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Srinagar, Dec 06: In a chilling case that combines superstition, murder, and greed, a Gulf-based businessman, Abdul Gafoor, was allegedly killed by a black magic gang in Kasargod district of Kerala. The gang, led by 38-year-old Shameena K H, known as 'Jinnumma,' had been performing rituals at Gafoor's house for months under the guise of treating his wife's back pain and depression. On the night of April 13, 2023, while Gafoor's family was away, Shameena and her associates performed a ritual at his home, claiming it was necessary to exorcise the jinn which was causing his wife's suffering, reported The Indian Express. They covered Gafoor's head with a cloth and struck it against the wall multiple times, causing his death, said the report. When the family returned home the next day, they found Gafoor dead. Since there were no visible injuries, they buried him without suspicion. After the mourning period ended, when people started approaching the family over 'missing gold', Gafoor's son, Ahammed Mussamil filed a police complaint. As per the report, Gafoor had been lending large amounts of gold to Shameena who had promised to "double" it. Also, police, as per the report, have discovered that the gang had taken over 596 sovereigns of gold from Gafoor, much of which was borrowed from others. Investigations into the case revealed that the murder was premeditated, as the gang had planned to kill Gafoor as he was asking them to return his gold. Shameena, her husband Ubaid, and two other accomplices, Asfina and Ayisha, have been arrested on charges of murder, robbery, and destruction of evidence.
Chennai, June 08: In a shocking case of blackmail, extortion and murder in Chennai, a 27-year-old doctor from Asthampatti near Salem, identified as Dr Santosh Kumar, has been arrested by the Kodungaiyur police for killing a 26-year-old woman who allegedly blackmailed him using his nude pictures. The victim, Nithya, a resident of Sattuma Nagar in Thiruvottiyur, reportedly posed as an IT professional working in Ambattur and extorted money from multiple men. She had befriended Dr Santosh online and gradually began blackmailing him, threatening to leak his nude photos to his family. Police said s ...Read More >
Digha: A sea of devotees swamped the road as the wheels of chariots rolled for the maiden Rath Yatra in Digha on Friday. In keeping with the tradition followed for the chariot festival in Puri, chief minister Mamata Banerjee took part in rituals, washed the road where the three chariots were parked, performed aarti with earthen lamps, and swept the path with a gold broom to set off the Rath Yatra from Jagannath Dham. The rain could not dampen the festive fervour of devotees who started thronging the temple area with umbrellas since 6 am. The priests began the rituals around 9 am and the crowd ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A police case has been registered against a woman staying at Doddanekundi after she was accused of killing one of her pet dogs and keeping its carcass for days that led to foul smell coming out of her flat. Dr KL Rudresh Kumar, the assistant director of the Animal Husbandry (AH) Wing of the KR Puram subdivision of BBMP, filed the police complaint. The 38-year-old woman, Triparna Paik, stays at the flat number J-404 at Akme Ballet Apartment in Doddanekundi. The animal husbandry team arrived at her flat after the apartment residents' association complained to the BBMP over foul smel ...Read More >
Puri: Lord Jagannath and his siblings Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra will be dressed up in Rajarajeswar Besha, also known as Suna Besha on Sunday. The Trinity will be adorned with over 208 kg of gold ornaments on their chariots in front of the Singhadwar. Devotees will be allowed to witness the ritual from 6.30 pm to 11 pm. The temple and district administrations have made elaborate arrangements to ensure smooth darshan of the Trinity. Chief Administrator of Shri Jagannath Temple Administration Arabinda Padhe said, discussions were held with all nijogs of Srimandir to ensure all rituals a ...Read More >
GURGAON: The investigation into the murder of a 25-year-old former international tennis player, allegedly by her father, has revealed a sudden deterioration in their relationship. The apparent reason was a disagreement over the academy she ran near their house, but the roots clearly run deeper. The father, who claims to have spent Rs 2 crore on his daughter's tennis career, told interrogators he was troubled by questions about her "character" that some of his associates had raised.Deepak Yadav, who shot Radhika at their house Thursday morning, had allegedly been insisting for two weeks on her ...Read More >
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India] July 15 (ANI): The tribal-dominated Dantewada district is all set to make its footprint visible in the high-octane sport of Thai Kick Boxing, as young athletes here have clinched medals in international as well as national events. With the support of the Chhattisgarh Government, the youth of Dantewada are sharpening their skills and preparing for Thai Kick Boxing events to be held in the country and overseas. As Dantewada moves on the path to becoming a hub for producing Thai Kick Boxers, the district is also ready to shed its infamous identity that emerged du ...Read More >
Chennai, May 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three men have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of an elderly couple in Tamil Nadu's Erode district on April 28, said police on Monday. The accused also allegedly confessed to their involvement in a triple murder that occurred in Tiruppur district in November 2024, currently under investigation by the CB-CID. The arrested have been identified as P. Aachiappan (48), N. Madeswaran (52), and R. Ramesh (54), all residents of Arachalur in Erode district. The victims, Ramasamy (72) and his wife Bakkiyam (63) of Megaraiyan Thottam, Uchimedu near S ...Read More >
