Ransom Call

Salman Khan gets death threat again, unknown caller demands Rs 2 crore ransom, say sources

The body of a 12-year-old boy was found in Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning a week after he was reportedly kidnapped. The boy, identified as Rohit Bahadur Chetry, was from Arunachal Pradesh's Sadiya town.

The parents of an Indian student studying in the US have received a ransom call demanding nearly a lakh rupees after their son went missing. The caller informed them their son had been kidnapped and threatened to sell his kidney.

A businessman allegedly received death threats for non-payment of extortion money amounting to Rs 10 crore in the Pitampura area of Delhi, the officials said on Monday.

A five-star hotel in Mumbai received a hoax bomb threat call on Monday, demanding a ransom of Rs 5 crore. The unidentified caller claimed that bombs were placed at four locations in the Lalit hotel, said sources.

Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot dead in Mansa district yesterday, had been getting ransom calls from gangsters, his father has said in a complaint to police.

Dikshit Reddy, 9, was playing with his friends near his home in Telangana's Mahbubabad on Sunday evening when his neighbor, a young mechanic, invited him to ride his bike. That was the last anyone saw him alive.

A man was arrested in North Delhi's Narela, close to the Haryana border, for allegedly posing as gangster Neeraj Bawana's brother and trying to extort Rs 20 lakh from the estranged in-laws of a woman he was trying to impress, police said Sunday.

A week after the family of a 28-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur alleged that a team of cops failed to stop his kidnappers from escaping with Rs 30 lakh ransom, the police has said the man was killed by the kidnappers last month. Sanjeet Yadav's body, however, has still not been recovered.

An 18-year-old woman, who was kidnapped three days ago, was found dead in Amritsar's Loharka Road area, police said on Saturday.

Four men, accused of abducting a manager of a call centre in Noida and demanding a ransom of Rs 10 lakh for his release, have been arrested, police said Friday.

Three police officials in Delhi allegedly kidnapped a man and demanded Rs 1.5 crore as ransom from his wife, an official said on Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh has a reputation as a rough place, with one of the highest levels of crime in the country. In May, a dozen local politicians received WhatsApp messages that threatened harm to their families unless they paid $14,000. Yet even by local standards, an extortion plot that's surfaced in recent weeks stands out for its sheer outlandishness....

The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...

A ransom call for a staggering Rs 100 crore has been received by the family of an Uttar Pradesh businessman who has been missing for two days, the police said today.

Salman Khan gets death threat again, unknown caller demands Rs 2 crore ransom, say sources

The body of a 12-year-old boy was found in Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning a week after he was reportedly kidnapped. The boy, identified as Rohit Bahadur Chetry, was from Arunachal Pradesh's Sadiya town.

The parents of an Indian student studying in the US have received a ransom call demanding nearly a lakh rupees after their son went missing. The caller informed them their son had been kidnapped and threatened to sell his kidney.

A businessman allegedly received death threats for non-payment of extortion money amounting to Rs 10 crore in the Pitampura area of Delhi, the officials said on Monday.

A five-star hotel in Mumbai received a hoax bomb threat call on Monday, demanding a ransom of Rs 5 crore. The unidentified caller claimed that bombs were placed at four locations in the Lalit hotel, said sources.

Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot dead in Mansa district yesterday, had been getting ransom calls from gangsters, his father has said in a complaint to police.

Dikshit Reddy, 9, was playing with his friends near his home in Telangana's Mahbubabad on Sunday evening when his neighbor, a young mechanic, invited him to ride his bike. That was the last anyone saw him alive.

A man was arrested in North Delhi's Narela, close to the Haryana border, for allegedly posing as gangster Neeraj Bawana's brother and trying to extort Rs 20 lakh from the estranged in-laws of a woman he was trying to impress, police said Sunday.

A week after the family of a 28-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur alleged that a team of cops failed to stop his kidnappers from escaping with Rs 30 lakh ransom, the police has said the man was killed by the kidnappers last month. Sanjeet Yadav's body, however, has still not been recovered.

An 18-year-old woman, who was kidnapped three days ago, was found dead in Amritsar's Loharka Road area, police said on Saturday.

Four men, accused of abducting a manager of a call centre in Noida and demanding a ransom of Rs 10 lakh for his release, have been arrested, police said Friday.

Three police officials in Delhi allegedly kidnapped a man and demanded Rs 1.5 crore as ransom from his wife, an official said on Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh has a reputation as a rough place, with one of the highest levels of crime in the country. In May, a dozen local politicians received WhatsApp messages that threatened harm to their families unless they paid $14,000. Yet even by local standards, an extortion plot that's surfaced in recent weeks stands out for its sheer outlandishness....

The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...

A ransom call for a staggering Rs 100 crore has been received by the family of an Uttar Pradesh businessman who has been missing for two days, the police said today.