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New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj said the BJP-controlled Delhi Police is driven by prejudice, pointing out that while no FIR was registered even after an attack on Dalit MLA Kuldeep Kumar, the entire police machinery, including the Commissioner, swung into action when ink was thrown at the Assembly Speaker's car and a bouquet was left behind. A car breaching security and entering the Delhi Assembly premises by breaking through the gate ha ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a shocking turn of events, an umpire was stabbed to death following a dispute over a run-out decision during a local cricket match in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, as reported by NDTV.The victim, Dola Ajith Babu, along with his friend Budumuri Chiranjeevi, was officiating at a local ground when the incident occurred.The incident took place on Sunday evening after an argument broke out between players from two teams over a run-out call."Ajith Babu and Chiranjeevi intervened and set ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Delhi's Jahangir Puri area after a violent altercation stemming from a previous dispute. He was brought to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital (BJRM) with multiple stab injuries, where the doctors declared him dead. According to the police, the incident took place on Sunday at around 6 pm at the Ramlila Maidan in Jahangir Puri. The deceased's brother, Hakeem, who was also an eyewitness to the murder, alleged that Dilsh ...Read More >
According to the police, the investigating teams travelled nearly 2,800 kilometres to nab the accused from Maharashtra's Nashik. Police said the accused, identified as Bachchu Jha, a former Applied Mathematics professor, had threatened the institute's manager over the phone on April 2, warning of a bomb blast if the money was not paid. "The call triggered panic and led to the registration of a case at Ashok Vihar police station. The caller introduced himself as "Babla Gujjar from Noida" and at ...Read More >
The injured accused has been identified as 22-year-old Mohammad Kavish Hussain Tyagi from Muzaffarnagar. An encounter broke out between Dehradun Police and suspects linked to the murder of a retired Army brigadier late on Friday night, leaving one accused injured and leading to fresh arrests in the case, officials said. Acting on a tip-off during a checking operation in the Rajpur area, police tracked down the suspects near Johri village. The chase extended into the forested stretch of Guniyal ...Read More >
Dehradun: Dehradun police on Monday arrested the tenth accused in the murder case of retired Brigadier Mukesh Joshi. The assailant has been identified as Vaibhav Kumar, a resident of Yamunanagar in Haryana. Kumar was arrested from the Rajpur police station area in Dehradun. While nine other accused persons had already been arrested, Vaibhav Kumar was absconding for some time. Multiple police teams had been deployed to track him down, but he had managed to evade police. However, on Monday, April ...Read More >
A man in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested after confessing to the brutal murder of his wife, sparking a police investigation into the tragic case of domestic violence. Photograph: ANI PhotoKey PointsA 30-year-old man in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested for allegedly murdering his 28-year-old wife.The accused confessed to beating his wife to death with an iron rod following a dispute.The man transported his wife's body in a vehicle and disposed of it in a forest area.Police ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The man behind the security breach at the Delhi Assembly on Monday is believed to be a supporter of the 2020-21 farmers' agitation with some history of mental health issues, with sources saying his background has raised multiple lines of inquiry for investigators. Sarabjeet Singh, a 37-year-old resident of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, was apprehended two hours after he drove an SUV through one of the boundary gates of the assembly and placed a flower bouquet in the speaker' ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress and the BJP have moved the Election Commission against each other over alleged threats, hate speeches and abusive remarks just weeks ahead of the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls. At the centre of the row is the BJP's Panihati candidate, the mother of the RG Kar hospital doctor who was raped and murdered last year, and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, whose provocative comments against Union Home Minister Amit Shah have triggered a counter-complaint by the saffron camp. I ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The masked man who drove an SUV into the Delhi Assembly premises on Monday, hit an e-rickshaw outside and crashed into a gate on the way in at a very high speed, eyewitnesses said. The car appeared to be moving at around 60 to 70 kmph, said the e-rickshaw driver whose vehicle was hit. After entering the assembly premises around 2 pm, the man placed a flower bouquet in the speaker's vehicle parked on the porch before fleeing at a similarly high speed. "I had parked my e-r ...Read More >
Ranchi: Almost 20 days after a 13-year-old girl from Jakhratand village in Ranchi district was murdered on March 13, her foster brother and father have been arrested, police said.The accused were identiifed as Rahul Pathak and his father Subodh, a priest.The girl's father, who is a widower and physically challenged, gave away the girl to Subodh when she was five-year old. But no legal adoption process was followed, police added.On April 2, villagers alerted the police upon seeing some post-death ...Read More >
New Delhi: A security breach was reported at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Monday after an SUV forced entry into the premises and rammed into the vehicle of Speaker Vijender Gupta. Police said the vehicle, driven by a masked man, entered through Gate No. 2 around 2 pm, broke past barriers and proceeded towards the Speaker's office, where a bouquet was placed before the driver fled. At the time of the incident, the Speaker was inside his chamber. Officials said the accused also attempted to ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) A threat to blow up a coaching institute in northwest Delhi was foiled with the arrest of a 31-year-old man who allegedly demanded Rs 21 lakh and posed as a gangster, police said on Monday. According to the police, the investigating teams travelled nearly 2,800 kilometres to nab the accused from Maharashtra's Nashik. Police said the accused, identified as Bachchu Jha, a former Applied Mathematics professor, had threatened the institute's manager over the phone on April 2 ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Delhi Police has registered a case at Civil Lines Police Station under appropriate sections of law in the Delhi Assembly security breach incident. According to the DCP North Raja Banthia, a case has been registered at Police Station Civil Lines under appropriate sections of law, including attempt to murder, criminal trespass with preparation to commit an offence, use of criminal force against a public servant, and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Pu ...Read More >
