PUNE: The mother of the Porsche car’s minor driver (17) was arrested late on Saturday afternoon on the charge of giving her blood sample in place of her son’s following the crash on May 19, after the crime branch personnel detained her around 6.30am from her Wadgaonsheri bungalow. Pune commissioner of police (CP) Amitesh Kumar…
BENGALURU: The SIT probing the multi-crore tribal fund scam on Saturday arrested J G Padmanabha, suspended managing director (MD) of Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, and accounts officer Parashurama G.The duo, along with a Union Bank of India chief manager, had come under the scanner after their names were mentioned in a suicide…
NEW DELHI: Delhi customs officials on Thursday announced that they have arrested Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s personal assistant at the Delhi IGI airport after he was allegedly caught smuggling gold from Dubai. The personal assistant, identified as Shiv Kumar Prasad was caught with 500 grams of gold, according to custom sources.The arrest involved another individual,…
NEW DELHI: Three men have been arrested in connection with the game zone fire that resulted in the loss of 28 lives. They have been sent to a 14-day police remand by a court in the Rajkot district on Monday. The court of additional judicial magistrate BP Thakar has remanded three accused individuals, namely Yuvraj…
BHUBANESWAR: Prasanta Jagadev, the 55-year-old BJP candidate from Khurda assembly constituency, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly vandalising an EVM and assaulting polling personnel in a booth during the third phase of voting in Odisha on Saturday.The two-time BJD MLA, who was earlier booked in 11 criminal cases and is known for unruly conduct, had…
PUNE: The grandfather of the 17-year-old Porsche Taycan car driver was arrested Saturday on charges of abducting, threatening and confining their family driver at their home after the May 19 crash in a bid to force him to own up the crime. Two techies were killed in the accident.The teen‘s grandfather, 77 was produced in…
BHOPAL: Another CBI inspector has been arrested Monday for allegedly accepting bribes in connection with the central agency’s probe into the nursing college scam in Madhya Pradesh. He was initially entrusted with the probe and is accused of taking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh.On Saturday, a CBI inspector was caught allegedly accepting a bribe…
JAMMU: A retired superintendent of police (SP) has been arrested under Official Secrets Act for publishing ‘sensitive information‘ in his book released recently in Jammu, officials said on Saturday, reports Sanjay Khajuria.Mohammad Aslam Sheikh’s book contains FIR copies besides other sensitive information, officials said. He was arrested from his residence at Gandhi Nagar on Friday.Sheikh…
American universities were on edge Wednesday after police officers from New York to Los Angeles entered campuses where pro-Palestinian demonstrators had erected encampments and seized academic buildings. Mayor Eric Adams of New York said that about 300 protesters had been arrested Tuesday night at City College of New York and at Columbia University, where police…
MUMBAI: Actor Sahil Khan was arrested on Sunday in connection with his alleged role in the Rs 15,000 crore Mahadev betting app case. Khan (50) was produced in court and was sent to police custody till May 1. An SIT of crime branch nabbed him from a hotel in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh. He was brought to…
