She met an MBA on Net; falling in love sent him nude photos... then got blackmailed

An unsuspecting woman doctor fell prey to the online charms of an MBA professional. He proposed, she accepted... Then the love story went awry as the man tried to blackmail the woman with her semi-nude photographs.

The MBA, who called himself Raj — an associate vice president of an MNC in Pune, was nabbed by the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of Mumbai Police on Tuesday. Charges of rape, cheating and molestation were slapped on him, and he was remanded in police custody till March 9.

Vashi cops have launched a manhunt to nab a Mumbra-based Computer Engineer Yunus for allegedly duping city residents of Rs 48,000. The accused had created a fake net banking website of Axis Bank and sent messages to many account holders mentioning that their respective account has some problem. He mentioned another link in the message asking the customers to click the link and check the problem of the account.

Villagers suspect woman of sacrificing girl for black magic, beat her to death

The Dahanu Road police arrested five persons on Monday for allegedly killing a woman, Gangubai Wartha, 45, a resident of Kankarali Pada, Dahanu, suspecting her role in the supposed human sacrifice of a nine-year-old girl of the village six months ago.

The city police investigating the BPO employee murder case on Tuesday said they have collected concrete clues, which will lead them to the accused persons.

Umesh Krishnan (27), a senior executive of Infosys Pvt Ltd, was smothered to death on Monday at his house in Ramaswamypalya in Banaswadi.

Assistant police commissioner N Narasimhaiah said, “We have clues that will lead us to the accused. We are working towards it and hope to solve the case soon’’.

Police are still maintaining that it is a murder for gain. Umesh was murdered by four unknown people in the presence of his wife Honey Mary, who was injured. Since she is away in Erode, where Umesh’s body was cremated, police have not been able to get more information from her.

Two separate incidents of crime against policemen were reported in state on Tuesday. In the first incident one constable of Rajasthan Armed Constabulary was set on fire while in another two others were badly beaten up by an accused of a dacoity case, the police said. According to police sources, four youth were having a scuffle with some local shopkeepers at the Chomu bus stand, at around 9 pm on, Monday night. The victim Dana Ram, a constable with the RAC who was posted in the area, intervened and disperse the youth.

Even before the Gujarat state board examinations begin from March 17 this year, the stress of examination has claimed the life of a student. Ajay Mahendra Patel, 17, a student of class XII of Vishwa Bharti Vidhyalaya, committed suicide by hanging himself at his house on Monday.

Sources said that Patel, a resident of Saibaba Society, committed suicide when there was no one in the house. He was to appear in Class XII (science) examination and was in a state of depression over whether he would  get good marks in the examination or not.