Palghar, Maharashtra: In a major anti-narcotics operation, the Crime Branch Unit-3 of the Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate seized heroin worth over ₹8.1 crore and arrested three men from Rajasthan late on Thursday night. Trap Near Shripal-1 Tower, Vasai (East) Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by Inspector Shahuraj Ranavare and Sub-Inspector Suhas Kamble laid a trap near Shripal-1 Tower in Vasai (East). Around 9.30 pm, a white Swift car arrived at the spot. Three men alighted with bags ...Read More
Lucknow: Five people were killed and 19 injured Thursday evening when an UPSRTC bus collided with a water tanker and plunged nearly 45 feet into a gorge off the Hardoi highway in Kakori's Tikaitganj area of Lucknow, reports Pathikrit Chakraborty. The accident took place around 8.30 pm when the Hardoi-Lucknow roadways bus (UP-78 LN 1340) of the Sandila depot, carrying 40 passengers, approached the Tikaitganj bridge.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the deaths and directed offici...Read More
Pune: Police on Wednesday invoked stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions against gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and 12 others named in the revenge killing of Ayush Komkar (18) in Nana Peth on Sept 5. So far, eight out the 13 accused have been arrested. Ayush was shot dead by two assailants in the basement parking of his building in Nana Peth to avenge his uncle and former NCP corporator Vanraj Andekar's murder on Sept 1, 2024, in which Ayush's father, Gan...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate police have formed multiple teams to trace a 25-year-old female traffic constable who has been missing for a week.Subhamitra Sahoo, assigned to the DCP (traffic) office, was last seen on Sept 6. Her mother, Sukanti Sahoo, filed a missing person's report at Capital police station the following day.Concerned for her safety, the family met police commissioner S Dev Datta Singh on Friday, urging a swift investigation. "As each day passes without any word from her, our wo...Read More
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City police busted a forgery racket and arrested the accused on charges of creating and circulating fake Aadhaar and land documents, which were allegedly used to cheat govt departments and courts.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH said that based on credible information received by Urwa police station PSI Harish MR on Sept 9, a police team visited Daddalkad in Mangaluru. Around 9.30pm, a man matching the description provided by the informer was found standing by...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate police have formed multiple teams to trace a 25-year-old female traffic constable who has been missing for a week.Subhamitra Sahoo, assigned to the DCP (traffic) office, was last seen on Sept 6. Her mother, Sukanti Sahoo, filed a missing person's report at Capital police station the following day.Concerned for her safety, the family met police commissioner S Dev Datta Singh on Friday, urging a swift investigation. "As each day passes without any word from her, our wo...Read More
Mangaluru: A major forgery racket involving the creation of fake Aadhaar cards and land documents to obtain bail for criminal accused has been uncovered in Mangaluru, with police arresting five individuals. According to police, the racket came to light when forged documents were detected in court proceedings. Urwa police, acting on a Central Crime Branch complaint, first arrested Abdul Rehman (46) of Bappanadu. He admitted to using forged papers to secure bail for undertrials. Based on his inpu...Read More
New Delhi, Sep 12 (PTI) The Supreme Court-appointed SIT probing the affairs of Vantara, a zoological rescue and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat's Jamnagar, on Friday submitted a sealed cover report. A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and P B Varale took the report on record after the SIT counsel headed by former top court judge Jasti Chelameswar, submitted the report. "The SIT formed by this court has submitted a report in a sealed cover along with a pen drive which also contains the report as...Read More
MANGALURU: The Mangaluru City Police have busted a racket involving the use of forged documents to secure bail for accused persons in serious criminal cases. The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested five individuals involved in this operation, which spanned across Mangaluru and Udupi districts and included over 10 known cases. The accused are Abdul Rahman (46) of Mulki, Nishanth Kumar (28), of Thokkottu, Nithin Kumar (31) of Bantwal, Hasan Riyaz of Bantwal and Mohammed Hanif (39) of Kavoor P...Read More
Ambala (Haryana) [India], September 2 (ANI): Continuous heavy rainfall over the past two days in Haryana's Ambala district has caused severe waterlogging in various parts of the city, including residential areas. Residents of Ambala's Cloth Market, Nadi Mohalla, and many other localities are facing significant inconvenience and damage due to flooding. A local resident said that heavy rains since Monday have caused water to accumulate on the streets, making potholes invisible and posing a seriou...Read More
Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police on Tuesday seized an Indian Army truck in central Kolkata for "dangerous driving while moving close" to Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma's vehicles. The incident took place in front of Writers' Buildings (former state secretariat) in BBD Square and near Lalbazar (Kolkata Police headquarters). According to the Kolkata Traffic Police, the Army truck, which came from Fort William (the Indian Army's Eastern Command headquarters), was driving dangerously w...Read More
Ambala (Haryana) [India], September 2 (ANI): Continuous heavy rainfall over the past two days in Haryana's Ambala district has caused severe waterlogging in various parts of the city, including residential areas. Residents of Ambala's Cloth Market, Nadi Mohalla, and many other localities are facing significant inconvenience and damage due to flooding. A local resident said that heavy rains since Monday have caused water to accumulate on the streets, making potholes invisible and posing a seriou...Read More
Ambala (Haryana) [India], September 2 (ANI): Continuous heavy rainfall over the past two days in Haryana Ambala district has caused severe waterlogging in various parts of the city, including residential areas. Residents of Ambala Cloth Market, Nadi Mohalla, and many other localities are facing significant inconvenience and damage due to flooding. A local resident said that heavy rains since Monday have caused water to accumulate on the streets, making potholes invisible and posing a serious th...Read More
The Chennur police in Mancherial district, on Sunday, cracked the sensational bank fraud case worth nearly ₹13.71 crore and arrested as many as 44 persons, including the cashier and manager of SBI-2 branch. Police recovered 15.23 kgs of gold ornaments and cash of ₹1,61,730. Three employees, Narige Ravinder, cashier, Vennapureddy Manohar, branch manager, and Lakkakula Sandeep, an outsourced employee, were among those arrested. The fraud kingpin Ravinder, who reportedly incurred heavy losses...Read More
Varanasi: Breaking convention, Yogi Adityanath became the first chief minister to hold a Janata Darbar in Varanasi, the constituency of PM Narendra Modi, on Saturday. Yogi -- who regularly holds Janata Darbar both at his official residence in Lucknow and Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur -- assured all 99 people who met him at the Janata Dabar held at Circuit House of a speedy solution.The decision to hold the CM's Janata Darbar was taken just on Friday night after the CM reached Varanasi to review...Read More
On August 26, the Karnataka government issued a notification forming the Greater Bengaluru Authority, which will come into force from September 2. The Karnataka government recently issued an order reassigning IAS and IPS officers serving the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and five city corporations under it. This order will apply to 16 IAS and two IPS officers serving under various capacities at BBMP. The BBMP had a chief commission...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): The Cyber Cell of Delhi Police has busted an online investment fraud racket with the arrest of its key mastermind and associates, who allegedly duped unsuspecting investors of large sums through fake cryptocurrency schemes, officials said on Tuesday.Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Cell) Aditya Gautam said that the case came to light after a complaint lodged by a 47-year-old stationery shop owner in Mahendru Enclave, who reported losing Rs 39.5 lakh after ...Read More
Satish Golcha will take over the post of Delhi Police Commissioner from Shashi Bhushan Kumar Singh. A day after the Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked inside her house, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday appointed Satish Golcha, a 1992-batch officer of AGMUT cadre, as the new Delhi Police Commissioner. "With the approval of the competent authority, Satish Golcha, presently posted as DG (Prisons), Delhi, is hereby appointed to the post of the Commissioner of Police,...Read More
NEW DELHI: Satish Golcha, a 1992-batch IPS officer, was appointed the new police commissioner of Delhi on Thursday, a day after Delhi CM Rekha Gupta was attacked at her residence. DG (homeguards) SBK Singh was holding the additonal charge of police chief since the incumbent Sanjay Arora retired on July 31.Considered to be a no-nonsense officer, Golcha was currently serving as Director General (prisons) in Delhi and is credited with restoring peace and normalcy in a jail which had been otherwise ...Read More
