criminal justice

Prayagraj (UP), April 12 The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking to quash an FIR related to a planned acid attack over a property dispute.Dismissing the petition, a division bench comprising Justice JJ Munir and Justice Vinai Kumar Dwivedi expressed its extreme...

Muzaffarpur (Bihar), April 11 A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two men in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, according to police on Saturday.Two women from the girl's neighborhood took her to the house of another woman and called the two men who allegedly raped the minor on Friday night...

Kozhikode (Kerala), April 11 A 26-year-old man, accused in a murder case, who had escaped from a mental health center here three months ago, was apprehended in Mumbai on Saturday, police said.Vineesh Vinod of Muttungal, accused in the Drishya murder case, reported in Malappuram district...

Budaun (UP), April 11 A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a six-year-old girl in the Bilsi police station area here, police said on Saturday.The incident took place on Thursday night when the girl went to visit her maternal aunt at a private hospital, they...

Chandigarh, April 11 The Punjab government has introduced a new reward policy under which informants will be rewarded – from Rs 1 lakh to over Rs 2 lakh – for providing information about criminals, officials said on Saturday.Under the policy, Punjab Police personnel have been authorised to...

Singapore, April 11 An Indian-origin man in Singapore was sentenced to seven weeks in jail for forging his clients' bank statements so that the insurance policies he was selling to them could take effect.Vijendren Tanapal, 38, pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery involving two Japanese...

Onda (WB), April 11 Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated on Saturday that if the BJP is voted to power in West Bengal, it will end the TMC's "syndicate rule," and that those involved in atrocities against women in the state would be brought to justice.Addressing a BJP rally in Onda, in the...

Agraharam (Andhra Pradesh), April 10 – A 19-year-old student killed a minor girl on Friday after she rejected his proposal for a relationship, police said.The 17-year-old victim was home alone when the accused took advantage of the situation.According to police, the accused, identified as...

Jaipur, April 10 A court here on Friday sent former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal on a three-day police remand in connection with the alleged multi-crore Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam, officials said."The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had sought five days' custody, but the court granted three...

Bhubaneswar, April 10 A POCSO court in Odisha's Angul district on Friday sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a 4-year-old girl.The death sentence was pronounced by Additional District Judge-cum-Special Court under the POCSO Act, Angul, Judge Soumya Priyadarshini.The convict...

Pratapgarh (UP), April 10 An undertrial prisoner, who was being held in the district jail here in connection with a rape case, is alleged to have died by suicide on Friday, police said."Prima facie, the incident appears to be a case of suicide. The inmate suffered severe burn injuries within...

Mainpuri (UP), April 10 A court in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Thursday for killing his two daughters, allegedly for stealing a mobile phone, according to the government prosecutor on Friday.According to him, the incident took place on March...

Bhubaneswar, April 10 – In a significant development, a court in the Angul district of Odisha has sentenced a 40-year-old man to death for the brutal murder of a 4-year-old girl, following an incident of sexual assault near the Nisha Industrial Police Station in the district in 2025.The...

Hyderabad, April 10 – As many as 42 members of the CPI (Maoist), including the commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, Sodi Malla alias Keshal, surrendered to the Telangana Police on Friday, along with 36 firearms and 800 grams of gold.The Maoists who surrendered...

Jammu, April 10 Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Friday that Jammu and Kashmir is at a "very critical juncture" and called for a united mass movement to combat the growing menace of drug abuse among the youth.Jammu and Kashmir will launch a massive assault on the drug addiction...

Chatra, Apr 10 The principal of a school in Jharkhand's Chatra district was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student, police said on Friday.The 50-year-old accused was apprehended on Thursday after the girl's family lodged a complaint at the Hunterganj police station, they said...

Hyderabad, April 10 Forty-two members of the banned CPI (Maoists), including a senior commander, surrendered to the Telangana police on Friday. Sodi Malla, also known as Keshal, the commander of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, is among the cadres who joined the...

New Delhi, April 10 – The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has arrested the leader of a well-organized cheating racket that targeted vulnerable women at hospitals and temples across the national capital, officials said on Friday.The accused, identified as Paro (38), a resident of Bawana, had...

April 10, 2026 Gandhinagar (Gujarat)The Gujarat Police has become the first in the country to develop an artificial intelligence-driven tool called 'NARIT AI' (Narcotics Analysis & RAG-based Investigation Tool), aimed at strengthening narcotics investigation and enforcement, according to an...

Gandhinagar, April 10 The Gujarat Police have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence tool, 'NARIT', that can assess the strengths and weaknesses of narcotics cases, and provide real-time legal guidance to investigators to ensure higher conviction rates, officials said on Friday...