Crime-Justice

PHAGWARA: Man shoots himself dead as he was suffering from acute depression following dispute with his wife at local Inder Vihar locality here today said police.

JAIPUR: Two criminals, gangster Salman Khan and his aide Rakesh Kumar, have been arrested in Rajasthan, and a huge cache of illegal arms has been seized from their possession, police said on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: Amid the rising threat of cyber and digital crimes, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is also the Home Minister of the state, on Wednesday told the state council that during the last 10 years, over one crore investors were duped of Rs 22,552 crore in various investment schemes in the state, excluding Mumbai.

BHOPAL: In the infamous fake doctor case involving Mission Hospital in Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered the state government to register separate FIRs for each incident and provide compensation to the victims' families.

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday told a court here that the Congress party wanted to usurp around Rs 2,000 crore assets of the now-defunct National Herald newspaper.

DHAKA: The Awami League has reported statistics regarding human rights violations in Bangladesh, claiming that the country is in a state of "brutal anarchy," highlighting several cases of rape, lynchings, and unidentified bodies, describing the South Asian country as a "blood-stained nation" under the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.

HAZARIBAGH: Anis Ansari, a former area commander of the banned extremist outfit Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), was shot dead under mysterious circumstances in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, officials said.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal along with his party leaders and activists were detained by the Punjab Police on Wednesday as they were heading towards Mohali, near here, to express solidarity with arrested party leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who would be produced in a court later in the day.

BHOPAL: In a stark illustration of the ongoing peril from Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, a civilian sustained severe injuries in a pressure-triggered IED explosion.

CHENNAI: In a bid to provide relief to the family of Ajith Kumar, the 28-year-old victim of an alleged custodial death in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district, the state government has offered a job at an AAVIN facility to his younger brother and allotted a residential plot to the family.

LUCKNOW: The residents of Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh woke up to a horrifying sight of alleged cold-blooded murder on Wednesday morning. Two youths -- a boy and a girl -- were found hanging from a tree in Parsona village, leaving the residents shell-shocked.

NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old man was arrested in Delhi's Palam village for allegedly harassing a college student by creating fake Instagram accounts and using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate objectionable content.

KOLKATA: Monojit Mishra, one of the prime accused in Kolkata law college rape, was appointed as a temporary staff of the same college flouting the basic norm, sources said.

CHAMARAJANAGAR: Close on the heels of the shocking incident involving the poisoning of five tigers, authorities have recovered the carcasses of 20 monkeys in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka on Wednesday.

ATHENS: A 19-year-old Pakistani national was arrested in Greece on charges of providing accommodation to three illegal migrants.

NEW DELHI: Two women have been arrested for robbing a young passenger in Delhi’s Kamla Nagar area, said police on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: The ruling DMK government in Tamil Nadu is grappling with growing public outrage following the alleged custodial death of a 28-year-old youth, Ajith Kumar, in Sivaganga district.

JAMSHEDPUR: The Jharkhand Police recovered gold jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore that was looted from a gold trader in East Singhbhum district within 18 hours of the crime, officials said on Tuesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The first function of the new State Police chief Ravadha Chandrasekhar began on a sour note due to a security failure.

KOLKATA: The investigating team probing the Kasba law student gang-rape case has been able to secure some circumstantial evidence that matches the statement given by the victim after the crime was committed on June 25 evening which corroborates the charges against the three arrested accused in the case.

PATNA: An on-duty transport officer was killed and two others injured after an unidentified vehicle rammed their SUV in Bihar’s Darbhanga district on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: Continuing its ongoing relentless drive against corruption in the state, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), on Monday arrested Head Constable (HC) Mandeep Singh, posted at Police Post Patran, district Patiala, red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs. 30,000.

AMRITSAR: In a major crackdown on drug trafficking amidst the ongoing anti-drugs ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ campaign launched on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Amritsar Commissionerate Police, with the support of Border Security Force (BSF) and Rajasthan Police, has busted a major international drug cartel being operated by Pak-based smuggler Tanveer Shah and Canada-based handler Joban Kaler and recovered huge consignment of 60.302 Kg Heroin from near the International Border in Barmer, Rajasthan, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Monday.

NEW DELHI: The CBI has booked a former manager of the State Bank of India branch in Assam for possessing allegedly illegal assets worth over Rs 80 lakh, an official said on Monday.

JABALPUR: After a hoax bomb threat was sent via email to the Jabalpur Airport last week, operations at the airport have resumed now, authorities said on Monday.

QUETTA: Zeeshan Baloch, a 21-year-old student and resident of Khudabadan, Panjgur in Balochistan, was extra-judicially killed on Monday after his enforced disappearance by a "Pakistan-backed death squad," according to a human rights organisation.

IDAHO: Two firefighters were fatally shot while responding to a fire near Canfield Mountain in northern Idaho, local authorities confirmed, prompting a massive law enforcement operation as sniper fire continues to pose an active threat in the area.

KOLKATA: BJP leader Rahul Sinha on Monday launched a sharp attack on senior Trinamool Congress leaders Madan Mitra and Kalyan Banerjee for their controversial remarks in the wake of the Kolkata law college gang-rape case.

BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Police on Monday arrested a man from Assam on charges of murdering his lover, a mother of two children, and dumping her body into a garbage truck.

KOLKATA: As the investigation into the rape of a law student within her college premises at Kasba in South Kolkata, West Bengal, continues, information has surfaced that the said college authorities allegedly ignored criminal antecedents of one of the three prime accused, Monojit Mishra, while giving him contractual employment.

DHAKA: In yet another disturbing incident of violence on minorities and the atrocities against women in Bangladesh, a Hindu woman was brutally gang raped in her own home in the Cumilla district, while her attackers filmed the assault and circulated the footage, a human rights body said on Monday.

PHAGWARA: The Nakodar Sadar police have arrested a youth on the charge of rape and criminal conspiracy. Investigating officer (IO) Janak Raj said the accused has been identified as Prince Singh, a resident of Sultanwind Road Amritsar.

PHAGWARA: A burglary took place in Nadala town of Kapurthala district while the occupants of the targeted house were away visiting relatives in Amritsar. The incident came to light when the family returned home to find the locks broken and household items scattered.

PHAGWARA: Two young men were killed in a fatal road accident shortly after midnight on Friday near Lovely Professional University (LPU) on the National Highway, police said.

PHAGWARA: In a swift and commendable operation, the Phillaur Police, under the leadership of DSP Sarwan Singh Ball (PPS), successfully rescued a kidnapped man and arrested two prime accused within hours of the incident being reported.