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Mumbai, March 18 A special CBI court here on Wednesday sentenced two individuals to five years in prison, and two others to three years, in a 2012 case where the Bank of India suffered a loss of over Rs 3 crore due to a forged Letter of Credit.Harit Mehta, the owner of Infinity Transmission, a...

New Delhi, March 18 – Former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain, who is an accused in the “larger conspiracy case” related to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots, has moved a Delhi court seeking interim bail on medical grounds.Hussain, who is facing charges under the stringent Unlawful...

Thane, March 18 Thane Police has arrested jailed gangster Ravi Pujari in a 2017 extortion and firing case in the city and obtained his custody from a local court, officials said.The 57-year-old gangster was produced before a special MCOCA court on Wednesday, which remanded him in police...

Mumbai, March 18 – A 32-year-old police trainee was found dead at the Kalina Police Training Centre in Santacruz, with authorities recovering a suicide note from his possession that accused his girlfriend's parents of pressuring him to end the relationship and issuing threats that drove him to...

New Delhi, March 17 – The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices in response to a plea filed by two convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, which is linked to the 2002 post-Godhra riots, challenging a 2017 Bombay High Court verdict that upheld their conviction and sentence.A bench of...

New Delhi, March 17 A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to a man accused of circulating a doctored video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, saying he satisfied the "triple test" for bail, which includes the risk of flight, tampering with evidence, and influencing witnesses...

Gir Somnath (Gujarat), March 17 A special court on Tuesday sentenced five convicts in the 2016 Una flogging case, in which four Dalit men were beaten for trying to skin the carcass of a cow, to five years in prison and a fine of Rs 5,000 each.The day before, the special court in Veraval...

Raipur, March 16 – The ED has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 23.35 crore in connection with a land acquisition compensation fraud related to the Raipur-Visakhapatnam National Highway project under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, an official said on Monday.An investigation by the...

Gir Somnath, March 16 A special court in Veraval, in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, on Monday convicted five people and acquitted 35 others in the 2016 Una flogging case, in which four Dalit men were beaten for trying to skin the carcass of a cow, triggering massive protests across the country...

New Delhi/Imphal, March 16 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued its third Provisional Attachment Order (PAO), attaching properties worth Rs 50.8 crore linked to several private companies and their associated entities based in Manipur, according to sources in the central investigating...

New Delhi, March 16 The Haryana government told the Supreme Court on Monday that it had decided not to grant sanction to prosecute Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a professor at Ashoka University, who was booked last year for social media posts related to Operation Sindoor, as a one-time gesture of...

Betul, March 15 – An 18-year-old youth was killed, and his companion is in critical condition after being hit by a speeding truck on the Betul-Sarni State Highway.The incident occurred late Saturday night when a speeding, unidentified truck sped away from the scene, prompting police to launch...

Thane, March 15 Police have busted a fake call centre in Navi Mumbai that allegedly cheated people of over Rs 1 crore by promising high returns through stock market trading, and have arrested two persons in connection with the matter, officials said on Sunday.Based on a tip-off, the police's...

New Delhi, March 14 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two head constables of the Delhi Police's Sultanpuri police station while demanding and accepting an illegal gratification of Rs 20,000 from a complainant involved in online betting, an official said on Saturday.The...

New Delhi, March 13 – A Delhi court on Friday sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the 2017 murder of a 17-year-old boy in Kirti Nagar area of west Delhi, stating that they all played an active role in causing the death, motivated by a common intention.The court also fined Ramu, Sonu...

Mumbai, March 13 The Bombay High Court has denied bail to a man accused of trafficking educated youth by falsely promising them jobs abroad, only to coerce them into carrying out cyber fraud activities, citing the serious nature of the crime.A bench of Justices A S Gadkari and S C Chandak...

Chandigarh, March 12 – The investigation into the IDFC First Bank scam has revealed that the main accused created several shell companies and illegally transferred government funds to various accounts, said Additional Director General of Police Charu Bali, who is posted with the State Vigilance...

Patna, March 12 – The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two more accused in a 2022 case related to an alleged conspiracy by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to disrupt peace and communal harmony through unlawful and anti-national activities...

Kota, March 12 A court for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes here on Thursday sentenced a 65-year-old man, his three sons, and six other relatives to life imprisonment for the murder of the brother of a Rajasthan Police constable seven years ago, due to rivalry in a local cooperative society...

New Delhi, March 12 A Delhi court on Thursday denied bail to Sharukh Pathan, accused of pointing a gun at a constable during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai was hearing Pathan's regular bail application, based on the time he had already spent in custody...