Sushant Kulkarni

Since January this year, both Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police have reported a huge uptick in cases of online share trading frauds in which cyber criminals lure targets with expert training, and promises of very high returns on stock trading.

Integrated Battalion Group from Army is taking part along with formations from Navy and IAF.

The data shared by the Maharashtra Prison Department shows that since January this year, the system became fully functional across 60 prisons in Maharashtra.

Around Rs 57,000 crore has been spent in total and Rs 7,123 crore per year in eight years for the implementation of OROP, according to the official data from 2023.

The Chakan police questioned more than 500 people and conducted lie detector tests of some suspects in connection with the murder of a teenager in Khed taluka near Pune.

The cyber cell of the Pimpri Chinchwad police was probing a case of online share trading fraud in which a 46-year-old woman from Pashan Sus Road was cheated of Rs 35 lakh by cyber frauds, who promised her high returns against the investment of her money in stocks.

In the same election rally, seated next to Naik Nimbalkar is the sitting Karmala MLA Sanjay Shinde, a close confidante of Ajit Pawar and who was NCP candidate against Naik Nimbalkar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Believe it or not, these things have happened to unsuspecting citizens in Pune who have been mentally harassed and emotionally abused by cyber criminals posing as police or CBI officers in the 'drugs in parcel scams' in the recent past.

The private luxury bus was on its way from Mumbai to Kolhapur when it caught fire on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Vadgaon Maval.

The Cyber crime investigators of Pune city police have warned citizens about interactive voice response (IVR) calls, which include pre-recorded messages and keypad prompts used to pull victims into a web of fraudulent schemes.