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Gangster Jusab Allarakha arrested from Gujarat forest
A team of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Gujarat, led by four women police officers, has arrested gangster Jusab Allarakha, a native of Junagadh, who is involved in several cases of extortion and murder.Acting on credible information that Jusab was hiding in a forest in Botad district, the team launched a search operation and consequently nabbed the absconding history-sheeter on Sunday.The Gujarat ATS officers who led the operation are Santok Odedara, Nitimi Gohil, Aruna Gohil and Simmi Mal."He has four cases of murder registered against him among other cases of loot and attacking government officials," PSI Santok Odedra told reporters here.
Over six tonnes of suspected beef seized, one held
Over six tonnes of suspected beef was seized at Padgha in the district and one person was arrested, police said on Sunday. The seizure was made on Saturday night, police said. "Acting on a tip-off, a police team intecepted a tempo and found that it was carrying beef to Mumbai. Total 6,170 kgs of beef worth Rs 6,17,000 was seized along with the vehicle worth Rs 8 lakh," he said. "The driver of the tempo was arrested and two others were booked. A case was registered against them under under IPC section 429 (mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc) and also various sections of the Maharashtra Animal Protection Act, 1995," the official said. An investigation into the case is on.
Man kills elder brother in front of family in Delhi
A 34-year-old property dealer has been arrested by the police for shooting his elder brother dead in front of his wife and child after dragging him out of his house in Jaffarpur Kalan area near Dwarka.
'Blood-stained' cotton swab found in patient's soup in Pune
A man Sunday alleged that his wife was served a bowl of soup that contained a blood-stained cotton swab in Jehangir Hospital in the city, where she delivered a baby. The soup was made in the canteen of the hospital, he said. The hospital authorities, however, alleged that it is an act of sabotage by some employees, who are currently on strike, and said the hospital was in the process of filing a police complaint against an unidentified person. Mahesh Satpute said he had admitted his pregnant wife to the hospital on April 29 and on the same day, she delivered a baby girl. "As doctors had prescribed a veg soup to my wife, she was served soup prepared at the hospital kitchen on the next day of the delivery," he said. He added that while a bowl of soup was given to his wife, he saw something in the soup and removed it immediately. "I found that it was a cotton swab with blood on it. I immediately video-graphed it using my phone and rushed to the hospital administration and ..
Man arrested in connection with attempt to murder case
A suspected member of the Anil Dujana gang, who was involved in an attempt to murder case in Delhi, was arrested, police said Sunday. The accused was identified as 25-year-old Vikas Kasana, a resident of Mayur Vihar, they said. On Friday, police said they arrested Arvind Kumar (32) on April 29 from Vellore in Tamil Nadu. Kumar was wanted in over 11 cases and was carrying a reward of Rs 50,000, they said. Kasana was arrested Saturday from near the DDA Park in east Delhi's Kondli where he came to meet his associate. A semi-automatic pistol with four cartridges and a motorcycle were seized from him, they added. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ram Gopal Naik said that both Kasana and Kumar were involved in the attack on their rival gang member Sandeep Nagar, who was a witness in a murder case. The attack took place on July 30, 2018 and Nagar was shot in the abdomen. The motive of the accused was to deter Nagar from deposing against members of their gang in the murder case, Naik ...
Cyprus 'serial killer' appears in court, police retrieve fifth body
A Cypriot army officer who has allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls over nearly three years appeared in court Sunday, while police said they had recovered a fifth body. Captain Nicos Metaxas, 35, has not yet been formally charged over the murders -- dubbed the Mediterranean island's first serial killings, which have unleashed anger against what the president described as police "negligence". Police told reporters on Sunday that they had retrieved a suitcase containing the remains of a human body at an acidic manmade lake southwest of Nicosia -- the second such find in eight days. The body found on Sunday at the lake near the village of Mitsero is in an "advanced state of decomposition", police spokesman Andreas Angelides said. He said a post-mortem would be carried out but did not say whether the body was that of an adult or a child. Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros reported that the body found on Sunday was that of a child. Metaxas has allegedly confessed to ..
Man wanted in Rs 66 lakh Guj robbery held from Andheri
A man wanted in neighbouring Gujarat for a Rs 66 lakh robbery was arrested by Mumbai police from suburban Andheri here, an official said Sunday. Pravin alias Raju Suresh Sawant (38) was arrested from Andheri MIDC by Unit-8 of Mumbai crime branch when he had come to meet a friend, the official said. Sawant was involved in a robbery in Gujarat's Mehsana in December last year, he said. In the incident, an angadiya (courier) employee was robbed at gunpoint by Sawant and others while travelling in a bus with cash, he said.
