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New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of a report alleging sexual misconduct by a police officer in Maharashtra's Akola district. The commission's chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar, has directed the state's director general of police to ensure immediate registration of an FIR, initiate strict departmental action, conduct a fair and time-bound investigation, and undertake sensitisation measures for police personnel. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of a report alleging sexual misconduct by a police officer in Maharashtra's Akola district. The commission's chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar, has directed the state's director general of police to ensure immediate registration of an FIR, initiate strict departmental action, conduct a fair and time-bound investigation, and undertake sensitisation measures for police personnel. A detailed action tak ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 1 (PTI) A blast outside the Punjab BJP headquarters here Wednesday evening sent people panicking, with police saying a "crude" device appeared to have been hurled. No casualties were reported. A team of the National Investigation Agency was at the site to investigate the blast, which occurred at around 5 pm, a police officer said. A scooter parked outside the building in Sector 37 suffered damage in the blast. "Prima facie, it appears that a small crude-type device was thrown, ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 1 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday launched an attack on the BJP government, alleging that the national capital today is grappling with a serious security crisis, after Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh's office received a bomb threat via e-mail, triggering a police search operation. Upon receiving information regarding the threat, thorough checks were conducted in the premises, and it was later declared a hoax, Delhi Police had earlier said. According to a senior police offi ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Apr 1 (PTI) A 65-year-old Dutch national of Indian origin has been arrested for allegedly sending a strange parcel to the administrative office of the Kempegowda International Airport here, police said on Wednesday. The man identified as Subhash Jai Ajeez had sent the parcel in January this year, which reportedly contained a toothpaste cover, decaying flower garlands, rotten tomatoes, pieces of iron and obscene photographs, they said. Authorities conducted a preliminary inquiry and ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The Delhi Police has arrested a proclaimed offender and an alleged kingpin of the Mukhiya gang, involved in meticulously planned house burglaries across multiple states, an official said on Wednesday. The accused, Raju Mukhiya (38), a native of Madhubani in Bihar, was apprehended from the Nangli area in Dwarka, he said. Police said Mukhiya was wanted in at least four criminal cases registered in Delhi and Haryana and had been declared a proclaimed offender in three of th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The office of Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh received a bomb threat via e-mail on Wednesday, which was later declared a hoax after nothing suspicious was found, an official said. According to a senior police officer, the e-mail was purportedly sent in the name of a group identifying itself as "Khalistan National Army". Security agencies were immediately alerted, following which security around the mayor's office was tightened and thorough checks were conducted, he said. The threat wa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The office of Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh received a bomb threat via e-mail on Wednesday, which was later declared a hoax after nothing suspicious was found, an official said. According to a senior police officer, the e-mail was purportedly sent in the name of a group identifying itself as "Khalistan National Army". Security agencies were immediately alerted, following which security around the mayor's office was tightened and thorough checks were conducted, he said. Th ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) Police have heightened security across Delhi ahead of Hanuman Jayanti, three days after the arrest of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handler Shabir Ahmed Lone, who was allegedly planing terror strikes in the capital, official sources said on Wednesday. They said during Lone's interrogation, police got to know that he was collecting videos and photos of some major temples in Delhi. Lone was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on March 29. He has allegedly co ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The office of Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh received a bomb threat via e-mail on Wednesday, an official said. "The e-mail was purportedly sent in the name of a group identifying itself as "Khalistan National Army". Security agencies were immediately alerted, following which security around the mayor's office was tightened and thorough checks are in process," a senior police officer said. ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The western region cyber police arrested an autorickshaw driver for allowing a cyber fraud racket to use his account to divert defrauded money from an Andheri based senior citizen who was cheated of ₹1.54 crore. The victim, a 69-year-old resident of Andheri who retired from a private firm, was trapped by a cyber criminal who called him in December 2025 and claimed he had been circulating obscene clips for extortion. Officers from the cyber cell said the frauds told the elderly they we ...Read More >
Bengaluru: In a tragic incident, a techie couple in a live-in relationship died by suicide at an apartment in the Kothanur Police Station limits in the city. The incident came to light on Tuesday. While the man had hung himself, his partner reportedly jumped from the 17th floor of the apartment building after seeing his body. The interfaith couple had reportedly been in a relationship for the past nine years and were staying together in Bengaluru. As per police reports, the man, identified as K ...Read More >
A Maoist cadre carrying a reward of ₹5 lakh was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Sunday, police said. A team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) had launched a search operation based on intelligence inputs about Maoist presence, during which a gunbattle broke out in a forested, hilly area. Sukma Superintendent of Police (SP) Kiran Chavan said that intermittent firing continued between the DRG team and Maoists since the morning hours. "During the ...Read More >
THANE: A stray dog was allegedly beaten to death at a housing society in Maharashtra's Thane district, leading police to register a case against unidentified persons, officials said on Wednesday.The incident took place on Sunday night in Bhoirwadi area of Kalyan. Videos circulating on social media showed some people moving around the residential complex carrying sticks.According to police officer from Khadakpada police station said, the dog was later discovered dead in the society's parking area ...Read More >
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the case, and a manhunt has been launched to nab others involved, he said. The action was taken after Radha Govind University , a private institute in the district, lodged an FIR with the Ramgarh police station alleging tampering of its computer sets by some persons ahead of the JEE examination. Ramgarh Deputy Commissioner Faiz Aq Ahmed Mumtaz said that after a complaint was filed by RGU, which is one of the JEE examination centres, police ha ...Read More >
