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KOLKATA: An illegal call centre, operating from a swanky office in a Sector V highrise, was sealed by Bidhannagar police on Monday. During a raid cops arrested seven employees of Vinheet Technologies while its two directors, Vineet Agarwal and Prem Lata Agarwal, are absconding. The accused duped foreigners in Belgium and other parts of Europe. Cops seized 26 computers, nine smartphones and cash worth Rs...

KOLKATA: A youth in his late 20s turned up at Narayanpur police station in Rajarhat near Greater Kolkata in West Bengal’s North 24 Pargana district claiming he had killed his mother and that the body was lying at home. Police immediately arrested Somnath Santra who was ready to surrender and found the lifeless body of Lakshmi Santra (49) at the bed of his home.The incident happened early on Tuesday...

PALGHAR: Police in Palghar district averted potential mob violence against two 'sadhus' (ascetics) in a village after the residents mistook them as child lifters, nearly three years after three persons were lynched in the district over similar suspicion, an official said on Tuesday. Palghar rural superintendent of police Balasaheb Patil said two men were spotted at Chandranagar village, within the...

THANE: A constable — attached to the special protection unit in Mumbai — died hours later after he was found with serious injuries on the railway tracks between Taloja (in Raigad district) and Nilajhe (in Thane district) stations near Diva in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, Thane railway police officials said. The constable was not on duty at the time of the incident, officials said.The railway...

NOIDA: A police team had to be deployed at Supertech Ecovillage 2 in Greater Noida after a group of residents objected to a gathering for namaz on Monday evening.The residents said they did not have any objection to people offering prayers in the society's commercial compound, but alleged that many of them were outsiders. This, they said, had put the society's security at risk.Around 8.30pm on Monday, a...

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man attempted suicide by live-streaming it on Facebook, but was rescued by prompt intervention from the police in the Nand Nagri area of northeast Delhi. The incident was reported to the police at 9.06pm on Monday, and a team arrived at the victim's residence at 9.09pm.The Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operation (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police informed the SHO of the Nand...

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...

NEW DELHI: A city court on Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to conclude its investigation into the woman-hit-and-drag case and file a chargesheet by April 1.The 20-year-old woman was dragged to death while being trapped under a car on the New Year day.01:54Delhi hit-and-run case: Accused confesses aware of Anjali being stuckMetropolitan magistrate Sanya Dalal extended the judicial custody of the five...

CHENNAI: The traffic police have booked and fined nearly 42,000 violators in the last 22 days, deploying personnel at key junctions to photograph the offences. Of these, 17,043 were booked for not complying with the stopline rule, 13,484 for not wearing helmets, 7,564 for riding on the wrong side and causing hindrance to motorists, 3,511 for jumping signals and 1,103 for riding/driving with defective...