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New Delhi: In a sensational incident in Delhi's Bawana area on Friday morning, gangster Manjit Mahal's nephew Deepak was shot dead. Deepak's daughter was also injured in the attack. Police suspect that the Nandu gang based in London may be behind the attack. Deepak used to work in share trading after B Tech. On Friday morning, Deepak went out for a walk with his parents and daughter. When he was walking ahead on the Nangal-Bawana road, bike-borne attackers opened fire. Deepak was hit by about six bullets, while one bullet passed by, touching his daughter's hand. As soon as the information about the incident was received, the police reached the spot and started an investigation. Deepak had no criminal record, but he was the nephew of notorious gangster Manjit Mahal. Police believe that this attack may be a part of a gang war. Different teams have been formed to investigate the matter. Earlier, also Nandu gang had also killed a close aide of Manjeet Mahal. Police examining the CCTV footage DCP Hareshwar V Swami said that the matter is being taken seriously and an investigation is being done. Soon, the accused will be traced and arrested. Three teams have been formed in this case, which are searching the footage of CCTV cameras installed in the area. Along with this, the family of the deceased is also being questioned.
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 2 (ANI): The court commissioner submitted his survey report in Chandausi Court in the Sambhal Jama Masjid-Harihar case on Thursday. Tensions in Sambhal have been high since November 19, when a local court ordered a survey of the mosque. Clashes between protestors and police over the court-ordered survey of the Jama Masjid resulted in four deaths. Also Read | Karnataka Contractor Suicide Row: BJP Sends Sachin Panchal's Death Note to Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi; Congress Leader Priyank Kharge Says 'Party Set for Humiliation'. On December 30, a delegatio ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old private land surveyor in Telangana's Jogulamba Gadwal district, who was found dead within a month of his marriage, was murdered by three killers hired by his 23-year-old wife and her boyfriend, a manager in a housing finance company, police said on Thursday. Eight people, including V Tirumala Rao, manager at a Canfin Homes branch, the victim's wife G Aishwarya, and the three hired killers - Kummari Nagesh, Chakali Parashuramudu, and Chakali Rajesh - have been arrested for the murder, said Jogulamba Gadwal superintendent of police (SP) T Srinivasa Rao. Aishwarya's mot ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Five men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 30-year-old man in Munirka and attempting to extort money from him while posing as Delhi Police personnel, officials said on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Parvesh (25), a property dealer, Aryaman Chaudhary (22), Ritik Gauhar (23), a freelancer, Dev Anand Yadav (23), a driver and Sharman Rai (22), police said. According to officials, the incident took place around 1.20 am on June 16. The victim, Joshua Hmar (30), filed a complaint at Kishangarh police station, stating that he was abducted by four individuals nea ...Read More >
THANE: In a dramatic rescue operation spanning two states, a four-year-old girl abducted from a construction site in Badlapur West on Tuesday afternoon was safely traced and rescued within 24 hours from a remote village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district. The child, who lived at the site with her parents and two siblings, was lured away while her mother was at work. The family, originally from another state, resides at the site where her father and uncle are employed as labourers. Her mother works as a domestic help in the locality. According to police officials, the accused -- identifi ...Read More >
New Delhi: A week after Deepak Kumar, nephew of jailed gangster Manjeet Mahal, was shot dead in front of his 10-year-old daughter during a morning walk in northwest Delhi's Bawana, Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested two suspects linked to the rival Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu gang following an early morning encounter.The arrests took place near Sector-34 in Rohini, close to the Munak Canal, on Friday. Acting on a tip-off about the movement of two suspects -- Sombir alias Chinu, from Hisar, Haryana, and Vijay, 31, from Chandigarh -- the Crime Branch laid a trap. As officers closed in, the sus ...Read More >
Lucknow: In view of the Muharram observance scheduled between June 27 to July 6, director general of police (DGP) Rajeev Krishna issued a set of security guidelines to ensure communal harmony and public safety across the state during the period.The directives have been circulated to all zonal additional director generals, police commissioners, range IGs, DIGs, and senior superintendents of police, emphasising meticulous planning, proactive policing, and community engagement."No new traditions or processional routes are to be allowed without official sanction. Special focus has been placed on a ...Read More >
