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NEW DELHI: A woman and her teenage son were killed allegedly by their domestic help at their home in the Lajpat Nagar area of southeast Delhi, police officials said on Thursday. They said the accused, Mukesh (24), was nabbed by Uttar Pradesh Police from a train while he was trying to flee. The matter came to light when a PCR call was received from Kuldeep Sewani, a resident of Lajpat Nagar I, at 9.43 pm on Wednesday. He said that his wife Ruchika (42) and 14-year-old son were not responding to calls and that there were bloodstains on the staircase of their house, police said. "A PCR van and a team were immediately rushed to the spot where the caller, Kuldeep, informed police about the bloodstains and the unresponsive state of his family. The gate of the house was forcibly opened," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Hemant Tiwari said in a statement. The bodies of Ruchika and her son were found inside. While the woman's body was found in the bedroom, her son's was found in the bathroom, he said.
Greater Noida Dowry Murder Case: In Greater Noida, Vipin, the primary suspect in his wife's dowry murder, was injured during a police encounter. He tried to escape after being arrested for allegedly torturing and killing his wife. Police opened fire when he attempted to flee. Vipin is now hospitalized under police guard. The investigation into the dowry death is ongoing. Greater Noida Dowry Murder Case: Vipin, the main accused in the Greater Noida dowry murder case, was injured in a police encou ...Read More >
New Delhi: What was being discreetly sold under the table just two days ago is now out in the open. With the Supreme Court permitting the sale of green crackers, hundreds of shoppers poured into the narrow lanes of Old Delhi on Wednesday in anticipation of purchasing firecrackers. However, as per the apex court's order, the sale is officially allowed only from Oct 18 to 20.Traders are now faced with the question of implementation as well as logistics. Harjeet Singh Chhabra, general secretary, Sadar Nishkam Welfare Association, said even though the ban has been lifted, what qualifies as a 'gree ...Read More >
The Delhi Police's Special Cell reportedly detained a youth from Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of his involvement in terrorist activities, officials said on Sunday. The youth, identified as Rizwan Ahmed, a resident of Chhawani area of Padrauna town in UP's Kushinagar, came under scanner during the investigation of a case registered by the Special Cell, news agency PTI cited the Uttar Pradesh police as saying. Following his detention, the youth was taken to the national capital. Ahmad was taken int ...Read More >
Kushinagar (UP), Apr 5 (PTI) Two days after Delhi Police detained a youth, Rizwan Ahmed, from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district on suspicion of links to terrorist activities, his father said that if Rizwan is indeed involved in any such activities, he should receive the strictest punishment. His father, Nizamuddin, a retired lekhpal (revenue official), when asked about his son on Monday, fell silent. After a few moments, he spoke, asserting that he was completely unaware of Rizwan's misdeeds. He reiterated that if his son is involved in terrorist activities, he deserves severe punishment. ...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 >
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 >
Kanpur/Lucknow: A serial criminal accused of raping and murdering an 18-year-old girl was killed in an encounter with UP Police in Mohammadabad area in Farrukhabad's Fatehgarh on Friday.The accused, identified as Manu Subhash (55), was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on any information leading to his arrest. He sustained bullet injuries during a gunfight with police and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors declared him dead during treatment. According to police, Manu was a habitual offender with a history of targeting minors. "He had a criminal mindset and was involved in several heinou ...Read More >
Patna, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major action against corruption, the State Vigilance Unit (SVU) on Saturday arrested Sub-Inspector Putul Kumari, the SHO of the Women's Police Station in Samastipur, for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000. Her driver was also arrested in the case. The arrest has created a stir within the police department. According to an official, Putul Kumari was caught red-handed while taking the bribe from Rajiv Ranjan, a resident of Chhatauna village under Mufassil police station limits, in connection with an assault case. Rajiv Ranjan had filed a written complaint with ...Read More >
Pune: The Indian Gig Workers' Front on Saturday evening suspended the ongoing strike of cabs and autorickshaws operating on applications till Tuesday, after leaving many commuters, including those arriving at the airport on Saturday morning, hassled. Keshav Kshirsagar, the president of the front, said, "We have a meeting on Tuesday with senior officials of the state transport department. If its decisions don't meet our expectations, the strike will resume." Several commuters had a harrowing experience on roads on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Cabs and autos were hard to come by. T ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has permitted Ashish Mishra, an accused in the Lakhimpur violence case, to visit his hometown for Diwali. The court imposed a condition that political workers and the public should not be associated with the celebrations. The apex court also noted the progress of the trial, with 23 witnesses examined and nine dropped. The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Ashish Mishra, son of former union minister Ajay Mishra and an accused in the 2021 Lakhimpur violence case, to travel to his ...Read More >
