Rajkot: A 62-year-old scooter rider died and two others were injured after a tempo carrying DJ equipment allegedly went out of control while descending a bridge at Parevadi Chowk in Rajkot on Sunday afternoon.The deceased, Arun Shah, a resident of Gujarat Housing Board quarters near Umiya Chowk, was riding through Parevadi Chowk around 2.30pm when…
Rajkot: A Bhavnagar-based businessman operating a solar rooftop business was allegedly duped of Rs 19.35 lakh by online fraudsters posing as representatives of a Mumbai-based firm promising solar panels at discounted rates.The complainant, Bhagirat Dhandhlya (35), proprietor of Global Enterprise in Bhavnagar, filed a complaint with Cyber Crime police station.According to the FIR, Dhandhlya spotted…
Rajkot: A second-year engineering student from Andhra Pradesh died after falling from the tenth floor of her hostel at Marwadi University in Rajkot on Saturday morning. Police have begun an investigation and are examining her phone records after no suicide note was recovered.The deceased, Sobarnika Venkatesh Alla, was pursuing a BTech degree in Computer Science…
Rajkot: Kamlabaug police in Porbandar arrested two lawers for allegedly stealing computers from the mediation centre at the Porbandar district and sessions court and recovered the stolen property, valued at Rs 1.17 lakhRachit Desai, a bench clerk serving at the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), lodged a complaint for the theft on Friday. According to…
The operation vacated approximately 3,000 square metres of prime forest land, valued at an estimated Rs 15 crore Rajkot: In a crackdown aimed at protecting reserved forest land and local wildlife, the forest department on Saturday removed illegal religious structures from the Mirjapar reserve forest in the Bhuj West Range of Kutch district.The operation vacated…
Rajkot: Police have cracked the sensational murder of a local beauty parlour operator at Bapa Sitaram Park on Kalawad Road, arresting two brothers hailing from Agra who lived in her immediate neighbourhood.The victim, identified as Geeta Vajani, was found dead inside her residence on Thursday with fatal sharp-weapon wounds to her neck.Rajkot City Crime Branch…
Palanpur: A special Pocso court in Idar sentenced a 20-year-old man from Aravali district to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping a minor girl and repeatedly raping her at several places in the state. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 and awarded Rs 3.5 lakh in compensation to the victim.The convict,…
Rajkot: A lioness was guided away from a railway track in time after forest trackers and railway personnel acted swiftly when the animal strayed onto the tracks late at night in the Liliya range of Shetrunji forest division.The lioness, which was approaching from the Antaliya side, came onto the track between milestones 28/1 and 28/2,…
Rajkot: Rajkot Rural local crime branch (LCB) cracked two temple burglary cases with the arrest of three members of a Rajasthan-based gang and the recovery of silver artefacts worth nearly Rs 3.78 lakh.The men arrested, Munglaram Angari (35), Shankar Dungsia (40) and Ruparam Bumriya (51), are part of a gang, police said. Two other suspects…
Rajkot: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajkot seized close to 500kg of suspected adulterated ghee during a raid at Volga Ghee Depot on Kevdawadi Main Road under Bhaktinagar police station limits.SOG police inspector N B Chaudhary said the team had received information that trader Keval Chandrani was allegedly mixing soybean oil, vanaspati ghee and…
