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Image used for representational purpose only PUNE: A man claiming to be a medical practitioner from the UK duped a senior woman executive of a private firm, aged around 60, of Rs 3.9 crore using the same old modus of expensive gifts, followed by extortion calls. Till April 8, the suspect and his aides compelled the woman to make 207 money transfers to 67 accounts in 25 different banks. The woman (her details were withheld by the police) became friends with the suspect on a social networking site in September last year. “The suspect, who posed as a medical practitioner from the UK, had sent her a friend request on her social media account. After befriending the woman, he also shared his cellphone number, after which they started chatting over a messaging app,” inspector Ankush Chintaman of the cyber police told TOI. ....
Updated Apr 11, 2021 | 11:51 IST An IT firm employee was allegedly sedated and sexually assaulted by a cab driver in Maharashtra s Pune. Woman raped by cab driver in Pune [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights The incident happened last month but came to light on Thursday when the survivor approached the police with her complaint against the accused. On the way, the cab driver gave water laced with sedatives, she alleged. The cab driver allegedly threatened to upload the survivour s obscene pictures on social media. Pune: In yet another shocking incident of sexual assault, a married woman, who works for an IT company, was allegedly sedated and raped by a cab driver whose vehicle she had hired to go home. What is even more shocking is that the accused took obscene pictures of the woman to blackmail her into having a sexual relationship with him. ....
Updated Mar 12, 2021 | 20:32 IST On March 8, a 27-year-old engineer had lodged a complaint with Swargate police in Pune, accusing her husband and in-laws of subjecting her to cruelty. Wrong section added to FIR by Pune Police [Representation image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights Police booked the accused under IPC Sections 498, 506, 504 and 34. Pune: In a major embarrassment for the Swargate police in Maharashtra’s Pune, a man, who is no more, was made accused in a case of domestic violence without verification, and as if that were not enough, a “wrong” section of the Indian Penal Code was added to the FIR. ....
Updated Mar 07, 2021 | 09:46 IST The 45-year-old widow from West Bengal was lured to Pune by a person on the promise of a good job in 2019. After she arrived in the city, she was sold to a brothel in Budhwar Peth locality. Woman rescued from prostitution [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights The customer informed her son about her location, following which she was recused. The mother-son duo boarded a train from Pune to go to West Bengal on Saturday (March 6). Pune: Forty-five-year-old Shilpa (name changed), a widowed mother from West Bengal’s 24 Parganas district, used to work as a domestic help in state capital Kolkata. In 2019, she was lured to Pune in Maharashtra under the pretext of a well-paying job and pushed into flesh trade. ....