According to the police, Talpada had hidden 380 fake notes of Rs 100 denomination in a cloth near the car’s gear box. Two fake notes of Rs 1,000 denomination were found from his shirt pocket, they added.

Further interrogation revealed that Talpada had purchased over 500 counterfeit notes from three persons for Rs 1.5 lakh, the police said.

Two of the three sellers were from Ahmedabad and one was from Mumbai, they said, adding that Talpada had not revealed their names.

LCB Inspector B P Rojya said a complaint has been registered against four people including Talpada and further investigations are on.

(The Indian Express, 13 September 2009)

The police action comes after Nilesh Vallabhdas Dhanani, an officer from Sinefra Engineering and Constructions Limited (SECL), which is the sister concern of Suzlon Group, lodged a police complaint.

Police inspector Suhas Nadgaudaof Bund Garden police station said Suzlon hired ships for supplying its wind mill parts to foreign countries through shipping. “The accused while working with SEL, started fake companies called S S Oceanwind, Blue Wind and Genus. They then misused the letterheads of Suzlon to secure bank guarantees and get ships on rent and diverted the business of Suzlon Group to their company by using forged documents.”

“They allegedly imported and exported goods of other companies in these hired ships without the knowledge of Suzlon and deposited the money received from the illegal use of ships into the foreign bank accounts of their own bogus companies, causing a loss of Rs 32 crore to the Suzlon between March 2006 and October 2008,” Nadgauda said.

“The fraud came to light during the audit of the company,” Nadgauda said.

She has been sent to judicial custody till October 4. Ten days ago, a case of forgery was lodged against Jyoti by the Delhi Police.

A team of Delhi Police will reach the city to take her to Delhi on a transit remand. According to sources, Interpol officials are accompanying the team, and they will interrogate her in Kolkata.

According to a senior Delhi Police officer, one Rahul lodged a complaint against Jyoti with the Uttamnagar police in West Delhi.

“Jyoti took Rs 1 lakh from Rahul, saying he will be recruited in a company in Greece,” said Sharad Agarwal, Deputy Police Commissioner, West Delhi. Rahul was told that he would reach Greece via Turkey. Accordingly, he reached Malaysia, from where he was supposed to take a flight to Turkey. His passport was original, but the visa he got from the woman for going to Turkey was tampered with, said Agarwal. Since his visa for Turkey was found forged, he was deported to India.

“We received a complaint against her around 10 days ago,” Agarwal said. “She is an Indian citizen. We are yet to reach a conclusion about her alleged links with Pakistani terror outfits.

Rajiv Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Special Task Force, said: “We are looking into the matter and investigating whether she has any link with the ISI.”

Jyoti claimed she used to send duped persons to Pakistan from Malaysia, where they were forcibly trained under terrorist outfits. “During interrogation, she claimed that she is a resident of Uttamnagar in West Delhi,” said Rahul Srivastava, Superintendent of Police, North 24-Parganas.

(The Indian Express, 22 September 2009)

“A few days ago, we received a tip-off that the print of Dil Bole Hadippa that was released on September 18 is already available in the market. However, despite making some efforts, we could not nab them,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria.

“Three people on motorcycles arrived at the spot. Afsar alias Ashraf Haider Hussain and Firoz alias Sameer Irfan Khan (both Mumbra residents) handed over the print to their associate Aman alias Tanzeem Ali Hameed Ali, a Kherwadi resident. Around 5:30 am, we arrested the trio and a DVD print of What’s Your Raashee was seized from them,” said Maria.

According to police, during their interrogation, all three accused revealed that they were in touch with Durgadas Shriramswami Bhakta, a business development manager at Adlabs in Goregaon Filmcity, and that they had paid Bhakta Rs 2 lakh for the DVD. Bhakta and his associate Pal were arrested on Sunday. All the arrested accused have been remanded to police custody till September 30.

