Surat: The Crime Branch on Monday apprehended three individuals suspected of drug trafficking and seized prohibited mephedrone valued at Rs 51.22 lakh from them. Acting on a tip-off, the Surat Police Crime Branch team found the illicit substances in the suspects' vehicle at the Bhatia toll point near NH-48. The arrested individuals, namely Gulam Sabir Mirza, Mohammed Asfak Ansari, and Rizwan Badruddin Bangdiwala, were reportedly transporting the drugs from Ilyas, also known as Ilu, in Madhya ...Read More

Surat: The Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) today busted a fake telephone exchange in the Mahidhar Pura area of the city and nabbed two individuals in relation to the case. Acting on a tip-off that some people are operating a telephone exchange, the ATS, in a joint operation with the Surat city crime branch, raided the place, and it was learned that international calls were being converted into local calls with the help of a SIM box. Two accused have been nabbed in relation to the operation of...Read More

Surat: The Surat Crime Branch today nabbed a Bangladeshi youth from the Udhna area who was living in the city illegally. The police recovered some duplicate documents, including an Aadhaar card, from the nabbed individual. An investigation has been initiated by the Surat Crime Branch due to suspicions surrounding the youth's contacts. Based on the counterfeit documents found in his possession, the police suspect that he was attempting to create a duplicate passport. Preliminary information su...Read More

Surat: The Surat Crime Branch and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) conducted a joint operation on Monday, resulting in the arrest of another Bangladeshi national in Surat. The accused is suspected to have links with Al-Qaeda. The initial investigation indicates that this suspect belongs to a different Al-Qaeda module than those arrested in Ahmedabad on May 21. However, the handler of the previously arrested individual and the newly captured suspect are the same. It has been learned that...Read More

Surat: The crime branch has nabbed Head Constable Anil Mori of Saroli police in a case involving the sale of liquor that was seized by him at a check post. During his duty at a check post, Head Constable Anil Mori confiscated foreign liquor. Allegedly, he later sold it to Pravin Patel, who operates an egg cart. Pravin Patel had been previously apprehended by the police. During the investigation, it was discovered that Anil Mori was involved in the illegal activity. Instead of following proper...Read More

Surat: The city crime branch apprehended five individuals on Tuesday for engaging in the illegal sale of subsidized urea, originally intended for agricultural purposes, to industrial units within the city. The accused individuals include a transporter and office bearers of a cooperative society situated near Ahmedabad in Bareja. They have been identified as Himanshu Bhagatwala, Umesh Anajwala, Sandip Desai, Vikran Rana, and Yaubshah Diwan. During a raid conducted on March 26, the police di...Read More

Surat: The Economic Offences Wing of Surat Police Crime Branch arrested one Sufiyan Kapadia, the mastermind behind a GST input tax credit evasion scam worth about Rs 2,700 crore. This case involved the creation of more than 1,500 shell companies to defraud the government, and Kapadia is the 19th person to be arrested in connection with it. Of the 1,500 shell companies created, 1,300 were based in Gujarat alone. The police conducted raids in six different cities and apprehended 18 people, befo...Read More

Surat: The crime branch apprehended the owner of Radhe Radhe Mill for the illegal use of urea fertilizer in Pandesara, Surat. On 6th February, Surat agriculture officer Vishalkumar Rameshbhai Korat and a police team raided the house of the accused, Satyendrasinh Rajeshsinh Balramsinh Rajput, in plot no 456 in Jay Ambe Nagar society in Pandesara. They discovered that he had stored 52 bags of 50 kg each of subsidized neem-coated urea for industrial purposes, rather than agricultural usage, at h...Read More

Surat: The Surat Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has nabbed an infamous drug dealer from Chokbajar Madarivad, Azahruddin alias Ajju, and his partner with Rs 6.07 lakh worth of 60.73 gram of MD drug camouflaged among mosquito repellent coils. The DCB had arranged a watch at Parvat Patiya Kangaroo circle on Tuesday night after receiving a tip-off that Azahruddin, fruit dealer Mohammed Haroon Rashid Ahmed Rine (resident of Khanpura, Limbayat), who also works as a drug dealer, and Abdul Rehman Sh...Read More

Surat: Home minister Harsh Sanghvi on Sunday gathered details about ‘Operation Ghost’ from the Surat Crime Branch the latter had conducted in remote areas of Bihar to arrest dreaded gangster Pravin Raut wanted for serious offences such as kidnappings, murders and extortion and also about the intriguing operation in which the Crime Branch sleuths intercepted a car without fearing for their own lives near Palsana in Surat District and rounded up the Chikligar gang. An overawed Sanghvi apprecia...Read More