Jhansi: A family in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, has become the centre of a shocking case involving extramarital affairs, gold theft, and murder. Police have uncovered the alleged conspiracy behind the murder of 60-year-old Sushila Devi.The probe led to the arrest of her younger daughter-in-law, Pooja Jatav, along with Pooja's sister, Kamla. Both women are currently in judicial custody. On Tuesday night, police nabbed Kamla's boyfriend, Anil Verma -- who had been absconding since the killing. Verma was shot in the leg by the police during a police encounter. The incident occurred on the morning of ...Read More >
Bhilwara: Communal tensions flared Saturday in Jahazpur town of Bhilwara district after a minor car collision with a vegetable vendor's cart led to violence in which a young man was beaten to death the previous night.A key temple event was postponed Saturday and permissions for weekend Muharram processions revoked after threats from Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal not to allow any such events in this area of the BJP-governed state. Police deployments were stepped up and markets in Jahazpur town were shut Saturday.The trouble began when Sitaram Keer (25) was headed to Jahazpur with ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A college student was allegedly kidnapped, stripped, and brutally assaulted on the outskirts of Bengaluru, following which eight people were arrested, police said on Monday. According to police, the incident took place on June 30 in Soladevanahalli, a locality in the Nelamangala taluk near Bengaluru. The victim, Kushal, had allegedly sent an obscene message to a girl, who informed her friends. On June 30, the accused kidnapped him in a car and took him to a secluded spot, where Kushal was allegedly stripped and assaulted. They also threatened to kill him in a manner similar to Ren ...Read More >
Haridwar: A woman politician has been arrested for allegedly letting her boyfriend and others repeatedly rape her 13-year-old daughter in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The horrifying crime, which occurred between January and March, was exposed when the minor bravely confided in her father, prompting a police investigation that led to the arrest of the accused. The accused was arrested with her boyfriend and one more. According to police reports, the minor was gang-raped multiple times, often in the presence of her mother. The minor, who had been living with her father following her parents' separat ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jun 06: Political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have extended greetings to the people on the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Adha. They expressed hope that the revered occasion brings peace and prosperity to the region. Dr Farooq Abdullah National Conference (NC) president, Dr Farooq Abdullah conveyed his heartfelt greetings to the people on Eid-ul-Adha, wishing them peace, prosperity and unity. In his message, Dr Abdullah reflected on the profound significance of the day, saying, "As the Muslim Ummah comes together in celebration of Eid-ul-Azha, I extend my warmest greetings to ever ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jun 8 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, instead of introspecting on the defeat in the 2024 state assembly polls, has been repudiating the mandate given by the people because they rejected him. The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha is preparing his excuses for future defeats in the upcoming assembly elections, including Bihar, Fadnavis said in his articles published in the Indian Express and Marathi daily Loksatta. On Saturday, Gandhi, in an article published in several newspapers and in posts on X, claimed the 2024 Maharas ...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 >
ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Ajay Lamba was arrested after 24 years for four murder-cum-robbery cases targeting cab driversLamba and accomplices sedated, killed drivers in Uttarakhand, and sold cabs in NepalOnly one victim's body was recovered; two gang members were arrested earlier Did our AI summary help? Let us know. New Delhi: A serial killer who targeted cab drivers and sold off their vehicles has landed in the police net after 24 years. The Delhi Police cr ...Read More >
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) said on Monday that a sharpshooter, associated with the gang of Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva and gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was killed in an encounter in Muzaffarnagar. Shahrukh Pathan had opened fire on the police, before being gunned down in retaliatory fire, the STF of UP police said. Also Read | Nimisha Priya Faces Death in Yemen: 'Nothing Much India Can Do, Only Option Is Blood Money Settlement' Centre Tells Supreme Court. The STF recovered a 9 mm country-made pistol, more than 60 r ...Read More >
SRINAGAR: A defiant Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday scaled the gates of the Naqshband Sahib graveyard to pay tributes to the 22 people killed by the Dogra army on July 13, 1931. The dramatic scene unfolded a day after Abdullah and several leaders of the National Conference and opposition parties were put under house arrest to prevent them from going to the graveyard to mark Martyrs' Day. National Conference president Farooq Abdullah took an autorickshaw from the Khanyar crossing to the martyrs memorial while Minister for Education Sakina Ittoo surprised everyone by r ...Read More >
Himaanshika Singh Rajput, a friend of Radhika Yadav, alleged that Radhika's father was influenced by jealous acquaintances. They taunted him about his daughter's success. Himaanshika claimed Radhika was miserable before her death due to family pressure. She suspected Radhika's murder was premeditated. Radhika's father, Deepak Yadav, is in police custody. The postmortem report revealed she received four bullets. A woman claiming to be friends with slain tennis player Radhika Yadav has alleged tha ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) The Indian economy is expected to grow at 6.5 per cent in the current financial year, despite geo-political tensions and trade policy uncertainties, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman S Mahendra Dev said on Tuesday. In an interview with PTI, Dev further said that domestic growth will be driven by low inflation, resulting from good monsoon and benign interest rate regime, triggered by three back-to-back rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India. "There are significant global headwinds like the twin shocks of geo-political tensions and trade ...Read More >
