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Thrissur: In the shocking case of infant murders in Puthukkad, skeletal remains believed to be of the newborn babies were recovered from areas near the residences of the accused Aneesha and Bavin on Monday. The police have confirmed that the bones will be sent for DNA testing. While one set of remains was found beside Aneesha's residence, another set was found in a shallow stream beside Bavin's residence. During interrogation, Aneesha told the police that she delivered the babies and severed the umbilical cords with the help of video tutorials. Knowledge she gained from a lab technician course also aided in the acts, police added. The police added that Aneesha regularly wore loose-fitting clothes to keep her pregnancies. The murders were reportedly committed after discussions with Bavin. After Aneesha and Bavin confessed to the crime, the investigation team conducted evidence collection at their homes on Sunday night. Based on the findings, the team decided to proceed with further scientific examinations. The forensic inspection was carried out at their homes under the supervision of the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) on Monday. The inspections were led by Thrissur Medical College forensic head Dr K S Unmesh. The police have registered a case under seven sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act. The accused will be produced before the Irinjalakuda Judicial First Class Magistrate Court later on Monday.
Chandigarh: The cybercrime division of Punjab Police has arrested two individuals and identified 33 suspects involved in viewing, transmitting, and distributing child pornography and expoitive content of minors, said a top official on Friday.Punjab director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said the content, which is described as child sexual exploitative and abusive material (CSEAM), was being distributed through online platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. The operation, codenamed CSEAM-4, was conducted on Thursday and spanned 40 locations across 18 districts. The ac ...Read More >
Dharmasthala (Karnataka), Aug 1 (PTI) No skeletal remains were found on Friday at two sites in Dharmasthala identified by an anonymous complainant-witness as mass burial sites, police said. A day after skeletal remains were recovered from the sixth of 15 locations marked by the complainant, excavation was carried out under tight security at the seventh and eighth spots, located near the Nethravathi riverbank. However, the forensic and police teams reportedly found no human remains or signs of burial activity at these sites. According to police, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has inten ...Read More >
Moradabad (UP), Aug 1 (PTI) The Moradabad district administration has cancelled the allotment of a government bungalow granted to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has been asked to vacate the premises within 30 days. The bungalow, located in the posh Civil Lines area near the Police Training College (PTC II), was allotted to the SP patriarch 31 years ago. Spread across nearly 1,000 square meters on Nazul land, the property serves as the local SP office. District Magistrate Anuj Singh said the property is needed for housing officers and other ...Read More >
The Durgapur rape case has witnessed multiple twists and turns, all of which, by Tuesday night, led to the arrest of the medical student's classmate, who was with her on the night of the crime. A fresh perspective was brought in by the CCTV footage from the campus, which showed the student and her friend walking back to the college. The friend's arrest came shortly after Asansol-Durgapur police commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary ruled out gang-rape and said he was not above suspicion. "Investig ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Delhi's Tis Hazari court has ordered to file a complaint against the woman who lodged a false rape case to extort the money from the accused. While acquitting the accused, the court noted that the woman met the man on a matrimonial website. She framed the accused on the pretext of a marital alliance. The court referred to the lines of American criminal defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, 'In court, the truth is often lost in the process. The oath is meant to protect it, but men lie, even under God.' 'The above adage squarely applies to the case herein, as we woul ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Authorities imposed Section 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar Saturday night and declared the hospital ward area a prohibited zone after tensions escalated over the treatment of a teenage girl who was set on fire in Odisha's Puri district. The Commissionerate Police directed the protestors to vacate the hospital premises, and three platoons of police forces were deployed to maintain law and order. The move came amid a brawl between BJP and BJD workers over the incident. Earlier in the day, the hospital's medical superintendent had urged the pu ...Read More >
Mangaluru: A man has come forward with a complaint before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) -- probing the alleged mass burials in Dharmasthala -- claiming to provide details in connection with the murder of a minor girl nearly 15 years ago.Jayanth T told reporters: "I came forward to file a complaint in connection with the murder of a minor girl, which I witnessed around 15 years ago. No FIR was registered then, and the body was buried without investigation. I have now submitted a formal comp ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Rajasthan Police to file an updated status report along with an inquiry report into the alleged illegal apprehension and detention of two "minor" boys, who were apprehended in Delhi and later taken to Rajasthan in connection with a theft and trespass case. A bench of Justices Jyoti Singh and Anish Dayal was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by street hawker Kapoori Bai, who alleged that her son, 15 and a relative's son, 17, were forcibly taken away by unidentified men in civilian clothes from Janakpuri's Dus ...Read More >
