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Mumbai, March 31: In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber Cell arrested a ...Read More >
A 35-year-old man was arrested hours after allegedly beating his 32-year-old wife to death with an LPG cylinder in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur on Sunday, police said. Police identified the victim as Poonam Devi and the accused as Suresh Kumar, who worked as a manager at an inland container depot. The couple married in 2020 and moved to DDA Janta Flats in Pul Prahladpur from Churu, Rajasthan, about a month ago, police said. Police said the couple has two daughters: one aged four lives with ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber ...Read More >
A 70-year-old retired Army Brigadier died in Dehradun on Monday morning after being hit by a bullet when an occupant of a car fired at another vehicle in the middle of a high-speed chase triggered by a late-night brawl at a club in the city, police said. This is the latest in a string of crimes in the Uttarakhand capital, once known for its serenity and quiet lifestyle. Two groups of 10 men got into an altercation inside the Gen-Z club on Mussoorie Road on Sunday night. One group of six people ...Read More >
New Delhi: Srinivas Louis, the man arrested in Mysuru on Saturday for allegedly sending hundreds of hoax bomb threat emails to several institutions, including courts, in Delhi-NCR and other parts of the country, allegedly used tech tricks like IP spoofing and used a VPN to conceal his identity and location.Using a series of forged documents and following a strict technical discipline, the 47-year-old managed to send Delhi Police on a wild goose chase for weeks before they finally zeroed in on hi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death with a small LPG cylinder, allegedly by her husband, in front of their daughter inside their flat in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur on Sunday night.Residents of the DDA Janta flats were alerted by screams and called up police. Cops from Pul Prahladpur police station reached the spot at 9 pm and found the woman, who was bleeding from her head, had already died. Her husband, Suresh Kumar, was taken into custody.Poonam is survived by two daug ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The arrest of a 48-year-old bootlegger on Monday has evoked a sense of déjà vu: this is the second time he, along with the same camels, has been arrested in six months for trying to smuggle liquor on camelback into the Capital from Faridabad through a forest stretch. Delhi Police had first uncovered the new tactic deployed by liquor traffickers to outsmart police surveillance in September last year. Acting on a tip-off, on Monday, police laid a trap for Faridabad resident Vinod Bhada ...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 wer ...Read More >
Delhi Police, in a statement, said that the incident took place on the evening of Sunday as part of an ongoing drive "Operation Kavach", aimed at intensified patrolling in busy areas and along major roads to check suspicious activities. "The Special Staff was on routine patrol when they spotted a man riding a black scooter on the wrong side of the road near Rajouri Garden Metro station. Finding his movement suspicious, the team signalled him to stop for questioning," Deputy Commissioner of Poli ...Read More >
New Delhi, A 32-year-old food delivery executive was stabbed to death when he allegedly intervened in a violent altercation between two groups in southwest Delhi's Dwarka, police said on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Govind Jha, a resident of Mohan Garden. Three others sustained stab injuries in the incident and are currently undergoing treatment at a hospital, they said. Authorities also cautioned against attempts to give the incident a communal colour. According to the police ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Mar 30: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handler, Shabir Ahmed Lone, from the Ghazipur area here, officials said on Monday. After his arrest, he was produced before a court, which sent him to five days of police custody. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp Terming Lone as a "hardcore and highly-trained terrorist," the police said that he reportedly established links with handlers operating on behalf of Pakistan's Inter-Servi ...Read More >
The 21-year-old allegedly jumped of the balcony of parents' residence on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. According to a preliminary investigation, she was upset after her parents had scolded her over some issue, police said. The woman and her sister, in her 20s, were students of a university in Punjab. Officials said the two sisters had returned to the Noida home. She was upset, said police, adding that the reason for returning two days ago is part of investigation. "On Sunday ar ...Read More >
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], March 30 (ANI): A minor explosion was reported to the Amritsar police on Monday, but no damage or casualties were reported, a police officer said, adding that CCTV footage is being reviewed. Gurinderpal Singh Nagra, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Amritsar, told ANI that the investigation is underway Also Read | IPL 2026 Ticket Row Resolved, Karnataka MLAs, MPs to Get Reduced Quota of 3 Tickets: DK Shivakumar. "Early this morning, the Duty Officer at the local ...Read More >
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], March 30 (ANI): A minor explosion was reported to the Amritsar police on Monday, but no damage or casualties were reported, a police officer said, adding that CCTV footage is being reviewed. Gurinderpal Singh Nagra, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Amritsar, told ANI that the investigation is underway "Early this morning, the Duty Officer at the local police station reported to us that they had heard a minor explosion here. A team arrived on the scene to verify ...Read More >
Devi said she met the victim's family, offered her condolences and assured them that every possible effort would be made to secure justice. "The brutality and murder of a 12-year-old innocent girl is extremely tragic, heartbreaking and a shame on humanity," Devi tweeted after meeting the victim's family on Sunday. "The culprits should be arrested at the earliest and given strict punishment so that such inhuman incidents are not repeated in future," the minister said. She also criticised the s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handler, Shabir Ahmed Lone, from the Ghazipur area here, officials said on Monday. After his arrest, he was produced before a court, which sent him to five days of police custody. Terming Lone as a "hardcore and highly-trained terrorist," the police said that he reportedly established links with handlers operating on behalf of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). "Lone, also known ...Read More >
