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British millionaire Colin Armstrong kidnapped from his home in Ecuador

Colin Armstrong, former consul of the United Kingdom in Guayaquil, was kidnapped on Saturday from a farm he owned and presently police are investigating his partner

HC seeks Delhi Police stand on petition alleging illegal arrest, torture

The Delhi High Court has sought the stand of the city police on a petition seeking enquiry and action against its officers for alleged illegal arrest, physical assault and torture of a man apprehended in a case of attempted murder last month. Justice Vikas Mahajan issued notice on the petition by the wife of the alleged victim claiming "police transgressions" and directed that relevant CCTV footage, including those from the police station concerned, be preserved and placed on record. The petitioner has alleged her husband was "illegally" arrested around 1 AM on November 16 by a team of police officials in mufti who did not present a warrant of arrest, notice or documentation, and was subjected to physical abuse and public humiliation. "Issue notice. Let the status report be filed before the next date," the court said in its order dated December 12. "It is directed that the CCTV footages of all the cameras specified shall be preserved and the same may be placed on record before the

Mukhtar Ansari gets 5.5 years jail term for death threat to coal trader

A special court here on Friday sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five-and-a-half year's imprisonment for death threat to a coal trader in 1997. Along with the imprisonment, the MP-MLA court of Ujjawal Upadhyay also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Ansari after convicting him for threatening to kill Mahaveer Prasad Ranguta, the victim's counsel Vidhan Chandra Yadav said. Ansari had threatened to blast Ranguta, a Varanasi resident, and his house in January, 1997, Yadav said. The court completed the hearing in the case on December 5 but reserved its judgment. The bench convicted Ansari and announced the quantum of punishment on Friday, he added. Ansari attended the court proceedings via video conferencing from Banda jail, Yadav said. Ansari, who is an accused in several cases, is lodged in Banda jail since 2021 after being brought from a Punjab Jail. According to information provided by UP police headquarters, Mukhtar has 65 cases, including that of murder, extort

Who is Lawrence Bishnoi, the man affiliated with 700 shooters across India

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has over two dozen criminal cases registered against him, including murder and extortion

Amid increase in deaths due to cardiac arrests, govt to start CPR training

According to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), deaths due to cardiac arrests saw a 12.5 per cent rise, from 28,413 in 2021 to 32,457 in 2022

Kolkata emerges as safest city in India for third consecutive year: NCRB

Kolkata emerged as the safest city in India for the third consecutive year, recording the least number of cognisable offences per lakh population among metropolises, a report published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said. The eastern metropolis, which reported 86.5 cases of cognisable offences per lakh people in 2022, was followed by Pune (280.7) and Hyderabad (299.2), the NCRB data stated. Cognisable crimes are those for which cases are registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and SLL (Special and Local Laws). According to the NCRB report, Kolkata had registered 103.4 cases of cognisable crimes per lakh people in 2021, which dropped to 86.5 this year. In 2020, the count was 129.5. In 2021, Pune and Hyderabad had reported 256.8 and 259.9 cognisable offences per lakh population, respectively. The rankings were issued after comparison among 19 cities with over 20 lakh population. Kolkata, however, recorded an increase in crimes against women as the numb

Crime against women up 4% in 2022, Delhi most unsafe metro city: NCRB

Crime in India 2022: In the metro cities, with a population of over 2 million, the increase in such crimes was steeper at 12.3%

Sharp rise in cyber crime cases in states, metros; IPC registration dips

The NCRB report shows that in States and Union Territoriess cyber crimes have seen a 24.4 percent increase

Govt seeks enhanced Interpol channels to prevent crimes on real-time basis

India has sought "concerted action" through Interpol channels to combat and prevent on "real-time basis" transnational crimes such as terrorism, online radicalisation and cyber-enabled financial fraud, officials said on Friday. At the 91st General Assembly of the Interpol in Vienna, the Indian delegation led by CBI Director Praveen Sood also stressed on the need to abolish any safe havens for crime, criminals and proceeds of crime as well as coordinated strategies to curtail operations of transnational criminal organisations. The five-member team included NIA Director General Dinkar Gupta. The four-day assembly, which began on November 28, also celebrated the centenary year of the international police cooperation organisation which was formed in 1923. Increased leveraging of Interpol channels and relationships with law enforcement agencies globally to combat crime and criminals saw 24 criminals and fugitives wanted by India brought back this year, the highest ever in a year, the ...

Switzerland govt confirms woman found dead in Delhi was Swiss citizen

Switzerland has confirmed that a woman whose chained body was found from west Delhi's Tilak Nagar was a Swiss citizen. In a reply to a query from the PTI, Valentin Clivaz, Deputy Head of Media, Embassy of Switzerland in Delhi, in a statement said: "The FDFA (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs) confirms the death of a Swiss citizen in India." The Swiss embassy here is in contact with the local authorities. The FDFA supports relatives within the framework of consular protection, Clivaz said and added that no further details can be given for reasons of "data protection and personal privacy". The decomposed body of Nina Berger, aged around 30 years, was found from a spot near the wall of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school in Tilak Nagar on Friday. Her limbs were tied with metal chains, which were locked. On Tuesday, the Delhi Police had said it was waiting for the family members of the deceased to come forward and identify the body so that the process of autopsy could be

Law panel recommends rolling out registration of e-FIRs in phased manner

The Law Commission has recommended rolling out registration of e-FIRs in a phased manner beginning with offences bearing up to three years jail term. In a report submitted to the government earlier this week and made public on Friday, the law panel proposed setting up a centralised national portal to facilitate registration of e-FIRs. It said e-FIRs will tackle long persisting issue of delay in the registration of FIRs and allow citizens to report crimes in real time. In his letter to Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Law Commission Chairman Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi said, "Due to the march of technology, means of communication have progressed in leaps and bounds. In such a landscape, clinging on to an archaic system of registering FIRs does not augur well for criminal reforms.

