"extortion"

Police said the three men had planned to settle in Nepal and start some business there with the extorted money.

Six persons including three women were arrested on charges of extortion and posing as members of the SHE teams and honey-trapping a retired government employee.

Police have apprehended four people posing as Maoists and attempting to extort money from the Sarpanch of Pankena village

This will be Sameer Wankhede, the former Mumbai Zonal Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), first round of questioning in the case and CBI sources have said that he will be asked around 40-50 questions.

Two real estate agents were arrested on Thursday on charges of extortion posing as extremists

The Punjagutta police took into custody four reporters who had allegedly attempted to extort money from the management of a massage and spa parlour on Sunday.

An armed reserve (AR) Inspector of Warangal police commissionerate, Satish, was arrested by the Subedari police here on Friday.

The court had granted two day police custody of BJP leader to Banjara Hills police.

Banda: Brijesh Kumar Prajapati, former BJP MLA from Tindwari in Banda, along with his four supporters, has been sent to judicial custody by the special MPMLA court in Banda. Brijesh Kumar Prajapati surrendered in front of Judge Garima Singh at MPMLA court in a case of 2018 in which he is accused of thrashing, threatening […]

Hanamkonda: A Reserve Inspector of Police and nine others were booked for extortion and criminal intimidation, and sections of Arms Act, and launched a manhunt for the RI who is at large. Though the Kakatiya University Campus police registered a case against the accused on Friday (July 29), they have not made any official statement […]

Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner CV Anand on Wednesday dismissed a constable, Akash Bhatt, working at the Bowenpally police station, following a departmental inquiry. On April 15, while patrolling, the constable had spotted one G Praveen Kumar and his female friend near the Bowenpally Dairy farm and confronted them when they were in conversation. Bhatt abused […]

Hyderabad: The Madhapur Police Special Operations Team caught two persons on charges of posing as vernacular news channel reporters and resorting to threatening and extortion at Miyapur. Police seized a bike, mobile phones and fake identity cards from them. Police sources said M Manik (32) and K Amarnath (33) allegedly threatened managers of massage centres […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police Special Operations Team from Bhongir along with the Yadagirigutta police foiled the plan of four persons, allegedly former members of the CPI (Maoist) party and CPI (ML) Janashakthi group, to extort realtors. The four persons, who were arrested on Saturday, had allegedly planned extortions and robberies in Hyderabad and Yadadri-Bhongir, police […]

In a latest advisory to private firms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that ransomware actors are very likely using significant financial events, such as mergers and acquisitions

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police caught a person on charges of targeting suspended government employees posing as an official from the Secretariat and demanding money for their reinstatement. He was arrested nine times earlier, police said. B.Suresh Kumar Chary alias Nageswar Rao alias Kumar (48), a milk vendor from Banjara Hills and a native of […]

Hyderabad: The Meerpet police apprehended three juveniles on charges of extortion at Nandanavanam here on Friday. Officials seized a dummy pistol and a mobile phone, all worth Rs 25,000 from them. Police said they were involved in eight cases so far. The juveniles, all in their early teens, were close friends and residents of Nandanavanam […]

The crime has already taken the lives of two people, one from Langer Houz and another from Nizamabad

Hyderabad: The SR Nagar police arrested three persons including a police constable on charges of threatening and extorting a job consultant, here on Thursday. Sources said Vikram, currently posted with the Central Zone of Hyderabad City Police, had on Monday approached the complainant along with his associates Bharath and Sai Krishna. The complainant, who runs […]

Police seized a car, gadgets, CPI (ML) visiting cards and other material from them.

The legislator said that two days ago when he was in Siddipet, he received a phone call from some person who threatened him and demanded Rs 50 lakh.