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Simdega (Jharkhand), March 28 A 30-year-old man from Odisha was allegedly strangled to death and his body set on fire in Jharkhand's Simdega district, police said on Saturday.Jharkhand Police have arrested three persons from Odisha in connection with this incident, a senior officer said.The...

Mumbai, March 28 – In a shocking incident in Mumbai’s Dharavi area, an unidentified man was brutally beaten to death, with his body found lying on a footpath along the Sion-Bandra Link Road. The Dharavi Police have registered a case of murder against unidentified persons and launched a detailed...

New Delhi, March 27 – The Supreme Court has overturned a bail order granted by the Patna High Court to a man accused in a dowry death case, deeming the order "wholly unsustainable" and highlighting a "mechanical approach" adopted in such serious offenses.A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and...

New Delhi, March 25 The new criminal laws have introduced specific timelines for various stages of investigation and trial to ensure faster and fair resolution of cases, the Centre has informed the Lok Sabha.Responding to a question by BJP MP Anil Baluni, Minister of State for Home Bandi...

New Delhi, March 25 A 17-year-old boy was found dead in a park in the New Usmanpur area of northeast Delhi in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.The deceased, identified as Zaid, was a resident of the area, they said.Police said they received information about a body found in a park...

New Delhi, March 24 The body of a 39-year-old man was found with several visible injuries near the Jafrabad metro station in northeast Delhi, police said on Tuesday.The deceased has been identified as Aqeel Ahmed, a resident of Welcome.Police said information regarding a body lying near the...

New Delhi, March 24 Two minors have been apprehended for allegedly stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in Sadar Bazar, north Delhi, due to a previous dispute, an official said on Tuesday.The incident occurred on March 22 in the Gali Gaddhya area, police said.The accused minors, along with an...

New Delhi, March 19 A Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of attempting to murder a shop owner, stating that the prosecution failed to establish his identity as the assailant after key witnesses turned hostile and did not support the case.Additional Sessions Judge Kumar Rajat was hearing a...

Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), March 19 A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl near Vilathikulam here, police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Dharma Muneeswaran, was apprehended after CCTV footage from a windmill and a stolen...

Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), March 19 A 38-year-old man was arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl near Vilathikulam, police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Dharma Muneeswaran, was apprehended after CCTV footage from a windmill and a stolen motorcycle...

Thane, March 18 A court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted two men accused of the murder of a shepherd nearly three years ago, citing a lack of evidence and the failure of a key eyewitness to support the prosecution's case.In his judgment delivered on March 16, Principal District and...

Kanpur (UP), March 18 An 11-year-old girl who had been missing since Monday was found buried in a wheat field near Bidhnu, with signs of sexual assault, triggering outrage and panic in the area, police said on Wednesday.The family members have accused a neighbor of the crime, and the police...

New Delhi, March 17 A Delhi court has convicted a man in a narcotics case involving the recovery of a commercial quantity of heroin, stating that the prosecution has proven the chain of evidence and the recovery beyond a reasonable doubt.Special Judge (NDPS) Harvinder Singh Johal was hearing a...

New Delhi, March 13 A Delhi court has convicted a man in the 2022 murder case of a sanitary shop owner over a property dispute, while his associate was found guilty of destroying the evidence of the crime.Additional Sessions Judge Shivali Bansal was hearing a case against Kamal Sharma, who was...

New Delhi, March 13 The NHRC has issued a notice to the district magistrate of West Delhi and the city police commissioner in connection with the killing of a 26-year-old man in a clash in Uttam Nagar on Holi, and has sought a report on the action taken from them within two weeks.According to...

New Delhi, March 13 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the District Magistrate (West Delhi) and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, over allegations that a 26-year-old Dalit youth was assaulted and lynched during Holi celebrations in Uttam Nagar, a district of the...

New Delhi, March 12 A young woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a hotel room in Old Delhi's Lahori Gate early Thursday, with police registering a murder case and launching a search for the man who had checked in with her, an official said.The deceased, who was around 25...

Hathras (UP), March 12 The partially burnt body of a man was recovered from the premises of Hathras Road railway halt here on the Mathura-Kasganj section on Thursday morning, police said.Locals spotted the body at the halt complex and alerted the authorities, following which teams from the...

New Delhi, March 11 – The Delhi High Court has acquitted three men who had been sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for gang rape, stating that the testimony of the victim was inconsistent and the prosecution had failed to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt.A single-judge...

Rudraprayag, March 8 Three people, including a mother-son couple and a woman from Haryana, were murdered in two separate incidents in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.According to the police, the alleged killers in both incidents have fled, and efforts are underway to trace and...