Surat: The Khatodara police booked a man claiming to be a media person for allegedly cheating 17 people of Rs 2.44 crore by promising them jobs in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and houses under civic body housing schemes.The fraud came to light after the victims realised that no such recruitment or housing allotment existed….
Surat: Ahead of the Surat Municipal Corporation elections, the Diamond Worker Union Gujarat (DWUG) demanded that diamond workers be exempted from professional tax. The union launched a campaign against the levy and sought support from parties, asking them to include this in their election manifestos.The Surat Congress committee reportedly gave a written assurance that it…
Surat: Police on Thursday recorded the statements of the parents of Khyati Kejriwal (28), who died by suicide at her residence on Ghod Dod Road on Tuesday evening.Khyati, wife of city-based industrialist Abhishek Kejriwal, hanged herself at their bungalow in the Subhashnagar society. The couple had married in Feb.Khyati’s parents arrived in Surat from Mubmai…
Surat: A three-year-old girl abducted from beneath a bridge in Kapodra on the night of April 20 was rescued safely from Madhya Pradesh, though the kidnapper managed to flee after abandoning the child.Surat crime branch traced the accused using technical surveillance and CCTV footage that showed him boarding a train bound for Madhya Pradesh. Acting…
Surat: Sarthana police on Thursday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly cheating eatery owners by exploiting the cooking gas crisis triggered by the Iran war.The accused contacted several eateries in Surat that he came across on social media reels and offered prompt delivery of gas cylinders. The owners transferred money but did not receive the…
Surat: A blast at a chemical factory in Bharuch district left 15 workers with burn injuries, five of whom are reported to be in critical condition. The critically injured workers have been shifted to hospitals in Surat and Vadodara for advanced treatment.The incident occurred at Metropolitan Eximchem Pvt Ltd, a chemical manufacturing unit in the…
Surat: Cybercrime police arrested three persons for allegedly obtaining point-of-sale (POS) machines using fake Udyam firms and supplying them to a Rajasthan-based gang involved in debit card cloning. The cloned cards were swiped on these POS machines, after which the money was withdrawn in Surat.A Surat resident complained that the credentials of his firm, Shidhi…
Surat: A teenager from the city has filed a complaint of sexual intercourse by deceitful means against a 19-year-old man from Kerala after she became pregnant.Puna police have arrested the accused, a native of Palakkad district in Kerala.Police said the two met about a year ago while playing the online game Free Fire. During the…
Surat: The Economic Offences Cell (EOC) of city police has arrested a habitual fraudster who allegedly cheated six people of Rs 1.07 crore by luring them to invest in a proposed 11-storey hotel complex with apartment-style flats in Daman.The accused, Bharat Bharwani (52), a builder had launched the project under the name Sky Deck and…
Surat: The Gujarat High Court has stayed the arrest of a man in a rape case filed by the woman who was in a relationship with him for 18 years. The FIR was registered with the Dindoli police station after the man allegedly refused to marry her.During the hearing of the quashing petition, the accused…
