{
  "id": 693370,
  "title": "Mumbai Police Payroll Scam: ₹6.41 Crore Allegedly Diverted Through 10 ‘Ghost Employees’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/mumbai-police-payroll-scam-6-41-crore-allegedly-diverted-through-10",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T18:52:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-police-payroll-scam-641-crore-allegedly-diverted-through-10-ghost-employees"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai: A major payroll scam involving the alleged creation of 10 fictitious employees in the Mumbai Police salary system has come to light, with a suspected financial irregularity of ₹6.41 crore. Salaries were allegedly generated in the names of employees who did not actually exist in the police force, and the money was credited to bank accounts linked to them. The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}