Times of India reported that task Force sleuths arrested a gym trainer and recovered a country-made revolver and six live rounds from his possession on Wednesday. Task Force sleuths nabbed Panjala Ainish Goud, 20, a gym trainer, at his house in Kavadiguda for having a country-made revolver and six live rounds.

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On April 26, 2012 Times of India reported that fast-track court (FTC)-II judge GS Revankar on Wednesday convicted a woman and two men in connection with the ‘doodh peda’ murders. A 30-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter were given sweets laced with drugs and subsequently killed in Sriramapuram in 2007. The judge is expected to announce the quantum of sentence on Thursday after the defence and prosecution counsel conclude their arguments.

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On April 26, 2012 Bangalore Mirror reported that they sold the ‘Gulf dream’ to around 200 gullible girls from different parts of the country, including Bangalore. In reality, the girls were pushed into the flesh trade in places like Muscat and Dubai. For each girl entrapped, the accused duo would get Rs 2 lakh from their Gulf accomplices. The racket, which had been going on for around four years, came to the notice of the Indian police following a raid on a brothel in Muscat.

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On April 26, 2012 DNA reported that two women filed harassment cases against their husbands late on Tuesday night. In the first incident, a woman filed a case of dowry harassment against her husband while another woman filed a complaint alleging of being beaten up by her husband over some family dispute.

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On April 26, 2012 Times of India reported that with the arrest of two robbers, the police are confident of soon finding the missing gold Ganpati idol of the famous Diveagar temple in Raigad district. The news of the latest arrests has elated the residents of Diveagar, who had been fervently praying for the return of the golden idol since the daring March 24 robbery in which two temple guards were killed.

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On April 26, 2012 Mid-Day reported that arrested in Feb after one bank filed complaint, Kanchan Somwanshi confesses she and her husband duped other city banks and finance firm using fake gold ornaments. A couple residing in Dhanakawadi cheated banks and financial institutions of several lakhs by submitting fake documents under assumed identities, and depositing fake jewellery to avail loans.

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On April 26, 2012 Times of India reported that a jilted youth allegedly shot his teenaged classmate after she reportedly spurned his advances in Bharthana town of Etawah, the hometown of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, on Wednesday morning. The youth later attempted suicide by turning the gun on himself but survived and is hospitalized in a critical condition.

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