New Delhi, March 30: A woman was allegedly murdered by her husband following a domestic dispute in South Delhi's Pul Prahladpur area. The accused reportedly struck his wife on the head with a mini LPG cylinder, resulting in her immediate death. According to the Delhi Police, the deceased has been identified as Poonam. Her husband, Suresh, was arrested at the scene. The couple, who had moved into a DDA housing complex just a month ago, has two children. One child resides with their grandmother, w ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 30 (ANI): Actor Sayani Gupta has stepped into production with the launch of her banner Sayani Gupta Movies (SGM), with her directorial debut short film 'Aasmani' as its first project. After over a decade of working across films and streaming platforms, Sayani said the move towards production stems from her desire to be more deeply involved in storytelling. "It has been a long dream. I've been wanting tell a certain kind of stories and the idea is to be able ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) A 32-year-old Nigerian national died under mysterious circumstances after being apprehended by the Special Staff of West district during an operation "Kavach" in west Delhi, police said on Monday. Delhi Police, in a statement, said that the incident took place on the evening of Sunday as part of an ongoing drive "Operation Kavach", aimed at intensified patrolling in busy areas and along major roads to check suspicious activities. "The Special Staff was on routine patrol ...Read More >
Noida, Mar 30 (PTI) A 21-year-old college student allegedly died by suicide after jumping from the 28th floor of her residential society in Sector 32 here, police said on Monday. According to police, no suicide note was recovered from the spot; however, family members said that she had been mentally disturbed for some time. The incident took place on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, when Arpita, a resident of D-Block in Sector 32, jumped from the building. She was a second-year B ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Mar 12 (PTI) A 55-year-old domestic help was arrested for allegedly stealing gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 16 lakh from an elderly couple's house here, police said. Dhanlakshmi had been working at the couple's house in Frazer Town for nearly 25 years, they said. With her arrest, police claimed to have recovered 54 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 8 lakh cash, totaling worth Rs 16 lakh. The matter came to light on February 19 when a complaint was filed in this regard at Pulakeshina ...Read More >
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has registered a case over the death of a two-month-old infant following an assault at Kummera village in Nagarkurnool district. According to the complaint filed by Hyderabad-based lawyer Rama Rao, the incident was reported on February 21 during the Mallanna Jatara when Chakali Chandrakala, her son Sakali Ganesh, daughter-in-law Mounika and other family members visited the temple for darshan. The family, belonging to an OBC community, alleged that the ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (PTI) A day after two police personnel were found shot dead at a checkpost in Gurdaspur near the Indo-Pak border, a Pakistan-based gangster posted on social media a purported video showing an unidentified shooter firing at one of the cops at point-blank range. The same unverified video, posted by gangster Shahzad Bhatti, was also shared by an outfit calling itself Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan, which had claimed responsibility for the killings on Sunday. Punjab police remained ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Multiple institutions, including the Delhi Secretariat, Delhi Assembly, Red Fort and two schools in the national capital, received bomb threats via email on Monday, which were later declared hoax, officials said. An official of the Delhi Fire Services confirmed that Delhi Secretariat, Delhi Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan and Air Force Bal Bharti School on Lodhi Road received bomb threats. The threat emails were also received on the official ID of the Delhi Assembly a ...Read More >
Patna: A police team from Andhra Pradesh on Monday, February 23, arrived in Bihar's Patna to arrest a senior police officer, only to be ticked off by the court concerned, which refused to grant transit remand citing "procedural lapses". According to Bhanu Pratap Singh, City (East) Patna Superintendent, the visiting police team took into custody Sunil Kumar Nayak, a 2005 batch IPS officer who had a few years ago served in Andhra Pradesh on an inter-cadre deputation, early in the morning. Nayak, ...Read More >
Jammu: 3 inmates, including 2 Pakistanis, escape from Observation HomeCCTV footage from a juvenile observation home in J&K's R S Pura captured the dramatic moment three inmates including two Pakistani nationals, broke out after attacking armed guards, triggering a massive manhunt across district. A CCTV footage from a juvenile observation home in Jammu and Kashmir's R S Pura captured the dramatic moment three inmates including two Pakistani nationals attacked armed guards and fled the facil ...Read More >
Police have found a diary, in which the deceased had written, "Mom and dad, please forgive me. I am going to my grandfather. Do not look for me. If you must, look near the cremation ground pond." Subsequently, her body was found from the pond, police said. The girl was wearing her school uniform at the time of her death, they said. According to police, the deceased's father works in the court library here. The deceased was a Class-11 student in the Maitri School. According to the family, she ...Read More >
Kolkata: Four of the six officials associated with Satadru Dutta's firm, A Satadru Roy Initiative, which organised Lionel Messi's three-day India tour, appeared before Bidhannagar Police on Tuesday and recorded their statements. Police commissioner Mukesh said all six individuals were summoned. "Four officials turned up today, submitted their statements, and are cooperating with the investigation. The remaining two have sought time to appear before us. We will record their statements once they p ...Read More >
Agra: Thirteen people were charred to death and more than 100 suffered injuries in a deadly pile-up involving 18-19 vehicles - including eight passenger buses, cars and SUVs - on the Yamuna Expressway in UP's Mathura district early Tuesday.The accident was reported around 3.40am near milestone 127 under Baldeo police station. Sources said a car and a bus first collided, and as these two vehicles stopped on the road, others coming from the Agra side and heading towards Noida started piling up one ...Read More >
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