Ahmedabad: A special Pocso court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to six years imprisonment for forcibly kissing a 15-year-old girl in a public place. It also awarded same sentence to another man for stalking and harassing the minor girl.The incident took place in Odhav area on Oct 1, 2024. One of the accused, Mohit…
Ahmedabad: A 35-year-old man from Odhav lost Rs 11.8 lakh after downloading a fake RTO e-challan application sent through WhatsApp. A complaint of cyberfraud has been filed with city cybercrime police.The complainant received a message from an unknown number in Jan while travelling to his native village in Rajasthan. The message contained an APK file,…
Ahmedabad: Thieves broke into the chairman’s office at Kanoria Hospital and Research Centre near Bhat and decamped with expensive items and cash with a total value of Rs 9 lakh, police said on Tuesday.The theft came to light on June 23, when hospital officials were informed by the chairman, K K Kanoria, who is currently…
Ahmedabad: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad has recorded 15 bird strike incidents in the first half of 2026 (Jan-June) compared to 70 across the whole of 2025. Airport authorities attribute the low bird-hit incidents to a sustained and systematic monsoon preparedness drive carried out in the months leading up to the rainy season.The…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has granted conditional bail to a 22-year-old, who was arrested in Jan along with others, on charges of killing a peacock, the national bird.A complaint was registered under the Wildlife (Protection) Act against Rohit Jakhaniya and others with the Jasadhar forest range office in Gir Somnath district.According to the prosecution, Jakhaniya…
Each unit of fake plasma was sold for Rs 5,000, said police Gandhinagar: In the wake of the fake plasma case, the Gujarat govt has ordered district authorities to intensify monitoring of blood banks, plasma collection centres and related healthcare units across the state.Minister of state for health, Praful Pansheriya, on Wednesday said surveillance and…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) submitted a representation to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), seeking relief for small and medium taxpayers from what it described as onerous compliance requirements relating to electronic maintenance of books of account, under the new Income Tax Act.The chamber has urged the tax authority to…
Ahmedabad: A traffic jam outside Ahmedabad railway station ended with a man in handcuffs. The man allegedly posed as an IPS officer, threatened railway police personnel and assaulted a constable during a confrontation outside Ahmedabad railway station.A day later, railway police arrested him and booked him under multiple sections of the BNS.The incident occurred on…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has quashed a Vadodara family court’s order for criminal prosecution against a couple who are seeking divorce after their marriage registration, even though the marriage rituals were not performed and the betrothal ceremony was allegedly passed off as marriage.The registration took place to help a Vadodara woman move to United Kingdom…
Gandhinagar: Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on Wednesday published a report showing two Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat are crorepatis.The report also says that one member has two criminal cases.An ADR statement said the two crorepati Rajya Sabha members are Babubhai Desai, who has assets worth Rs 34.7 crore; and Govindbhai Dholakia, who has assets…
