Maharashtra
Torres Jewellery Ponzi Scam: Mumbai Police Uncovers ₹38.96 Crore Fraud; 1,916 Victims Identified, Accused’s Custody Extended Until January 18

Mumbai: The Mumbai police probing the Torres fraud has said that it has so far received complaints from 1916 victims since case has been registered and total amount of cheating has increased to Rs 38.96 crores. The police claimed that the accused had spend around Rs 25 crores to set up offices in India, to lure customers.
The Mumbai police made this claims while seeking further custody of the three accused arrested by the Shivaji park police station last week. The court has allowed their plea and extended their custody further till January 18.
The Shivaji Park police, had last week, arrested three persons in the gigantic alleged fraud – brand director Survesh Surve, general manager Tania Kastoa alias Tazagul Karaxanovna Xasatova, an Uzbek national, and Dadar store in-charge Valentina Ganesh Kumar, a Russian national. However, the alleged masterminds, Ukrainian nationals John Carter and Victoria Kowalenko, are said to have fled the country.
The police has now added ten more accused, who are foreign national to the list of the accused Tausif Riyaz, Mustafa Karakoc, Oleksandr Borovyk, Oleksandr Zapichenko, Oleksandra Brunkivska, Oleksandra Tredokhib, Olena Stoian, Viktoriia Kovalenko.
The police said that during the investigation it has so far recovered an amount of Rs 6.75 crores out of which 77.15 lakhs were recovered from the house of Tania while the rest of the funds have recovered from the store. Besides, the probe further revealed that the accused had given fake diamonds instead of original, to the customers.
While seeking their custody the prosecution had pointed out that the accused had done a systematic planning from taking the shops on rent, to setting up furnitures, buying diamond jewelry and to return the funds to customers on their investment, the accused had allegedly spent Rs 25 cores and lured thousands of customers.
Crime
Mumbai: New India Cooperative Bank GM Confesses To ₹122 Crore Fraud Before RBI Officials

Mumbai: In a major development in the ₹122 crore embezzlement case at New India Cooperative Bank, sources have revealed that the bank’s General Manager and Head of Accounts, Hitesh Mehta, has confessed to the fraud before Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials.
According to sources, Mehta admitted to withdrawing money from the bank since the COVID-19 period and distributing it among his close associates and friends.
Following this confession, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) took Mehta into custody for further investigation.
During an audit, the RBI discovered discrepancies in the bank’s cash reserves—₹112 crore missing from the Prabhadevi branch vault and ₹10 crore from the Goregaon branch vault. The investigation is ongoing, and further revelations are expected.
Maharashtra
Thousands hit streets for Dharavi’s development, demand early resolution of their demands

Mumbai, Feb 15: Thousands of residents from Dharavi took to the streets on Saturday, staging demonstrations and protests over the unhygienic and pitiable situation in the city’s densely populated slum.
The protesters voiced their concerns over scarcity of clean water, poor sanitation and the unhygienic conditions in Asia’s largest slum and also engaged in sloganeering against the local public representative Varsha Eknath Gaikwad.
They blamed Congress leader Varsha Eknath Gaikwad, representing Mumbai North-Central constituency, for poor living conditions in the area and demanded that the administration addresses their problems urgently.
The locals protested for hours, expressing anger over ignorance of their region and warned of intensifying the stir if their demand goes unheard. They also raised slogans like “Varsha Gaikwad… Hai Tauba”.
The residents of Dharavi, long plagued by issues such as overflowing toilets, filthy streets, and contaminated water stood united in their demands for change. The demonstration saw more than 5,000 residents hitting the streets.
The protesters made it clear that they are not aligned with any political party and their stir is centred around a single cause — securing basic development and a better quality of life for the people of Dharavi.
One protester said, “We challenge Varsha Gaikwad or any of her family members to spend a month in Dharavi’s slums. If they oppose development after that, we will accept their stance. But if they continue to allow us to live in these horrible conditions while they enjoy luxury, we will take to the streets again.”
Another woman added, “The situation here is so bad that I can’t even let my children out after 8 pm. If development happens, our children will be safer.”
A third protester called for a thorough investigation into the ongoing surveys in the area, saying, “If anyone tries to stop the survey, the police should act immediately and send them to jail.”
Social activist Sujit Gupta, who was also present at the rally, stated, “Today, more than 5,000 voices are united, demanding that the survey be completed quickly and that development work begins without further delay. If there is any opposition, the entire Dharavi will stand against it.”
Nilofer, another resident voiced similar concerns and said, “Only politicians are opposing development. They protest because they stand to benefit from it. If they want to protest, they should come and live with us in these filthy conditions.”
A resident also pointed to Adani and said, “The development can be done in the slums only by Adani, no other entity has the guts to take this task.”
With the Dharavi slum-dwellers coming together to raise their voice unitedly, this is expected to give strength to their demands.
Maharashtra
NRI’s plea for justice to Maharashtra government… Demand for action against the manager appointed in the trust by making fake signatures

Mumbai: In the case of two people appointed as managers in a very old trust for helping the poor in the city, forging the signature of the NRI trustee and making themselves trustees, the NRI trustee has filed a written complaint against both of them in the Pydhuni Police Station and demanded action against both of them under the forgery charge.
The Yusuf Ibrahim Garde Charity Trust, operating in Mumbai, was formed in 1929 by the grandfather of 78-year-old NRI trustee Yusuf Garde. Yusuf Garde, the only survivor of the trust, said that this trust has 3 properties in Mumbai, which he had waqfed to help the poor and later his father became the trustee of this trust and later Yusuf was made the trustee.
He told that due to his stay abroad, some trustees of the trust took over the property for their own benefit, after receiving the complaint of which he came to Mumbai and lodged a complaint against the trustees and during that time he met Hanif Nakhande and he introduced him to Imtiaz Patni, after which Garde appointed him as the manager in the trust and asked him to prepare the documents for the change report in the State Wakf Board and submit them.
Yusuf Garde alleged that both of them later became trustees instead of managers in the trust by forging my signature, regarding which Garde has contacted the Pydhuni police and demanded action against these two under forgery.
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