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Kolhapur: The police on Tuesday arrested seven suspects within 12 hours of a Rs 1.2 crore armed dacoity late on Monday night. The suspects had allegedly forced a Mumbai-bound private bus to stop at Wathar, about 22km from Kolhapur city along the national highway to Bengaluru, and robbed 60kg silver, 10g gold and some machinery parts from an Angadia service staffer. The police have recovered the entire...

Chennai: A woman from Vadapalani was conned of 75,000 by cyber fraudsters, who identified themselves as Indian High Commissionerate officials from a foreign country. They demanded money to release her daughter studying in London who was under ‘digital arrest'. According to police sources, the victims, Ashok Anand and his wife Banumathi, residents of Vadapalani, received a phone call where the...

Woman lodges sex assault plaint after 16 yrs, accused held (Representative image) MUMBAI: Sixteen years after a deaf and mute woman was drugged and sexually assaulted, she registered a police complaint after getting support from her husband. Kurar police arrested the accused and transferred the case to Vakola police as it occurred in their jurisdiction.The victim was a minor when the incident occurred...

New Delhi: A 36-year-old man who jumped parole four years ago was arrested on Monday by Delhi Police's Crime Branch. The man, identified as Rohit Balara from Neb Sarai, was convicted in 2019 for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy in 2012 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He was granted emergency parole for 90 days in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, but failed to...

Goa nightclub co-owner Ajay Gupta. NEW DELHI: Ajay Gupta — co-owner of Goa’s ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub — was tracked down to a private Delhi hospital where he had allegedly checked in citing “spine-related issues” in a bid to buy time and evade arrest in the blaze that killed 25 people on December 6. His cover collapsed after medical clearance, following which he was detained and...

NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed an FIR and began investigations into the procurement of bulk SIM cards by a Delhi-based firm and their alleged use in SIM Box-enabled cyber crimes and digital arrests.The core allegation is the firm obtained more than 20,000 bulk SIM cards and sold them in breach of Department of Telecommunications guidelines. The connections were allegedly diverted for use in organised...

Thane: The Thane unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a peon with the Thane collector office along with two private persons in a graft case.The accused has been identified as Ashok Waghela, 45, a peon attached to the home branch of the Thane collector office. The other include, Nitesh Hingmire, 33, and Abhishek Bade, 26, who helped the peon in the bribe.An ACB official informed that the...

NEW DELHI: A potentially dangerous incident was averted near the Pragati Maidan area of New Delhi when police arrested two members of the Arsh Dalla gang. One of them was about to use a live hand grenade, and the other had already fired a shot at the police before being stopped.The encounter took place on Outer Ring Road near Pragati Maidan in the early hours of Thursday, where a police team comprising...

NAGPUR: A male flyer seated next to a 40-year-old woman travelling from Pune to Nagpur for her father's funeral allegedly masturbated and made a lewd gesture at her mid-flight, leading to his arrest after the plane landed at the city airport on Monday.Feroze Shaikh attempted to sneak away while the flyers were alighting, only to be chased by the woman he had allegedly targeted.Her screams alerted...

CHENNAI: A Chennai-based businessman was arrested on Monday for cheating a Sudanese businessman of Rs 54 lakh by promising to send white rice.According to police, Sahul Hameed, who runs Starwings General Trading LLC in Sudan, approached Mohammad Zaheer Hussain Bahadur, who runs Ayesha Exports in Thousand Lights, for 502 metric tonne of white rice.As per the deal, Hameed transferred Rs 54,99,300 to...