A fake branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) has been unearthed in Chapora village in Sakti district. Six individuals had been duped into working under the pretense of being officially employed by the bank.
The GST Council in its meeting next month, is likely to discuss measures to ensure strict provisions for preventing fake generation of Input Tax Credit (ITC), aiming to prevent tax evasion, a senior official said on Friday.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday slammed the Centre amid the controversy over its notification on Thursday to appoint a fact-checker to track fake news and have them taken down.
In an advisory, the police cautioned the people to be aware of such scammers. A Haryana Police spokesperson said a latest trend of cybercrime has come to the fore in which cyber fraudsters have started duping people in the name of unpaid electricity bills.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Esha Pandey said a complaint was received on March 5 regarding credit card fraud in which the complainant alleged that he was duped of Rs 34,425 on the pretext of increasing the limit of his credit card by a person impersonating himself as a bank employee.
"During the raid, we seized a number of documents, including fake RT-PCR reports. The employees of the lab admitted that the fake RT-PCR certificates were sold to some people," SHO of Shastri Nagar police station said.
The Gurugram Police on Wednesday arrested a man from Atul Kataria Chowk for posing as a Haryana Police inspector to avoid toll tax.
The state police tweeted: WBP arrested 130 persons and warned 283 persons for Fake & Objectionable Posts in the month of April.
They were booked for cheating under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code after businessman Indermohan Singh Honey complained that instead of a Woodland belt and a wallet, he was delivered fakes.
In a statement, the Ministry of Shipping said that the fake website, which has the url www.sagarproject.com, is sending emails to job seekers and other genuine stakeholders of Sagarmala programme.
