Crime-Justice

GUWAHATI: An 18-year-old girl has gone missing under mysterious circumstances from the Basistha area of Guwahati since early Friday morning.

SRINAGAR: Thieves struck overnight at the apple nursery of a poor, physically challenged farmer in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Shopian district and decamped with 400 high density young apple trees.

KOZHIKODE: A man, who was on the run for the past two days after snatching Rs 40 lakh from the bank staff, was taken into custody from near here by a team of Kerala Police on Friday.

SHILLONG: In a sensational revelation on Thursday, East Khasi Hills SP Vivek Syiem narrated the entire sequence of events leading to the cold-blooded murder of Raja Raghuwanshi, terming it a pre-planned conspiracy orchestrated by Raj Kushwaha, ‘lover’ of the victim’s wife Sonam Raghuwanshi.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing drive against corruption, has arrested Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Baldev Singh, posted at police station Sultanpur Lodhi, district Kapurthala for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 2,000.

SHILLONG: In a sensational revelation on Thursday, East Khasi Hills SP Vivek Syiem narrated the entire sequence of events leading to the cold-blooded murder of Raja Raghuwanshi, terming it a pre-planned conspiracy orchestrated by Raj Kushwaha, ‘lover’ of the victim’s wife Sonam Raghuwanshi.

RANCHI: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Special Court in Ranchi has issued an arrest warrant against Chhattisgarh-based businessman Siddharth Singhania in connection with the Jharkhand liquor scam.

JAIPUR: Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi is yet again facing trouble in Rajasthan. A godown allegedly being run by his family has been sealed after state minister Kirodi Lal Meena raided pesticide factories and godowns in Jaipur and nearby areas late.

SANGLI: Just days after the gruesome Raja Raghuvanshi murder case sent shockwaves across the country, another chilling crime involving a newlywed couple has emerged, this time from Maharashtra, where a woman, married for just three weeks, allegedly killed her husband.

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Udit Raj on Thursday sought to curse the media over coverage of the heart-wrenching murder mystery of Raja Raghuvanshi, allegedly by her wife Sonam during their honeymoon trip and said that it amounted to "movie masala show" on television.

QUETTA: Baloch National Movement's Human Rights body Paank on Thursday strongly condemned the extrajudicial killings of two more victims of enforced disappearances by the Pakistani army in Mashkai of Balochistan's Awaran district.

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad Police have registered a case against actress Kalpika Ganesh for allegedly creating a nuisance and damaging property at a pub in Hyderabad's Gachibowli.

KOLKATA: Tension prevailed in the Maheshtala area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, as police crackdown on protesters continued on Thursday. So far, 18 have been arrested.

BHUBANESWAR: A shocking incident has rocked the temple town of Puri, where an 80-year-old senior servitor of the Jagannath Temple, Jagannath Dixit, was allegedly murdered under mysterious circumstances.

NEW YORK: An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to over six years in prison for his involvement in a nearly $2 million scheme to defraud senior citizens by using call centres abroad.

PATNA: In a shocking incident, a woman Constable was killed and two other on-duty officers were grievously injured after being rammed by a speeding Scorpio SUV on the four-lane Atal Path under the jurisdiction of Sri Krishnapuri police station in the early hours of Thursday.

SHILLONG: The murder of Raja Raghuvanshi during his honeymoon in Meghalaya was unravelled after investigators found a mangalsutra and a ring left behind in a suitcase by his wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, at a Sohra homestay, Meghalaya Police said.

JAIPUR: In a shocking incident, Army Havildar Vikram Singh (40) was allegedly beaten to death by two youths in Palota Ka Bas village, under Surajgarh police station limits in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district.

KOKLATA: Shweta Khan alias Fultusi, the prime accused behind the West Bengal porn racket case, was finally arrested by the West Bengal Police on Wednesday.

CHANDIGARH: With the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state completed 102 days, Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested 113 drug smugglers and recovered 1.5 kg heroin and Rs 15040 drug money from their possession. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 16,982 in just 102 days.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has granted bail to a man who was booked by the Uttarakhand Police under the anti-conversion law for marrying a woman of another faith.

INDORE: Even though the Meghalaya Police and Indore Police's initial investigation revealed that Raj Kushwaha, the alleged lover of Sonam Raghuvanshi, orchestrated the entire plan for killing Raja Raghuvanshi, his family members were yet to believe that he could not do anything wrong.

PATNA: In a disturbing trend of murders in the city in the last three days, two persons were critically injured in a late-night firing in the Mainpura locality of Patna on Tuesday night, officials confirmed. One of them, Raja Kumar, succumbed to his gunshot wounds during treatment on Wednesday morning.

SHILLONG: Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the sensational murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi during their honeymoon in Meghalaya, has confessed to her role in the crime during interrogation, sources told IANS on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau's (SIB) former chief, T. Prabhakar Rao, on Wednesday once again appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the phone tapping case.

KOLKATA: Aryan Khan, one of the two accused in a porn racket case in the Howrah district of West Bengal was arrested on Wednesday from a hideout at Golf Green in South Kolkata.

INDORE: As the investigation into the chilling murder of Raja Raghuvanshi unfolds, the family of Raj Kushwaha -- the alleged mastermind behind the killing -- has come forward in his defence, claiming that he is being falsely implicated.

BHOPAL: A disturbing incident of the gang-rape of a minor girl in government-owned Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa surfaced, following which the Congress party accused the government of shielding the accused.

HYDERABAD: Telangana High Court has suspended the seven-year imprisonment sentence of four persons, including BJP MLA from Karnataka, Gali Janardan Reddy awarded by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in the Obulapuram mining case and granted them bail.

HYDERABAD: Former Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday appeared before the PC Ghose Commission, which is probing the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project.

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate have started tracking the sources of the documents based on which Azad Mullick, the Pakistani citizen whom ED arrested in Kolkata in April, secured an EPIC card, with which he voted twice, first in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly election and then in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

NEW DELHI: In a significant breakthrough in curbing street crime in the National Capital, the South West Delhi District Police have arrested two habitual snatchers and one receiver of stolen goods.

LOS ANGELES: A limited curfew will come into effect from Tuesday in several areas of downtown Los Angeles, California, following several nights of unrest triggered by the Trump administration's immigration raids.

QUITO: At least eight people were shot dead in Ecuador's southwestern coastal city of Guayaquil, amid a surge in criminal violence, national police said.

SHILLONG: Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the shocking murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi during their honeymoon in Meghalaya, was brought to Shillong under tight security and is set to be produced in court on Wednesday.