Four persons including a co-operative bank manager were arrested for their involvement in a racket of bogus fixed deposit (FD) certificates worth over Rs 10 crore during the weekend.

Officers of the Economics Offences Wing of the Mumbai police raided an office at Taikalwadi in Matunga and arrested an estate agent Mahesh Gehi (45) and his assistant Nimish Shah (32) on July 15. Over a hundred fake FD certificates of various branches of Memon Co-operative Bank, two fake rubber stamps and some letterheads of the bank were recovered at their instance. Three days later, the manager of the Mahim branch of bank Suraiya Abdul Razak was arrested while the printer of the fake FDs Satyanarayan Gawde was held on Sunday.

/S B Jaisinghani for Delhi

Srichand Bhagwandas Jaisinghani (67), a city-based senior advocate and criminal lawyer, has been appointed the additional solicitor general for Delhi. He is expected to join the Delhi High Court on Wednesday.Jaisinghani, aformer associate of Ram Jethmalani, has been practicing criminal law for the past 40 years. Among the famous cases he fought include the `Kissa Kursi Ka' case of 1978 against V C Shukla and Sanjay Gandhi wherein as the public prosecutor for the CBI, he was able to convict Gandhi for a month.

Trader held for hoarding cereals

The flying squad of the rationing office here raided a godown of an export firm in the TTC area and seized cereals worth Rs 1.05 crore stocked without permission. The officials of the squad raided the godown of Sopariwalla Exporters, owned by Abdulla Pathan, and seized excess quantity of 5340.90 quintal of masoor dal. Pathan has beenarrested.