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Hyderabad: Police on Thursday barricaded the stretch leading to the pharma factory of Sigachi Industries after Ramdas, the father of a 20-year-old Justine, attempted suicide in protest against security agencies refusing to let him enter the blast site to search for his son, who remained untraceable for the last four days. Relatives of several workers, who were at the factory during the Monday explosion, have been coming to the blast site in the hope of finding out about their family members. However, the police refused to allow both the relatives of the victims as well as media personnel to enter the pharma factory, asking them to enquire with hospital officials about the missing persons. Ramdas, who came with other family members, got furious with the police denying him access to the blast site and attempted suicide in the presence of Sigachi staff and police by hitting his head with a stone. Ramdas, a native of Bidar in Karnataka, is a resident of Beeramguda in Hyderabad. His son Justin joined Sigachi's pharma unit at Pashamylaram in Sangareddy district just a few days ago. Two days after he joined the company, a fire accident occurred at the dryer unit, killing around 40 people and injuring around 35. Several people, including Justin, are reported to be missing, giving anxious moments to their family members. "Beerappa, who helped Justine to get a job at Sigachi, suffered 90 per cent burn injuries in the mishap," Ramdas told media persons here. Staff at the mortuary has been collecting samples from the family members of workers -- who were missing -- for DNA tests to identify their bodies. The officials collected more samples and sent them to a forensic lab in Hyderabad for testing. While shifting debris from the blast site, the officials found burnt organs. Forensic team collected those organs and shifted to the lab for DNA tests for identification.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at 15 places in Mumbai and Kochi in connection with the Mithi River desilting scam that caused a wrongful loss of more than Rs 65 crore to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), official sources said. The massive crackdown is underway at the premises across Mumbai and Kochi linked to the accused and suspects as part of an ongoing probe into alleged financial irregularities. According to the sources, the searches are being carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at locat ...Read More >
Navi Mumbai: The father of a three-day-old girl who was found abandoned in a blue basket outside Navi Mumbai's Panvel wad traced and detained on Sunday, the police said. According to them, the infant's parents were not financially stable enough to raise her. Due to this, the couple decided to give up the baby to an orphanage that could look after her, reported PTI. However, the Navi Mumbai police's crime branch traced the infant's father, Aman Iqbal Kondkar, a resident of Thane's Bhiwandi, within 24 hours, an official said. ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The death toll from the massive explosion at a multi-storey chemical plant in Telangana's Medak district climbed to 35 by Tuesday morning, with several workers injured and many still unaccounted for.Rescue operations are ongoing, and officials fear the toll may rise further as teams continue to sift through the rubble in search of those possibly trapped beneath the collapsed building.The government area hospital in Patancheru, where post-mortem examinations are being conducted, confirmed 35 deaths so far.The workers at the plant hail from multiple states, including Telangana, Andhra ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The death toll in the blast in Sigachi Industries Ltd's manufacturing unit in Pashamylaram near Hyderabad rose to 44 with two injured succumbing on Tuesday. According to officials, the two workers who passed away were undergoing treatment at two different hospitals in the Sangareddy district. One of the workers Akhleshwar succumbed at Dhruva Hospital in Sangareddy while Arif breathed his last at Panacea Meridian Hospital near Beeramguda. Eight injured workers have so far succumbed at hospitals over the last week. Sixteen workers are still undergoing treatm ...Read More >
Police arrested a software engineer in Satara for abetment of suicide. A doctor named him and a police sub-inspector in her suicide note. The doctor was found hanging in a hotel room. Relatives allege harassment and pressure to alter medical reports. Political figures are also implicated. Investigations are ongoing into the death and the alleged involvement of others. Police on Saturday arrested a software engineer in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman doctor in Maharasht ...Read More >
Muzaffarnagar, March 31: A shocking incident has surfaced from Muzaffarnagar where four members of the same family were found dead under suspicious circumstances, creating panic in the area. According to reports, the bodies were discovered inside a house in the Sarwat locality. The deceased have been identified as Irshad (32), his wife Noreen, and their two minor children. While the husband's body was found hanging from the ceiling, the bodies of the wife and children were lying on the floor. Bodies discovered, probe underway Police and forensic teams rushed to the spot after receiving info ...Read More >
As many as nine people are still missing in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries' pharma plant in Pashamylaram that claimed at least 38 lives and left 35 injured, and efforts are on to trace the missing people, Superintendent of Police (SP) of this district, Paritosh Pankaj, said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the expert committee appointed by the state government to ascertain the causes and establish the sequence of events that led to the explosion is expected to visit the site on Thursday. The pa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], November 17 (ANI): The death toll in the Delhi car blast case has risen to 15 after two victims succumbed to injuries, officials confirmed on Monday. According to Delhi Police, the total number of deceased has reached 15, including three partial body parts. One of the victims succumbed to injuries yesterday, while another victim, named Vinay Pathak, died today. Investigators probing the terror module allegedly linked to Dr Umar Un Nabi, whom security agencies identified as the one who drove the explosive-laden car which went up in flames in the blast on November 10 at Red ...Read More >
