The Jammu and Kashmir Police, on Monday, attached the property of a drug peddler under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (PIT NDPS) Act in the Kulgam district, officials said.

A police statement said, "Continuing its unwavering drive against the drug menace, Kulgam Police has attached the property of another notorious drug peddler under Section 68-F of the NDPS Act."

"During the investigation of an FIR under Sections 8/15, 21 NDPS Act of Qazigund Police Station, it came to light that the accused Cheki Badwani, resident of Kurigam, Qazigund tehsil, has been involved in multiple cases of drug trafficking and had no legitimate source of income," the statement added.

In a major anti-drug operation, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) in Jaipur seized ganja worth Rs 5 crore, hidden in a secret chamber of a container truck being smuggled from Odisha to Rajasthan.

Two men, Subhash Gurjar and Pramod Gurjar, residents of Sikar in Rajasthan, have been arrested in connection with the case.

According to ADG (Crime) Dinesh M.N., the AGTF received intelligence about a large consignment of ganja being transported to Rajasthan for delivery to two notorious drug lords from the Shekhawati region, Raju Pachalangi and Gokul.

Acting swiftly on the tip-off, the AGTF, in coordination with the Jhunjhunu District Special Task Force (DST), set up a checkpoint in the Udaipurwati area late Thursday night.

In a case that has plunged the Chambal-Gwalior region of Madhya Pradesh into grief and outrage, police have arrested Bharat Sikarwar and his wife for the alleged murder of their 17-year-old daughter, Divya Sikarwar, a Class 12 student.

Alongside the arrest of her parents, police have registered a case against 23 others, naming 11 individuals, while the remaining suspects remain unidentified.

The incident, suspected to be an “honour killing”, has reignited fierce debate over caste orthodoxy and the violent lengths to which families go to preserve it.

Delhi Police detained two women associates of 'Swami' Chaitanyanand Saraswati, accused of molesting 17 women students, on Tuesday and were interrogating them.

The accused, also known as Partha Sarathy, director of the reputed Sri Sharda Institute of Indian Management in Delhi's posh Vasant Kunj, is facing a criminal case for allegedly targeting female students enrolled in post-graduate management diploma courses under the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) scholarship category.

According to the complainant, three wardens used to help Chaitanyanand bring the girls to his room. It is not clear whether the two women associates detained are the same wardens.

The officials said that Chaitanyananda is not cooperating with the interrogation and is showing no remorse.

The Operations Cell of South West District Police has detained two Bangladeshi nationals residing illegally in Delhi's Mahipalpur area, officials said on Monday.

Fresh deportation proceedings have been initiated with the assistance of the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), New Delhi, after completing all necessary codal formalities.

The detained individuals have been identified as a 46-year-old Md. Abdulaziz Mian, a resident of Sakhipur, Koroti Para, District Tangail, Bangladesh, and 29-year-old Md. Rafiqul Islam, a resident of Kaliganj, District Gazipur, Bangladesh, the authorities said.

Karnataka Police arrested two persons for beating a woman from Andhra Pradesh, who was accused of stealing sarees in Bengaluru. The arrested persons have been identified as shopkeeper Umedram and his 25-year-old assistant, Mahendra Sirvi. The cops have also arrested the woman Hampamma for stealing from the store.

DCP West Division S. Girish stated on Thursday, "The incident occurred on September 21 within the limits of City Market police station. A 1.54-minute video of the assault has gone viral on social media, sparking widespread concern.

"The video shows accused Umedram dragging the woman along the footpath in front of his shop on Avenue Road, while both accused continuously slapped, kicked, and rained blows on her body. The incident took place in full public view."

Three Maoists linked to the banned outfit Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) were gunned down in an encounter with police and security forces on Wednesday morning in Jharkhand.

The encounter took place in the dense forests of Kechki under the Bishunpur police station limits in Gumla district.

According to police officials, the three slain men have been identified as Lalu Lohra, Chhotu Oraon, and Sujeet Oraon. Both Lalu Lohra and Chhotu Oraon were sub-zonal commanders of JJMP and carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh each on their heads. The third, Sujeet Oraon, was an active cadre of the same group. Lohra was a resident of Lohardaga district, while Chhotu hailed from Latehar and Sujeet from Lohardaga.

Demonstrating swift action and effective policing, the Delhi Police have successfully solved a robbery case within 12 hours of the incident and arrested two young men, both students of Delhi University.

The team from Police Station Kalindi Kunj apprehended the two and recovered the robbed mobile phone along with the weapon used in the crime, a steel kada.

According to a press release issued by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, South-East District, the arrested accused have been identified as Sandeep Singh (21) and Saurabh Singh (19), both residents of Jaitpur, Delhi. While Sandeep is a third-year BA Programme student, Saurabh is pursuing B.Com (2nd year) from DU’s School of Open Learning. Both have no prior criminal records.

