Police have arrested a 38-year-old meat shopkeeper in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-senior-citizen-bashed-on-train-bail-axed-in-hours-23385648" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra's</a> Thane district for allegedly selling beef in violation of the law, officials said on Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.
Acting on a tip-off about illegal meat trade, the police conducted a raid on the man's shop at Nizampura in the Bhiwandi area on November 29.
During the raid, they recovered 16 kg of beef, valued at Rs 5,500, from the shop, an official from <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-man-defrauds-thane-jeweller-of-rs-27-5-lakh-with-fake-cheque-held-23605597" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Nizampura police station</a> said, reported PTI.
"Our team found the shop selling beef without any legal permission. After confirming the nature of the meat, we registered a case and arrested the accused," the official said, reported PTI.
The accused has been booked under the provisions of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, the police added.
<h2>Former counsellor with Thane academic institute booked for cheating</h2>
In another case, the police have registered an FIR against a former academic counsellor of an educational institute in Maharashtra's Thane city for allegedly cheating students and misusing their data to fraudulently collect money, officials said on Monday, reported PTI.
The accused in July this year stopped reporting to work at<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/three-arrested-in-maharashtra-s-thane-for-allegedly-duping-businessman-of-rs-31-21-lakh-23605334" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"> the institute</a>, which provides training courses for students in analytics and technology, they said, reported PTI.
He, however, continued to contact students, falsely presenting himself as still employed with the institute and allegedly collected Rs 48,866 without the establishment's knowledge, an official from Naupada police station said, reported PTI.
"The accused misused <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/thane-police-shut-illegal-game-zone-owner-and-two-operators-arrested-23605138" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">student data</a> and collected money directly from them into his personal mobile-linked account. He did not inform the students that he was no longer associated with the institute and misled them under various pretexts," the official said, reported PTI.
Following a complaint by the institute, the police on Saturday registered a case against the counsellor under sections 316(4) (criminal breach of trust) and 318(4) (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the police said.
<h2>Man held for cheating Thane jeweller of Rs 27 lakh</h2>
Meanwhile, the police have arrested a man in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly cheating a local jeweller of Rs 27.5 lakh by gaining his trust with a fake cheque, officials said on Sunday, reported PTI.
The accused, from the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/thane-jeweller-murdered-police-arrest-wife-and-son-amid-property-row-23604093" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Bhayander area</a>, befriended the 57-year-old jeweller through an online real estate marketplace in July and gained his trust by giving a cheque of Rs 66 lakh as an advance payment towards the purchase of a flat from him, reported PTI.
After winning the victim's confidence, the accused bought gold jewellery valued at Rs 27.5 lakh from him without making any payment, and then issued a stop-payment instruction for the cheque issued earlier for the property deal, a police release said.
Based on the jeweller's complaint, the Bhayander police registered a case against the accused on September 16 under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 318(4) (cheating) and 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), reported PTI.
The accused later hid his identity and frequently changed locations to Delhi, Noida and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-illegal-dance-bar-raided-in-thane-six-held-23604805" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Mumbai</a> to evade arrest, it said.
The police finally traced him to a hotel in Thane city and arrested him from there on November 27, the release said.
The accused is a habitual offender, with cases of cheating already registered against him in Thane and Mumbai and some dating back to 2000, the police added.
(With inputs from PTI)

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Acting on a tip-off about illegal meat trade, the police conducted a raid on the man's shop at Nizampura in the Bhiwandi area on November 29; during the raid, they recovered 16 kg of beef, valued at Rs 5,500, from the shop, an official from Nizampura police station said

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