Surat, May 1 (IANS) Surat became the focal point of state celebrations on Friday as the 66th ‘Gujarat Gaurav Diwas’ was marked with a large-scale police parade, cultural performances and public participation led by Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.The celebrations began with Governor Acharya Devvrat taking the salute at Y Junction before formally flagging off the grand parade towards Lalbhai Contractor Stadium.The event was attended by Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R…
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Gandhinagar, April 30 (IANS) Gujarat Police have achieved a mobile phone recovery rate well above the national average, ranking third among large states in the country, according to official data, in a development that underscores the growing use of technology to tackle telecom-related crime.Over the past year, Gujarat Police recovered 53,564 stolen handsets, recording a recovery rate of 46.71 per cent compared with the national average of 32.6 per cent.Across India, a total of 50,48,516 mobile …
Ahmedabad, April 20 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested a 31-year-old man from Surendranagar district within hours of a social media post on X that allegedly hurt the sentiments of the Brahmin community and posed a risk to public peace, officials said on Monday.The accused, identified as Hasmukh alias Nikhil Chavda, is a resident of Housing Board Society near the Police Line in Thangadh of Surendranagar district.According to police, the action followed the detection of a post on April…
Valsad, April 17 (IANS) Customs officers in Gujarat’s Valsad district seized a large consignment of Indian-made liquor valued at nearly Rs 50 lakh after intercepting a suspected boat off the Kolak coast in Gujarat, officials said on Friday. According to an official statement, officers of the Customs Division at Valsad under Ahmedabad Customs were conducting routine sea patrolling when they observed a suspicious vessel moving towards the shoreline.The boat was intercepted near the Kolak sea coast…
Gandhinagar, April 17 (IANS) The Gujarat Police have intensified the use of preventive detention against repeat offenders in narcotics cases, with five more individuals detained under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 (PIT NDPS Act) and sent to jails across the state, officials said on Friday. The latest action takes the number of detentions under the PIT NDPS Act to 21 in the first four months of 2026.In 2025, a total of 86 accused were de…
Gandhinagar/Nagpur, April 10 (IANS) A Gujarat Police sniffer dog has won a national gold medal after a gap of 16 years, emerging as the top performer in the tracking category at the 69th All India Police Duty Meet (AIPDM) held in Nagpur in Maharashtra, officials said on Friday.‘Check’, a male dog from the Gujarat Police, secured the gold medal in tracking and also won a bronze medal in the overall tracking category at the 2025–26 championship held during March and April 2026.The national-l…
Gandhinagar, April 10 (IANS) The Gujarat Police has introduced an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based investigation tool designed to strengthen the handling of narcotics cases and improve conviction rates, in what officials say is the first such system deployed by any state police force in India.The application, named ‘NARIT AI’ (Narcotics Analysis and RAG-based Investigation Tool), was launched in Gandhinagar as part of the state’s zero-tolerance approach to drug-related offences.It is int…
Ahmedabad/New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged a pattern of arrests targeting its workers in Gujarat ahead of local body elections, with its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal writing to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel seeking a meeting and claiming the actions were part of a “pre-planned conspiracy” to weaken the party.In a letter issued on Thursday, Kejriwal said more than 160 party workers had been arrested in the past three months and that the pace of detentions …
Ahmedabad, April 1 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat on Wednesday alleged that the Gujarat Police has detained its party President Isudan Gadhvi at Khambhalia police station in Devbhumi Dwarka district, where he had gone to meet party workers.AAP MLA from Visavadar, Gopal Italia, said that Gadhvi was detained at around 2:30 p.m. after arriving at the police station. He alleged that police told party members they had received instructions “from the BJP office” to detain AAP leaders.Italia…
Ahmedabad, March 23 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint before the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Ahmedabad against a chartered accountant accused of defrauding a trust of over Rs six crore, officials said on Monday. In a statement issued on Monday, the agency said the complaint was filed in connection with a cheating case involving Tehmul Sethna, a practising chartered accountant, who allegedly defrauded the Environm…