Bengaluru: Sleuths attached to Central Crime Branch (CCB), probing into the alleged scam in the recruitment of Second Division Assistants (SDA) to fill the vacant backlog posts of ‘C’ cadre in Water Resources Department, have arrested a total of 48 suspects including 37 staffers and 11 middlemen with three of them being Government employees. Those…
Bengaluru cafe blast: No leads for Police in 48 hours
March 3, 2024Five persons detained for questioning let off as they yielded no substantial clues Bengaluru: Two days have elapsed since the explosion at Rameshwaram Café in Bengaluru, located in the Brookfield area of Whitefield — a bustling neighbourhood known for its commercial activities and as a technology hub. However, the Police investigation into the incident seems…
Drug scandal in Kannada film industry: CCB detains Ragini Dwivedi after searching her house
September 4, 2020Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru, which is probing the drug scandal in Kannada film industry, detained actress Ragini Dwivedi after carrying out searches at her residence this morning around 6 am, Police said. The CCB sleuths, armed with search warrant from the Court, went to Ragini’s residence at Judicial Layout, Yelahanka, Bengaluru,…
204 kg of marijuana worth Rs. 1 crore seized in Bengaluru; three arrested
August 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Central Crime Branch, Bengaluru, has cracked a drug racket and seized 204 kgs of marijuana (ganja) worth Rs. 1 crore that three people were transporting in a truck (KA-51-AB-4233) from a village in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. Acting on a tip-off, a Police team tracked down the shipment and intercepted the truck near…
KPL Betting Racket : CCB arrests Belagavi Panthers owner Ali Asfak Thara
September 25, 2019The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested Ali Asfak Thara, the owner of Belagavi Panthers, for allegedly being involved in an international betting racket, here yesterday. The Police sources said that they were also investigating into match-fixing angle and added that Ali was the prime suspect in the betting racket and they suspected him to be…
KPL franchise owner quizzed for alleged match-fixing
September 21, 2019The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have cracked down on illegalities in the recently concluded Karnataka Premier League (KPL). Yesterday, the Special Enquiry Squad picked up Ali Asfak Thara, owner of Belagavi Panthers franchise, for his alleged involvement in match-fixing and betting. According to Police sources, Ali was said to have been in touch with…
Rs. 600 crore investment fraud case: Mining baron Janardhana Reddy gives cops the slip in Hyderabad
November 9, 2018Bengaluru/Ballari: A day after the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) Police said that they were investigating former Minister G. Janardhana Reddy’s possible role in “bailing out” Syed Ahmed Fareed in an Enforcement Directorate (ED) case involving a Rs. 600-crore Ponzi scheme, three special teams on Thursday landed in Hyderabad in search of the elusive mining…
Conversion of black money to white: MLC Veeranna Mattikatti’s son-in-law among 14 persons arrested
April 3, 2017A team from the Central Crime Branch, which raided a house in?J.?C.?Nagar on late Saturday night, have seized Rs. 9.10 crore worth currency notes in Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 denominations and have detained 14 people who were present at the house for trying to exchange demonetised notes, as they failed to produce documents to…
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