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MUMBAI: A security guard was arrested by the Malwani police recently for molesting a minor girl in a housing society at Malad West. The Malwani Police registered a case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.Police said the guard used to drop the 10-year-old victim home and had molested her on a few occasions in the past. The latest incident occurred a few days ago when the girl was...

NEW DELHI/THANE: An official reported on Friday that law enforcement authorities apprehended an accomplice of gangster Ravi Pujari, who is sought in connection with an extortion case, at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.An official from the city crime branch reported that on Thursday, they arrested Vijay Purushottam Salvi, known by the alias Vijay Tambat, and he has been charged under...

A TN prison literacy, numeracy and life skills programme aims to help more than 1,000 inmatesThe same hands that once committed a crime now hold a piece of white chalk and a slate, the fingers slowly form the letters of the alphabet. ‘Padam’, the word forms in Tamil. The ‘padam’ (meaning picture) of the inmates at the Madurai central prison enrolled in the Tamil Nadu government’s new special...

BATHINDA: With data about hate crimes in the United States of America (USA) released on Monday, it has come to fore that the Sikhs still remain the second most targeted group under religiously motivated hate crime incidents. In the data for 2022 the highest ever Anti-Sikh hate crime victimisations have been recorded at 198. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) records such crime cases across...

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police’s crime branch has registered an FIR in connection with fraud during an exam related to the recruitment of fire operators.Police said the complaint was filed by a deputy secretary rank official, and they have named three people as suspects in the case. According to the complainant, they scrutinised the biometric reports taken during computer-based and driving skill tests for...

AHMEDABAD: Tarun Jinaraj — a murder suspect who allegedly killed his wife Sajni Nair in 2003 — was nabbed by the Gujarat's Ahmedabad Cyber Crime team at a paying guest facility in Delhi's Najafgarh area on Thursday.Jinaraj had jumped the interim bail and failed to report back. He is accused of killing Sajni by choking her on Valentine’s Day in 2003, three months after their wedding in...

KALYAN: A truck driver was stabbed to death by unidentified people while he was checking tyre near Durgadi chowk in Kalyan, on Monday morning.The deceased has been identified as Bhola Kumar Mato (24).The incident took place when Mato was coming from Bhiwandi side towards Kalyan. He was stabbed by two people who came on motorcycle, said police.Sarjerao Patil, senior police inspector of Khadakpada police...

MUMBAI: The detection rate of crimes on Mumbai Railways has improved from 15% in January-August 2019 (pre-Covid times) to 40% in the same period this year. Meanwhile, overall crimes reported in the first eight months of this year (10,360 cases) have increased by 16% compared with the same period in 2022 (8,885 cases), though they are still half of pre-Covid numbers. Government Railway Police (GRP)...

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...

The recent allegations by investor research firm Hindenburg against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey also extend to other employees of his company Block including Indian-origin chief financial officer Amrita Ahuja. And Ahuja is not the only Indian American who has been in the news lately for serious financial white collar crime. Here are some of the people of Indian origin who have been in the headlines for...