New Delhi: Four bright pink incubators stood empty inside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Hira’s Multispeciality Hospital on Thursday morning, a day after the facility’s 47-year-old managing doctor and owner, Dr Viveki Kapoor, was arrested in connection with an alleged child trafficking racket.The four-storey hospital, tucked away in a narrow lane of northwest…
New Delhi: Five infants, aged between five days and four months, were rescued after Delhi Police busted an inter-state child trafficking racket following a 15-day operation. Thirteen people, including a doctor, alleged traffickers, middlemen and buyers, have been arrested.Cops suspect nearly 30 infants may have been trafficked. Police probe revealed the role of Dr Viveki,…
NEW DELHI: Naresh Gujral, the former Rajya Sabha MP who is the son of former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, was duped of Rs 7.8 crore in a cyber fraud. The scammers impersonated him on a messaging platform and manipulated his employee’s phone records to transfer the funds.Police have, so far, frozen Rs 4 crore…
A dermatologist allegedly bludgeoned his long-serving domestic help to death and slit her throat on his terrace. NEW DELHI: What began as a routine workday for Meena, a domestic help who had served a south Delhi family for over 15 years, ended in a gruesome killing that has shocked the city’s Mount Kailash neighbourhood.Police say…
South Delhi residents are baffled by the arrest of dermatologist Manish Gupta for allegedly murdering his domestic help. NEW DELHI: The arrest of dermatologist Dr Manish Gupta for bludgeoning and stabbing to death his domestic help of over 15 years has left residents of South Delhi‘s Mount Kailash struggling to reconcile the allegations with the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has denied bail to an alleged cyber fraud syndicate kingpin, citing strong evidence of his role in running a fake travel agency that duped non-resident Indians (NRIs) by selling fraudulent flight tickets through social media.Rejecting the plea, Additional Sessions Judge Harguravinder Singh Jaggi noted the risk of the accused tampering…
New Delhi: The crime branch Thursday shot at two juveniles, allegedly shooters of the Anwar Thakur-Harun gang involved in the killing of a drinking water supplier in northeast Delhi’s Dayalpur.Rashid was shot dead on Monday inside his shop by three men. Special commissioner of police (crime) HGS Dhaliwal said Rashid was allegedly associated with gangster…
New Delhi: Four days after a 30-year-old woman was found murdered at her home in east Delhi’s Kailash Nagar, police have arrested her husband from Mumbai.The victim, Rukshar, was found with her throat slit on June 13 at her residence in Chanderpuri under the Gandhi Nagar police station area. Police seized a blood-stained knife, suspected…
New Delhi: From licences and certificates to water connections and civic approvals, a wide range of public services in Delhi could soon become faster and less cumbersome as Delhi govt embarks on a major governance overhaul.Inspired by Tamil Nadu’s widely acclaimed reforms, the initiative, centred on the principle of “simplification before digitisation”, seeks to redesign…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has sought the stand of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an interim bail plea filed by Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, an accused in the Al-Falah Trust money laundering case.Siddiqui has sought six weeks’ temporary release, citing his wife’s ongoing treatment for cancer.Justice Madhu Jain issued notice to the agency after Siddiqui…