Belthangady: Two decades after her daughter mysteriously disappeared during a visit to Dharmasthala, Sujata Bhat (60), the mother of missing MBBS student Ananya Bhat, formally filed a police complaint at Dharmasthala Police Station on Monday evening seeking fresh probe into the matter in light of the recent revealations in the Dharmasthala Mass Burial case. Earlier in the day, Sujata Bhat, accompanied by her advocate Manjunath N, met the Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada district, seeking justice and a renewed investigation into the case. Based on the SP's advice, she later visited ...Read More >
Medak: Telangana State BJP President N. Ramchander Rao on Friday appealed to the people to give the committed party an opportunity to meet the aspirations of the poor and downtrodden. Addressing a large gathering of party workers in Medak, the BJP chief remarked that citizens have experienced the rule of the BRS and the Congress party and have had bitter experiences with the deceitful practices of both. He urged people to support the BJP wholeheartedly in the upcoming local body elections as a way to teach the ruling Congress party a lesson for its unfulfilled promises. Rao emphasized that t ...Read More >
Hyderabad, April 9: Five persons were arrested in Telangana's Sangareddy district on Thursday for tying an Anganwadi teacher to a tree over the alleged financial cheating by her husband, police said. The shocking incident took place in Rasole village in Kangti mandal on Wednesday. Few villagers tied Vasanta Kumari to a tree with a rope and humiliated her as her husband, Prabhakar, had allegedly cheated them in the name of a finance company. Prabhakar had collected money from some villagers in Ramaragidda village under "HBM Finance" and fled. Angered over this, some villagers went to Rasole, w ...Read More >
Police officials said the man, from Visakhapatnam, had already paid the principal amount but was being hounded for a huge amount as interest. The man's family has lodged complaints with the police commissioner and the district collector. Hyderabad: Facing relentless harassment after taking a loan of Rs 2,000 from an instant loan app, a 27-year-old died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam just 47 days after he got married. Police officials said Narendra, who catches fish for a living, ...Read More >
Imphal, June 29 (UNI) A series of successful operations carried out by Manipur Police and security forces during the last 24 hours led to the arrest of several individuals involved in vehicle theft, insurgent activity, and the recovery of a significant cache of arms and ammunition. Police arrested a vehicle lifter identified as Syed Riyaj from his residence at Lilong Chaobok in Thoubal District. The arrest was made under Lilong Police Station. Authorities seized a blue two wheeler without registration number, along with a key and an Aadhaar card believed to be linked to the suspect. In a s ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Heavy rain disrupts the rescue operations at the site of the massive explosion that occurred at the Sigachi Industries Pvt Ltd., located in Sangareddy district on Monday. A devastating explosion at a chemical unit claimed 15 lives and left over several workers injured. The operations have been going on at the destruction site in Pashamylaram industrial area to rescue the trapped person working at the chemical factory during the blast. With the heavy rains, the rescue operations were disrupted. The officials said with the heavy rains, the teams faced difficulties to remove the rubbl ...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 >
Greater Noida: A second-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) student of Sharda University allegedly died by suicide late Friday night in the girls' hostel located at the university campus in Greater Noida's Knowledge Park, police said on Saturday. The student was found hanging in her room. Upon receiving the information, the Knowledge Park Kotwali police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem. The incident sent shockwaves across the university campus, especially within the hostel premises. Suicide Note Recovered According to police officials, a suicide note was recovered from t ...Read More >
Jodhpur: Regional Forensic Science Laboratory in Jodhpur is working round the clock to match DNA samples given by kin with those of the victims of the Jaisalmer bus fire tragedy.Principal of SN Medical College, BS Jodha, said two bodies have already been handed over to family members after identification, while four burn victims are battling for life on ventilators.Jodhpur in-charge minister Madan Dilawar arrived in Jodhpur Wednesday to check on the injured and meet relatives of the dead and injured. He also visited the forensic lab to understand the process of matching DNA samples. He instruc ...Read More >
Fazilka , An LPG cylinder booking has helped police nab a former Captain of the Indian Army, who had been on the run for four years after his conviction was upheld by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in his wife's murder case. Sandeep Tomar was arrested from Pandhurna district in Madhya Pradesh and was produced before a court here, which sent him to judicial custody on Saturday, a police official said here on Tuesday. Tomar was posted in Abohar in 2013 when he allegedly killed his wife, Shveta ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 3: More details are emerging in the case involving self-styled godman and astrologer Ashok Kharat, who is currently in jail over allegations of s*xual assault on multiple women. The case has taken a fresh turn after claims that his name was earlier removed from an abetment to suicide chargesheet. The controversy dates back to 2022, when Vikas Ramdas Divate, 37, died by suicide in Shirdi. In a note, Divate directly blamed Kharat and his in-laws. "I am Vikas Ramdas Divate and I am ending my life by hanging myself. The person responsible for my death is 'Captain' Kharat from Nashik ...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 >