Jaipur: Police in Didwana have stepped up their probe into a cross-border smuggling case in which they arrested two arms and drug smugglers on June 27 for supplying Austrian Glock and Chinese Norinco pistols. It has emerged that the case has links to a massive Rs 300-crore heroin consignment seized by Punjab's Amritsar police near the India-Pakistan border in Barmer on June 30. Canada-based Joben Kaler was identified as the main overseas handler of the heroin consignment. Didwana-Kuchaman police had arrested Mohammad Ilyas from Khunkhuna and Amarjeet Singh Takhar, alias Prince, from Jalandhar ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Kukatpally police arrested three people in connection with a murder case reported at Prakash Nagar in Kukatpally. According to the police, Syed Shahed (26), a history-sheeter, was stabbed and bludgeoned to death late on Sunday.The arrested were identified as Y Hanak alias Munna (25), Md Sameer Khan alias Dagad Sameer (25), both residents of Borabanda and Md Sajid (24) of Moulali. They were produced before a local court and remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday.According to Balanagar DCP K Suresh Kumar, the trio were once close associates of Shahed but conspired to eliminate ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday formed a four-member team to assist Development Commissioner Anu Garg to complete an inquiry into the Puri stampede within 30 days. Garg has been asked to conduct the administrative inquiry into the death of three persons and the injury to around 50 people in the stampede near Shree Gundicha temple in Puri during the Rath Yatra festivities on June 29. According to an office order issued by the General Administration and Public Grievance department, four Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officers have been included in the team. Joint Director o ...Read More >
New Delhi: Nearly three weeks after businessman Arun Lohia was fatally shot inside his SUV near Chhatarpur Metro Station in South Delhi, two of the alleged shooters were injured and arrested during a police encounter on the Chirag Delhi-Khanpur stretch on Thursday. Investigations revealed that the killing stemmed from a land dispute. A third suspect was also taken into custody.According to police, the murder took place on May 15. The victim, Arun, a resident of Aya Nagar and owner of several local warehouses, was attacked around 1 pm while returning from Saket Court with his father, Rambir Loh ...Read More >
ALSO READ: Lucknow Shocker: 3-Year-Old Girl, Sleeping Under Metro Station, Raped In Alambagh Area; Her Condition Critical Ashish Srivastav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Central Lucknow, who visited the crime scene on Wednesday night itself, identified the accused as Deepak Verma. While talking to the news agency ANI, DCP Srivastava said, " On the morning of June 5, at 10 am, a complaint was registered that a 2.5 year old girl had been raped... A case was registered and five teams were formed... As per the CCTV footage of the scooter, the accused was identified as Deepak Verma... ...Read More >
Lucknow: A man accused of raping a three-year-old girl died in an encounter with Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow on Friday, a day after a complaint was registered against him. The accused was identified as Deepak Verma. After receiving the complaint, the police formed five teams and launched a manhunt operation to nab Kumar. Kumar was initially injured in the gunfight. However, he succumbed to injuries during treatment. "Accused Deepak Verma, who was injured in an encounter with the Police, has died during treatment," DCP Central Lucknow Ashish Srivastava told news agency ANI. The girl was a ...Read More >
The CM's reaction came to the DCP (Vidhana Soudha security) letter written before the event warning against holding felicitations at Vidhana Soudha 'hastily', surfaced now Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday defended the decision to go ahead with the RCB victory celebration in front of Vidhana Soudha, saying no untoward incident happened there. