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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted fresh searches today against former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and others as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering related to a teacher recruitment scam in the state. The ED conducted searches at two locations in...

Kolkata, April 11 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted another raid on Saturday at the residence of former West Bengal education minister and former Trinamool Congress general secretary, Partha Chatterjee, in south Kolkata.On Saturday morning, the ED reached Partha's house in Naktala...

Gurugram, April 10 Fifty-six people have been arrested on charges of rioting at IMT Manesar after workers on strike allegedly vandalized a police vehicle and caused significant damage by pelting stones, officials said on Friday.All the accused were produced in a city court on Friday and...

New Delhi, April 10 A Delhi court has rejected the bail plea of a man who impersonated a high-ranking Army official to deceive a woman into a relationship, observing that the relationship did not arise out of free and informed consent, and granting bail in such a case undermines its seriousness...

Nashik, April 10 Maharashtra Minister Girish Mahajan on Friday said that a special investigation team is probing allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at a multinational company (MNC) in Nashik, stressing that stringent punishment will be handed to those found responsible...

Kolkata, April 9 – The National Investigation Agency has applied to the court for the custody of the 47 accused arrested in the Kaliachak incident, an official of the central investigation agency said.About 12 First Information Reports have already been filed in this incident. Incidentally...

Patna, April 9 – Following the recent incident of spurious liquor in East Champaran, Bihar, the police have intensified their crackdown on liquor smugglers and the illegal liquor network.Amid these ongoing operations, a new controversy has emerged after the death of an arrested accused during...

Amaravati, April 9 – A court in Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district has ordered the arrest of the man accused of raping a government employee to be held in judicial custody for 14 days.Namala Srinu, who was arrested by the Macherla town police on Wednesday night, was brought before a judge on...

Patna, April 8 – The Gopalganj Police have intensified their crackdown on land mafia, with the arrest of a prominent figure triggering political ripples due to the alleged links of the accused with a prominent political family in Bihar.Acting under the directives of Superintendent of Police...

Kalaburagi (Karnataka), April 8 A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing a teacher after she repeatedly demanded repayment of a Rs 13 lakh loan that he had taken from her, police said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Amar, allegedly attacked the woman with a sharp...

Ranchi/Medininagr, April 8 Two people were killed in separate family disputes in Ranchi and Palamu districts of Jharkhand, police said on Wednesday.In Ranchi, an elderly man was allegedly hacked to death by his son early Wednesday morning after he refused to give him money, a police official...

Kochi, April 8 – In a development that highlights the legal limitations on electoral participation for those in custody, a court in Ernakulam, Kerala, on Wednesday refused to grant interim bail to filmmaker Ranjith, who is currently in jail in connection with an alleged sexual assault case...

Kolkata, April 8 – Sudipta Sen, the owner of the Saradha chit fund company, is set to be released from judicial custody on Thursday after being granted bail in all the corruption cases against him.He has been in judicial custody for 12 years and 11 months.He is currently held at the...

Vijayawada, April 8 – A city court sent an Andhra Pradesh Endowments Department official to judicial custody on Wednesday in a case of disproportionate assets.Kalingiri Shanti, Assistant Commissioner in the endowments department, was produced before the ACB court, which ordered her to be held...

Bokaro, April 8 An accountant with the Jharkhand Police is alleged to have withdrawn ₹4.29 crore from the district treasury's salary disbursement account in Bokaro, an official said on Wednesday.The accused, Kaushal Kumar Pandey, was arrested on Tuesday following a First Information Report...

Nashik, April 8 A court in Maharashtra's Nashik district ordered the arrest of self-proclaimed religious leader Ashok Kharat on Wednesday, keeping him in judicial custody until April 21 in a second rape case. In this case, he is accused of sexually exploiting a woman on multiple occasions since...

Garhwa (Jharkhand), April 8 – In an unusual turn of events during a police crackdown on alleged illegal activities, a couple apprehended from a hotel in Garhwa district, Jharkhand, ended up getting married on the roadside.Three other couples caught at the hotel signed written agreements to...

Ranchi, April 8 – In a significant development in the multi-crore tender commission and money laundering case linked to Jharkhand's Rural Development Department, retired Chief Engineer Rajiv Lochan and retired Executive Engineer Anil Kumar surrendered before the Special PMLA Court in Ranchi on...

New Delhi, April 8 – The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by Christian Michel James, alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter scam, challenging a trial court order that had rejected his application for release from prison on the grounds that he had served the...

Medininagar, April 7 A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly murdering two people by smashing their heads with stones in the Palamu district of Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday.Both murders took place on January 16, one in the area around the Chainpur police station and the other in...