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NEW DELHI: Three juveniles have been apprehended for killing 18-year-old Sonu Kumar in Delhi's Alipur area after he resisted a robbery attempt. Police said the suspects strangled him, gouged out his eyes to prevent identification, and buried his body near the Yamuna riverbank. "Police were patrolling and saw three suspicious people riding a black motorcycle without a registration number. After seeing the police vehicle, they tried to flee. They were apprehended. The motorcycle was found stolen from the Alipur area," DCP (outer north) Hareshwar said. During interrogation, they confessed to the murder. Police later recovered a human skeleton from a pit near the Yamuna, which was preserved for medico-legal examination. An IMEI search helped identify the victim, missing for three months, as Sonu Kumar of Bihar's Aurangabad district. A murder case has been registered.
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police Tuesday took the accused, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad, to Saif Ali Khan's house to recreate the crime scene. Shehzad was taken to Khan's apartment on the 12th floor of the Satguru Sharan building in the Bandra area at around 5:30am. The police team recreated the crime scene. The police are trying to find out how the accused managed to reach the actor's home. The accused was not seen on any camera while entering the building. Police took the accused wherever he went after leaving Saif Ali Khan's house. Shehzad was taken to the garden near the Satguru Sharan build ...Read More >
Bengaluru, June 5 (PTI) In a major development, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday suspended Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and several other senior police officials in connection with the stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium that killed 11 people. He also ordered the arrest of representatives of the RCB team, the event management firm DNA Entertainment Private Limited, and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), hours after an FIR was registered against them under various charges, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The state government ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Axiom-4 crew members, including Shubhanshu Shukla, were welcomed with hugs and drinks as they stepped into the International Space Station on Thursday. The newly launched spacecraft -- the fifth in the Dragon series and named Grace -- successfully completed a soft docking with the International Space Station at 4.01pm while orbiting above the North Atlantic Ocean."At 6:31 am EDT (4:01 IST) on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station for the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4," the National Aeronautics ...Read More >
Hyderabad: As the sensational murder of a 32-year-old private land surveyor G Tejeswar in Gadwal district rocked the State, his parents broke down before the police for losing one of their twin sons within one month of their marriage. The marriage of Tejeswar, a resident of Gadwal, was performed with Aishwarya, hailing from Kurnool, on May 18, 2025. However, he was murdered on June 17. As information related to the arrest of Aishwarya, her mother Sujatha, paramour V Tirumala Rao and other supari gang members on Thursday informed them, his parents - Jayaramudu and Shakunthala wept inconsolabl ...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 >
Shillong (Meghalaya) [India], June 27 (ANI): Police seized a gun and Rs 50,000 from the accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, Superintendent of Police (SP) Herbert Pyniaid Kharkongor said on Friday. SP Herbert Pyniaid Kharkongor told the reporters, "A weapon was seized yesterday, including a gun with ammunition and Rs 50,000, which we recovered from the vehicle. Since we have police custody, we will further interrogate more... Raj and Akash disclosed a weapon in the bag, allowing us to proceed accordingly..." Also Read | 'Not Right to Impose Hindi on Primary Students': Sharad Pawar Sa ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 27 (ANI): A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday evening. The police have arrested all three accused within 24 hours. The three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law college. Also Read | Student Gang-Raped at South Kolkata Law College: Police Arrest 3 Youths for Sexually Assaulting Young Woman Inside Law College. According to the police, the accused named in the FIR will be produced before the A.C.J. ...Read More >
