Crime - The Purbottar

21 Sep

Nepali citizen with Indian identity card caught in Panikanki

editor0 CommentsCrime, North Bengal, West Bengalcrime

Kharibari police arrested a Nepali woman with Indian documents. The woman’s name is Rankumari Limbu, a resident of Ratamari in Mareng district of Nepal. The woman was detained by the jawans of SSB's 41st Battalion on Sunday afternoon on suspicion of entering India from Nepal through Panitanki border. A Indian passport and PAN card along with the identity card of Nepali citizenship were confiscated from the woman. She also had an identity card of Hong Kong. The woman was later handed over to Raniganj Immigration Check Post. Later on Sunday Raniganj Immigration centre handed over the woman to Kharibari police.…

28 Aug

Police makes arrest in relation to Mysuru Rape Case

editor0 CommentsBreaking News, Crime, IndiaMysuru Rape Case

According to sourcesFive people have been arrested in connection with the Mysuru gang rape case. On tuesday a post graduate student was molested and sexually assaulted near Chamundi foothills on the outskirts of Mysuru. The victims male friend was also assaulted. The arrest comes after five days of the crime being committed. One of the five in police custody who belong to Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu is suspected to be a juvenile. The Director General and Inspector General of Police Praveen Sood said the operation was still on to nab the sixth accused in the case. There are speculations that the…

09 Aug

BJP leader, wife shot dead by terrorists in Anantnag

editor0 CommentsBreaking News, Crime, Indiacrime, jammu and kashmir

Kulgam district president of BJP Kisan Morcha, Ghulam Rasool Dar, and his wife Jawahira Bano were on Monday afternoon shot dead by terrorists in the busy Lal Chowk area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag. The critically injured couple was taken to the hospital where they succumbed. Security forces have cordoned the area and launched a search for the terrorists. Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the incident and said that the perpetrators of violence will be brought to justice very soon. He tweeted; “I strongly condemn brutal terrorist attack on the Sarpanch GH Rasool Dar and his wife Jawhara Banoo of Redwani…

05 Aug

Pegasus row: SC pulls up lawyer, says no notice for Modi, Shah

editor0 CommentsCrime, Indiapegasus

The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up advocate M.L. Sharma for making Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah as respondents in his petition seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Pegasus snooping issue. A bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Surya Kant said: “You have included certain individuals (Prime Minister and Home Minister as respondents in the petition). We can’t issue notice like this. Don’t try to take advantage of things, you have a defective memo of parties”. Sharma had argued that the government is fabricating material in the computer through this software.

05 Aug

NIA raids 5 places in J&K, Karnataka, arrests 4 for raising funds for IS

editor0 CommentsBreaking News, Crime, Indiajammu and kashmir, NIA

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at five locations in Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka in the ISIS Kerala module case and arrested four persons, involved in raising funds and radicalising and motivating more people to join the banned terror organisation. An NIA spokesperson here said that agency personnel, along with state police units, conducted simultaneous searches at five locations — three in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Mangaluru and Bengaluru in Karnataka. The official said that searches were conducted at the premises of the accused, who were continuously in touch with arrested accused…

27 Jul

Odisha police busts newborn trafficking racket, 7 arrested

editor0 CommentsCrime, Indiaodisha

Five women are among seven people arrested from Odisha’s steel city Rourkela as police cracked a newborn babies trafficking racket flourishing across interstate borders, officials said on Tuesday. The officials of Plant Site police station in Sundergarh district cracked the racket, following a complaint filed by one Seema Khuntia who alleged that her one and a half year-old granddaughter was abducted. Rourkela Additional SP, Bikram Keshari Bhoi said, “Eight out of seven involved in the crime have been arrested and their mobile phones have been seized. We found a lot of pictures of new born babies in their mobile phones,…

26 Jul

“Were Told To Delete Porn Clips,” Claim Raj Kundra’s Employees

editor0 CommentsBollywood, Crime, IndiaRaj Kundra

Four employees of businessman Raj Kundra, actor Shilpa Shetty's husband, have turned witnesses in the case involving production and distribution of pornographic films and told police that they were asked to delete clips, said sources. The employees said sources, also confirmed that the clips were uploaded from "HotShots", the businessman's controversial app that the police believe was used for streaming porn. The app, said police, was removed from the Google Play Store for Android phones and Apple's App Store, so the accused "activated Plan B" and launched another app, Bollyfame. Raj Kundra, 45, was arrested on July 19 by Mumbai Police.…

26 Jul

West Bengal: Health worker was arrested for organizing fake COVID-19 vaccination camp.

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Staff Reporter: A health worker from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was arrested on Saturday on suspicions of running illegal Covid-19 vaccination camps in the state, according to a police officer. The arrest came a month after a person was arrested for allegedly faking an IAS officer and organising a vaccination camp in Kolkata's Kasba area, where actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty also had her vaccination. Ms Chakraborty, who was invited to the camp, said she became suspicious about the vaccination process after not getting the standard SMS issued to everyone after they are given a shot,…

24 Jul

West Bengal: In Nadia, a fake SSKM doctor is caught by police

editor0 CommentsCrime, West Bengal

On Friday afternoon, a fake doctor was arrested from a private chamber near Kalyani station in Nadia for allegedly posing as a professor at SSKM Hospital. Albert Russell Faruki, a resident of Kalyani, has worked as consultant gastroenterology there for the past ten years. “Following information from the West Bengal Doctors' Forum, we have arrested the accused who was allegedly practicing medicine without an MBBS degree,” a police officer said. He didn't have a doctor's registration number. The fraudulent doctor and his collaborators will face legal consequences.” According to sources, Faruki's prescription raised concerns among some physicians, who wrote a…

23 Jul

Phones of ex-CBI chief Alok Verma allegedly listed for snooping using spyware

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Crime, IndiaCBI chief

After Alok Verma was removed as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), eight phones belonging to him and his family members were allegedly put on the list of devices targeted for snooping using Pegasus spyware by an unknown Indian agency. According to The Wire, eight phones belonging to Verma's family, including three of him along with those of his wife, daughter and son-in-law were put in the list of persons of interest targeted by the Israeli snooping malware. Besides Verman, phones of his second-in-command Special Director Rakesh Asthana, against whom he had registered a corruption case on October 21,…