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Police on Monday arrested Manisha, wife of jailed gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, for allegedly trying to extort Rs 2 crores from a hotel owner, officials said. Acting allegedly on behalf of the Kaushal Chaudhary and Amit Dagar gang, Manisha demanded the hotel owner over the phone to pay up the amount or they would open fire at the hotel. Death threats were also issued, they said. Two mobile phones were recovered from her possession and Gurugram Police have taken Manisha on six days of police remand after being produced in a city court on Monday, they added. According to the police complaint, on September 10, a woman called on the hotel’s number and introduced herself as… Read More »Jailed Gangster’s Wife Tries To Extort Rs 2 Crore From Hotel Owner, Arrested

A man was arrested in Noida on Monday for allegedly fabricating a Transfer Certificate (TC) for his son to show that he was a juvenile when he was arrested in a rape and murder case in 2016, police said. The accused, Mohanlal, colluded with a school principal, Nathuram, to obtain the TC. Nathuram is on the run, they said. According to police, Mohanlal’s son was arrested in 2016 for allegedly raping and murdering a teenager in the Ecotech-3 police station area, Greater Noida. Mohanlal colluded with Nathuram, the principal of a school in the Kanpur Dehat area, to get the fake TC made for his son which showed that he was a juvenile at the… Read More »Man Forges Son’s Document To Shied Him In Rape-Murder Case, Arrested

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted extensive searches at multiple locations across the country in connection with the activities promoted by some Bangladeshi nationals as part of terror group Al-Qaida’s conspiracy to destabilise India, according to an official statement. The crackdown at nine locations, linked with individuals suspected of supporting and funding the activities of the proscribed terrorist organisation Al-Qaida, started early in the morning in Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, West Bengal, Bihar, Tripura and Assam, it said. The searches led to the recovery of incriminating documents showing detailed banking transactions, digital devices including mobile phones, and other evidence related to terror funding activities, the statement issued by the NIA said. As per… Read More »Anti-Terror Agency Conducts Searches To Probe Al-Qaida’s Terror Activities

Malayalam actor Siddique, whose interim anticipatory bail granted by the Supreme Court on alleged charges of raping a young actress is ending soon, has accused the Kerala Police of “cooking up baseless stories” about him in the case. In his affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Siddique argues that he was made an accused without conducting a proper probe and contends that the police probe team is raising issues that even the actress who filed the complaint against him has not raised. The actor also accused the police of creating a scenario for a “media trial” against him based on baseless allegations against him. Siddique also sought to bring to the attention of the court… Read More »Kerala Police Is “Cooking Up Stories”: Actor Siddique On Sex Assault Case

US climate envoy John Podesta on Monday urged governments to keep faith in the country’s promise to combat global warming, saying Donald Trump can slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns to office in January. The annual UN climate summit began on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, with many country delegations concerned Trump’s victory in the US presidential election on Nov. 5 would hinder progress to limit planetary warming. Trump has promised to again remove the United States, the world’s biggest historic greenhouse gas emitter, from international climate cooperation and maximise the country’s already record-high fossil fuel production. “For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United… Read More »COP29: US Climate Envoy Says Work Will Continue Despite Trump’s Return