Hours after Atul Subash's wife Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha and brother Anurag were arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide, the Bengaluru techie's father, Pawan Kumar Modi has questioned where Atul's four-year-old son is and said the family was worried about him. Modi thanked the police for arresting the woman and her family members. However, he said, "We don't know where she has kept our grandson. Has he been killed or is he alive? We don't know anything about him. I want my grandson ...Read More >
Thane, Apr 5 (PTI) A family from Maharashtra's Thane district was allegedly swindled of more than Rs 1.66 crore by a man who exploited their fear of "black magic" and promised them divine remedies through elaborate rituals and pilgrimages, police said on Sunday. The Kasarvadavali police district on April 2 registered a first information report (FIR) against Manjunath Shetty, a resident of Andheri in neighbouring Mumbai, based on the family's allegations that they were manipulated into paying the accused over a period of two years to "neutralise black magic" performed by a relative, an officia ...Read More >
Delhi Police's North West District Special Staff has arrested a man from Ghaziabad for allegedly threatening to kill Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, officials said on Saturday. According to officials, the accused, who was under the influence of alcohol at the time, first called to speak to his estranged wife, and later issued a threat to the Chief Minister. He is a law graduate and was reportedly upset after his wife left him. During the investigation, the man allegedly tried to mislead the p ...Read More >
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 15 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh police is hopeful of solving the firing incident at Bollywood actor Disha Patani's father's residence at Civil Lines, Bareilly, with six teams working on the case. Bareilly Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Anurag Arya, while speaking to the media SSP Bareilly, Anurag Arya, while speaking to the media, revealed that they have found footage from 2,500 CCTV cameras, set in and around the city and are also analysing the data collected from tolls. "We have got footage from 2500 CCTV cameras in and around the city. We a ...Read More >
Uttar Pradesh Police Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old cleric from Bihar for allegedly making objectionable remarks about Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's mother during a public meeting in Bihar in 2024. Police said the matter came to light after a video of the accused's remarks recently surfaced on social media. Two separate cases, in Balrampur and Bahraich, have been registered against the accused, Mohammad Salim Qasmi, a resident of Bihar's Araria district, said Amit Pathak, Inspector General o ...Read More >
The Allahabad high court has sought an explanation from the additional chief secretary (home), UP, regarding the non-mentioning of the usual honorific 'Hon'ble' before the name of a Union minister whose name figured in an FIR lodged in Mathura last year. A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena passed the order in a petition filed by Harshit Sharma and 2 others seeking quashing of an FIR registered against them at Highway police station, Mathura, bearing case crime number 1197 of 202 ...Read More >
KUSHINAGAR/NEW DELHI, (UP), Apr 5: The Delhi Police's Special Cell has detained a youth from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities and taken him to the national capital, officials said on Sunday. According to Uttar Pradesh police, the youth, Rizwan Ahmad, of Chhawani area of Padrauna town, came under the scanner during the investigation of a case registered by the Special Cell. A 10-member team led by Inspector Nishant Dahiya reached Padrauna late Saturday evening and, with assistance from local police, took Ahmad into custody, a senior UP P ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): A woman and a six-month-old baby were found dead at a residence at Delhi's Majnu Ka Tilla area, police officials said on Tuesday. According to police, the victim's live-in partner, Nikhil, is the prime suspect in the case as it was revealed that the couple were having certain disputes, which even forced the victim, Sonal, to leave her previous residence and move in with her friend in Majnu Ka Tilla. The infant belonged to her friend, Rashmi. The police received a call at Police Station Civil Lines at around 1PM. 'Sonal had moved to her friend Rashmi's house ...Read More >
Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): Two labourers lost their lives and another was injured after the roof of an under-construction house collapsed in the Kotwali police station area of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh police said. According to Circle Officer (CO) Sadar Kannauj, Abhishek Pratap, the house was undergoing renovation when the incident occurred on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Shyamjeet and Gyanendra. A third labourer, Tillu, sustained injuries and was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Also Read | Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom-4 Crew's Return to E ...Read More >
