With the seizure of 28 illegal fire-arms and 57 cartridges, registration of 4,712 liquor cases, and a sharp rise to 862 NDPS cases , the Nagpur Rural Police delivered one of their toughest crackdowns on crime in 2025. Along with this, preventive action was taken against 2,178 accused involved in illegal activities. Large-scale operations against crime and unlawful businesses led to seizures worth Rs 7.7 crore by the police during the year. Preventive action against 1,496 According to official records, preventive action under Section 126 of the BNSS increased sharply from 569 cases in 2024 to 1,496 cases in 2025 which marked a 163 per cent rise. Preventive actions under Section 129 BNSS also increased from 1,644 cases to 1,965 cases. Violations of preventive bonds rose from 85 cases in 2024 to 201 cases in 2025, and fines recovered through courts jumped from Rs 11,600 to Rs 23,66,200. The number of externed accused increased from 42 to 106, while detentions under the...
Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Sunday were granted five days custody of Hemant Sikander Jham, Director of Jham Builders and Developers, and Youvan Jivandas Gambhir (34) whom they arrested for duping over 400 investors of crores of rupees. The accused were absconding for the past two years and landed in police dragnet on Saturday.
District and Sessions Judge (MPID) Special Court Patil remanded the accused to police custody for five days. Jham (33) was arrested form his house at Flat No. 202, Orchid Bloom Apartment, Sai Nagar, Sonegaon. A police officer informed that Jham had duped investors Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai cities. Maximum investors are retired governemtn employees who had invested their savings in the fraudlent schemes floated by the fraudsters.
He had constructed a road at Kanhaiya City in Wagdhara to create an impression of construction of row houses among the investors. He had opened an office at Paryawaran Nagar in Somalwada where a large number of marketing executives were recruited to run the fraudulent schemes. Sources informed that he was also making false promises of giving residential plots to the investors at a lay-out in Vathoda area.
Jham was an accused in the infamous Rs 38.75 crore Navodaya Cooperative Bank loan fraud case, Jham’s 30 acre land worth Rs 40 crore at Waghdhara in Hingna Tehsil was seized by the police allegedly for not returning Rs six crore to about 400 investors in June 2017.
An offence of cheating and criminal breach of trust was registered against Jham Builders and Developers at Sonegaon Police Station in October 2015 following a complaint lodged by Shrikant Janbandhu. The complainant was among the 418 investors who had booked flats, row houses or bungalows at Kanhaiya City, a project launched by the Jham Builders in 2010.
After some investors had moved the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, about 250 summonses and warrants were issued against him but he had not appeared before it. Even an arrest warrant was also issued against him.
He was booked under Sections 406, 409, 420, 120(b), 465, 467, 468, 471, 477 (a) of the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act and Sections 65, 66 (b) of Information Technology Act, has already been registered against the bank chairman, board of directors and others at Dhantoli Police Station.

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