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Time of India
5 days ago
- Time of India
Govt employee accuses 2 visa agents in 22.5L UK job fraud
Ahmedabad: A govt employee from Gandhinagar on Monday filed a complaint with CID Crime accusing two men of cheating him out of Rs 22.5 lakh by promising UK jobs to his son and daughter-in-law. Another complainant also has accused the same agent of cheating him of Rs 18.44 lakh with a similar promise. The assistant city engineer with a municipal office has alleged that a man from the city and his accomplice from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, took money from him in parts between Feb 2023 and March 2023. The family had approached the city-based visa agent through a mutual acquaintance. The agent returned Rs 1 lakh when a purported Thailand job offer failed, winning the family's trust. Later, he allegedly promised a job for the son at a care home in Colchester, UK, and asked for Rs 30 lakh but settled for Rs 22.5 lakh. A portion of this amount was allegedly transferred to his partner's account, and the rest was handed over in cash, the complaint said. In March 2023, the Ahmedabad agent gave a certificate of sponsorship and helped the son get a UK visa. After reaching the UK, the son found no job had been arranged. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch xu hướng AUD/USD? IC Markets Đăng ký Undo He stayed there for 20 days and returned on April 6, 2023. The ageny then convinced the family to send the son again with his wife on a dependent visa. The couple stayed in the UK for five months but did not receive jobs at the promised company. They returned on Dec 9, 2023. Later, the son was allegedly placed in a different company, which terminated his contract shortly after. The agent never returned the money. In another case, a man from Ghatlodia too accused the agent of collecting Rs 18.44 lakh for a UK work visa for his son, and failing to arrange a job. In both cases, the victims said the agent charged more than the official UK embassy fee.
Time of India
10-06-2025
- Time of India
CID begins inquiry into AMC staff credit society fraud
Ahmedabad: A 43-year-old detective inspector attached to CID Crime Unit-3, Ahmedabad, lodged a complaint with the police, alleging systemic fraud at the Ahmedabad Municipal Staff Credit & Supply Co-op Society. According to the complaint filed on Monday, the inspector—who works under the deputy superintendent, CID Crime, Ahmedabad Zone—conducted a primary investigation following orders issued on June 1. The probe revealed questionable practices in the management of credit society loans provided to AMC sanitation workers, currently around 3,368 in number. Each sanitation worker contributes a monthly share of Rs 100 and pays Rs 4,400 in loan instalments, deducted directly from their salary by the civic body. These deductions, totalling Rs 4,500 per worker per month, are deposited into the society's account. However, the inspector alleged that employees of the society, in collusion with licensed brokers, filed two loan applications in favour of a single worker despite regulations permitting only one. They pocketed an extra Rs 15,000–Rs 20,000 commission per loan by exploiting the illiterate or uninformed workers. Once loans up to Rs 3 lakh are approved, members receive bearer cheques instead of official vouchers or bank-paid instruments. Society staff and brokers accompany workers to the bank to cash cheques but deduct agreed commissions in cash before handing over the balance. For example, Ashok Bhagwandas Rajvadi took out loans totalling Rs 4.8 lakh across seven transactions since 2019. He paid Rs 49,000 in broker commissions. Similarly, Dilip Puwar secured Rs 2.85 lakh on one occasion and paid Rs 90,000 in commissions. Janak Vaghela and several others reported multiple loans and substantial commission payments to brokers. In total, the complaint states the fraudulent network pocketed approximately Rs 3.11 lakh in commissions, even as society officials and brokers conspired to defraud workers through falsified forms, incomplete paperwork, and unrecorded financial entries. CID Crime has filed the complaint naming society office bearers—secretary Sanjay Patel, cashier Prafull Patel, accountant Bindesh Patel, and staff Manu Somabhai Patel—as well as brokers Sanjay R Rajput, Zahir A B Sheikh, Akbar Karim Sheikh, and Raju alias Tarbuch Shanti B Shah. The complaint lists five witnesses, all sanitation workers who provided loan and commission details. CID Crime police have registered an offence of cheating, breach of trust, and criminal conspiracy under the BNS.
New Indian Express
07-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Gujarat Information Commission demands end to CID's RTI exemption in cyber fraud cases
AHMEDABAD: In a game-changing decision, the Gujarat State Information Commission has slammed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) (Crime) for hiding behind a 19-year-old RTI exemption to deny critical information to cyber fraud victims. The Commission has now recommended the state government revoke the special immunity granted to CID Crime regarding cyber fraud cases—delivering a major win for transparency and the rights of hundreds of duped citizens. The exemption, in effect since October 25, 2005, under a Home Department notification, placed CID Crime beyond the purview of the Right to Information Act for crime-related investigations. However, the recent judgment has pierced this shield in the context of cybercrime, which the Commission argued is no longer a conventional 'sensitive crime' but a rapidly escalating public menace impacting citizens daily. The ruling stemmed from a plea by Rakesh Kumar Prajapati, a Gandhinagar resident who lost Rs 4.5 lakh to cyber fraud. After filing a complaint with the Cyber Crime Cell, Prajapati sought the FIR copy and related documents under the RTI Act. CID Crime rejected his request, citing the 2005 exemption. Unwilling to accept silence in the face of theft, Prajapati took the matter to the State Information Commission.
Time of India
30-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Gym owner's expansion dream sunk by 50L investment fraud
Ahmedabad: A gym owner from the city hoping to expand his business was allegedly cheated out of Rs 50 lakh by a group of individuals who promised high returns through investments in a company. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He had saved the money for his expansion plans, he stated in his complaint filed with CID Crime on Thursday. According to case details, the man runs a fitness centre with branches in Gota, Bodakdev, and Makarba. From Rs 50 lakh saved from profits, he was planning to open a fourth branch near Akhbarnagar. The complaint states that he shared this plan with a friend who introduced him to a man claiming to offer investment schemes with good returns via RTGS. The complainant met several individuals, including a man named Madhavrao Ugale and others, at different locations in Ahmedabad and Surat. He was shown documents of a company named MOS Utility Limited and was assured of high returns through legal bank transactions. On March 19, the complainant and his team went to an office in Surat where a person named Sudhir, posing as an employee of a firm named Patel Rajeshkumar Kantilal Angadia Pedhi, accepted the Rs 50 lakh in cash. He gave them a torn Rs 10 note and instructed them to return with it to receive their investment back. Sudhir then left saying he was going to another branch to count the money, but never returned. The complainant later found out that the office and the man's business card were fake, and the angadia firm was fictitious. Only Rs 40,000 was returned through multiple small RTGS transactions. A cheque of Rs 50 lakh issued later by one of the accused also turned out to be fraudulent. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The complaint names Madhavrao Ugale, Sudhir, a man identified as Vicky, and one Ankit Kumar Mishra from Surat, and an unnamed person, and accuses them of forming a group to deceive the complainant using fake documents and setups. CID Crime has booked them under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for cheating and criminal breach of trust.