Agartala: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed three prosecution complaints in Tripura in connection with large-scale smuggling and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, officials said on Tuesday. The complaints have been filed under Sections 44 and 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, before the Special Court (PMLA) in West Tripura against a total of 14 accused persons. The cases arise from offences registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotro ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A 32-year-old IT engineer, who worked in US for five years before losing his job to AI-triggered cuts last year, was found hanging in his flat in an upscale apartment in Kothanur, north Bengaluru, Monday morning.Within minutes of coming to know of her husband's death, his wife, who works with an IT major, went to the 18th floor of the apartment complex and leapt to her death.The deceased from Telangana have been identified as Bhanu Chander Reddy and Bibi Shaziya Siraj, 31. Police said ...Read More >
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 1 (ANI): Five Maoist cadres surrendered under a rehabilitation initiative in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, with security forces also recovering weapons, officials said on Tuesday. Authorities stated that the district is now free from active Maoist presence following sustained operations over the years. Inspector General (IG) Bastar P Sundarraj said that Maoist organisations have been dismantled in the region and appealed to any remaining cadres to surrender an ...Read More >
A mephedrone drug factory, cleverly disguised as a poultry farm in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, has been busted, leading to multiple arrests and a significant drug seizure, highlighting the ongoing fight against illegal drug manufacturing and distribution in India. Key PointsA mephedrone manufacturing facility was discovered operating within a poultry farm in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh.Four individuals have been arrested in connection with the illegal mephedrone factory.Police seized 200 grams ...Read More >
According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call was received about a fire near KD Campus, behind the Batra Cinema building. Locals said the blaze started on the first floor and spread to the upper floors where the family was present. At the time of the incident, apart from Singh's family, one staff member was inside the building, DFS officials said. "As the fire started on the first floor, everyone rushed to the third floor. On being alerted, we rushed six fire tenders and police teams to t ...Read More >
PATNA: Three men publicly molested and attempted to gang rape a woman under Noorsarai police station limits in Bihar's Nalanda district. The accused also recorded a video of the incident, which went viral on Tuesday. Police have arrested two of the accused so far. Station House Officer (SHO) of Noorsarai police station said that the incident took place on the evening of March 26 when the woman was going to a nearby grocery shop. While returning home, she was surrounded by a group of youths w ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two days after he went missing, the body of a man who was allegedly murdered was discovered in an open field in the Mungeshpur area of Outer Delhi's Bawana on Tuesday.The deceased has been identified as Pradeep, a history-sheeter and bad character at the Bawana police station.According to police, information about an unidentified, decomposed body of a man was received at the Bawana police station. The body was later identified by Pradeep's brother.Pradeep reportedly went to a local li ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) A five-year-old and nine others were rescued after a major fire broke out on the first floor of a residential building in southeast Delhi's New Friends Colony area on Tuesday, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said. A call regarding the fire was received at 5.14 pm from a house in Taimoor Nagar, near a gurdwara on Mathura Road, he said. "All 10 residents trapped on the first floor -- six men, three women and a five-year-old child -- were safely rescued by the fire ...Read More >
HAZARIBAG: Nearly half a dozen people have been detained for questioning in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district, police said on Tuesday. Hazaribag SP Anjani Anjan said investigators have obtained crucial leads and are close to solving the case. "We have certain leads and detained several persons for interrogation. We are close to solving the case," he told PTI. A senior police officer associated with the investigation said all su ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) In the face of the TMC's allegations of electoral roll manipulations through applications under Form 6 in the run-up to the Assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Tuesday clarified that his office has no software to add or delete names of any voter. Form 6 is filled for the inclusion of first-time voters in the electoral rolls or for shifting a voter from one constituency to another. The ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday alleged the ...Read More >
Hazaribag, Mar 31 (PTI) Nearly half a dozen suspects have been detained for questioning in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district, police said on Tuesday. Hazaribag SP Anjani Anjan said investigators have obtained crucial leads and are close to solving the case. "We have certain leads and detained several persons for interrogation. We are close to solving the case," he told PTI. A senior police officer associated with the investigat ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) The Cyber Crime Wing of the West Bengal Police on Tuesday arrested industrialist Pawan Ruia in connection with his alleged involvement in a multi-crore fraud case involving shell companies and cryptocurrency-based money laundering, a senior officer said. Ruia was apprehended near a hotel in New Town in the outskirts of Kolkata following a case registered at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station, he said. The police have registered a suo motu case based on findings from t ...Read More >
It started with small, almost routine moments. A spectator stepped away from his seat near the P-3 stand water counter at M Chinnaswamy Stadium during the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad on March 28. Minutes later, he realised his iPhone 14 Pro Max was missing. "It happened around 9.30-10 pm. I stepped out to get a bottle of water, and when I came back, my phone was gone. Around me, several others were reporting the same," said the spectator. Among them wa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) An ex-assistant professor now behind bars for allegedly making over 1,100 hoax bomb threats was reportedly furious with the legal justice system. Srinivas Louis, 47, is presumed to be tech-savvy and employed multiple methods to conceal his IP address, making it difficult for agencies to trace the origin of the threatening e-mails, a senior police officer said. Louis was apprehended on Saturday from his rented accommodation in Karnataka's Mysuru, after a series of coordi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (UNI) In a major blow to the smuggling and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the state of Tripura, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Agartala Sub-Zonal Office, has filed three prosecution complaints against fourteen accused persons. All three complaints arise from scheduled offences under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act), committed in the state of Tripura, and pertain to the laundering of proceeds of crime generated from ...Read More >
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