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...
NEW DELHI: An unidentified woman's body was found near a school operated by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in the Tilak Nagar area of west Delhi, early morning on Friday.The body was found by a passerby, who alerted the police. Forensic teams, crime investigators, and medical professionals from Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital were dispatched to the location to conduct examinations.Police...
THANE: A man hailing from Chennai has been apprehended by Maharashtra police for allegedly defrauding a resident of Navi Mumbai of more than Rs 21 lakh. The suspect, identified as Lokesh Kumar, was arrested by officers from the Cyber police station in Navi Mumbai on October 9.The fraudulent activity occurred between August 6 and 11 of this year when the accused contacted the victim via phone. He falsely...
KOLKATA: Charges under Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act result in "automatic criminalisation", the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday even as it acquitted a man who was a minor when he entered into a relationship with a girl younger to him. The two later married and now have a child.Stating that the Pocso Act does not consider normal sexual behaviour among adolescents and...
Chennai: Police who registered a case of suicide in the October 14 death of a 37-year-old electrician have now altered the case and launched a hunt for Manali-based construction firm owner Shanmugasundaram, his son Rishi and their employees Vadivel and Sundaramurthy for abetting the suicide of V Saravanan.Their involvement came to light after doctors who performed the autopsy of Saravanan, found...
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...
Central Railway (CR) is gearing up to inaugurate the second phase of the Seawoods-Belapur-Uran corridor, spanning 27km, on October 26. A tentative plan exists for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the line virtually while he would be at an event in Shirdi.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; }...
NEW DELHI: When the runs India needed to win were near idential to the runs Virat Kohli required to get to his century in the ICC World Cup match against Bangladesh in Pune on Thursday, the self-less batting icon approached his parnter in the middle, KL Rahul, and said "it will not look nice to not take a single" in pursuit of a personal milestone. Rahul shared the conversation he had with Kohli on the...
Thane: The Mumbra police on Thursday said they have registered an FIR against controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati on a complaint alleging he has hurt religious feelings of a community with his comments on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Saraswati, head of the Dasna Devi temple at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was booked under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295A...
KOLKATA: Charges under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act result in "automatic criminalisation", the Calcutta high court said on Wednesday even as it acquitted a man who was a minor when he entered into a relationship with a girl younger than him. The HC, which noticed during the hearing the constant presence of a woman and a baby, was told she was the survivor in the case and...
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