Kanpur: The Etawah police arrested four people in connection with the murder of a woman and her minor daughter. They committed this violent act against the victims due to disputes over property ownership. A tragic incident occurred near Mahera Chungi in the Friends Colony area on Sunday night when Harshvardhan, whose father was a retired chief medical officer, fatally shot his sister and her three-year-old daughter in Etawah district due to his displeasure over his father's decision regarding property distribution. Jyoti and her daughter have been residing at her father's residence for severa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the BJP government over the death of a nine-year-old girl in the national capital, alleging that it is ruining the law and order situation in the national capital. 'This incident of rape and murder of a 9-year-old innocent girl in Delhi has shocked everyone. BJP has ruined the law and order situation in Delhi, our daughters are not safe even in the four-engine government of BJP. Home Minister Amit Shah and his four-engine government will have to answer. The daughters of Delhi want answers as well as justic ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea filed by two journalists from Madhya Pradesh who were allegedly assaulted and abused at the instance of Bhind's Superintendent of Police over their reporting on "illegal sand mining" in the Chambal river. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan will resume hearing the matter on June 9. On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notice on the writ petition filed by journalists Shashikant Jat ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 29-year-old woman was found murdered in a hotel room in central Delhi's Paharganj on Sunday.Police have arrested a man who has claimed to be in a relationship with the victim and checked into the hotel with her on Saturday.According to investigators, the accused suspected the woman was in a relationship with another person, which may have led to the crime.The deceased was identified as Sarika, while the accused, 31-year-old Sachin, was a resident of north Delhi. Both worked in a cloc ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday extended the term of the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Ravi Agrawal by one year, an official notification said.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the re-appointment of Agrawal, an IRS officer of the 1988 batch, as CBDT chairman for one year from July 1 this year to June 30, 2026, on contract basis.Agrawal took over as the CBDT chairman from Nitin Gupta in June 2024 after Gupta's extended tenure ended. Agrawal has been a member of CBDT. He was member administration and had served as DG investigation in Delhi. The gover ...Read More >
Guwahati: Meghalaya Police have recovered crucial evidence in Raja Raghuvanshi's murder, including jewelry that belonged to the victim and his wife, Sonam, from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) from Meghalaya Police, conducting its probe in Madhya Pradesh, unearthed the jewelry along with Sonam's laptop and a pen drive. The team found the items at the house of the in-laws of Shilom James, an Indore-based property dealer. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! Meghalaya police SIT arrested Silom James, who had rented a flat i ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday said the state govt was consistently working to provide better resources to the doctors and quality healthcare services to the citizens.He mentioned that medical colleges were being established in every district.While there were only six medical colleges in 2014, the number has now increased to 15, and nine new colleges are under construction. As a result, MBBS seats in the state increased from 700 in 2014 to 2,185, at present. The state govt aims to increase the MBBS seats to over 3,400 by 2029, said Saini.The CM was addressing a ...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 >
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- 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 >
Thane, Dec 26 (VOICE) A couple has been arrested in connection with the abduction, rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Thane district. Coming barely after the Badlapur sexual assault on two nursery class girls in August, this is the second case that has sparked outrage with people demanding the noose for the alleged perpetrators - Vishal Gawli, 35 and his wife Sakshi Gawli, 25. Vishal Gawli is accused of kidnapping the girl from near her home, where she was playing on Monday, taking her to his house, assaulting, raping, killing and then dumping her body near a cemetery in ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jun 7 (PTI) Authorities on Saturday barred Eid prayers from taking place at the Eidgah ground and the Jama Masjid in the old city here, while Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq claimed that he was put under house arrest. "Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar deeply regrets to inform that the authorities have once again disallowed Eid-ul-Adha prayers at the Eidgah as well as at the historic Jama Masjid in Srinagar by closing the gates of the mosque and deploying police personnel outside," the management of the historic mosque said in a statement. ...Read More >
Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Two accused of helping Sonam Raghuvanshi murder her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi, in Meghalaya in May have withdrawn their previous confessions and chosen to remain silent before the magistrate, said the police on Friday. Shillong City Superintendent of Police Herbert Pyniaid Kharkongor, who leads the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case, stated that Akash Rajput and Anand Kurmi did not make any statements when presented before the magistrate on Thursday. "We produced only two out of the five accused. They declined to speak. However, we have substantial mat ...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 >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): BJP MP Gulam Ali Khatana, who was part of the all-party parliamentary delegation to Europe, said that during their recently conclued visit they successfully communicated India's development story and its resolute stand against terrorism, particularly emanating from Pakistan. Highlighting the delegation's key discussions during the tour, Khatana told ANI, 'We discussed how we dismantled the terrorism factory in Pakistan by responding... We also talked about tourism infrastructure, G20 Summit, and projects like the six-lane roads, bridges, solar initiatives, our ...Read More >
