Crime-Justice

HYDERABAD: The death toll in the spurious toddy case in Hyderabad has gone up to nine, following the death of a woman at a hospital on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Sneha Debnath did not look depressed and was rather calm, said the neighbour of the 19-year-old Delhi University student whose body was recovered from Yamuna River, almost a week after she went missing on July 7.

HYDERABAD: A class 5 student of BC girls’ residential school allegedly died by suicide by jumping from the hostel building in Telangana’s Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district on Monday.

NEW DELHI: A court here on Monday reserved its verdict on the question of taking cognisance of the prosecution complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged National Herald money laundering case.

PHAGWARA: In a troubling revelation that underscores the rising menace of fraudulent immigration practices in Punjab, two major visa scams have come to light, involving a combined financial loss of over ₹37 lakh. Victims from Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts were allegedly duped by unscrupulous agents who exploited their aspirations of securing better futures abroad for their children.

NEW DELHI: A horrifying double murder unfolded in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area, where two close friends, identified as Sandeep and Arif, stabbed each other and lost their lives during an altercation in a neighbourhood park.

HYDERABAD: Police have registered two cases in connection with Sunday's incidents at Telangana MLC Teenmaar Mallanna's Q-News office after Telangana Jagruthi allegedly attacked the office against his alleged derogatory remarks against their leader and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K. Kavitha.

PHAGWARA: The Shahkot police have booked four persons, including a couple, on the charge of assaulting a woman and criminal intimidation.

CHANDIGARH: Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, has written to the Speaker of the House Kultar Singh Sandhwan, reiterating his demand for discussion on two critical issues during the extended special session scheduled on July 14 and 15.

CHENNAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against police personnel of Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu in connection with the "custodial" death of a private security guard employed at the Madapuram Temple in Thiruppuvanam.

GURUGRAM: Just days before her murder, tennis player Radhika Yadav was in discussions with her Dubai-based coach to work abroad despite her killer father’s objection. The ambitious young girl wanted to work in Australia, Dubai or China and wanted to leave home latest by October-November, one of her chats shared by investigators revealed on Saturday.

PATNA: Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Nitish government over the "deteriorating" law and order situation in the state.

CHENNAI: The Tamil film industry has come under the scanner of law enforcement agencies following a major anti-narcotics operation by the Chennai Police.

KOLKATA: A second-year student of the iconic Indian Institute of Management –Calcutta (IIM-C) was allegedly raped in the boys' hostel of the educational facility.

PATNA: In a redux of prominent businessman Gopal Khemka and sand trader Ramakant Yadav's murder a few days ago, a trader from Patna, Vikram Jha, owner of Trishna Mart, was gunned down in a late-night incident in the Zakariapur area under Ram Krishna Nagar Police Station limits on Friday.

DHAKA: Protests have erupted across multiple college campuses and streets of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, following the brutal killing of a scrap metal trader, Lal Chand alias Sohag, in broad daylight near the Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital on July 9.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An office assistant of a Kerala Minister was found hanging at the official residential quarters on Friday in the state capital city.

PHAGWARA: The police have registered a case against two brothers from Kurali for allegedly duping a woman of ₹6 lakh under the false promise of sending her abroad. The accused, identified as Jugraj Singh and Simardeep Singh, are currently under investigation but have not yet been arrested.

CHENNAI: In a breakthrough in the decades-old Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case, Tamil Nadu police have arrested 'Tailor' Raja, one of the prime accused who had been absconding for 27 years.

IMPHAL: Opposition Congress in Manipur on Thursday urged Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla to take steps to rehabilitate the violence-hit displaced people, who have been staying in the relief camps in different districts for more than two years after the ethnic violence broke out in May 2023.

KOLKATA: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kolkata Police, that was previously probing the case related to the rape of a law college student at Kasba in South Kolkata last month, on Thursday, submitted a progress report on its investigation at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court.  

NEW DELHI: In a sweeping crackdown on crime, the Delhi Police southern range has achieved major success in the first half of 2025, arresting over 4,300 criminals and dismantling key networks of robbers, drug traffickers, arms dealers, and illegal immigrants.

CHANDIGARH: A director-cum-principal was stabbed to death in a private school in a village in Haryana’s Hisar district on Thursday, allegedly by two minor students who were upset at being repeatedly reprimanded for not having a proper haircut and following discipline.

CHENNAI: The custodial death of 27-year-old private security guard B Ajith Kumar in Tiruppuvanam, allegedly due to police torture, will now be probed by the Special Crime Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), New Delhi.

PATNA: The Bihar Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) on Thursday carried out simultaneous raids at two locations linked to DSP Abhay Kumar Yadav of the Liquor Prohibition Department in connection with a disproportionate assets case, officials said.

BENGALURU: Bengaluru Police on Thursday arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly recording videos of women in public places and uploading them on social media after presenting them in an objectionable manner.

KARNATAKA: In a shocking incident reported from Yadgir district of Karnataka on Thursday, a young man died by suicide fearing arrest in an atrocity case, and his father, unable to bear the shock, died of a heart attack.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to a senior officer of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Shekar Kumar, who was arrayed as an accused in a bribery case registered by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau ( VACB)-Kerala.

IMPHAL: The security forces in Manipur have seized drugs worth Rs 18 crore, arrested a militant and recovered some arms and ammunition from different places during the past 24 hours, officials said here on Thursday.

BENGALURU: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) was conducting raids on the residence and properties of three-time Congress MLA S.N. Subba Reddy in Bengaluru on Thursday.

CHENNAI: The Coimbatore District (Rural) Police have launched a major crackdown on narcotics smuggling networks following the seizure of 235 kilograms of ganja

GURDASPUR: Amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Punjab Police’s Anti Gangster Task Force (AGTF) successfully foiled a major terror plot backed by Pakistan’s ISI and orchestrated by Harwinder Rinda, a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative based in Pakistan, with recovery of large cache of terrorist hardware from a forest area in Gurdaspur, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Wednesday.

BELAGAVI: Three members of a family consumed poison and ended their lives over debt in Karnataka's Belagavi district, police said on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: The Special NIA Court in Bengaluru on Wednesday handed over the custody of three arrested accused persons in a prison radicalisation case to the custody of the National Investigation Agency for six days.