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NEW DELHI: A white Santro car, which had changed ownership several times, an Aadhaar card of a woman sex worker and a wrong phone number were what police had at hands while probing the case of a woman found dead, bound in chains. But these were the slim clues that helped them solve the case in less than 12 hours.The CCTV footage recovered from Block 18 of Tilak Nagar, where the Swiss woman's body was...

KOLKATA: A 32-year-old auto driver stabbed to death his 21-year-old wife at Haridevpur's Dolly Villa on Sunday night. Accused Suvendu Das had reportedly consumed poison after stabbing his wife. He, too, was battling for life till reports last came in.The incident, police said, took place at 10.15pm. Suvendu allegedly had a tiff with his wife, Krishna, and stabbed her multiple times, witnesses told...

KOLKATA: A woman and her 34-year-old son were found living with the body of the woman's husband - identified as Shankar Chakrabarty - for over 24 hours in their rented flat close to Sisir Bagan in Behala.This was almost 48 hours after a physician had visited the family and requested the duo to admit Shankar, 80, to a hospital after he was injured in a fall inside the bathroom. "All three suffer from...

MUMBAI/THANE/NAVI MUMBAI: The city police have geared up for Thursday's Ganeshotsav bandobast. Nearly 20,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city, including eight additional police commissioners, 25 deputy police commissioners, 45 assistant police commissioners, 2,866 officers and 16,250 constables. A total of 35 platoons of State Reserve Police force (SRPF), Rapid Action Force (RAF), Quick...

MUMBAI/THANE/NAVI MUMBAI: The city police have geared up for Thursday's Ganeshotsav bandobast. Nearly 20,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city, including eight additional police commissioners, 25 deputy police commissioners, 45 assistant police commissioners, 2,866 officers and 16,250 constables. A total of 35 platoons of State Reserve Police force (SRPF), Rapid Action Force (RAF), Quick...

PALGHAR: Police were rushed to tackle chaos at a hospital in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Saturday after an injured teen, who apparently tripped trying to escape cops, was declared dead, an official said on Saturday.The police asserted that Vinod Bhoir (18) likely experienced a heart attack while attempting to flee, leading to his demise. However, the family members of the young...

KALYAN: The Mahatma Phule police have served a notice to Ganesh mandal run by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vijay Salvi for targeting the Central government through its decoration.The mandal's theme this year is 'Democracy is at peril' where it has shown that the Centre has captured all the four pillars of democracy. The mandal called Vijay Tarun Mitra Mandal is celebrating its 60 years. Last year, the cops...

NOIDA: A 17-year-old boy who allegedly fell from his apartment on the 24th floor of a building in a group housing society in UP's Noida died on Tuesday, police said. The police suspect the incident, which took place in Gaur Saundaryam society in the Bisrakh area of Greater Noida, to be a case of suicide."Around 6.30 am on Tuesday, a supervisor of the housing society alerted the police that a 17-year-old...

KOLKATA: The city cops on Thursday evening arrested an 11-member team of fraudsters from Jamtara after KKR's home match at Eden Gardens. The men, all sporting KKR jerseys, were seated in the G-block stand when they were spotted by detective department officers deployed there. The sleuths followed them after the match and arrested them when they reached their hotel.The accused are part of a gang that has...

COIMBATORE: Around 2,000 police personnel would be deployed from Masinagudi to Theppakadu on April 9 to provide security for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Theppakadu elephant camp in the Nilgiris to honour mahout Bomman and his wife Bellie, heroes of Oscar-winning short documentary film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’.The 7km stretch, which is situated at the trijunction of Tamil Nadu,...