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Surat police have started ‘Operation Rainbow’ drive against the sharp weapons. After Limbayat and Amroli police have seized sharp weapons, now SOG police have seized 72 sharp weapons and rounded up 72 notorious criminals. Legal proceedings have been started against them. Surat: Eight murders in just 12 days and a spike in violent crimes involving sharp-edged weapons have shaken the Surat police department, prompting an intensified drive against armed history-sheeters and anti-social elements across the city,With criminals making a mockery of the law and order, the Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested 72 persons found carrying swords, knives and daggers from…
Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will hold the first board meeting of the newly elected corporators on May 28.The corporators are expected to elect a new mayor and other elected wing office bearers on the same day.The mayor’s position for the next two-and-a-half-years is reserved for a corporator from a scheduled caste (SC). BJP that won 69 out of the 76 seats in the recent civic polls has five corporators elected on SC reserved seats. These include three males and two females.Those eligible for the post include Samir Vaghela from ward 12, Ajay Dabhi from ward 8, Chetan Parmar…
Varanasi: The Koiraina police and SWAT team on Tuesday evening arrested four members of an interstate smuggling gang in Bhadohi district and seized 604.20 kg of illegal cannabis worth Rs 3.02 crore.”The contraband was recovered from a four-wheeler vehicle and a truck container.Bhadohi SP, Abhinav Tyagi, said that the police team arrested the accused near Raiyapur village, Bhavapur Nahar Puliya, and a case under Section 8/20 NDPS Act and Section 207 Motor Act was registered against them.The arrested criminals were identified as Trishul Jaiswal, resident of Tikri, Prayagraj, Babu Ram Maurya, resident of Pawai, Azamgarh district, Suren Dharai, and Montu…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday refused to hear the state’s urgent appeal to withdraw the interim protection granted to TMC’s Jahangir Khan, who withdrew his candidature from Falta repoll on Tuesday.The state’s counsel mentioned before Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya that the HC had granted Khan the protection from police arrest in 5 FIRs when he was the candidate, but since he has withdrawn, the protection be removed. “Come after May 26,” the judge replied. Source link
RK News Service Srinagar, May 20: Continuing its relentless crackdown against drug trafficking under the ongoing Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyan, Police Station Lal Bazar demolished an illegal two-storey structure along with an adjoining room and washroom constructed on State land at Haka Bazar, Lal Bazar. “The demolished property, spread over approximately nine marlas and worth around Rs 1.50 crore, was found to be linked with a wanted drug peddler identified as Arshid Ahmed Sheikh, son of Wali Mohammad Sheikh, a resident of Haka Bazar, Lal Bazar, who is involved in multiple cases under the NDPS Act, including FIR No. 31/2025 under Sections 8/21 and 22 of the NDPS…
The petition alleged that the film has compromised the safety of India’s on-field undercover agents. NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC on Wednesday remarked that the “censor board should have some guidelines” related to spy movies, after a PIL filed by a serving Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel flagged concerns over Ranveer Singh-starrer ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ revealing tactical and sensitive information on the country’s intelligence and defence operations, and sought framing of a ‘spy movies protocol’. “The concerns raised by the petitioner need to be considered and addressed appropriately,” a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia…
Mumbai: A 25-year-old woman was booked by Worli police after her high-end car rammed into a sedan on Worli Sea Link at around 11.45 pm on Monday, police said. No injuries were reported in the incident.Police booked Zenia D’sa, a resident of Powai, who was allegedly driving in a reckless and negligent manner on the southbound lane of the Sea Link, approximately 200 metres from the Worli-side road. According to police, D’sa was driving in a manner likely to endanger her own life as well as the lives of others, and caused damage to both her car and the sedan…
New Delhi: The double life of Nandlal Verma, a seemingly humble spare auto parts businessman living with his family in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, came crashing down after police discovered that he was actually Rakesh Patel, a murder convict absconding for 24 years.Patel, originally from northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, had stabbed a neighbour to death along with two of his associates, Chander Prakash and Anil Kumar, over a trivial matter in 1990. He was arrested, and sentenced to life imprisonment five years later.He had gained the trust of authorities when he was first granted parole for his wedding in 1999. Three…
An illustration shows Railway Protection Force officers detaining three suspected women thieves at KR Puram railway station in Bengaluru, while a separate scene depicts the alleged modus operandi of quietly unzipping a female passenger’s handbag in a crowded train coach without her noticing. Bengaluru: Railway Protection Force (RPF) caught three women from Maharashtra at KR Pura railway station last week for robbing female passengers.According to RPF, the three were tracked based on analysis of ‘Rail Madad’ theft complaints from passengers. A dedicated Theft of Passenger Belongings (TOPB) team of Bengaluru Cantonment circle verified CCTV footage and found how the gang…
Hyderabad: In a major operation spanning 13 states, police officials from Hyderabad have arrested 66 persons involved in supplying ghost SIM cards to cybercriminals. Officials said the arrests were made as part of the ongoing Operation Octopus and that the SIMs were used in 76 fraud cases in which about Rs 101 crore was lost.The arrests were made across Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha besides Telangana. Officials told TOI that they cracked down on the suppliers after an analysis of various cybercrime cases revealed that 1,164 SIMs used…