Mumbai Woman Conned

A Mumbai woman has approached police claiming she was conned of Rs 83,000 by unidentified caller/s who said she had won a Rs 35 lakh lottery, an official said today.

The woman says that Pak man approached her for marriage posing as a Nagpur-based doctor practising in London.

It's not just free grub that draws in these uninvited guests to wedding dos. They're primarily there to swipe jewels and money. In the second reported case of a wedding-crashing family recently, cops are on the hunt for a 40-year-old woman, her teenage daughter and her younger son who have been caught on camera crashing a wedding venue and swiping ...

According to sources, the Vietnamese national Ly Loegsle (64), who on Wednesday was arrested with two-kg of cocaine ('2 foreigners caught with 6 kg of cocaine', August 23), on her previous visit to the city had posed as a poor tourist and had told officials that the purpose of her visit was to visit the churches and temples of Mumbai. She also mana...

According to an FIR, lodged at the Dahisar police station, a woman of Russian nationality identified as Mashkina Svetlana has been on the prowl in the country since 2002. She has entrapped several gullible men in various cities across the country and is currently absconding.

The parents of a Tripura woman want her punished after she was jailed for allegedly cheating a senior citizen in Mumbai of over Rs.2.5 crore by posing as former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's daughter.

At 9 pm on Thursday, an elderly lady was suspiciously lurking around a road bend on Hill Road in Bandra. Strangely, none of the shopkeepers nearby seemed to find the incident odd. Sunday MiDDAY spotted her watching out for expensive-looking cars to take a turn. As soon as one did, she'd fall right in front of it, feign injury and demand monetary co...

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) security guard on Friday nabbed a con woman posing as a BMC employee. She had been promising jobs at the corporation to graduates for two years. She collected around Rs1 lakh-Rs1.5 lakh from each person."Dipti Mulik, 27, was arrested for forgery and cheating. The police recovered a bogus BMC ID card and so...

A Mumbai woman has approached police claiming she was conned of Rs 83,000 by unidentified caller/s who said she had won a Rs 35 lakh lottery, an official said today.

The woman says that Pak man approached her for marriage posing as a Nagpur-based doctor practising in London.

It's not just free grub that draws in these uninvited guests to wedding dos. They're primarily there to swipe jewels and money. In the second reported case of a wedding-crashing family recently, cops are on the hunt for a 40-year-old woman, her teenage daughter and her younger son who have been caught on camera crashing a wedding venue and swiping ...

According to sources, the Vietnamese national Ly Loegsle (64), who on Wednesday was arrested with two-kg of cocaine ('2 foreigners caught with 6 kg of cocaine', August 23), on her previous visit to the city had posed as a poor tourist and had told officials that the purpose of her visit was to visit the churches and temples of Mumbai. She also mana...

According to an FIR, lodged at the Dahisar police station, a woman of Russian nationality identified as Mashkina Svetlana has been on the prowl in the country since 2002. She has entrapped several gullible men in various cities across the country and is currently absconding.

The parents of a Tripura woman want her punished after she was jailed for allegedly cheating a senior citizen in Mumbai of over Rs.2.5 crore by posing as former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's daughter.

At 9 pm on Thursday, an elderly lady was suspiciously lurking around a road bend on Hill Road in Bandra. Strangely, none of the shopkeepers nearby seemed to find the incident odd. Sunday MiDDAY spotted her watching out for expensive-looking cars to take a turn. As soon as one did, she'd fall right in front of it, feign injury and demand monetary co...

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) security guard on Friday nabbed a con woman posing as a BMC employee. She had been promising jobs at the corporation to graduates for two years. She collected around Rs1 lakh-Rs1.5 lakh from each person."Dipti Mulik, 27, was arrested for forgery and cheating. The police recovered a bogus BMC ID card and so...