{
  "id": 3350439,
  "title": "Mumbai Crime Branch Busts Malad Call Centre For Alleged Franchise Fraud, Detains Nine Including Owners",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/mumbai-crime-branch-busts-malad-call-centre-for-alleged-franchise",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-25T20:27:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-crime-branch-busts-malad-call-centre-for-alleged-franchise-fraud-detains-nine-including-owners"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch’s Unit 10 has busted an alleged fraudulent call centre operating from Malad and detained nine people, including two company owners, three heads of departments and three managers, for allegedly cheating people by promising them courier and e-commerce franchise businesses. The nine persons detained by the police have been identified as Devendra Arvind Virkar (32) –…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}