Telangana pharma unit blast: Search continues for 13 missing workers Hyderabad: Search for 13 missing workers following the blast at a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamyalaram near Hyderabad continued on Wednesday. More than 48 hours after the blast at Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd., which claimed the lives of 36 workers, the rescue teams continued clearing debris. According to officials, 13 workers were still missing, and it is feared that they were trapped under the debris of the three-storey building, which collapsed under the impact of the blast. The search teams have deployed huge cranes an ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Air India SATS (AISATS) has sacked four senior officials after a video of an office party in Gurugram went viral, triggering widespread shock and outrage over the callous attitude of the staffers as the nation mourns the death of 270 people in the tragic Ahmedabad plane crash. The video, which featured AISATS Chief Operating Officer Abraham Zachariah and other officials dancing to blaring music, was widely condemned on social media. AISATS is a company that provides airport ground services. It is a joint venture, owned equally (50-50) by two companies -- A ...Read More >
Lucknow: A cloth merchant allegedly died by suicide along with his wife and minor daughter late Sunday night in the Asarfabad locality here, police said. Police said that the deceased were identified as Shobhit Rastogi (48), his wife Suchita Rastogi (45) and their 16-year-old daughter. According to police officials, Shobhit owned a clothing shop located within the Rajajipuram area. Shobhit's brother arrived at his residence on Monday morning and found the family members lying dead. He immediately alerted the police, and officers from the Chowk police station rushed to the spot. They broke ope ...Read More >
Kurnool, Oct 24 (UNI) In a ghastly road accident, 19 bus passengers and a motorcyclist were charred alive when a Bangalore-bound private bus caught fire after hitting a motorcycle in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours on Friday. According to DIG Koya Praveen, the ill-fated bus, belonging to Vemuri Kaveri Travels, burst into flames after colliding with a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction. The bike got stuck under the bus, rupturing its fuel tank. The petrol spilling from the tank of the bike resulted in the bus erupting in a ball of fire. The inferno engulfed the ...Read More >
Pune: Passengers on board a Goa to Pune SpiceJet flight (SG-1080) had a scare on Tuesday evening when a window panel was found dislodged while the plane was mid-air.The airline played down the incident, saying the window part that had come off was "a non-structural trim component, fitted onto the window for the purpose of shade".But a person on board the plane -- a Bombardier Q400 -- told TOI the incident triggered anxiety among the passengers. "Two to three layers of the window panel just came off," said Aatish Mishra, the passenger."There was no depressurization, but this shouldn't have happ ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The National Commission for Women took suo motu cognisance of a report about the alleged stalking and harassment of a college student in Chennai and a subsequent machete attack on her father and brother. It said a detailed action taken report has been sought from the state police within seven days. The commission's Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar has directed the Tamil Nadu DGP to ensure a prompt, thorough and time-bound investigation into the case. The National Commission f ...Read More >
MANDYA: Tension gripped Elechakanahalli village in Mandya taluk after Dalits were allegedly denied entry into Maramma temple by upper caste people. As the situation escalated, heavy police deployment was made to prevent any untoward incidents. The controversy began when upper caste villagers reportedly blocked Dalits from entering Maramma temple, leading to clashes between the two communities. Taluk authorities temporarily sealed the temple and enforced tight security in the area. Later, leaders from both communities placed separate locks on the temple doors, further deepening the standoff. ...Read More >
Hyderabad: With law enforcement agencies in many cases found to be violating the law by illegally intercepting the mobile phones of Opposition leaders and a wide section of society, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has proposed to amend the law and issue guidelines for intercepting phones, sources said on Sunday. According to the proposed guidelines, state governments and its investigation agencies will be limited to intercept mobile phones in their respective states, a senior police official told Deccan Chronicle. If the investigation agencies and the state police need to intercept ...Read More >
The accused, Md Rehan, allegedly sexually assaulted the girl on the pretext of marriage and blackmailed her with objectionable photographs, a senior police official said. He said the incident came to light on June 18, when an MLC (medico-legal case) report was received from Spinal Injuries Hospital stating that a girl had been admitted there after she consumed acid. A police team reached the hospital, but the girl was declared unfit for recording a statement at the time. The local crime team wa ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 7: A week after the horrific fire and explosion at Sigachi Industries Limited's manufacturing unit in Pashamylaram near Hyderabad, the search continues for eight missing workers. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp Rescue teams continued to comb through the debris to find the remains of the missing men. Personnel from Fire Services, SDRF, HYDRAA and police continued combing through the debris for human remains. The anxious wait for the families of the missing workers continued at the help centre set up for the families of the victims for the eighth day. They have urged the authorit ...Read More >