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15 Feb

Money laundering: ED searches premises in Mumbai ‘linked to Dawood Ibrahim, aides’; one held

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday detained a person from Mumbai in connection with its investigation in a money laundering probe linked to the operations of the underworld, illegal property deals and hawala transactions. Early morning, ED conducted multiple searches in Mumbai. The raids are currently underway at about ten locations in Mumbai. Officials told that action is being conducted under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The ED action is based on a recent FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and some independent intelligence inputs received…

31 Jan

Jodhpur: 19-Year-Old Model Jumps Off Sixth Floor of Hotel, Dials Father Before Taking Extreme Step

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In a tragic incident, a 19-year-old model allegedly tried to end her life by allegedly jumping off the terrace of a hotel in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. The incident took place on Saturday night, said reports. The woman, Gungun Upadhyay had returned to Jodhpur from Udaipur on Saturday. If reports are to be believed, she was residing in Hotel Lord's Inn in Jodhpur. Before taking the extreme step, she reportedly dialed her father and told him to look at her face. Following this, her father immediately contacted the police. The officials tracked her to the Jodhpur hotel, however, the woman…

31 Jan

CBI to probe Tamil Nadu student’s death case

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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday transferred the Lavanya suicide case to the Central Bureau of Investigation after the victim’s parents had filed a petition seeking a CBI probe into the matter. The case was transferred to the CBI on the day when the NCPCR team is visiting Thanjavur to conduct a probe into the case and enquire with officials involved. The NCPCR had earlier alleged that the Tamil Nadu government was not cooperating with the enquiry presided over by their state team and therefore they had to get a team from the Centre to conduct…

29 Jan

1 held in Kolkata for raping differently abled woman

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A man was arrested here for allegedly raping a hearing-and-speech-impaired woman in a moving car, a police officer said on Friday.Kamre Alam alias Raja, a resident of Panchannagram, was arrested for allegedly being involved in the incident. She was kidnapped from the city’s Pragati Maidan area late on Tuesday by the accused, who then raped her, according to the police complaint. Commenting further on the case, a police source said that the woman knew the accused from work. It was on January 27 when the accused stopped the woman outside the station when she was returning home. He later managed…

22 Jan

Patiala HC Session Court Rejects Anticipatory Bail Petition of Bulli App Accused Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha

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The Patiala House Court's Session Court on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail petition of accused Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha in connection with the 'Bulli Bai' app matter. The court while passing the order said that the allegations against the applicant are grave in nature as it is a direct onslaught upon the dignity and modesty of the women of a particular community. The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested another person from Odisha's Jharsuguda in connection with the 'Bulli Bai' case. The cyber police of the Mumbai crime branch today intercepted Niraj Singh a 28-year-old MBA graduate from the Lamtibahal area under…

14 Jan

BSF rescues 140 parrots from clutches of smugglers on India-Bangladesh border

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The Border Security Force (BSF) has rescued 140 green parrots from clutches of smugglers and foiled wildlife smuggling along the Indo-Bangladesh border.On the basis of specific information, the BSF troops in the South Bengal frontier nabbed a smuggler on Thursday along with these parrots in the North 24 Parganas district. “All these birds were being smuggled from India to Bangladesh through the area of Border Out Post Tarali, North 24 Parganas district in Bangladesh,” the BSF said. In a detailed note, the BSF said its 122 Battalion troops of Border Out Post Tarali in the Kolkata Sector laid an ambush…

24 Nov

Gautam Gambhir gets death threat from ‘ISIS Kashmir’, approaches police

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Delhi and former cricketer Gautam Gambhir claimed that he has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir', according to news agency ANI on Wednesday. Shweta Chauhan, DCP central, told ANI that Gambhir has approached the Delhi Police in this regard. “Gautam Gambhir has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir' through e-mail. Security has been beefed up outside Gambhir's residence,” Chauhan added. DCP (Central) Shweta Chauhan has said that an investigation is underway to probe the death threats. "Gautam Gambhir has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir' through e-mail. In 2019, Gambhir was elected as a…

11 Nov

22 year old boy dies in police custody in Kasganj; police calls it suicide

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Boy called for questioning at Kasganj police station in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh in a kidnapping case died in custody. According to police, Altaf aged 22 hanged himself using a string from his jacket hood in the washroom of the police lock-up. "One Altaf was called for questioning in Kasganj police station in a case related to IPC kidnapping and kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her marriage on Tuesday morning," narrating the sequence of events, Superintendent of Police, Kasganj, Rohan Pramod Botre said on Wednesday. During interrogation, he requested the policemen to go to the washroom and was allowed to use the washroom inside the lock-up. "He was wearing…

05 Nov

Tiffin bomb recovered in Punjab’s Ferozepu, 3 held captive

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Punjab Police arrested three people as captive in connection with the recovery of tiffin bomb in Ferozepur on Thursday. On Diwali eve, Police recovered a tiffin bomb which was kept concealed in the agriculture field at village Ali Ke in Ferozepur district. Punjab Police arrested the accused and his two associates who provided shelter and logistical support. The investigation is underway. Further details are awaited in this regard.

06 Oct

‘You can kill body, but not spirit’, says daughter of prominent Kashmiri Pandit shot dead by militants

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Mourners are visiting the home of Makhan Lal Bindroo, a pharmacist who was among the three civilians shot dead by militants in the late hours of 5 October, as per Jammu and Kashmir Police. The pharmacy of the 65-year-old Kashmiri Pandit in Srinagar is a familiar place to the majority of people in Kashmir looking for quality medicine. Bindroo Medicate is known for being one of the only medical shops in the Valley that does not sell counterfeit medicine. The police said the attack occurred around 7:15 pm on Tuesday. “Bindroo received grievous gunshot injuries in this terror incident and…