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Satish Golcha has been appointed the new Commissioner of Delhi Police, following the attack on Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday. In its order issued on Thursday, the Home Ministry has said that Satish Golcha, who holds the post of Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is taking over from SBK Singh, who had been appointed as Acting Commissioner of Police on August 1. A man from Gujarat, identified as Sakriya Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai (41), allegedly attacked CM Gup...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): The Central government on Thursday appointed senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Satish Golcha as the new Delhi Police Commissioner. Golcha, a 1992-batch officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory cadre), is currently serving as Director General (Prisons), Delhi. He will assume charge as the city's top cop with immediate effect and continue in the post until further orders. Also Read | Jaipur Shocker: Woman Suffering Fro...Read More
Bhopal, Aug 21 (PTI) Police authorities in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations that Congress MLA Arif Masood was running a college on the basis of forged documents to obtain recognition for his institution. The SIT will be headed by Sanjeev Shami, Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Telecom. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Chhindwara Range Kalyan Chakravarty and Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Training Nimisha...Read More
New Delhi: In a significant development days after Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked by a man at a public programme, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has appointed senior IPS officer Satish Golcha as the 26th Commissioner of Delhi Police. Satish Golcha is a 1992-batch IPS officer who will replace SBK Singh who took up additional charge as Commissioner on July 31. Here are all the details you need to know on who is the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. Senior IPS officer Satish Gol...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Satish Golcha, an IPS officer of the 1992 batch, was on Thursday named the new Delhi Police Commissioner, an announcement that comes a day after a security breach and assault on Chief Minister Rekha Gupta by a visitor at her public hearing. Known as a no-nonsense and upright officer and recognised for his integrity and diligence, Golcha's appointment to the top post follows a tenure as the Director General (Prisons) for the Delhi government. With a reputation...Read More
New Delhi: The Central government on Thursday appointed senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Satish Golcha as the new Police Commissioner of Delhi. Golcha, a 1992-batch officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory cadre), is currently serving as Director General (Prisons), Delhi. He will assume charge as Police Commissioner of the national capital with immediate effect and continue in the post until further orders. "With the approval of the Competent Authorit...Read More
Affairs (MHA) on Thursday appointed senior IPS officer Satish Golcha as the new Commissioner of Police, Delhi. As per the MHA notification issued on August 21, Golcha will take charge with immediate effect and continue in the post until further orders. The order read, "With the approval of the competent authority, Satish Golcha, presently serving as DG (Prisons), Delhi, is appointed as the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, with effect from the date he assumes charge and until further orders." An ...Read More
Mumbai, Aug 20 (PTI) An FIR has been registered against 150 people for staging a protest at Dadar Kabutarkhana to oppose the Mumbai civic body's attempt to stop pigeon-feeding at the spot, police said on Wednesday. The first information report was registered at the Dadar police station five days ago for unlawful assembly, mischief and disobeying orders issued by the police commissioner under relevant sections of BNS and Maharashtra Police Act, an official said. On August 6, hundreds of people ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a first, the security arrangements around Red Fort ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day address have involved a "photo-based census" of about 35,000 residents of the Walled City to check the presence of unauthorised people in the sensitive zone, a Delhi Police official said on Thursday. Using artificial intelligence and physical verification to confirm the identity of area residents and their movement, the police are using a mobile app c...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): The Bar Council of India (BCI) has approved the Rules of Legal Education, Moratorium (Three-Year Moratorium) 2025, which will remain in force for three years once published. Under this moratorium, no new law colleges will be set up or granted approval anywhere in India. Existing institutions will also not be allowed to start new sections, courses, or batches without prior written permission from the BCI. Pending applications that have already reached the fina...Read More
Karnataka Chief Minister (CM) Siddaramaiah will hoist the national flag at Field Marshal Manekshaw Parade Ground in Bengaluru at 9 am before reviewing the parade and receiving the guard of honour Bengaluru is in final preparations for the 79th Independence Day celebrations, with Field Marshal Manekshaw Parade Ground set to host the event on August 15. The district administration, along with Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has made all necessary arrangements for the event, The New Ind...Read More