Tag: Arrest

Cuttack: Police on Monday arrested Sukesh Sahu alias Sola, a close associate of gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalsamant, even as it urged the Cuttack Sadar SDJM court for a seven-day remand of the criminal siblings. If granted, this will be D-brothers’ third phase of remand for the Commissionerate police. Sola was formally arrested for […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A retired Army officer, recipient of gallantry award, has been arrested by Crime Branch’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for his involvement in a case of land fraud to the tune of Rs 30 crore. Lt Colonel (Retd) Rakesh Rana, a recipient of Kirti Chakra, the second highest peacetime gallantry award, was arrested in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Friday said it will seek remand of suspected Bangladeshi national Mohammad Bashir in connection with the latter’s attempt to secure passport by producing forged documents at the Regional Passport Office (RPO) here. The police said it will also seek the remand of Bashir’s aide, who was arrested for his alleged […]

Imphal: Eighty students and six professors of the Manipur University were arrested after police stormed the boys’ hostel early on Friday following a complaint by the Vice Chancellor’s office, officials said. According to Inspectors General of Police S. Kailun and Clay Khongsai, the police entered the campus right after midnight on the basis of a […]

New Delhi: Two suspected Islamic State (IS) militants hailing from Jammu and Kashmir have been arrested from here, police said on Friday. The suspects were arrested from the Red Fort area on Thursday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, P.S. Kushwah said. Kushwah said the arrested were suspected to be associated with the global […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh law enforcers have arrested 22,000 people since launching a crackdown on drug trafficking last month, the country’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Monday. He made the remarks at a press conference in capital Dhaka organised on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Tuesday, […]

  New York: Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, accused by over 80 women of sexual harassment, on Friday surrendered to police here to face charges of sexual misconduct more than seven months after the allegations first surfaced publicly. Weinstein, 66, turned himself into authorities at the first precinct in Manhattan on Friday. He was arrested […]

Beijing: China on Monday hinted it won’t push for fugitive Indian jeweller Nirav Modi’s arrest, who is suspected to be in Hong Kong, saying the Chinese autonomous region has its own set of judicial rules and India can deal with the authorities directly. India has reportedly asked Hong Kong to arrest the main accused in […]

Hyderabad: Global Hindu Heritage Foundation and Save Temples Organisation have suspended Telugu singer Ghazal Srinivas as their brand ambassador following his arrest on charges of sexually harassing one of the women employees at its India office here. Velagapudi Prakasarao, founder and president of the foundation, on Wednesday said the board of directors unanimously decided to suspend […]

New Delhi: A 17-year-old youth and a young man have been arrested for fatally shooting an Assistant Security Officer of APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) in north-west Delhi earlier this month, police said on Tuesday. Sumer Singh was found dead in the APMC complex in Azadpur in the early hours of September 13. Deputy Commissioner […]

London: A second man was arrested over the terror attack on a London Tube train that left 30 people injured and resulted in an increase in the country’s terror threat level from “severe” to “critical”, police said on Sunday. According to the Metropolitan Police, the 21-year-old man arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday night, […]

New Delhi: An ATM fraudster, who has cheated at least 50 people over the last three years, has been arrested here, police said on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nupur Prasad said the accused Sandeep, 28, was arrested from Farsh Bazar area of east Delhi on Thursday. Prasad said that Sandeep, a resident of Punjab, […]

Patna: Over 45,000 people have been arrested in a year in Bihar for violating the liquor prohibition law imposed by the Janata Dal-United government. Bihar has acted tough against those violating the law on total ban on liquor in the state, Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil Mastan said on Wednesday. “At least 45,033 people […]

Seoul: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was arrested early on Friday raising a possibility for her to serve jail term over corruption allegations, a media report said. A judge in the Seoul Central District Court said in a statement that Park’s major criminal allegations could be justified and concerns remained over a possibility of her […]

  New Delhi: The Anti-Corruption Branch on Thursday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew, Vinay Bansal, in an alleged scam totaling Rs 6 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD). Bansal was arrested from his residence in Pitampura in west Delhi in the morning, after he failed to give satisfactory replies on firm Mahadeo […]