abduction

Bengaluru, March 9 A man was allegedly kidnapped by a group of criminals after they blocked his car and sprayed a substance on him, police said on Monday.The victim has been identified as Gopal, also known as Gopi, a resident of Honnakalasapura village in the Anekal taluk on the outskirts of...

Etawah (UP), March 8 A 29-year-old man walked into a police station here early Sunday and confessed that he had killed his sister-in-law with a brick.Vijay Kushwaha created a commotion at the Sadar Police Station when he arrived at 3:40 am claiming to have killed his girlfriend, a minor girl...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 7 A man who had been on the run for nearly nine years in connection with a 2017 murder case was arrested by the Mangaluru crime branch police in Bengaluru, officials said on Saturday.The accused, Sufiyan alias Kotreshi (31), was apprehended near the Shyampur...

Islamabad, March 7 – Pakistan will continue to see disappearances buried in administrative records rather than being investigated as crimes, unless trafficking is recognized not only as a humanitarian crisis but also as an institutional vulnerability. Such neglect enables organized criminal...

Ballia (UP), March 6 Police arrested two men on Friday for allegedly abducting and assaulting a married woman with mental health issues, an officer said.According to police, the case was registered on Thursday at Bansdih Police Station on a complaint lodged by the victim's husband.Based on...

New Delhi, March 5 Two men have been arrested and a minor apprehended for allegedly stabbing a 35-year-old man to death and seriously injuring another following a drunken brawl in Delhi's Burari area, police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Salman and Chandan, both around 21 years...

Peshawar/Islamabad, February 26 At least 20 security personnel were killed in various terrorist attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during the first week of the holy month of Ramadan. In addition, security forces killed 18 rebels in two days in Balochistan, the army said on Thursday...

Shimla, February 26 A day after the Himachal Pradesh Police detained a Delhi Police team near Shimla and booked them for "kidnapping", the BJP in the hill state on Thursday demanded a thorough investigation into the incident by the Centre and an independent investigation into the role of the...

Shimla, February 26 – Himachal Pradesh BJP President Rajeev Bindal criticised the Congress-led state government on Thursday, describing the developments related to the standoff between the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh police over the custody of three Youth Congress activists as "unprecedented and...

New Delhi, February 25 The Delhi Police has rescued a three-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped from the Ashok Vihar area of Delhi and has arrested a factory worker for the abduction, an official said on Wednesday.The incident was reported on February 22 after a PCR call was received...

New Delhi, February 25 Two brothers are alleged to have abducted a man from whom they had borrowed Rs 4 lakh, killed him with a butcher's knife, and dumped his body in the Najafgarh drain, a police official said on Wednesday.The victim, Ajay Kumar, who was known for lending money to people...

Bhubaneswar, February 23 Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday informed the Assembly that 2,994 cases of rape and 7,382 cases of molestation were reported in the state last year.A total of 33,021 cases of crimes against women were registered in different police stations across the...

Karachi, February 23 Five terrorists, including a suicide bomber, were killed during a security operation based on intelligence gathered by Pakistani forces in the Balochistan province, the military's media wing said on Monday.In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the...

Bhubaneswar, February 23 Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday informed the assembly that 2,994 cases of rape and 7,382 cases of molestation were reported in the state last year.A total of 33,021 cases of crimes against women were registered in different police stations across...

Quetta, February 23 – As violence against civilians continues to escalate in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, a leading human rights organization reported that two farmers from the Surab area were killed after being subjected to enforced disappearance earlier this month, local media...

Karachi, February 22 Unidentified armed men have abducted nine labourers from the Barkhan and Khuzdar districts of Balochistan province in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, officials said Sunday evening.In both cases, the sites belonged to private companies, and the labourers were from the...

February 21, New Delhi – At least 50 people were killed, with several women and children abducted, after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state.There has been a surge in attacks blamed on "bandits," involving deadly assaults, kidnappings for ransom, and mass...

Gumla (Jharkhand), February 20 Four individuals have been arrested for allegedly abducting and raping two girls in the Gumla district of Jharkhand, police said on Friday.The incident occurred on Wednesday in the Kamdara Police Station area when the two girls, along with their two friends, were...

Balrampur (UP), February 18 A court here on Wednesday sentenced two men to consecutive life sentences for abducting a 20-year-old girl, gang-raping her, and attempting to kill her by pouring acid on her.According to the prosecution, on March 4, 2025, the 20-year-old student was abducted by...

Kollam (Kerala), February 18 An accused in a POCSO case escaped from the court premises just minutes before he was sentenced to a cumulative 23 years for abducting a minor girl from Assam and sexually assaulting her, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred at the Fast Track Special...