There are ingredients of robbery, extortion, dacoity... Do you need to define it as a standalone offence?, the CJI asked
Isabel Rose was convicted of trying to extort £100,000 from the UK banker and perverting the course of justice.
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a British woman to six years in prison after convicting her of blackmailing a compatriot for £100,000 (US$134,060) over rape allegations. Isabel Anonia Barbra Eudora Rose, 26, was sentenced at the District Court on Wednesday, with Judge Adriana Noelle Tse Ching finding her guilty of blackmail and perverting the course of public justice. Rose, an event management professional from London, arrived in Hong Kong on January 31, 2024, to visit a man she had met during a...
They are accused of stopping Musa Aliyu at a fake roadblock and telling him to drive to a cash machine.
Former Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Officer Leon Black told Congress he paid US$21 million to a woman he accused of blackmailing and extorting him. The billionaire investor said during a June 26 interview with the US House Oversight Committee that he paid the money to the woman, with whom he had had an affair, after she demanded US$100 million because he “ruined her life”. Black’s appearance at the voluntary interview was part of the congressional investigation into the late...
On Saturday Deputy Inspector General, Jalandhar Range, Naveen Singla, confirmed the arrest of Inspector Gurinderjit Singh Nagra
On July 9, a gunfight in Gurugram’s upscale Sushant Lok left four alleged shooters dead and three policemen injured. Police said gangster Deepak Nandal ordered the attack on businessman Vishal Berry over a ₹5 crore extortion demand. Among the dead were two minors from Rohtak’s Bhalaut village with no criminal record. Ashok Kumar finds that the incident has raised questions over crime, drug use, and policing
A Hong Kong woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assisting in robbing three people as a teenager by luring them to a deserted location before her fellow gang members attacked them and took nude photos for extortion. The High Court sentenced 23-year-old Hau Yan-ki on Tuesday after a jury rejected her assertion that she had mistakenly believed she was just helping her friends to collect debts from the victims. She was among six people – two women and four men – arrested in connection...
Eggs were hurled at Tirthankar Ghosh when he was taken to the Barrackpore court
German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 29-year-old man who is accused of holding a woman hostage in a Berlin supermarket for more than 11 hours over the weekend. The man was charged on Sunday with kidnapping for ransom, in conjunction with attempted aggravated extortion and dangerous bodily harm. The man allegedly took the female supermarket employee hostage and threatened her inside a shop in Berlin’s southern Marienfelde neighbourhood on Friday evening shortly after 10pm local...
Gurinderjit Singh Nagra was serving as the Station House Officer (SHO) of Tanda police station in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district
The incident reportedly took place in the early hours of June 28 at the Tahsildar’s official residence in Kuvempu Nagar, Channapatna.
One country-made pistol with a magazine and six live rounds of bullets were seized from militants’ possession, says police statement
Hong Kong police have arrested 125 people in a crackdown on a triad group that monopolised lunchbox supply businesses at construction sites by intimidating and extorting other vendors, while also running multiple illegal gambling dens. The force said on Monday that it had cracked down on a syndicate that had gained a monopoly over lunchbox catering at private and public housing building sites in East Kowloon in an undercover operation. “The stable customer base and consistent income of the...
The Commission further directed that if the allegations are found to be true, responsibility shall be fixed on the concerned police officials, and an Action Taken Report, along with the findings of the inquiry, shall be submitted at least one week prior to the next date of hearing.
Action comes after e-rickshaws in various parts of the country were turned off via apps developed by Chinese firms to manage lithium ion battery packs; extortion incident reported in Ujjain
The accused, Shankar Pansari from Haryana, had coerced a senior citizen into transferring ₹25.65 lakh to two different bank accounts under the threat of digital arrest