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COIMBATORE: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths on Saturday morning started searches in 22 places in Coimbatore, three places in Chennai and four places in Hyderabad.The searches are being conducted in a case related to an ISIS module.Jamesha Mubeen, an ISIS follower who drove a car with an improvised explosive device, died in an explosion in front of the Kottai Sangameshwarar Temple in...

MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Ahmedabad unit took custody of bookie Anil Jaisinghani on Thursday in a decade-old money laundering case.The unit was investigating two connected cases - a Rs2,600 crore IPL betting scandal involving influential bookies and Rs5,000 crore money laundering case - against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta. ED's Ahmedabad zonal director J P Singh, who was...

THANE: The kasarwadavali police has registered a Non-Cognizable offence in the alleged Roshni Shinde assault case and mentioned two ‘unidentified’ women as the opponents. After a huge Morcha was taken out by the Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray and the alias of Maha Vikas Aghadi against the incident, only after that Thane police swung into action. Had the police taken swift action earlier, the situation...

NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed a bail plea of Delhi's former cabinet minister Satyendar Jain in the money laundering case.The court also dismissed the bail pleas of co-accused Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain in the case.Jain was arrested on May 30 last year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He is accused of having laundered money through four companies allegedly linked to him.The high...

PATIALA: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had been serving time in Patiala central jail for a 1988 road rage death case, was released on Saturday, after nearly 10 months.He emerged from the prison wearing a sky blue jacket, later than the anticipated afternoon release time, at 5.53pm.After coming out of the jail, Sidhu slammed Centre, saying democracy in chains, institutions turned slaves.“I...

THANE: In a 2020 murder case, a court in Maharashtra's Thane acquitted two labourers from Navi Mumbai, saying the prosecution failed to prove charges against them. Additional sessions court judge P M Gupta passed the order on March 27, which was made available on Saturday.The two accused lived in the same locality as the victim Santosh Kasbe in Turbhe. The prosecution informed the court that on January...

KOLKATA: The sexual assault and murder of the seven-year-old girl in Tiljala was a planned crime, with the accused, Alok Kumar Sah, having stalked the child for at least two weeks, police said. Alok had clicked her photographs and studied her movements, especially her whereabouts on weekends, the probe revealed. Cops said Alok had chosen the day of the murder carefully. "Alok Kumar Sah had been...

CHENNAI: Up to nine people can get infected while travelling on a half-full city bus with one Covid-19 positive passenger, shows a study by scientists at the Anna University and Puducherry-based ICMRVector Control Research Centre. The numbers can increase if there are more infected patients or if the bus is more crowded or if the passengers travel longer distances. In the study, recently published in...

MUMBAI: Holding that the special CBI trial court Judge passed a wrong order in January 2018 in a 2009 custodial torture and death case, the Bombay high court setting it aside directed framing of a murder charge against three accused police officials.The forensic report had said Shaikh had died due to contusions on head, noted Justice P D Naik and said the trial court order in not framing the murder...

TRICHY: A court in Trichy on Tuesday sentenced a former inspector of police to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in a graft case.S P Selvaraj, 72, who was an inspector in Siruganur police station in Trichy district, was convicted by the special court for the Prevention of Corruption Act for accepting a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a man in November 2006. The complainant was Srinivasan of Perakambi village...