The caller claimed to be from the customs department and informed the victims that a parcel from Mumbai to Taiwan or another country was seized because it contained illegal drugs, passports, SIM cards mobile devices etc.
A resident of Vikhroli suburb in north-east Mumbai, Poojary, 44, along with a team of Mumbai Police sleuths, arrived here by an early morning flight and he has been taken to a police lock-up.
In letters to Mumbai Police Commissioner and Cyber Police station, party treasurer Balaji Kinikar said after the Election Commission of India allotted the party symbol to the Eknath Shinde-led Sena, it also procured a duplicate PAN card.
The Mumbai Traffic Police messages apparently had the desired effect with many liking, commenting and forwarding them for a safe-and-secure Merry Christmas
The Mumbai police busted a racket involved in selling babies and arrested six women for allegedly selling a newborn for Rs 5 lakh in the eastern suburbs here.
A man was arrested from a running train in a joint operation of the Mumbai police and government railway police for allegedly kidnapping a five-and-half-year-old girl after a dispute with her mother.
The body of the victim with her throat slit by a sharp weapon, was recovered in the flat with nobody else present as her sister and her
boyfriend had gone out of station, said an official of Powai Police Station.