Bahraich, June 28: Two minors allegedly killed a man by slitting his throat and then crushed his head with a stone to steal his iPhone to create "high-quality reels" for more likes, police said on Saturday. Police have held both the accused and initiated investigations. The victim, Shadab (19), who lived in Bengaluru, was visiting his ancestral village of Nagaur in Bahraich for his maternal uncle's wedding. Additional Superintendent of Police, Ramanand Prasad Kushwaha, said that the incident occurred on the night of June 20. "Shadab was reported missing on June 21, and his body was discovered ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a belligerent, brilliant, and breathtaking performance from the Chennai Bulls, who were crowned the first ever champions of the Rugby Premier League, here in Mumbai, at the Shahaji Raje Bhosale Sports Complex. The Chennai Bulls thrashed the Delhi Redz by a scoreline of 41-0 in the final, to clinch the title. In fact, the margin of victory is the biggest across Season 1 of the GMR RPL. Meanwhile, the Hyderabad Heroes, who had finished top of the table in the league stage, came away with a third-place finish, after they won 17-12 against the Bengaluru Bra ...Read More >
Patna: A huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the residence of a suspended constable, Saroj Singh, in Sultanpur Ganga diara area of Mohiuddin Nagar in Samastipur district on Friday. The raid, carried out by the joint teams of Bihar Special Task Force (STF) and district police, turned violent when Singh's supporters opened fire at the police team. The constable and his four associates were later arrested by the STF for allegedly conspiring to kill two people.The STF also recovered an AK-47 rifle, an INSAS rifle with four magazines and 70 live cartridges, a rifle, and a double-b ...Read More >
Kolkata: Fourteen years after Ritesh Kumar Shaw -- a garments trader from Burrabazar -- attempted to murder his wife in front of their four-year-old son, a Barrackpore court on Friday sentenced him to life imprisonment for orchestrating the crime to claim insurance benefits.Santonu Chakrobarty, public prosecutor-in-charge, told TOI that the accused shot his wife, Madhumala Shaw (40), after he made an insurance policy of Rs 1 crore in her name and named himself as the nominee. Cops said Shaw planned the attack, assuming his wife would die. He then lodged a false complaint at Khardah Police Stat ...Read More >
. No arrest has been made so far in the incident, the police said. (Representational) New Delhi: A 19-year-old man was brutally stabbed to death in the Rani Garden area in Shahdara district, police said on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Yash. According to police, in their preliminary investigation, two suspects have been identified, Amaan and Rehan, in connection with the murder. "A murder has taken place in the Geeta Colony area. The deceased's name is Yash, who is around 19 ye ...Read More >
Dehradun, Jun 30 (PTI) The Chardham Yatra resumed on Monday with rains easing at most places in Uttarakhand though authorities urged pilgrims to be cautious, while rescuers searched for seven construction workers - who went missing following a landslide and cloudburst on Yamunotri highway - for the second consecutive day. The NDRF, SDRF, ITBP and the district administration teams are scouring along the Yamuna river and through the landslide debris in search of the missing labourers, Uttarkashi District Magistrate Prashant Arya said. Nine labourers engaged in the construction of a hotel went ...Read More >
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 8 (ANI): Devotees have started pouring in at the banks of Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj where the Maha Kumbh Mela is set to take place from January 13 to February 26. In a unique blend of tradition and technology, many are seen using video calls to share the divine experience with their elderly relatives who couldn't attend. This digital darshan allows loved ones to participate remotely and feel connected to the sacred event. The world's largest Maha Kumbh Mela is being organized on the banks of Sangam with the government making preparations to make M ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) In a major security lapse, an undertrial prisoner who was brought to Saket Court for a hearing on Thursday was killed inside the court's lock-up after two men allegedly kicked him repeatedly and smashed his head on the wall in the presence of several prisoners. Aman (24), who was facing trial in an attempt to murder case, was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead by doctors. Police sources said they have formed a team to investigate the matter, including why security personnel present at the lock-up were slow in responding. Multiple undertrial prisoners were in ...Read More >