The police have arrested 29 people belonging to the Kurmi community in West Bengal's Purulia district for attacking cops during an agitation at Kotshila railway station, said the officials on Monday.

At least six police personnel, including two IPS officers, were injured during a violent protest by members of the Kurmi community on Saturday, who blocked railway tracks at the Kotshila station in Purulia district, demanding Scheduled Tribe status. Some protesters were also injured when the police resorted to a lathi charge and used tear gas to disperse the mob.

Purulia Superintendent of Police Abhijit Banerjee said that normalcy has returned to Kotshila station after police stopped the agitation.

The Delhi Police has detained three Nigerian nationals found to be living illegally in India, officials said on Saturday. Deportation proceedings have been initiated through the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) after completing necessary legal formalities, the Operations Cell of Delhi Police's South West District added.

The Nigerian individuals have been identified as 29-year-old Eloumuno Gabriel, a resident of Amambra; 33-year-old Chinedu Paulinus, a resident of Asaba; and 26-year-old Sunusi Sani, a resident of Lagos.

According to police, the trio initially insisted that they possessed valid visas deposited with the Nigerian mission. However, verification carried out with the High Commission of Nigeria and the Immigration Department revealed that they had overstayed in India and had not returned to their country despite the expiry of their visas.

In a major crackdown on cyber-enabled financial fraud, the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police Crime Branch on Friday apprehended two key accused in a multi-crore stock market scam.

The victims were cheated of nearly Rs 6 crore through fake IPO funding and stock market schemes. The two accused named Kulwant Singh and Devender Singh were arrested by the cyber cell for acting as “account holders” for organised cyber fraud syndicates.

They provided victims’ bank accounts to interstate cyber syndicates, enabling diversion and laundering of victims’ funds through multiple channels.

A CBI Court here has sentenced a former inspector of Central Excise & Customs and a private person to five years in jail in a Rs 32.28 crore fraud case.

The court convicted and sentenced Kalaka Ramdas, the then Inspector, Central Excise & Customs, Srikakulam Range, Srikakulam and a private person, Polaki Janakiram.

The case was registered in 2005, and at the time of filing the charge sheet in 2008, Ramdas was Superintendent, Customs & Central Excise in the office of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise, Visakhapatnam.

In a year of relentless counter-insurgency operations, the elite 209 Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) has emerged as a formidable force against Maoists in Jharkhand.

With precision, courage, and tactical brilliance, the unit has dismantled key elements of the insurgent network, marking 2025 as a turning point in the region’s fight against left-wing extremism.

Throughout the year, 209 CoBRA neutralised 20 hardcore Maoists, striking at the very heart of the movement’s leadership.

 The driver of RJD MLA Ramvriksha Sada was gunned down by two unidentified men near Meghuna picket in Bihar's Khagaria district.

The victim, identified as Laxman Sada of Alauli, was returning home around 10.30 p.m. when two assailants on a motorcycle intercepted him.

They opened fire at him, due to which Sada collapsed on the road. Hearing the gunshots, local villagers rushed to the spot, rescued him, and took him to a government hospital for treatment, where doctors declared him dead.

In a swift action, Delhi Police on Thursday solved a blind robbery case within 48 hours, arresting three accused -- Manish, Anil alias Tinday, and Anil alias Gathiya -- all residents of Sanjay Colony, Bhati Mines. The stolen mobile phone and the auto-rickshaw used in the crime have been recovered.

According to a press release issued by the South West District Police, the robbery was reported on the night of September 6. The complainant, Rajesh Kumar, stated that around 11.00 p.m., while on his way to work at DTDC Express Limited, Samalkha, he was intercepted and robbed by two unidentified persons near Nisha Nursery, Rajokari Flyover. The culprits fled the scene in an auto.

Acting swiftly in the 8 kg heroin recovery case, Commissionerate Police Amritsar has arrested four more drug smugglers and recovered 12 kg contraband from their possession, taking the total seizure of the drugs in this case to 20 kg, said Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav here on Wednesday.

Those arrested have been identified as Gurbhej Singh (50) and his son Gurdit Singh (22), Malkit Singh (50) and Gurjit Singh (29).

The DGP said a .30 bore pistol and a magazine were also recovered from the possession of the accused.

After marathon raids and search operations at multiple locations in West Bengal in connection with a multi-crore sand-smuggling racket, the investigating officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have identified a unique modus operandi in running the illegal business.

The raids were carried out throughout Monday.

Sources aware of the development explained that the modus operandi in the irregularity had two layers.

A shocking case of cyber fraud has emerged from the Malad area of Maharashtra's Mumbai, where three cyber fraudsters allegedly cheated a local businessman of lakhs by falsely promising a loan under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY).

