Varanasi police, who assigned a gunner & police escort to Anoop Chaudhary at least 7 times this year, have lodged an FIR against him. Chaudhary was arrested by UP STF last month.
ThePrint spoke to police officers to understand what makes a conman. Honey trap-like tactics, use of media & social media, posing as string-pullers with ruling party all part of tactics.
Accused Arvind Tripathi and Ramshankar Gupta arrested in Lucknow. UP STF says they demanded money from businessmen & public servants by promising tenders and transfers/postings.
Viraj Ashwin Patel allegedly dropped names & promised jobs to models, even proposing marriage to one. He is now in judicial custody and faces rape charge. Crime branch to probe.
Sherpuria allegedly created over 56 companies under dummy directors, in which he pumped in funds as 'start-up support' to launder money. The firms are now under investigation.
Gujarat ‘conman’ Kiran Patel allegedly posed as a PMO official and duped J&K administration. How did he do it? What were his connections, and what exactly was his motive?
Central to Patel's mimicry of being a high-powered government official is sharing development projects in Kashmir, while also co-opting signs of nationalism like Indian flag.
Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
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