Egypt court jails dozens over Brotherhood protest
An Egyptian court on Sunday jailed 56 people for taking part in a 2013 protest by Muslim Brotherhood supporters that was brutally dispersed by the authorities, a judicial source said. Security forces violently broke up two protest sites in Cairo and neighbouring Giza on 14 August 2013 in a bloody operation that Human Rights Watch says killed more than 800 demonstrators. Supporters of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi had camped out for weeks after the army ousted him from power in the face of huge demonstrations. Rights groups have decried the "impunity" for security forces over the bloodshed as protesters have faced punishment over the clashes. The judicial source said one of those sentenced on Sunday was given a life term, 25 years under Egyptian law, for participating in the gathering of the "Muslim Brotherhood terrorists" at Nahda Square. Fifty-two others were handed 15 year jail terms and three more given sentences of between one and five years. The defendants were accused by ...
Major Gogoi faces loss of seniority for 'fraternising' with Kashmir woman
Major Leetul Gogoi, who was at the centre of the 2017 'human shield controversy', has been "severely reprimanded" and will suffer the ignominy of reduction in seniority for "fraternising" with a local woman last year, officials said here on Sunday. This follows confirmation by the army headquarters of court martial proceedings against Major Gogoi and his driver Sameer Malla who were found guilty on two counts -- "fraternising" with a local woman in spite of instructions to the contrary and "being away from the place of duty while in operational area", the officials said. After the confirmation of the sentence, Major Gogoi has been transferred out of Kashmir Valley. Army sources said in New Delhi that Major Gogoi has been punished with "severe reprimand and six months loss of seniority for pension only" and the disciplinary vigilance ban on him has been lifted to pave way for his "normal posting". The Army sources also maintained that he had been posted out of Kashmir Valley after ...
Guj ATS team arrests history-sheeter from forest in Botad
A criminal accused in several cases of murder, extortion and robbery was Sunday arrested from a forest in Gujarat's Botad district Sunday by an Anti- Terrorism Squad team. On receiving a tip-off that accused Jusab Allarakha, who had jumped parole in June last year and had allegedly carried out a murder, was hiding in the forest in Botad district, the Gujarat ATS constituted a five-member team, which included four women personnel. The ATS team, comprising sub inspectors Santokben Odedara, Arunaben Gameti, Nitamika Gohel, Shakuntala Mal, and Jignesh Agravat had to cross hills and jungles and lay in hiding till dawn to nab the accused, said one of the women officers who was part of the operation. Allarakha is wanted in 23 cases in Junagadh, Rajkot, and Ahmedabad among other districts, the official said, adding that he jumped parole in June last year. In July, he allegedly killed a man identified as Jeevanbhai Sanghani using firearms to take revenge for the murder of his ...
Man held for posing as cop and extorting from Maha couple
A man has been arrested for posing as a policemen and barging into a house and extorting money from a couple by filming them partially undressed, Thane Rural police said Sunday. On March 30 this year, accused Raghavendra alias Raghu Hanumant Outgiri (38), resident of Shirdi Nagar in Bhayander, entered a home and confined a couple in a room and filmed them partially nude, said assistant inspector Pramod Bhadak of Kashimira Crime Branch Unit. "He took Rs 28,000 in cash and a cheque of Rs 1.7 lakh from the complainant and his lady friend. Our probe led us to Outgiri who revealed that two others, Ayub Rehman Khan and Prem Rajan Sivan, are also involved. Efforts are on to nab them," he said.
Narendra Modi 'stole' dead man's plot of land: Cong
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "stealing" a dead man's plot of land, the Congress Sunday alleged that the PM had submitted wrong information to the Election Commission about the plot allotted to him in Gandhinagar. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera claimed that Modi was asked which of the plots belonged to him, pointing out that in the first affidavit in 2002, he said it was plot number 411, then said 401/A in the next affidavit, which found no mention of number 411. The Congress had earlier also alleged irregularities in the disclosure which the BJP had strongly rejected. Khera said that BJP in a tweet had clarified that the plots were amalgamated. "Four plots were amalgamated. These are allotted plots which have been given by the Gujarat government to its MLAs, MPs and its chosen people...Now, even Modiji has written in his affidavit that these plots were amalgamated. We made enquiries, we found that these plots can't be transferred or sold. So if they can't be transferred
Naxals torch 1 vehicle, 3 machines at road construction site
Naxals allegedly torched one vehicle and three machines engaged in a road construction work in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred under Golapalli police station area, where construction work is underway on the road connecting Golapalli village to Konta town, Sukma Additional Superintendent of Police Shalabh Kumar Sinha said. As per the preliminary information, a group of ultras reached the construction site, around seven kms from Golapalli, which is around 500 kms away from capital Raipur, and threatened workers to leave the place, he said. Before fleeing from the spot, ultras torched two poclain machines, one JCB machine and a truck trailer, belonging to a private construction firm, parked there, he said. No one was reported hurt in the incident, he said. After being alerted, a team of security forces was rushed to the spot, the ASP said, adding that further details are awaited.