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said, "The police department did not give comprehensive information about the police security arrangements at the ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana joins names such as Kamal Haasan, Ariana Grande, and Jeremy Strong at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year. Ayushmann along with names such as Kamal Haasan Naomi Ackie, Gillian Anderson, Branford Marsalis, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Graham, Jodie Comer and Jason Momoa are among 534 individuals who were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on June 26. "We are thrilled to invite this esteemed class of artists, technologists, and professionals to join the Academy," said Ac ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): The Delhi Police suspect that the murder of Deepak, nephew of notorious gangster Manjit Mahal, was orchestrated by the Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu gang, believed to be operating from abroad, as part of a long-standing gang rivalry. Deepak, a 43-year-old trader with no criminal background, was shot dead during a morning walk with his daughter in Delhi's Bawana area on Friday. In this attack, his daughter, who had come for a walk with the deceased Deepak, was also shot in the hand and is currently being treated in the hospital. The long-standing feud between the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) The nephew of gangster Manjit Mahal was shot dead in front of his daughter, who also suffered a bullet injury in the attack, allegedly by unidentified assailants in the Bawana area on Friday morning, an official said. The victim was identified as Deepak (43), he said. The case is suspected to be in connection with a rivalry between Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu gang and Manjeet Mahal gang. However, Deepak had no recent contact with Mahal and has no prior involvement in any criminal case, a source in the police said. The incident occurred when Deepak, a share trader, had ...Read More >
Srinagar- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said foreign countries were told clearly during the post-Operation Sindoor diplomatic outreach that in case of a fresh provocation, India would repeat its action. Speaking at a discussion at the Ahmedabad Management Association, Tharoor said Indian delegations which visited foreign countries in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor managed to convey that India acted with restraint and responsibility. "In other places, we actually were able to get some very high-placed people to say not only that they respected and supported India's right of self- ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) In an "act of revenge", a domestic help killed his employer and her teenage son at their home in southeast Delhi's Lajpat Nagar after the woman scolded him, police said on Thursday. The accused, Mukesh (24), a native of Hajipur in Bihar, was nabbed by Uttar Pradesh railway police from a train while he was trying to flee, police said. The incident came to light when a PCR call was received at 9.43 pm on Wednesday from Kuldeep Sewani, a resident of Lajpat Nagar-I. He informed police that his wife Ruchika (42) and son were not answering his calls and that there were blood ...Read More >
In Delhi's Lajpat Nagar, Ruchika and her son were found murdered. Police suspect their domestic help, Mukesh, is the culprit. Kuldeep Sewani, Ruchika's husband, discovered the crime. Mukesh, also an employee at Kuldeep's garment shop, was missing. Uttar Pradesh Police apprehended Mukesh on a train. The motive behind the double murder remains unknown. Investigation is underway.A woman and her teenage son were allegedly killed by their domestic help at their home in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area, polic ...Read More >
Bengaluru Stampede: Days after the tragic Karnataka stampede incident, in which 11 people lost their lives and several others were injured, a letter from the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Vidhana Soudha Division, Bengaluru, has surfaced showing that the police had warned against holding the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) felicitation event and cited security concerns. The fans had gathered outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium to cheer on for RCB, who had lifted the trophy in the IPL for the first time in 18 years. The letter reportedly by Vidhana Soudha's DCP MN Karibasavana Gowda, da ...Read More >
Ranchi, Jun 27 (PTI) Lord Jagannath's chariot along with goddess Subhadra and Lord Balbhadra are set to roll out on Friday evening on way to their annual nine-day sojourn to Mausi Bari in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi amid tight security. The chariots of the deities will start rolling around 4.30 pm from Jagannath temple in Dhurwa with traditional rituals. Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Chief Minister Hemant Soren extended their wishes on the occasion of Rath Yatra. "Heartfelt greetings to all devotees on the sacred occasion of Rath Yatra. May Lord Jagannath bless this auspicious ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): A 43-year-old man was killed by two unknown assailants in Delhi's Bawana on Friday morning. According to the Delhi Police, the victim, identified as Deepak, is the nephew of notorious gangster Manjit Mahal and has no criminal background. In the preliminary investigation, the police suspect gang war as the motive behind the murder. The two accused came on a bike and fired several rounds of bullets at Deepak. The victim sustained seven to eight wounds following the incident, and after the post-mortem report, it will be known how many bullets were fired at the ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jun 30 (PTI) Senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo was allegedly dragged from his office and assaulted by a group of miscreants on Monday, police said. Sahoo has lodged an FIR at Kharvelnagar police station. "An FIR has been registered at the Kharvel Nagar police station by the officer. We have arrested three persons so far," Bhubaneswar DCP Jagmohan Meena told PTI. The police have so far arrested Jeevan Rout, Rashmi Mahapatra and Debashis Pradhan. Further investigation is on. Invo ...Read More >