The accused, identified as Nitin Kumar, Ashwin Kumar, and Dayashankar Mishra, have been booked by the Cyber Cell of the North Regional Division under charges of cheating and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.

According to police, the complainant, who runs an imitation jewellery packaging business in Malad, needed a loan of Rs 10 lakh to expand his business. In June 2025, he downloaded a mobile application and applied for a loan.

With coconut and coconut oil prices touching record highs in Kerala ahead of Onam, a reported coconut oil theft from a grocery shop near Kochi has drawn public attention.

A shop in Aluva, about 30 km from Kochi, is the target of a theft where an unidentified accused made off with 30 bottles of coconut oil and other provisions after an initial failed attempt to break in by drilling through the shop’s floor, according to a local media report on Thursday.

The price of one kilogram of coconut ranges from Rs 80 to Rs 100, while coconut oil costs between Rs 500 and Rs 600 per kg across Kerala.

An inter-state dreaded criminal, Roshan Sharma, sustained a gunshot injury on his leg while attempting to flee police custody in the early hours of Wednesday in Kurkuri village, on the outskirts of Patna.

The incident was confirmed by Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kartikeya Sharma.

According to the SSP, Roshan Sharma was arrested in Jehanabad and was being brought to Patna for further investigation.

"During interrogation, Roshan revealed information that led us to recover a number of weapons and even bust a mini gun factory in the Phulwarisharif area, where raw materials of weapons and other incriminating evidence were seized," SSP Sharma said.

In a major crackdown on identity fraud and illegal immigration, the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested an Afghan national, Sohbat Khan, from Jabalpur for allegedly operating a passport racket using forged documents.

Khan, who had been living illegally in India for over a decade, is accused of facilitating the creation of Indian passports for Afghan citizens through fabricated residential and identity proofs.

According to officials, two other persons have been arrested for helping him.

The Bengaluru police have solved the shocking kidnapping and murder case of a 13-year-old boy and arrested the two accused after shooting them in the legs during an encounter on Friday.

The body of the victim, A. Nischal, an 8th-grade student, was recovered on Thursday night on the outskirts of the city. Nischal was brutally assaulted and killed, and the accused later set his body on fire in an attempt to destroy evidence.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the two accused were known to both the victim and his family. They have confessed to kidnapping the boy for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh and subsequently burning his body to erase evidence.

The West Bengal Police on Thursday arrested six illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators and one local Indian accomplice in Murshidabad district.

Acting on credible information, officers of Raninagar Police Station in Murshidabad district conducted a raid at Katlamari II Gram Panchayat area, under its jurisdiction, which led to the arrest.

The arrested Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Mohammad Abdulla (20), Ketabur Ali (26), Kamaluddin Rahaman (28), Kalimuddin Rahaman (25), Mohammad Salim (37), and Mohammad Juel Rana (24).

They hail from Chapai Nababganj, Rajshahi, and Feni districts of Bangladesh.

Two persons were arrested on charges of opening fire on a family when the latter asked them not to honk in Delhi's Kamla market area.

The accused, identified as Mohd Amaan alias and Noman, both aged 19, are residents of Brahampuri in the national capital, Deputy Commissioner of Police Nidhin Valsan said in a statement on Thursday.

The police have recovered one pistol, spent cartridge and a scooty used in the commission of the crime.

The incident occurred on July 25 near Mohalla Nihariyan Chowk, Ajmeri Gate, Delhi.

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested an alleged female Al Qaeda operative in Bengaluru, police sources said on Wednesday.

Following the development, the authorities in Bengaluru have heightened intelligence vigilance across the city.

The arrested individual has been identified as 33-year-old Shama Parveen, a native of Jharkhand. According to police, the ATS investigation revealed her alleged role in strengthening the Al Qaeda network in Bengaluru. She had been residing in the Manorayanapalya locality of the city.

The arrest was made on Tuesday during a joint operation by the Gujarat ATS and local police. The sleuths also seized digital equipment, a laptop and mobile phones from the accused.

Delhi Police Crime Branch’s inter-state cell has nabbed a long-absconding parole jumper, Hamidullah Bundu Khan (70), who was convicted in a brutal double murder case involving his own daughters.

He was tracked down and arrested on July 25. The arrest could be possible only after an intensive surveillance-led operation.

Hamidullah had been convicted for administering poison to his three minor daughters in 1999, resulting in the deaths of the two younger girls, while the eldest had survived. She later became the complainant. The court had sentenced him to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) under sections 302, 307, and 328 of the Indian Penal Code.

A woman teacher was duped out of Rs 12.80 lakh by cybercriminals in Rajasthan's Ajmer district.

The Ajmer Police have arrested one accused in connection with the case from Jaipur.

The victim, Gargi Das, an English teacher at the prestigious Mayo College Girls School, received a phone call on August 25, 2024, from a person claiming to be a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officer.

