Madhya Pradesh Police on Monday said they have arrested a third suspect, Harish Anjana, in connection with a drug case and handed him to Gujarat ATS for further interrogation.

He was arrested in Mandsaur district, around 350 km from Bhopal. Mandsaur Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhishek Anand said the Gujarat ATS team had sought co-operation in the matter, subsequently, the action was taken.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Anjana had been booked for charges of drug supply in Mandsaur and Gwalior in the past. "During a brief interrogation, Anjana has revealed the name of one more suspect Prem Patidar, and we will arrest him soon," Anand told the media.

The SP further said the nexus was operating through Vapi and Ahmedabad in Gujarat and bordering areas of Rajasthan also. He said teams have been formed to nab the other suspects in border areas with Gujarat and Rajasthan.

Striking a big blow to organised crime in the state, the Punjab Police's Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in a joint operation with Bathinda police, foiled a possible dacoity with the arrest of Jaspreet Singh, alias Jassa, a kingpin of Jassa Burj Gang, along with his three associates, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said on Saturday.

Four .32 bore pistols and 11 cartridges were recovered from their possession. Three arrested accomplices have been identified as Karanveer Singh, alias Karni, of Gulabgarh village, Resham Singh of Chatha village, and Hardeep Singh, alias Aarshi, of Sekhu village.

All have criminal history and were involved in crimes, including arms supply, snatching, kidnapping and other crimes.

The Tunisian National Guard announced that it had arrested 16 Tunisian nationals, including children, who were attempting to illegally cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

The Tunisians were arrested off Djerba Island in Tunisia on Wednesday, according to a statement on the National Guard's Facebook page.

The statement did not provide further details on the time of the arrest, news agency reported.

It also noted that a sum of foreign currency was seized, and those arrested were referred to the relevant authorities for necessary legal procedures.

The Greater Chennai Police on Wednesday arrested five individuals on the charges of selling drugs near the Koyambedu market, here.

The police said that the five were involved in the sale and distribution of narcotic pills to college students and other youngsters in Chennai city and suburban areas.

A total of 49 narcotic pills, Rs 17,400 in cash, a button knife, a machete, a weighing machine, five mobile phones and an expensive motorcycle were recovered from the possession of the accused.

Acting on a tip-off, Mohandas (24), a salon worker, was arrested by the Koyambedu Police, and on interrogation, he informed about his four accomplices.

In a shocking incident, two robbers allegedly sexually abused a woman by holding her toddler hostage at knifepoint in Bhubaneswar.

As per the reports, the incident happened in an apartment in the Maitri Vihar area of the city during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.

The victim works in a private company and stays on the first floor of the apartment with her two-year-old daughter.

Two looters allegedly entered the house at around 2 p.m. as the victim had forgotten to close the balcony door. The woman was in the bathroom when they entered the room.

Harassed by the bank officials and other people owing a debt of Rs 60 lakh, three members of a family, including a girl aged seven committed suicide in Bikaner on Tuesday.

IG Om Prakash Paswan said that three of a family including Rahul Maru, his wife Ruchi Maru and daughter Aradhya (7), who lived in Jai Narayan Vyas Colony, were found dead in the room on Tuesday.

“The condition of Rahul's son Chaitanya (14) is critical and was admitted to PBM Hospital. The bodies of all three have been kept in the mortuary. The reason quoted for suicide in the note is debt and harassment of banks and other people,” said IG Paswan.

Cambodia has seen a remarkable increase in both the number of people arrested and the amount of narcotics seized in the first nine months of 2024, according to an Anti-Drug Department (ADP) report on Tuesday.

The authorities had detained 19,655 drug-related suspects during the January-September period this year, up 33.5 per cent from 14,722 over the same period last year, the report said, adding that 640 suspects were foreigners of 15 nationalities.

A total of 6.1 tonnes of illicit drugs was confiscated from those suspects' possession in the first nine months of 2024, up 127 per cent from 2.68 tonnes over the same period last year, the report said.

Three people, including a woman, were arrested on Monday in connection with the gruesome incident of a 55-year-old woman in Tripura's West Tripura district being tied to a tree and being burnt alive, police said.

A police official said that the woman's sons Ranabir Debnath and Biplab Debnath and the former’s wife were arrested and would be produced before a local court to seek their police custody for interrogation.

The official, quoting the local people, said that the victim, identified as Minati Debnath, was tied to a tree and allegedly burnt alive by her sons and a daughter-in-law at Champaknagar in West Tripura district late on Saturday night.

After getting the information about the incident, a police team led by Sub-Divisional Police Officer Kamal Krishna Koloi rushed to the area and found the burnt body tied to a tree behind their homes. Police recovered the burnt body and a post-mortem examination was conducted at a local government hospital.