Nashik, Apr 2 (PTI) A court in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Thursday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to seven-day police custody in a second rape case where he is accused of sexually exploiting a woman on multiple occasions since 2020 under the guise of religious rituals. Kharat, arrested by a Special Investigation Team on Wednesday in the second rape case, was produced via video conferencing from jail before Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani, who sent him to SIT custody till April 8. The 'godman', a former merchant navy officer, was in 14-day judicial custody in the first ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to examine a plea alleging sexual assault and custodial torture of a 17-year-old boy by Gujarat Police and asked the petitioner to move high court. "We have all sympathies for you but why you did not approach the high court?" a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked the lawyer appearing for the petitioner. The counsel referred to the brutality allegedly meted out to the minor. "Our question is, why could you not approach the high court under (Article) 226?" the bench reiterated. The lawyer referred to one of the pra ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A 31-year-old general surgeon has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife, also a doctor, six months after her death was initially believed to be from natural causes. Police said the case took a turn after a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report confirmed the presence of an anaesthetic substance in the victim's organs. Dr Mahendra Reddy, a general surgeon at Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru, was arrested following the forensic report that found traces of Propofol, a controlled anaesthetic used only in hospitals, in the body of his wife, Dr Kruthika M Reddy, 29, a dermatologis ...Read More >
Acting on precise intelligence and rigorous cyber surveillance, CIK uncovered two social media accounts -- 'faithful_warrior57' and 'Gurkboru.08' -- actively promoting terrorist ideologies. These handles were found glorifying violence, sharing propaganda materials, including audio clips of known terrorists, and inciting secessionist sentiments to radicalise vulnerable youth. Following meticulous technical analysis, CIK identified the operators as two juveniles: Hashim Mashood Lone, 17, from Khaw ...Read More >
New Delhi: Kolkata Police, Friday, arrested three individuals in connection with the gangrape of a law student that occurred inside the premises of South Calcutta Law College, located in the Kasba area of the city. Among the arrested, two are current students of the institution, while the third is a former student. The survivor, a first-year law student, filed a First Information Report (FIR) with the police on June 26, one day after the alleged incident. She had visited the campus around 4 PM for some academic-related work when the accused reportedly persuaded her to stay back. A medical ex ...Read More >
Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the June 25 law student gang-rape case, before leaving the college after committing the crime had asked a few of his trusted aides to stay back on the campus and keep a watch on Kasba Police Station about a kilometre away through the night. He and co-accused Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed left around the same time as the survivor, who was picked up by her father.Senior officers investigating the case also revealed that Monojit had called up a college official the next morning -- this official has claimed the discussion was "confined to college-rela ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has achieved a significant breakthrough in its efforts to combat crime in the city. A dangerous day burglar gang has been smashed, and two individuals, including a major burglar, have been apprehended. The Crime Branch of Delhi Police apprehended two accused, including a Child in Conflict with Law (CCL) and a 22-year-old identified as Aftab alias Sukha, from the Sector 10/11 area near Japanese Park in Rohini. 53 high-end phones were recovered from the possession of the accused, along with house-breaking tools were seized from ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday ruled that authorities in the country cannot permit an Indian couple to adopt a child of foreign citizenship, even if related to them, as there is no provision for the same in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act or existing adoption regulations. "There is no provision in the JJ Act nor the adoption regulations providing for adoption of a child of foreign citizenship even between relatives, unless it's a 'child in need of care and protection' or a 'child in conflict with law'," the division bench of justices Revati Mohite Dere a ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 6 (PTI) The Bombay High Court on Monday sought the response of the Deputy Director General of Shipping on the demand for DNA test of mortal remains made by the family of a 25-year-old seafarer killed in the West Asia conflict. Dixit Solanki was killed on March 4 after an explosive-laden drone boat struck oil tanker MT MKD Vyom off the Oman coast on March 1. He is reportedly the first Indian casualty of the conflict that erupted on February 28 after a joint US-Israel attack on Iran. His father Amratlal and sister Mitali had last week moved HC seeking directions to the Union govern ...Read More >
A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad said the remains shall be collected by the DDG Shipping in the presence of the family members. "The remains shall then be sent to the FSL in Mumbai for DNA analysis and report. The copy of the report shall be supplied to the family," the court said. Dixit Solanki was killed on March 4 after an explosive-laden drone boat struck oil tanker MT MKD Vyom off the Oman coast on March 1. He was reportedly the first Indian casualty ...Read More >