The caller threatened to disconnect her mobile number. Shortly afterwards, she received a WhatsApp video call from another individual posing as an officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch.

A bank manager lost Rs 56 lakh after being "digitally arrested" by cyber fraudsters in Karnataka's Mandya district.

The police cracked the case after nine months and arrested three persons in connection with the crime.

According to police, the victim is a woman bank manager working at Bank of Baroda.

The cyber criminals, posing as officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), contacted her through a video call and accused her of being involved in money laundering and making threatening calls.

Bengaluru Police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old youth on charges of uploading obscene videos of women on the social media platform Instagram.

The accused has been identified as Dilawar Hussain, a resident of the Byrathi locality near Kottanuru on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

The Ashoknagar Police have registered an FIR against him under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act.

According to the police, the accused uploaded obscene videos targeting women on Instagram.

Punjab Police, in two operations in Amritsar, including a joint operation with the Border Security Force (BSF), seized eight illegal weapons from four accused involved in trans-border arms trafficking, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said on Wednesday.

The pistols comprised five.30 calibre and three 9 mm calibre along with magazines have been seized from their possession.

He said the first information reports (FIRs) have been registered at the police station in Gharinda in Amritsar. Further investigation is underway to expose the entire network and its linkages.

Meanwhile, in a significant anti-smuggling operation, BSF Punjab Frontier, jointly with Punjab Police, on Tuesday apprehended two Indian narco-smugglers in Ferozepur along with two bikes and a weighing machine.

 The security forces in Manipur arrested eight militants of different outfits and recovered many arms and ammunition during the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.

A police officer said that eight arrested extremists belong to United People’s Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) and Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), and they were arrested from Tengnoupal and Imphal East districts.

A car, Indian and Nepalese currencies, mobile phones, SIM cards, Aadhaar cards, and PAN cards were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.

Of the eight arrested militants, three KCP militants were arrested from India-Myanmar border areas under the hilly Tengnoupal district.

In a major crackdown on cybercrime, the Delhi Police have busted a work-from-home job fraud syndicate and arrested four individuals accused of duping a man of Rs 17.49 lakh through a sophisticated online scam involving cryptocurrency.

The Cyber Police Station of South West Delhi busted the fraud syndicate after the victim, a Vasant Kunj resident, filed a complaint.

According to the South West District Police, the fraudsters lured unsuspecting victims through Telegram by offering seemingly legitimate part-time online jobs, such as reviewing websites for small payments.

“After a few initial tasks, the victim was asked to perform a prepaid task involving the sale and purchase of Bitcoin. Believing he would earn a high return, the victim kept depositing more money on the pretext of redeeming his earnings,” the police said in an official statement.

Three militants, including a self-styled Major of a banned outfit and three illegal ammunition sellers were arrested in Manipur during the past 24 hours, officials said on Monday.

A police official said that the security forces arrested self-styled Major of banned outfit People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Konjengbam Tomba Singh alias Laingam (38) from his residence in Imphal East district.

The militant leader gets his basic military training at Tanal in Myanmar.

He was instrumental in recruiting some youths in the proscribed outfit.

Manipur Police also arrested two active cadres of United People's Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) outfit from Kakching Super Market area in mountainous Kakching district.

An Indian passenger who arrived from Doha at Bengaluru International Airport was arrested for carrying over four kg cocaine valued at around Rs 40 crore, an official of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Saturday.

The contraband was concealed in two superhero comics/magazines, which were found to be unusually heavy, said the official.

The DRI officers carefully recovered the white powder, which tested positive as cocaine, concealed in the covers of magazines and arrested the male passenger early on Friday under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, the official said.

In a separate case earlier, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Srinagar Zone, busted a narcotics smuggling racket operating in South Kashmir and arrested a former militant and his aide.

In a series of joint operations in Manipur, the Army and other Central and state security forces have arrested ten hardcore militants of different outfits and recovered 35 different types of arms, 11 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), a large cache of ammunition and other war-like stores from five districts, officials said on Tuesday.

Manipur Police also arrested six more militants of different outfits during the past 24 hours from Bishnupur, Thoubal and Imphal West districts.

A Defence spokesman said that the intelligence-based, coordinated joint operations resulted in the arrest of ten militants of various hill and Valley-based banned extremist outfits.

He said joint operations were conducted during the past few days in the five valley and hill districts of Kangpokpi, Bishnupur, Tengnoupal, Imphal West and Imphal East. The majority of the arms -- 18 weapons comprising one 5.56 mm Insas Rifle, one .303 Rifle, five Bolt Action Rifles, three Single Barrel Rifles, two Pull Mech Rifles and six Improvised Mortars, ammunition and war-like stores -- were recovered from the mountainous Kangpokpi district.