Palanpur: The bodies of a young man and a woman were found hanging from a tree in a field on the banks of a river in Khedbrahma town of Sabarkantha district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Minesh Khokharia Jenny (28), a resident of Didhia village, and Bhani (21), who had been living with her…
Rajkot: The special operations group of Devbhumi Dwarka police recovered an abandoned packet of hashish worth over Rs 61 lakh from the district’s coastline during an intensive foot patrol on Friday.Police said recently, ocean currents have led to the drug packets washing ashore along the Kutch and Devbhumi Dwarka coasts, prompting heightened surveillance and patrols.Acting…
Rajkot: A municipal court in Rajkot has sentenced two food business owners to six months’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed fines after laboratory tests found prohibited artificial colours in food sold at their establishments.Judicial magistrate first class (municipal court) Kamleshkumar R Gagnani convicted the operators for sale of unsafe food under Section 3(1)(zz) and Section 59…
Rajkot: A 31-year-old woman lodged a complaint with Junagadh C Division police, alleging cyber harassment, defamation and death threats by a man with whom she was previously in a relationship.Police identified the accused as Lalo Dafda of Lathi in Amreli district. Officials said the woman had earlier filed an FIR against Dafda at Shapar Veraval…
Rajkot: A shocking case has come to light from Morbi, where a man allegedly allowed his landlord and a relative of the landlord to repeatedly rape his wife and 13-year-old daughter, as he could could not pay his rent.The wife’s mother lodged a complaint on May 1 against her daughter’s husband (the tenant), the landlord…
Rajkot: Three men have been arrested and a fourth is absconding after an unidentified man was beaten to death in Khokhari village of Paddhari taluka in rural Rajkot, allegedly over false suspicions that he was part of a ‘child-lifting’ gang.Paddhari police arrested Bhikhu Jadeja, Jigar Jadeja and Raghu Sitapara, while a search is on for…
Rajkot: A joint operation by Rajkot Rural police’s special operations group and local crime branch led to two men being detained near Bharudi toll plaza, while they were allegedly transporting liquor after consuming narcotic tramadol tablets. Police seized items worth Rs 23.67 lakh and launched a further investigation.Rajkot SP Vijaysinh Gurjar told TOI that while…
The bus ablaze near Chotila on National Highway 47 in the early hours of Thursday Rajkot: Four people were charred to death and ten others injured after a private bus caught fire after slamming into a bitumen-laden tanker on the Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway near Chotila after midnight on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred between 1am and…
Rajkot: The detection of crime branch (DCB) sleuths arrested three persons, including two ‘journalists’, in connection with an extortion case on Thursday.According to the complaint filed by Vijay Padaliya with crime branch, he had bought a plot on University Road in Rajkot, where a building was later built and a hospital run by his daughter…
Rajkot: A one-year-old lion cub died on the spot after being hit by an unidentified vehicle on the Bhavnagar Somnath National Highway in Amreli district.The incident took place late at night on Wednesday near Dataradi village in Rajula taluka. According to preliminary information, the cub was attempting to cross the highway when it was struck…
