Thane: Woman travels to Pakistan by obtaining fake documents; booked with man

A case was registered against a 23yearold woman in Maharashtras Thane district for allegedly travelling to Pakistan by forging passport and visa made using fake documents reported PTI citing an official on TuesdayApart from the woman the police also filed a case against an unidentified man for facilitating her fake documents he saidThe accused woman has been identified as Nagma Noor Maksood Ali alias Sanam Khan She changed her name and obtained Aadhaar card PAN card and her daughters birth certificate from a centre in Lokmanya Nagar and then attached these documents to the passport application the official of Vartak Nagar police station saidShe obtained a passport and visa for Pakistan and travelled to the neighbouring country on the basis of these documentsThe offence took place between May 2023 and 2024 the official said a probe into the crime was underwayThe duo has been booked under the Indian Passports Act and others the official addedThane Man duped of more than Rs 8 cr by Dubaibased businessmanA 58yearold architect from Thane city in Maharashtra was allegedly cheated of more than Rs 8 crore by a Dubaibased businessman police said on MondayAs per the PTI report an official from Naupada police station noted that the police on Saturday registered a case against the alleged accused Harish Chainani and others involved in the crimeAccording to the complaint the accused who imported luxury watches allegedly lured the victim to join his venture as he wanted to expand it to India and asked him to invest Rs 4 crore he said reported PTIAccording to the official in 202223 the victim allegedly gave the Dubaibased businessman 13 watches worth Rs 485 crore and a sum of Rs 4 crore for the businessLater the accused started giving him evasive replies and stopped taking his calls when the victim sought returns on his investment and proceeds from the sale of the watches he saidSex racket busted in Navi Mumbai eight women rescuedEight women were rescued after a sex racket was busted by the Navi Mumbai Police An autorickshaw driver was arrested in connection with the racket reported PTI citing official on SaturdayThe auto driver was identified as Pradeep YadavAs per the PTI report Yadav was arrested after police received a tipoff about a gang sending women to various lodges for prostitution after soliciting customers online said inspector Prithviraj Ghorpade of the antihuman trafficking cell of Navi Mumbai policeWith the help of a decoy customer they recently nabbed Yadav who used to ferry the women to hotels the official saidUpon questioning the auto driver the police rescued one woman from a hotel room by the policeBased on her information they rescued eight other women from a room at Shiravane in the Nerul areaAdditionally police also arrested two men identified as Vishnu alias Vikaskumar Janki Yadav 28 and Indrajit Indradev Prasad 63 from thereThe suspected kingpin of the racket Shambu Upadhyaya is at large the official said reported PTI An FIR has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS at Turbhe police station