The scam surfaced after tampering was detected in gold packets in the bank’s strong room, with police finding fake jewellery in 73 packets and 3 underweight ones

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was not the only supplier of oil and petroleum products to India and never had been.

Sources said JeM’s eastward expansion plan has been effectively dismantled, as the key module intended to spread fear in a region the group was attempting to “quietly reclaim”