A stone-crushing plant owner has been shot dead after purportedly uploading a video accusing an IPS officer of extortion and death threats, prompting his family to demand the cop’s arrest and an...

A man, who claimed to be part of a truck and tempo association in Posta, has been arrested on the charge of extorting a truck driver. Arijit Singh forced the driver to pay Rs 200 as subscription for ...

The investigation into the abduction and killing of a nine-year-old has led police in Malda to bust a racket involved in collecting mobile SIM cards against forged documents. Three persons, who are s...

A 22-year-old youth who worked as a civic volunteer in the Calcutta police has been arrested for allegedly trying to extort money posing as a guard of a deputy commissioner in the city police. Police...

Over 300 truck owners and operators from Murshidabad and Birbhum on Saturday thrashed goons allegedly affiliated to the Trinamul, stoning their SUV and torching three of their motorcycles on NH12 cutt...

A couple, aged 85 and 80, in Koderma was found Covid-19 positive on Tuesday, becoming the oldest husband and wife in the state to get infected by the coronavirus. Their nephew, a chemist without a tr...

Four cops —an assistant sub-inspector and three constables— were suspended by SP Khotre Srikant Suresh Rao for allegedly stopping vehicles and extorting money from them in Garhwa.The incident that...

Section 384, Indian Penal Code: Punishment for extortionSection 388: Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for lifeSection 389: Threatening a person wit...

Three Paytm employees, including a woman, were arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to extort Rs 20 crore from the e-wallet giant’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma. The trio had threatened to leak ...

A Calcutta realtor has alleged that a Trinamul Rajya Sabha member and a party councillor extorted “lakhs of rupees as cuts” from him since 2012, the claims coming amid a clamour across Bengal for ...