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PUNE January 4, 2007
DIRECTOR General of Police (DGP) P S Pasricha on Thursday admitted that Pune was firmly placed on the national crime map. “Pune is the eighth largest metro in the country on the lines of metros like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Baroda and Coimbatore where crimes like economic offences are on the rise. The crime mafia is finding Pune and its suburbs to be a safe haven for their nefarious activities,” Pasricha told the policemen at Shivajinagar police headquarters on Thursday.

PUNE April 8, 2005
THE cyber crime cell of the Pune police has arrested four former employees of a BPO centre in the city, for duping four account holders based in New York. These people were earlier with MsourcE, the BPO arm of MphasiS-BFL Ltd.

Including the four, the number of arrests have gone up to 12, for illegally transferring close to $3,00,000 (or Rs 1.32 crore) from the accounts of customers of a New York bank to a bank in Pune, according to the Police.

PUNE March 5, 2007
Five more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a rave party held near this city over the weekend and a large quantity of prohibited drugs and cash were seized from them.

Seven kilograms of cannabis leaves and four kilograms of marijuana, besides Rs 350,000 in cash and five mobile phone handsets, were seized from the three held in Yervada. The prohibited drugs, albeit in a smaller quantity, 10 china clay cigars and two mobile phones were found with the women.

PUNE March 8, 2007
An illegal money transfer racket worth Rs.350 million involving a trader from this Maharashtra city has been unearthed, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sources said late Wednesday.

The ED Wednesday froze seven out of 10 Swiss bank accounts of the trader operating from a six-storey building in Koregaon Park area here, they said.

Money used to be deposited into the trader's accounts from Britain via havala or unauthorised money transfer channels, the ED sources said, adding that the investigations began in January this year with a raid on the trader's office following a tip-off.

The raid yielded unaccounted cash of Rs.10 million besides some incriminating documents.


PUNE March 7, 2007
Since the past two years, the Pune division of the Central Railway has been winning the ticket-checking award, given to the division that achieves the highest revenue through checking tickets. This year, the division has managed to achieve the revenue target before the stipulated period.

The Mumbai headquarters had given a target of collecting Rs 2.39 crore for the fiscal year from ticket-checking activities.

However, the Pune division achieved this target on February 27 — 32 days before the fiscal year ending March 2007. Till February 28, the revenue collected from ticket checking was Rs 2.43 crore.

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