ASP held guilty of favouring rape accused in Rajasthan's Sikar
A special court in Rajasthan's Sikar district has held an Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) guilty of weakening a 2016 rape case of a 10-year-old girl, an official said Sunday. On Saturday, ASP, Neem Ka Thana, Dinesh Agarwal was found guilty by the POCSO court Judge Anil Kumar Kaushik for weakening the rape case by filing the final report, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Shivratan Sharma said. The judge directed senior police officials to register a case against the rape accused, Shivraj Singh, under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 354 (outraging modesty) and 376 (rape) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (PCOSO) Act, he said He also directed the officials to book the ASP under IPC section 166A (public servant intentionally disobeying laws), Sharma added. The minor was allegedly raped on April 12, 2016 and a case in this regard was lodged on March 1, 2017 on the basis of a complaint filed by her mother, he said. In her statement, the girl had ..
Army awards loss of six months seniority in pension to Major Leetul Gogoi: Army sources
Army has awarded severe reprimand and loss of six months seniority to Major Leetul Gogoi for meeting a lady source in a hotel on May 23 last year, Army sources said on Sunday.The officer would now be posted out of the Kashmir valley as he has completed his tenure in the region in the counter-insurgency force, Rashtriya Rifles, Army sources said."The officer has been awarded punishment of Severe Reprimand and Six months loss of seniority for pension only. Since on the completion of disciplinary proceedings against him, the discipline and vigilance ban on him has been lifted and he shall now be posted out as normal posting," Army sources said.The Army also denied that the officer was being shunted out of the Kashmir valley due to the proceedings against him.Major Leetul Gogoi who hit the headlines in April 2017 for using a civilian as a shield against stone-pelters in Kashmir valley, had been held guilty by a court of inquiry for meeting a local girl source in a hotel in violation of ...
K'taka: Cannabis worth Rs 30 lakh seized in Bidar, two held
Two persons were arrested and 650 kg of cannabis was seized from their possession here on Sunday.The value of cannabis was estimated at Rs 35 lakh."We found and seized 650 kg of cannabis during raids in Jambi Thanda area. The market value of cannabis is estimated at Rs 35 lakh. Two persons have been arrested in the case," Bidar Police said.An FIR has been filed and further investigation is underway.Last week, two persons were arrested by the Visakhapatnam Rural Police at Garikabanda check post in Gangaraju Madugula for possessing 580 kg of cannabis worth Rs 30 lakh.
Missing man found dead in J-K's Poonch
A 55-year-old man, who went missing about 17 days ago, was found dead Sunday in a river in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The decomposed body of Munir Hussain was fished out from Dingla river in Dhalara village, a police official said. Hussain was reported missing last month and inquest proceedings are underway to ascertain the cause of his death, police said. The body was handed over to the family after completion of legal and medical formalities, they said.
Telangana: Police seize 2 litres of liquid extracted from Marijuana worth over Rs 10 lakh
Vigilance officials on Saturday seized two litres of liquid extracted from Marijuana worth over Rs 10 lakh, the police said.According to Sangareddy police, arrested accused were involved in transporting Marijuana from Vizag's remote area to Sangareddy. They extracted fluid from Marijuana and sold it to customers.The police have apprehended the accused and registered a case under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) Act.
4 held for robbing mobile phones in South Delhi
The Delhi Police has arrested four men Sunday for allegedly robing mobile phones in South Delhi, officials said. The accused were identified as Chaman Lal (28), Om Prakash (39), Gyanesh (23) and Bopi Biswas (32), they said. According to Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), "After getting a tip-off, police arrested the accused persons from South Delhi and recovered 21 mobile phones and an auto-rickshaw used by them".
Nearly 200 men, women arrested from rave party in Noida
As many as 161 men and 31 women were arrested from a rave party being held illegally at a farmhouse in Noida, police said Sunday. The accused were held late Saturday night from the venue in Sector 135 where alcohol and other intoxicants were being served illegally, a senior police officer said. "We had got an information about such a rave party being held at the farmhouse. A raid was carried out late Saturday night and the information was found true after which 161 men and 31 women were held from the spot," Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Vaibhav Krishna said. "Most of those arrested belong to Delhi, while some are from Haryana and only a few are from Noida," he told reporters. Five of the key organisers of the event have also been arrested and 31 hookah, 112 beer bottles, 30 liquor bottles which were meant for sale in Delhi, among other items, have been seized from the farmhouse, he said. "The key organisers have been identified as Amit Tyagi, Pankaj Sharma, ...