"modus-operandi"

The man aged around 71 years, received a call from some persons posing as customs officials who later duped him

A similar heist took place in Bengaluru where a four-member gang took away Rs 30.2 lakh by breaking into an ATM in Sulibele near Hoskote

These scams follow a specific modus operandi in which fraudsters impersonate law enforcement officials and use video calls to convince victims that they are involved in criminal activities and must answer to the law. Out of fear of repercussions, victims often succumb to the empty threats of these scammers.

Three persons were arrested from Assam's Tinsukia district after heroin worth Rs 5 crore was seized from their possession, police said on Monday.

Hyderabad: Stranger is danger is not a new warning. But when it comes to the glitter of gold and the scent of currency, many forget this. And that is exactly what attention diversion gangs thrive on. With several recent instances of these types of gangs striking across the city, police officials are cautioning the public […]

Karimnagar: In order to check illegal finance business, Karimnagar Commissionerate Police carried out raids on the houses of illegal financers. Simultaneous raids were carried out in 37 places in commissionerate limits on Wednesday. Besides seizing Rs 52.57 lakh in cash, signed promissory notes, blank cheques and other documents were seized. Ten illegal money lenders were […]

Hyderabad: An increase of about nine per cent was witnessed in the overall crime in Rachakonda in 2021 with cybercrimes, crimes against women, kidnappings, POCSO cases and few conventional crimes, increasing. However, the Rachakonda police ensured the conviction rate increased, dealt with iron fist cases of women and child trafficking and busted major drug rackets […]

Says cyber crooks swindling people using fake identity cards of Army and other paramilitary forces

Hyderabad: Nearly two months after Covid-19 restrictions were eased allowing spas and massage centres in the city to reopen, desperate organisers have resumed their modus operandi of misusing such facilities for organising prostitution. This is evident from the fact that in the last one month, the police raided at least five massage parlours across the […]

Based on reliable information, police team led by Inspector T Laxmi Babu arrested the thief Maddi Srinivas near Padmanagar by-pass road

The cleaner was using the time lag between actual match action and live TV coverage to help in court-siding or pitch siding.

QR codes system, according to Telangana DGP, will also help in getting a high-level perception of how safe citizens, particularly women, feel about their locality or work place or public places

The police said conmen were creating websites of various foundations and NGOs and when those in financial distress approach for help, they were collecting money on the pretext of various charges and cheating them.

Kamma Anil Kumar, Kamble Ashok, and Dasari Tirupathi who hail from Banswada, Tadkol and Bidar respectively had formed as a team and robbed from nearly 15 houses in the last two years.

Sleuths raided four companies - Mad Elephant Technologies Pvt Ltd, Borayanxy Technologies Pvt Ltd, Profitise Pvt Ltd and Wizzpro Solutions Pvt Ltd after they received complaints of "harassment" from customers

App-based loans have already claimed six lives who succumbed to the aggressive recovery tactics by lenders