Nalanda (Bihar) [India], April 6 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted searches at 10 locations in Bihar's Nalanda in a multi-state illegal arms and ammunition trafficking case, originating from the state and spread across various parts of Northern India. The raids are underway from early morning with multiple NIA teams, in close coordination with the state police force, carrying out the operations at the premises and hideouts of suspects linked to the case the agen ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Delhi Police has registered a case at Civil Lines Police Station under appropriate sections of law in the Delhi Assembly security breach incident. According to the DCP North Raja Banthia, a case has been registered at Police Station Civil Lines under appropriate sections of law, including attempt to murder, criminal trespass with preparation to commit an offence, use of criminal force against a public servant, and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Pu ...Read More >
Madurai: In a major verdict in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial deaths case, Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has sentenced nine Tamil Nadu policemen to death after convicting them of murder and related charges. The court termed the crime "rarest of rare," citing extreme brutality and abuse of power. The judgment came after a six-year trial, with the First Additional District and Sessions Judge convicting all nine accused. The case relates to the deaths of businessman P. Jayaraj and his so ...Read More >
Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Apr 6 (PTI) A court here on Monday sentenced nine police personnel to death for the brutal custodial torture and murder of a father-son duo in Sathankulam, Tuticorin. First Additional District and Sessions Judge G Muthukumaran classified the case as the rarest of rare, observing that those entrusted with protecting the public had committed a crime that shook the collective conscience of society. The court sentenced all nine convicted police officers to death for the murde ...Read More >
Madurai: A court in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Monday sentenced nine policemen to death for their role in the custodial deaths of trader P Jayaraj and his son J Benicks in Thoothukudi district, a case that had sparked nationwide outrage six years ago. Those convicted include Inspector Sridhar; Sub-Inspectors Balakrishnan and Raghu Ganesh; and police personnel Murugan, Samadurai, Muthuraja, Chelladurai, Thomas Francis, and Veilumuthu. Describing the incident as a clear "abuse of authority ...Read More >
Sathankulam custodial deaths: In a landmark judgment, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday sentenced nine Tamil Nadu police personnel to death in connection with the 2020 Sathankulam custodial deaths. The court described the incident as a "rarest of rare" case, citing extreme brutality and gross misuse of authority. Presiding Judge G Muthukumaran held all nine accused guilty of murder and other related charges in the deaths of trader P Jayaraj (59) and his son J Benniks (31). Th ...Read More >
Sathankulam Custodial Killing Case: A court in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Monday sentenced nine policemen to death in connection with the custodial deaths of trader P Jayaraj and his son J Benicks in Thoothukudi district, a case that sparked nationwide outrage six years ago. Describing the incident as a "case of abuse of authority", the court said the verdict would not "instill fear among police" and emphasised that many officers in the state serve with integrity. "Father and son strippe ...Read More >
Chennai, April 6: Awarding the rarest of rare punishment in the custodial torture and murder of a father and son in south Tamil Nadu that shook the country during the COVID-19 lockdown, a trial court in Madurai on Monday awarded the death penalty to nine policemen found guilty in the case. This is perhaps the first time so many policemen have been sentenced to death in a case of custodial torture, more so in a case where the victims were innocent. Holding that the policemen, who were last mont ...Read More >
Raipur: Amit Jogi, former MLA and son of late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2003 murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ram Avtar Jaggi by the Chhattisgarh high court. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma in its order on April two has convicted him in the high-profile murder case. The order was posted on the website of the Chhattisgarh High Court on Monday. The trial court had convict ...Read More >
Bilaspur, April 6 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court came down heavily on Amit Jogi, son of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, accusing him of adopting "deliberate dilatory tactics" to stall proceedings in the high-profile Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case. While the high court convicted Amit Jogi for conspiracy to murder Jaggi in 2003, the 75-page judgment shows how the accused attempted to push the legal system to the brink in order to stall justice. A copy of the order passed on April 2 was made ava ...Read More >
Madurai: In the Sathankulam father-son custodial deaths case, the Madurai First Additional District Court on Monday has awarded the death penalty to all nine convicted police personnel, including Inspector Sridhar. "Death sentence and a fine of Rs. 15 lakh imposed on the first accused, Police Inspector Sridhar," Judge Muthukumar said. The judge announced that a double death penalty would be imposed on all the 9 convicts since they had murdered both P Jayaraj and his son Bennix who died after be ...Read More >
MADURAI: The first additional district and sessions court in Madurai on Monday awarded death sentence to all the nine cops convicted in the murders of P Jeyaraj and his son J Beniks in Sathankulam in Tuticorin district in 2020.Jeyaraj and Beniks were taken to the Sathankulam police in Tuticorin district late in the evening of June 19, 2020, on charges of having kept their shop open beyond the deadline during the Covid-19 lockdown. They were brutally assaulted by the policemen at night and were l ...Read More >
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the evidence on ...Read More >
New Delhi: A husband from Bichhiya Khurd village, Uttar Pradesh, brutally killed his wife with a hand pump. The accused is identified as Gautam Kharwar, who allegedly murdered his 29-year-old wife by hitting a hand pump on Soni and then dumped the body near Jalebiya Mod in the Chandraprabha jungle on Saturday night, April 4. The murder came to light when the victim's sister was unable to contact Soni, and then she alerted the police about her sister's disappearance. Officials registered a miss ...Read More >
Raipur, Apr 6 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the ...Read More >
The Chhattisgarh high court on Thursday convicted former assembly member Amit Jogi, son of the late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ramavatar Jaggi's murder around 23 years ago, directing him to surrender within three weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma set aside a trial court's 2007 acquittal and pronounced Amit Jogi guilty. The high court reopened the case last month. In November 2025, the Supreme Court asked ...Read More >
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