“Rajesh Harkishan Chaudhary, associate vice president of UFO Digital Mastering office in Andheri, will get master prints of yet-to-be-released movies. UFO processes the prints digitally. Earlier, the prints were given for individual distribution to theatres, and the pirates used to exploit loopholes to get the print out in transit. UFO has a system in place, wherein the movies are shown through satellite at theatres,” said Maria.

According to the police, Chaudhary used to save the movie on his laptop and on receiving money, he used to transfer the movie onto a DVD and hand it over to Bhakta.

“Bhakta then gives the print to Afsar, who in turn pass it on to Tanzeem, a computer expert. Tanzeem uploads the movie to his computer, and then sends it via internet to the kingpin of the racket, Asif, who is in Karachi. From Pakistan, Asif sends the movie prints to various countries, including Bangladesh , Amsterdam , Germany, France, Australia and Indonesia. They have an extensive network in India,” said a Crime Branch officer.

“Tanzeem used to get Rs 10,000 for every movie he sends via internet. Chaudhary and Bhakta used to get Rs 1 lakh each. Asif used to give the money to Ashraf for distributing it among other members. Asif may have links in the underworld,” said Maria. The gang has managed to get prints of 11 movies including Wanted, Dil Bole Hadippa, Aage Se Right, Lets Dance, FOX, Shadow and Chal Chalein.

(The Indian Express, 23 September 2009)

The police said the drug cartel originates in Afghanistan, from where the consignment was transported to India for further distribution.

“We received an input that the gang supplies drugs to Delhi-based traffickers who in turn supply drugs to different countries. They used Delhi as their transit point,” a police official said.

Babatunde was arrested near NBCC Building on Lodhi Road. The police said during interrogation the accused told them that he came to India in 2006 on a tourist visa and stayed on even after its expiry.

Babatunde used to receive drug consignments from an Afghan national and would send it to various countries, police sources said. “We are trying to identify others involved in this network,” the official said.

(The Indian Express, 24 September 2009)

“Members of IMPPA met me today, and we told them about the various loopholes in the film industry that are taken advantage of in piracy. They were told that they should get their house in order and plug such loopholes to prevent such cases in the future. They were informed about the various sources from which prints of movies are leaked,” said Maria.

Besides the Bhatt brothers, the others who attended the meeting were producer Ramesh Taurani from TIPS, Vice President of Yash Raj Films S Ghai, CEO of UTV Siddharth Raj Kapoor, and Ratan Jain from Venus Records and Tapes.

Crime Branch sources also revealed that during the course of investigations, it was learnt that Pakistan-based wanted accused identified as Asif was the owner of a company called M4U. Asif used to receive master prints of Bollywood movies from the arrested accused in the case, along with another Pakistan-based suspect named Zubeir.

“Both Asif and Zubeir are Pakistan-based film distributors. They run legitimate businesses in Pakistan, and cut shady piracy deals like this on the side,” said Maria.

Meanwhile on Thursday, the Crime Branch seized Rs 3 lakh from a locker in the Dindoshi branch of North Canara GBS Cooperative Bank, which is in the name of arrested Rajesh Chaudhary’s wife.

Chaudhary worked as an Associate Vice President with UFO Digital Mastering. According to the police, the master print of the any to-be-released movie used to lie with Chaudhary, as UFO processes the print digitally. Chaudhary used to secretly save the movie on his laptop and on receiving money, he used to write the movie onto a DVD and hand it over to the other accused.

State ATS Deputy Inspector General Rajiv Krishna said the Mumbai team arrested Arif when he was on his way to strike a deal with a client, the DIG added.

Inspector Avinash Mishra of the state ATS, who coordinated the operation, said Arif first visited Mumbai in 2001 where he met Kasai while working at a tailor shop in Malad area. Kasai lured him in the fake currency trade and Arif returned home two years ago.

According to Mishra, Arif then came in contact with Girijesh Yadav alias Guddu in Banda district. Guddu was the main supplier of the fake notes. Arif also visited Krishnanagar and Kathmandu in Nepal during the last few months to cut deals.

Before his arrest, Kasai had visited Arif in August to receive the consignment.