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MADURAI: A gang hacked a woman to death at Kattarankulam in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu after attacking the driver of an autorickshaw she was travelling in on Sunday night. The murdered woman has been identified as M Velladuraichi, 28, of Jameenthevarkulam. She was going to attend a family function at Kumarareddiapuram when the autorickshaw was intercepted by a gang. According to police sources,...

Thane: The Thane court has acquitted four persons, including a mother and her two sons, who were accused of dacoity and murder of a senior citizen in 2015 in Vashi. Sessions judge AN Sirsikar acquitted Himmatsingh Kalani, 41, Gujratsingh Kalani, 45, Sanjeevan Gamre, 31, and Surajkaur Kalani, 68. The Kalanis are residents of Nashik, the lawyer informed.The prosecutor told the court that on January 10,...

MUMBAI: Union minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday alleged that Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray had attempted to offer contracts for his assassination.During a press conference in Mumbai, the BJP MP made accusations against Thackeray, claiming that while he served as the chief minister of Maharashtra (from November 2019 to June 2022), he was involved in corrupt practices in the procurement of...

KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from her Kolkata Leather Complex area home on March 25 and whose body was found a week ago. The accused, Tufan Pramanik, is a cycle shop owner and had been hiding in the Dhapa landfill site for the past 60 hours.Pramanik was picked up from Khanaberia Sarderpara on Monday. "He was trying to get a job...

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...

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...