After a thorough investigation, police arrested her sons and daughter-in-law.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police on Saturday questioned YouTubers regarding the multi-crore online trading scam involving controversial Assamese actress Sumi Borah.

A YouTuber Aboyob Bhuyan who earlier telecasted a podcast of Borah on his channel told that it was a routine call by the CID for a statement regarding the case.

“They wanted to know whether I have charged anything from the actress for the podcast. I made it clear before the investigating team that we do not charge for podcasts unless it is a promotion for a brand. Moreover, the episode we telecasted a year ago had nothing to do with the online trading scam. Our programme with the actress was primarily about her wedding,” said Aboyob Bhuyan.

Six terrorist associates were arrested and a large quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from them in J&K’s Pulwama district, police said on Saturday.

Police said improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and arms/ammunition with incriminating materials were recovered from their possession by police in Awantipora.

“Awantipora police got specific input that a Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit was into the process of identifying youths who could be motivated to join terror ranks and after finding such youth, arms/ammunition/explosives were being delivered to these youths to commit terror acts before their formal joining into terror ranks," the officials added.

A minor girl was allegedly raped by her tutor in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district and the accused has been arrested on Friday, police said.

Acting on a complaint filed by the victim's parents, District Police officials arrested the accused, a Railways employee, from the government quarter allotted to him.

Preliminary investigations revealed that besides working as a railway staff, the accused used to teach local students on weekends.

As per the complaint, the victim was in a state of shock for quite some time, following which she was taken to a counsellor. After some counselling sessions, the victim revealed about the ordeal.

As per the complaint, the accused had been molesting the victim for quite some time and one evening raped her when no one was his quarter.

The accused even threatened the victim with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone.

The Border Security Force (BSF) thwarted a transnational wildlife trafficking attempt along the Indo-Bangladesh Border and recovered four golden pheasants in the North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal.

"There was an intelligence input regarding the possible smuggling of birds from across the border and troops of Amudiya Border Outpost were on an alert,” said a senior BSF official of the South Bengal Frontier, BSF.

He said that the jawans spotted two persons approaching the border fence from the Bangladesh side in a suspicious manner.

An Australian teenager has been charged over the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old in the Australian state of Victoria.

Victoria Police said on Wednesday that they had charged a 15-year-old boy with one count of murder after a 16-year-old was killed in a stabbing at a shopping centre in Melbourne's outer western suburbs on Tuesday.

Emergency services were called to the shopping centre in Melton West, about 38 km west of Melbourne's central business district, just before midday on Tuesday, where the 16-year-old was found with life-threatening injuries, news agency reported.

First responders commenced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but he died at the scene.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing anti-corruption drive in the state, on Tuesday has arrested Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Raj Kumar, posted at Helpline No. 112, district Tarn Taran police, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000.

According to an official spokesperson of the VB, the arrest followed a complaint by Raj Karan, a resident of Muradpur, in Tarn Taran district.

He further informed that the complainant has approached the VB and alleged that the ASI had demanded a bribe of ₹30,000 in lieu of returning a mobile phone and refraining from falsely implicating a close associate of the complainant under the NDPS Act.

He added that after a preliminary inquiry into this complaint, a VB team laid a trap during which the said accused was caught red-handed accepting Rs 5,000 bribe from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.

An investigation was underway after a man was stabbed to death on a busy street in Sydney's inner west, police said on Tuesday.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services responded to reports of a man being stabbed on a main road in the inner-city suburb of Marrickville at approximately 7:40 p.m. (local time) on Monday.

Police officers located an unconscious man on the footpath and ambulance paramedics administered CPR but he could not be revived and died at the scene, news agency reported.

NSW Police said the victim was 32 years old.

Afghanistan's counter-narcotics police have arrested 27 people over drug trafficking and purchasing in the national capital, Kabul, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Monday.

The offenders were arrested during counter-narcotics operations conducted in the vicinity of Kabul, reports news agency.

Illicit drugs, including hashish and tablet K, a Western-made drug, have been discovered during the operations as well, the statement added.

Moroccan authorities seized 8.1 tonnes of cannabis resin during an operation in the western port city of Safi.

Local police and security authorities apprehended 199 bales of cannabis resin hidden in a Morocco-registered freight truck, which were intended for international shipment via sea, reports news agency, quoting state media MAP.

Authorities on Saturday arrested 21 individuals, aged between 24 and 48, for their suspected involvement in the drug trafficking network, on Saturday, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced on Sunday.

Gurugram Police have arrested eight criminals in two different cases with illegal drugs and liquor, police said on Sunday.

The police arrested two accused along with Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is one kind of drug. The estimated value of the drug is around Rs 10 lakh in the market.

According to the police, they received a complaint from Bhondsi police against an accused, Deepak Yadav, who is lodged in Bhondsi jail, his mother had visited the Bhondsi jail to supply him with clothes but while checking the jail staff recovered illegal drugs from her possession. The jail staff then handed her over to the Bhondsi police station.