India expresses commitment towards combating organised crimes at UNTOC

"The world has to come together to defeat these threats. India expresses its strong commitment towards combating and uprooting organized crimes in all its manifestations" he added

Billionaire founder Hui Ka Yan suspected of crimes: China's Evergrande

Hui's accelerating downfall creates fresh uncertainty over the fate of Evergrande after setbacks to its restructuring plan in recent days roiled markets and raised the risk of a liquidation

Financial frauds accounted for over 75% cyber crimes since 2020: Study

Financial frauds accounted for over 75 per cent of cyber crimes in the country from January 2020 till June 2023, with nearly 50 per cent cases related to UPI and internet banking, according to a new study by an IIT Kanpur-incubated start-up. Social media-related crimes such as cheating by impersonation, cyber-bullying, sexting and email phishing accounted for 12 per cent of the online offences during the period, the study showed. The findings have been mentioned by the Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF), a non-profit start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur, in its latest comprehensive whitepaper 'A Deep Dive into Cybercrime Trends Impacting India'. For online financial frauds, which accounted for the maximum 77.41 per cent offences during the period, the FCRF noted that "this category is a dominant concern, covering fraudulent activities related to online financial transactions". "Subcategories include debit/credit card fraud, business email ...

Amazon senior manager murder in northeast Delhi, two more arrested

Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the killing of an Amazon executive in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area, police said on Friday. The accused have been identified as Sohail (23), a resident of Noor-e-Elahi in Bhajanpura and Jubair (23), a resident of Mohanpuri in Bhajanpura, they said. With this, a total of four people have been arrested in the case so far. Around 11:30 pm on Thursday, police received a tip-off about the accused persons and nabbed them near Burari while they were trying to escape to Punjab, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said. Harpreet Gill (36), who worked as a senior manager with e-commerce giant Amazon, and his maternal uncle Govind Singh (32) were shot at and injured late on Tuesday night in northeast Delhi's Subhash Vihar area when the two were travelling on a motorcycle. Gill was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Singh has been discharged from hospital and is recuperating at home. He is cooperating in the ...

Manipur violence: CBI takes over 27 FIRs, including 19 crimes against women

The CBI has taken over the investigation in 27 FIRs lodged in connection with ethnic clashes in Manipur that have claimed more than 160 lives in nearly four months, officials said. According to the latest data, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has so far registered 27 cases handed over to it by the state police -- 19 cases of crime against women, three related to an armoury loot by a mob, two of murder and one each of rioting and murder, kidnapping and general criminal conspiracy, sources aware of the developments said. The agency has re-registered these cases but has not made the details public because of the sensitive nature of the situation prevailing in the northeastern state, they said. CBI teams have started questioning the suspects and victims after visiting the crime sites, the sources added. The investigation gained momentum after the CBI top brass mobilised a team of 53 officers, including 29 women, drawn from various units of the federal agency across the countr

CPIM known for murder, rape, violence, deception: Tripura CM Manik Saha

Manik Saha led a massive three-kilometre-long Padyatra in the 20-Boxanagar Assembly Constituency in favour of BJP candidate Tofajjal Hossian

UP is currently experiencing remarkable investment growth: PM Modi

The PM further highlighted that Uttar Pradesh, which was previously lagging in development and grappling with high crime rates, has now transformed into a phase of establishing law and order

No such thing as trivial crime, UK's Suella Braverman tells police

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday called on the country's police force to investigate every crime, saying it is "unacceptable" that crimes such as shoplifting, criminal damage and phone or car theft are treated as "less important". The 43-year-old Indian-origin Cabinet minister in charge of security issues said there was no such thing as trivial crimes because criminals should fear the consequences of their actions. She warned that serious crimes flourish when lower-level criminality and anti-social behaviour are not tackled with the full force of the law. We know that the most serious crimes flourish when lower-level criminality and antisocial behaviour are not tackled. Theft and burglary can often be run by organised crime gangs, Braverman writes in The Daily Telegraph' newspaper. But let's be clear: all crime matters. There is no such thing as a trivial crime. And the police must not indicate to criminals that they are effectively free to break certain laws. Since I .

BJP MP seeks steps to act on those involved in subversive activities abroad

A BJP MP on Friday called for legal provisions to act against those involved in vandalising Indian assets and insulting its flag abroad at a parliamentary panel meeting here to debate three proposed laws to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act. With members of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs offering a host of suggestions, its Chairperson Brijlal asked them to submit their views in writing in 15 days, drawing protest from Digvijay Singh of the Congress who claimed it was a short period to study such a complex issue, sources said. Citing recent targeting of Indian embassy and consulate by Khalistani separatists, BJP member Dilip Ghosh suggested that legal measures should be put in place to act against those involved in such activities as he noted that some of them are Indian passport holders as well, sources said. The national flag is also disrespected by them, he added. These incidents insult the country and pain Indians, he said during the deliberation on the ..