Jammu: Hours after 37-year-old Sumit Jandyal of the Vijaypur area of Samba district, was shot dead in broad daylight in the heart of Jammu city yesterday, the Khauff gang claimed responsibility. In a post on its Instagram page "khauff_group", the gang claiming responsibility wrote, "What happened in Jewel Chowk, our two brothers Anil Rajee and Bunty Rajee take the responsibility for that. This was the revenge for killing our brother Shunu." However, the family members and relatives of the deceased refuted the allegations of any gang affiliation, asserting that Jandyal was a well-regarded per ...Read More >
Lucknow, June 6: A man accused of abduction and rape of a three-year-old girl in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, was killed in an encounter with police on Friday. The accused was identified as Deepak Verma by the police after scanning CCTV footage that showed him with the child. The officials said he was a habitual offender with criminal cases lodged across the city police stations. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Zone) Ashish Srivastava said five police teams were formed immediately after the incident was reported, and a reward of Rs one lakh was announced for his arrest. Police, after identi ...Read More >
Lucknow: The accused in the Alambagh two and a half year old girl rape case was killed in an encounter with the police on Thursday night. The police first caught the accused during a check near the ACP Cantt office, but he allegedly started running and opened fire on the police. In the retaliatory firing opened by the police, the accused got injured and succumbed after some time. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Ashish Srivastava said that the name of the deceased accused is Deepak Verma, who hails from Aishbagh. He used to take out tableaux during Mata Rani's Jagran and supply water t ...Read More >
Gurgaon: A chemist and a lab operator have been arrested for allegedly selling medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits illegally. Two separate FIRs were lodged against the accused at Sector 10 and Sector 9A police stations, police said on Friday.The pharmacy was sealed and medical officials have initiated proceedings to cancel its licence. District drugs control officer Suresh Verma said the department received information about illegal sales of MTP kits - also called abortion kits - from Juneja Chemist, located near Civil Hospital. A pregnant woman, who was deployed as a decoy customer, v ...Read More >
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 8 (ANI): Several districts of Rajasthan witnessed an intense heatwave on Sunday, with the highest temperature of 47.4 degrees Celsius recorded in Sri Ganganagar. According to the India Meteorological Centre in Jaipur, the temperatures recorded across different districts were 47.4°C in Sri Ganganagar, 46°C in Bikaner, 45.9°C in Barmer, 45.6°C in Churu, 45.4°C in Phalodi, 45.2°C in Jaisalmer, and 45°C in Kota. Also Read | Anjali Varmora Suicide Case: Young Model Ends Life in Gujarat's Surat, Mental Stress Suspected. A June 8 yellow alert, for heatwave and dust ...Read More >
No chemical spray had been used to make her unconscious (as suspected earlier), Kumar said. A suspect detained in connection with the alleged rape of a Pune IT professional at her home was her friend and not a stranger who gained entry by posing as a courier delivery agent, police said on Friday, casting doubt on her version of the events. It was the woman herself who took a selfie with him and typed a threatening message in her phone, police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said. "They know each oth ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Unidentified bike-borne gunmen shot dead their rival in the Najafgarh area of the national capital on Friday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Neeraj Tehlan, who was reportedly involved in several criminal cases in the past and was carrying a bounty of Rs 1 lakh on his head. He was also a key witness in the high-profile Najafgarh double murder case of February 2024. Tehlan was attacked around 7:15 PM on Friday while he was sitting inside a car. Two to three bike-borne assailants opened multiple rounds of fire at him before fleeing the scene, p ...Read More >