Myanmar authorities have seized 180 kg of narcotics in Myanmar's Shan state on Thursday, local media reported.

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a vehicle on September 16, seized 100 kg of ICE (methamphetamine) in Mongping township of eastern Shan state, and arrested two suspects.

During further investigation in connection with this case, an additional 50 kg of ICE and 30 kg of ketamine were seized at another suspect's house in the same township, reports news agency, quoting the state-run daily The Myanma Alinn.

Investigation showed that the drugs were being transported from Kengtung township to Monghpyak township of Shan state.

According to the local media reports, the suspects were charged under the country's laws, and further investigations are ongoing.

Notorious gangster Kakathope Balaji, wanted in more than 50 criminal cases including murder, was killed in an encounter with the police in Chennai.

The encounter occurred in the wee hours of Wednesday.

A team of cops had gone to Vyasarpadi in Greater Chennai to arrest Balaji in a pending case. According to the Greater Chennai Police, the gangster attacked the cops with deadly weapons and police had to resort to firing which led to the death of the gangster.

Kakathope Balaji was earlier attacked by a rival gang led by Sambo Senthil, a wanted criminal in the murder of BSP state president K. Armstrong, in the busy Anna Salai in Chennai in March 2020. Bombs were hurled at Balaji and another gangster CD Mani but the duo had escaped unhurt.

Mobile phone spam in South Korea reached a record high through August, despite ongoing government efforts to curb unwanted messages and advertisements, parliamentary data showed on Wednesday.

From January to August, 280.4 million spam messages and calls were reported or detected by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), up 68 percent from the same period last year, according to the data submitted to the National Assembly by KISA.

This year's figures already represent 95 percent of the total spam messages and calls reported in all of 2023, which amounted to 295.5 million, reports news agency.

The number of spam from January to August has surged in recent years, climbing from 27.7 million in 2022 to 167 million in 2023 and 280.4 million in 2024.

Punjab Police have arrested seven operatives of the Ankush Bhaya gang, including the lynchpin Ankush Sabharwal, exposing links to major US-based criminal syndicates, including Goldy Brar, Vikram Brar and Ravi Balachoria, said Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav here on Saturday.

Other members arrested have been identified as Pankaj Sabharwal, Vishal Sabharwal, Harmanpreet Singh, Jaskaran Singh Purewal, Ariyan Singh and Rupesh Kumar.

Police have also nominated two more gang members -- Karan Sabharwal and Dalbir Singh, while another member Dibu is wanted in connection with the case.

Police teams have also recovered four pistols, including two .30 bore pistols, one .32 bore pistol and one .315 bore country-made pistol along with seven cartridges, besides 1,000 Alprazolam tablets from their possession.

A man has died and several others sustained injuries following a violent clash that erupted after a collision between a van and a motorcycle in Dhaka's Mugda area.

This tragic incident took place on Friday. Ashiq Elahi Shakil, 28, who was involved in the liquified petroleum gas (LPG) business, was identified as the deceased, reported.

His brothers, Ashiq Parvez Sujan, 38, and Ashiq Shams, 24, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with injuries sustained during the attack. Two other local residents were also injured.

Bulgarian law enforcement authorities have seized 124.708 kg of smuggled gold items worth US$6 million at the country's Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint, authorities said.

"This was the largest amount of contraband gold seized at the Bulgarian borders," the National Customs Agency (NCA) said in a statement on Friday.

The items were found on Wednesday in a car with Bulgarian registration, which arrived at the checkpoint at 7:30 p.m. local time and was travelling from Bulgaria to Turkey, reports news agency, citing the statement.

A man allegedly strangled his wife to death in Delhi, for using social media, police said. The accused has been identified as Ram Kumar, 33, a resident of Delhi's Razapur area.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rohini, Pankaj Kumar, said on Friday, "A murder case was reported in PS Prashant Vihar in which a person named Ram Kumar, aged 33 of Razapur, confessed that he has murdered his wife by strangling her."

After enquiring further into the matter, it was revealed that his wife used to be more active on social media, which triggered an argument and led to this incident.

Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB), has arrested a woman from Mumbai for her involvement in sending job seekers to Cambodia to engage in cybercrimes.

Priyanka Shivkumar Siddu, a recruiting agent and resident of Chembur, Mumbai, had sent a few youths including two from Hyderabad.

The 30-year-old has been booked for causing hurt, trafficking of minors, wrongful confinement, extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt, cheating, criminal intimidation

A case under sections 323, 370, 342, 386, 420, 506 r/w 120B of Indian Penal Code (IPC), 66D IT Act and 24 of Emigration Act was booked at the Cyber Crime Police Station (HQ), TGCSB, Hyderabad.