Bareilly (UP), Jul 17 (PTI) A teacher from Bahedi district, who went viral recently after reciting a poem mentioning Kanwar Yatra, approached the police on Thursday stating a threat to his life from anti-social elements. A case has been registered at Bahedi police station based on a complaint from Dr Rajneesh Kumar Gangwar, a teacher at MGM Inter College in the district. According to Circle Officer Arun Kumar Singh, Gangwar's complaint says that ever since his recitation of the poem 'Tum Kanwad Lene Mat Jana, Gyaan Ka Deepak Jalaana' (You don't go get Kavad, light the lamp of knowledge inste ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 7: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Deputy Director General of Shipping to collect the mortal remains of seafarer Dixit Solanki, who was killed in a suspected drone boat attack off the Oman coast, and hand them over to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Kalina for a DNA test. HC directs DNA testing amid identification issues A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad ordered that the report, once received, be handed over to Dixit's family. The HC passed the order after being informed that Dixit's mortal remains had reached India on Sun ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 19 (ANI): A contingent of 23 athletes supported by Reliance Foundation look to compete at the World University Games across six cities in Germany, with events running until July 27. Representing athletics, archery, and judo, these young talents aim to improve international rankings, achieve personal bests, and bring home laurels. The athletics team forms the backbone of the foundation campaign, with 18 athletes competing in sprints, jumps, throws, hurdles, relay, long jump, decathlon, among other events, beginning July 21, a release said. James Hillier, Di ...Read More >
BENGALURU: BBMP marshals deployed at lake security and supervision wing, ward monitoring and Indira Canteens are working without salaries since March. The situation has arisen after Bangalore Solid Waste Management Limited was carved out of BBMP for garbage management. Their salaries are usually given through the Ex-Servicemen Welfare Society and each marshal is paid Rs 17,500 monthly. "Supervisors say the delay is due to a set of procedures. Earlier, the amount was given to the Ex-Servicemen Welfare Society towards payments from BBMP. Now the files have to be cleared from BWSML to ward mars ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday announced the provisional attachment of assets worth approximately ₹131.45 crore in Spain, including a luxury yacht and immovable properties, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). These assets belong to Pavel Prozorov, a Spanish national and the alleged mastermind behind the unauthorised forex trading platform OctaFX. The attached assets comprise a commercial Italian-model luxury yacht cruising in the Western Mediterranean, a minijet boat, a luxury car, and two residential properties in Spain. The ED's probe was launched ...Read More >
New Delhi, December 14: Coronary artery disease continues to be the leading cause of sudden death among young adults in India, while a significant proportion of cases remain unexplained, underscoring the need for targeted public health strategies and broader use of advanced post-mortem investigations, according to a recent study by a scientific scholar. But a rigorous, one-year autopsy-based study conducted at AIIMS, New Delhi, has found no scientific evidence linking Covid-19 vaccination with sudden deaths among young adults. The study clearly showed that such deaths are attributable to unde ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 16: The Kamrup Metropolitan Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court held its first hearing in the Zubeen Garg death case with the seven accused virtually appearing before the court from Baksa and Haflong jails, where they are currently lodged. Even as the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) had directed physical appearance of the accused before the court, the criminal investigation department (CID) of Assam Police had reportedly expressed its inability to produce them physically owing to law-and-order concerns. It may be recalled that the special investigation team (SIT) of Assam CID ...Read More >
Kolkata: A student was allegedly raped inside the premises of a Kolkata-based law college on the night of Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three men, two students and a staff member who is also an alumnus of the institution. Police identified the accused as Manojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay alias Pramit Mukherjee (20). According to FIR, one of them committed penetrative sexual assault while the others abetted the crime. All three were named in the FIR based on the survivor's complaint. The incident reportedly occurred between 7:30pm and 10:50pm on Wednesday at ...Read More >
From Lucknow To Stars: 5 Lesser-Known Facts About Shubhanshu Shukla - 1st Indian On International Space Station CBSE Supplementary Exam Schedule 2025: The Central Board of Education (CBSE) has officially released the timetable of the Class 10th and Class 12th Supplementary Exams. Students who could not clear the class 10th or 12th exams (not more than two) or want to improve their scores can check their exam schedule through the official website, i.e. cbse.gov.in. The exams will start from 15th July, 2025 so students are advised to prepare accordingly. The exam will start at 10:30 AM and wil ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): A team of Nand Nagri Police Station launched a special drive against individuals involved in the sale of banned 'Chinese Manjha', amid rising incidents of injuries and nabbed two siblings with 325 rolls on Friday. With Independence Day (15th August) and Raksha Bandhan approaching, the Delhi Police has launched a special drive to curb the sale and use of hazardous Chinese Manjha -- a nylon-based kite string that has caused numerous injuries and fatalities involving people, birds, and animals. Acting on local intelligence, a team led by Inspector Anand Yadav, ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid the ongoing verbal spat between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey over the Hindi language debate in Maharashtra, Union Minister and Republican Party of India (Athawale) president Ramdas Athawale on Saturday has called for restraint, urging all parties to maintain peace and avoid statements that could disrupt Mumbai's communal harmony. Responding to the exchange of inflammatory remarks, Athawale said, "Such statements against each other can spoil the atmosphere of Mumbai. We should maintain peace. It's not righ ...Read More >
Former Itanagar DC Talo Potom, a Delhi government official, surrendered and was arrested in connection with twin suicides. He faces charges including abetment to suicide and criminal misconduct. Allegations stem from suicide notes detailing sexual exploitation, humiliation, and threats, pushing a young PWD staffer to end his life. Potom was remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Guwahati: The Arunachal Pradesh Police arrested former Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) Deputy Commissioner Talo Potom, he ...Read More >