Thane crime news: 25 gm ganja seized from hospital; woman administrator, 3 others booked

Representational Picture

Thane crime news: Police in Maharashtra's Thane seized 25 gm of ganja from a private hospital and registered a case against its woman administrator and three others, an official said on Monday.

An official of Narpoli police station said that based on a tip-off, a police team last Thursday raided the hospital located at Kalher in Bhiwandi area. The police found 25 gm of ganja stock concealed in a cover in the drawer of a table in the hospital's Out Patient Department (OPD), he said according to the news wire PTI.

An assistant administrator, who was apparently angry with the hospital management, along with her associates allegedly planted the contraband to defame the medical facility, the official said quoting the FIR. The hospital initially carried out an internal probe into the matter and later filed a police complaint.

Following a complaint by the hospital's CEO, a case was registered on Sunday against the assistant administrator and three of her associates under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the police said.

Thane man loses Rs 50,000 in reward points fraud

Meanwhile, a 63-year-old man from Maharashtra's Thane city lost nearly Rs 50,000 after being lured into redeeming reward points in the name of a bank, police said on Monday.

Also read: Maharashtra: Mumbai court refuses bail to accused in killing of Amravati pharmacist Kolhe

The victim, who earlier worked with a business consultancy firm in Navi Mumbai, received a message on August 18 purportedly from a bank where he had an account, stating his reward points worth Rs 5,899 were expiring that day, an official from Naupada police station said.

The message also contained a link along with a customer ID which the sender wanted him to click. Since the ID given in the message was the same as his customer ID with the bank, the victim believed it to be genuine.

After clicking on the link and following the instructions, the victim received an OTP which he fed into the system and within seconds Rs 49,983 were debited from his bank account, the official said.

As he had not done any transaction of the debited amount, he rushed to the bank and got to know the money was transferred to another bank account.

The man approached the police on Saturday with a complaint based on which a case was registered against an unidentified person under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, the official said.

The reason for the delay in approaching the police was not mentioned in the complaint, he added. (PTI)