 In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old gym owner was shot dead in Delhi's Greater Kailash-I, police said.

After getting information about the crime at 10.45 p.m. on Thursday, PCR, local police, crime team, Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team and Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ankit Chauhan rushed to the spot.

The deceased was identified as Nadir Ahmed Shah who used to run the gym in partnership.

The cause of the crime is yet to be ascertained.

The controversial Assamese actress Sumi Borah and her husband Tarkik Borah were sent to five days of police custody and the investigating officers have been conducting marathon interrogation of the couple to unearth more details into the Rs 2,200 crore online trading scam, officials said on Friday.

Tarkik Borah is a photographer and his brother, Amlan Borah, was also arrested by the police from Bihar’s Muzaffarnagar district. He was sent to three days of police custody by the Court.

The actress was kept in custody under Dibrugarh police. She along with her husband surrendered before the police on Thursday morning.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) on Wednesday said that its Sanchar Saathi portal has disconnected ‘one crore fraud numbers’.

DoT’s Sanchar Saathi portal is a citizen-centric web portal created to fight cyber fraud, enabling citizens to report suspicious calls and messages.

“Huge 1 crore fraud numbers disconnected via Sanchar Saathi,” DoT posted on social media platform X.

In a bid to curb the menace of spam calls, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has also directed telecom operators to disconnect and blacklist entities using bulk connections for spam calls, including robocalls and pre-recorded calls.

Following the alleged involvement of controversial actress and choreographer Sumi Borah in the multi crore trading fraud, more people from the Assamese movie industry are set to come under the scanner of the investigating team, an official said on Monday.

The Assam government has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case while the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax (IT) Department will look after the overall probe.

Borah, who is on the run, hails from Dibrugarh and started her career as a dancer. She acted in a few Assamese movies and also did choreography.

She was well connected with many people in the Assamese movie industry and the actress allegedly used her connections to get clients for investment in the prime accused Bishal Phukan’s company for promised higher returns through online trading.

Six people were arrested for pelting stones at a Ganesh pandal in the Sayedpura area of Gujarat's Surat on Monday, said officials here, adding that 27 others, who were involved in encouraging the incident have also been detained.

Stone-pelting at the Ganpati pandal led to widespread unrest on Sunday evening. The angry locals took to the streets against the stone pelting incident, leading to widespread unrest and vehicle damage. The protesters, enraged by the stone-pelting incident, surrounded the local police station, demanding swift justice. Police had to resort to the lathi charge and use tear gas to control the growing crowd.

Local sources revealed that a group of individuals targeted the Ganpati pandal, sparking anger among devotees and residents. The situation escalated quickly, with protesters taking to the streets and damaging vehicles in retaliation. In response, Surat police resorted to lathi charges and fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowd, but a large number of protesters again gathered later, demanding action.

A district court in West Bengal on Saturday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl at Matigara in Darjeeling district last year.

The Siliguri sub-divisional court pronounced the death sentence against Mohammad Abbas, who had been convicted for first raping and then brutally killing a Class 11 student by smashing her head with a brick in August last year.

The body of the victim was found in an isolated hut in the forests of the Matigara area on August 21 last year. The incident triggered massive protests throughout the state.

On the basis of evidence, the investigating officers identified Abbas as the accused and filed a charge sheet against him. Abbas was booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPS).

Assam Police on Saturday arrested another person from Jorhat district’s Titabor area for his alleged involvement in the Rs 2,200 crore online trading scam that has shocked the state, officials said on Saturday.

The arrested person has been identified as Abinash Pardhiya who was taken into custody from Borhola locality in Titabor town.

Police said that the accused person was at his residence when he was arrested on Saturday morning.

A senior police officer said that Pardhiya runs a tuition centre from his residence and he was running the online trading scam under the banner of Good Luck Tutor Centre Private Limited there.

A woman was shot dead in broad daylight at a bus stand here on Friday, the police said.

The shooting triggered a commotion as people at the bus stand ran helter-skelter in panic. The victim has been identified as Munni Devi, a resident of Khudana village in Mahendragarh district.

Munni Devi and her husband Dinesh had come to Mahendragarh for some work and were waiting at the bus stand to return to their village when a young man approached and shot her on the head.

Munni Devi fell unconscious from the gunshot. She was rushed to the Mahendragarh Civil Hospital, where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.

 A teacher was arrested for molesting girl students in the Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday, an official said.

The incident came to light after a video surfaced on social media showing the accused teacher cutting the girl student’s hair forcefully.

In the viral video, someone is heard asking the accused teacher - who was identified as Vishal Namdev - to leave the girl. However, the teacher is heard saying, “You can’t do anything against me.”

In the video, the student is seen crying and begging the teacher not to cut her hair.

Police said that Namdev was under the influence of alcohol when he was in the school