Lucknow: Two women from Bengaluru and UP's Auraiya have come forward with testimonies, alleging they were trapped, exploited, and forcibly converted to Islam as part of a religious conversion syndicate allegedly run by Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba.Both women, in their mid-20s, were rescued with help from Vishwa Hindu Raksha Parishad national president Gopal Rai. Rai has claimed getting threats. Speaking at a press conference in Lucknow on Monday, the women accused Baba's network of using fake H ...Read More >
The arrests followed late-night raids on Monday at Med-Life hospital, Ahuja Hospital, and Priya Hospital in the Kalyanpur area, conducted jointly with the health department led by the Chief Medical Officer Haridutt Nemi, Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal said. The investigation suggests the possible involvement of six to seven more hospitals, police said, adding that further arrests are likely in the coming days. The police arrested hospital owners Dr Preeti Ahuja, 50, her husband Dr Surjeet ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Police arrested four gang members for kidnapping actor Mushtaq Mohammad Khan from Delhi airport and holding him captive in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, while demanding ransom. Officials revealed that the criminals had also planned to kidnap veteran actor Shakti Kapoor by inviting him to a purported event. Bijnor superintendent of police Abhishek Jha disclosed on Saturday that event manager Shivam Yadav lodged a complaint on December 9. The complaint said that on October 15, Lavi, also kno ...Read More >
Ayodhya: A youth has been arrested from the Ram Janmabhoomi area in Ayodhya. The youth had installed a hidden camera in the glasses he was wearing, through which he used to click photos in the Ram temple premises. The accused youth is a resident of Vadodara. The police are arresting him and interrogating him. The youth had installed a camera in his glasses. Through this, he clicked photos in the Ram temple premises. A security guard present at the scene became suspicious and checked the glasses. During the check, a hidden camera was found in the glasses. The arrested youth is being interroga ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) A 32-year-old robber wanted in multiple cases, including armed robberies and illegal arms possession, was arrested after a brief exchange of fire with police near Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan area, a police official said on Wednesday. The accused, Lalit alias Nepali, sustained a bullet injury to his left leg during the encounter, while Assistant Commissioner of Police (Lajpat Nagar) Mihir Sakaria escaped unhurt due to his bulletproof jacket, the official said. "Lalit, who has a long criminal history spanning over 18 cases, including armed robberies, snatching and illegal ar ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister Suresh Gopi stirred controversy on Tuesday by claiming that those elected by "corpses" are now serving the state. Speaking at a neighbourhood meet called "Kalungu" in Idukki district, he alleged that cadavers from 25 years ago had cast votes in Kerala elections. Media reports have previously highlighted incidents of deceased voters being listed as active in Kerala's voter list, he said, while indirectly referring to the accusations of "scientific rigging " against the Left parties. The minister was responding to allegations of voter fraud in Thrissur consti ...Read More >
Hanuman Jayanti processions across the Capital passed off smoothly on Thursday, including in Uttam Nagar, where a 26-year-old Hindu man was killed by a Muslim family last month leading to weeks of communal tension, and in Jahangirpuri, where communal clashes broke out in 2022. Minor intervention was reported in Jahangirpuri's E-Block, where around 20 people were removed by police while attempting to enter a restricted area, according to police. In Uttam Nagar, the procession began barely 10 met ...Read More >
JAUNPUR: The mother-in-law and the brother-in-law of techie Atul Subhash, who committed suicide in Bengaluru, fled their home in Jaunpur on Thursday, even as Uttar Pradesh Police said it was yet to receive any official communication from Karnataka. The 34-year-old techie ended his life on Monday in Bengaluru, alleging harassment at the hands of his estranged wife and her family. A case of abetment to suicide was registered against his wife Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha, father Anurag and uncle Sushil. Around 1 am, Nisha Singhania and her son Anurag alias Piyush Singhania left their home ...Read More >
Jaunpur (UP), Dec 12 (PTI) The mother-in-law and the brother-in-law of techie Atul Subhash, who committed suicide in Bengaluru, fled their home in Jaunpur on Thursday, even as Uttar Pradesh Police said it was yet to receive any official communication from Karnataka. The 34-year-old techie ended his life on Monday in Bengaluru, alleging harassment at the hands of his estranged wife and her family. A case of abetment to suicide was registered against his wife Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha, father Anurag and uncle Sushil. Around 1 am, Nisha Singhania and her son Anurag alias Piyush Singhan ...Read More >
Lucknow: Taking strict action over laxity, three police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were suspended on Saturday after a youth was beaten to death on suspicion of theft in the Unchahar area on Wednesday. The Station House Officer (SHO), Sanjay Kumar, was removed from his post and attached to the crime branch.SP Rae Bareli Yashveer Singh suspended sub-inspector Kamal Singh Yadav along with constables Pradeep and Abhishek and removed SHO Sanjay Kumar. Circle officer Dalmau, Girjashankar Tri ...Read More >