New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Delhi Police on Saturday arrested another accused in connection with the Malviya Nagar hotel fire incident in which 21 people were killed and many were injured. According to police, the hotel’s cook has been arrested after the investigation revealed that the fire was allegedly caused by his negligence. Several other individuals have also been detained, and questioning is currently underway as the probe continues. The accused has been identified as Keshav Negi (65), son o…
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New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) In the Malviya Nagar hotel fire incident case, past criminal records of accused Lavkesh Bajaj have surfaced, Delhi Police sources said on Friday.According to police sources, Lavkesh Bajaj, who has been arrested in connection with the hotel fire, was previously held by the Delhi Police last year in a fake passport case involving the alleged provision of forged Indian documents and passports to Bangladeshi nationals.The case was reportedly registered in January 2025, and B…
Patna, June 2 (IANS) A Vaishali court on Tuesday pronounced the sentence in a sensational 34-year-old assault case, awarding a three-year prison term to the main accused, 85-year-old Deepa Rai, while sentencing four other convicts to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment each. The judgment was delivered by the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ-I) Manoj Kumar Tiwari.The court had convicted the accused on May 26 and reserved its decision on sentencing, which was announced on Tue…
Sakti, May 30 (IANS) Police in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district have arrested a man and remanded him to judicial custody on charges of luring a young woman with a false promise of marriage via Instagram, kidnapping and subsequently raping her. The accused, who had been absconding since the crime, was successfully apprehended with the technical assistance of the district’s Cyber Cell. According to police officials, the harrowing ordeal came to light when the victim approached the police station to f…
Jaipur, May 19 (IANS) A court in Ajmer has ordered the registration of a case against Bharatiya Janata Party City President Ramesh Soni for allegedly reposting and sharing an objectionable social media post targeting the Delhi Chief Minister. The order was issued by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (No. 2), directing the Ganj Police Station to register the case.The matter arose from a complaint filed by Shreyans Surana, a resident of Foy Sagar Road.Through his counsel, Advocate Vaibhav J…
Chennai, May 6 (IANS) A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) President C. Joseph Vijay in connection with alleged income tax irregularities linked to the 2015 Tamil film “Puli”. The petition, which was numbered by the High Court Registry on Wednesday, is expected to be listed shortly under the caption “For Maintainability.” Though the plea had originally been filed l…
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) In a significant crackdown on organised exploitation, the Lucknow Police have arrested Atika, the alleged mastermind of a sophisticated ‘honey trap’ gang on Saturday. The arrest follows an investigation into the harrowing abduction, sexual assault of a 16-year-old minor boy and a bid to extort money. The case came to light after the victim’s mother, Asma Khan, filed a formal complaint detailing the disappearance of her son, Ibrahim (name changed), a Class 9 student. Ac…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Saturday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of making “divisive, inciteful statements along with defamatory and unverified allegations” targeting the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the letter, Trinamool Congress had referred to a public statement made by Assam Chief Minister Sarma at a campaign rally in Cooch Behar district, where the latter allegedly said that…
Sidhi, April 14 (IANS) A dispute during an Ambedkar Jayanti rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district on Tuesday escalated into violence, leaving at least 14 people, including members of a family and police personnel, injured. According to information, the dispute began over the removal of a Bolero vehicle parked along the procession route in Amiliya town in Sidhi district, which led to heated arguments.The disagreement soon turned into a clash between two groups. Participants in the Ambe…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday directed the suspension of four officers of Kolkata Police, including a deputy commissioner ranking officer, in relation to the tension near the convoy of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Assembly LoP Suvendu Adhikari on April 1. The convoy was approaching the Alipore Survey Building in South Kolkata, where Adhikari was supposed to file his nomination for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.The four polic…