Bengaluru, January 14: In a heart-wrenching incident, a 26-year-old woman allegedly threw her four young children into a canal in Karnataka's Vijayapura. According to the reports, the woman took this extreme step allegedly due to financial distress. A case has been registered, and the police have launched a probe. According to the Indian Express, the woman was identified as Bhagyashree Bhajantri. The bodies of her two daughters, Tanushree (5) and Suraksha (3), were recovered later that day while search operations continued for her 13-month-old twin sons. Bengaluru Shocker: Man Slits Wife's Th ...Read More >
Bengaluru, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Karnataka Police have filed an FIR against a young woman from West Bengal for allegedly killing her pet dog as part of a black magic ritual, officials said on Saturday. The incident has been reported from the Mahadevapura police station limits in Bengaluru. The FIR has been registered against Triparna Paik and another individual. The complaint was filed by Rudresh Kumar K.L., an Assistant Health Director with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. According to the police, the decomposed body of the dog was recovered from the woman's flat. The dog's ...Read More >
MADURAI: Likening the custodial murder of Ajith Kumar in Tiruppuvanam to an 'organised crime by police where the state kills its own citizens,' Madras high court lambasted the Tamil Nadu police and said the action against the perpetrators should be more stringent than in normal murder cases.A division bench of Justice S M Subramaniam and Justice A D Maria Clete pointed to 44 external injuries on the person of Ajith Kumar and said no part of the body was spared by the delinquent cops. "Even an ordinary murderer would not have inflicted such kind of injuries," the bench said on Tuesday.The natur ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Signalling the government's intent to move ahead with the impeachment motion of Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said that main opposition parties have given their in-principle approval to support the motion in the upcoming monsoon session scheduled for July21-August 21. Rijiju said that the government is yet to decide whether the motion would be brought in the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha. For the Lok Sabha, signatures of a minimum 100 MPs is required. The requirement is the support of at least 50 MPs in the Rajya Sabha. H ...Read More >
Patna: Bihar police on Tuesday made a major breakthrough in the high profile Gopal Khemka murder case by arresting the mastermind of the crime, and also the contract killer, who opened fire on the prominent businessman of the state. In another important development in the case, a dreaded criminal, Raja alias Vikas, who is facing accusation of supplying the arm to the contract killer in the murder was shot dead in a police encounter under Malsalmi police station limits in the state capital late Monday night. Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Vinay Kumar told a press conference at the sta ...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 >
Bengaluru: They were all minors but wanted to make quick bucks to splurge on drugs, cigarettes and snacks. Setting eyes on lone victims, mainly pedestrians near bus stands or isolated streets, three Class IX students and one first-year PU student ganged up for pre-dawn robberies across East Bengaluru for over a year. However their luck ran out when they snatched the valuables of a woman on July 3. Caught by KR Puram police, they are now cooling their heels in jail.On the morning of July 3, a woman in her 50s was walking past Garden City College when two of the juveniles, riding a stolen gearle ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 9 (ANI): Following the violent protest at Kerala University, a case has been registered against 27 activists of the ruling CPM's Students Federation of India (SFI), including its state secretary P S Sanjeev, who has been named the prime accused, police said. The case also names 1,000 identifiable protesters who have been accused of damaging public property, forcibly entering the university campus, and assaulting police and university staff, police said on Tuesday. Also Read | Nobel Peace Prize 2025: From Mahatma Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru, Check Full ...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. Also Read | Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Approves To Install CCTV Cameras in All 74,000 Coaches To Enhance Passen ...Read More >
Hyderabad: An elderly couple was murdered by two unidentified persons in their duplex apartment in Rajendranagar on Thursday. Police suspect it to be a case of murder for gain.According to the police, the deceased were identified as Shaik Abdullah (77), a retired bank employee, and his wife Rizwana (70), a retired polytechnic college lecturer. They were found dead with multiple stab injuries by the building's watchman on Friday.According to police officials, Abdullah had sustained seven stab injuries on his body, including the chest, abdomen, and leg. Based on the watchman's statement, the Raj ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday debunked all allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about rigging and match-fixing in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections. In his articles titled 'Those Rejected by the People Deny the Mandate', published in the same three newspapers where Gandhi's write-ups appeared, CM Fadnavis advised the Congress MP to "accept defeat, introspect on where you went wrong, why your connect with the people is lacking, and what needs to be done." He taunted Gandhi, saying that the latter was preparing excuses for "defeats ...Read More >