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Thane: Police have seized a pistol and four live cartridges being carried illegally by a person in Thane, an official said on Sunday. Following a tip-off, police laid a trap on Saturday and nabbed the 22-year-old man in Shahad area, senior police inspector Naresh Pawar from crime unit III at Kalyan said. They found a country-made pistol and four live cartridges worth Rs 31,000 in his possession, Pawar...

THANE: The Thane police have managed to seize drugs worth Rs 3.77 crore in the last 10 months. Out of the seized contraband, 739kg is ganja or marijuana worth Rs 1.16 crore. While total 137 drug pushers have been arrested for peddling various types of drugs, 53 have been held in 39 cases of peddling ganja in 2023, statistical data by the Thane police has revealed.Apart from this a total of 577 cases of...

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 bus helper was allegedly shot dead by a conductor in southeast Delhi's Sunlight Colony on Thursday. Cops have arrested two men in the case, including the bus driver who helped the accused hide the pistol.The deceased was identified as Roop Singh Yadav. Two men, Amit Pateria (helper) and Azad Khan (driver), have been arrested in the case.After shooting Yadav, Pateria made a PCR call to the...

BHIWANDI: Bhiwandi taluka police probing the gang rape of a 16-year-old involving seven accused nabbed one more person on Wednesday, taking the total arrests to five so far. Police said the accused will produced before the Bhiwandi court on Thursday. The seven accused include the girl's boyfriend who recorded a video of the crime and shared it with others. !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function...

MUMBAI: A man from Bangladesh was caught when he landed at the Mumbai International Airport from Bangkok on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Jiku Bablu Das (30), was caught on his arrival in Mumbai when his Indian passport was put in the system by the immigration officials.It was learned that a look-out circular (LOC) had been issued against him by the Goa Police after learning that he had traveled...

THANE: A notorious criminal with a criminal record in Uttar Pradesh, who had a reward of Rs 50,000 for his capture, was apprehended in a collaborative operation involving the Navi Mumbai Police and the Special Task Force unit in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, it was reported.The 23-year-old individual known as Haris, also recognized as Chhotu Abdul Aziz, had managed to evade authorities in Uttar Pradesh for...

THANE: An armourer in the Quick Response Team (QRT) of the Mumbai police was arrested for alleged involvement in a firing incident in Padgha in Thane's Bhiwandi area in which two persons were injured, a senior police official said on Sunday. Motorcycle-borne cousins Aziz Sayyed and Firoze Sheikh were shot at and injured near Mainde village on October 13 by a masked man who fled from the scene after the...

Thane: The crime branch has arrested the fourth accused, an auto driver, in connection with the murder of MNS functionary Jamil Shaikh in 2020.The police said the arrested accused has been identified as Wasim Ansari alias Wasim Bhishi (29) and is a resident of Rabodi.“Ansari played an important role in the murder of Shaikh and gave the logistical support to the accused who planned the murder. The...

NEW DELHI: Police in south Delhi's Neb Sarai area arrested three individuals for allegedly operating a cricket betting racket related to the World Cup, officials said on Saturday. The arrests were made on Thursday, and the accused have been identified as Ravi Kumar, Amit Kumar, and Shahid Khan.Upon investigation, law enforcement seized several items, including two laptops with betting assistance...