Rajkot: A delivery executive allegedly decamped with 94 undelivered parcels of an online retailer from the Satyasha LDP branch located in Munjka village under the Gandhigram-2 (University) police station limits.The incident took place on Oct 11 and the FIR names Mihir Vaghela for stealing parcels valued at over Rs 12.53 lakh, according to the FIR…
Rajkot: A 36-year-old advertising professional from Rajkot was allegedly defrauded of Rs 11.11 lakh after falling prey to a ritual promising to quadruple his money.Based on the victim’s complaint, the Rajkot City A-Division Police registered an FIR on Tuesday night against his friend and a self-styled sorcerer.The complainant, Nitesh Kamdar, a resident of Sadhu Vaswani…
A cage being set up to catch the lion in Valadar village Wednesday Rajkot: A 31-year-old man was killed in a suspected lion attack at a village in Kodinar taluka of Gir Somnath district, forest department officials reported after recovering his body early on Tuesday.The victim, Mahesh Rathod, was a resident of Valadar village, under…
Rajkot: A lion tracker sustained minor injuries after being attacked by a lion near Bagasara town in Amreli district on Wednesday.The tracker, Mahesh Matiya, was called to a cotton farm after labourers saw the big cat and panicked.Speaking to mediapersons from the hospital where he was admitted, Matiya recounted the the circumstances that led to…
Rajkot: A real estate dealer alleged that ownership of his Rs 19-lakh Suzuki Hayabusa was fraudulently transferred in RTO records, after the motorcycle’s original RC book went missing. Police registered a case against the man in whose name it was transferred, allegedly by using forged documents, a forged signature and altered mobile number details.Pradhyuman Nagar…
Rajkot: A 31-year-old man was killed in a suspected lion attack at a village in Kodinar taluka of Gir Somnath district, forest department officials reported after recovering his body early on Tuesday.The victim, Mahesh Rathod, was a resident of Valadar village, under Jamvala range of Gir West forest division. His body, bearing wounds characteristic of…
Palanpur: A man allegedly burned his two-and-a-half-year-old son alive after dousing him with petrol at Suigam in Vav-Tharad district, before burying the body at a cremation ground in an attempt to destroy evidence, police said.The killing came to light after the accused’s uncle lodged a complaint with Suigam police. The accused, Ashok Raval, allegedly considered…
Rajkot: A 66-year-old retired PGVCL employee who was living alone was murdered inside his house on Parekhbag Road in Lalpur, Jamnagar district, on the evening of Oct 12.Mansukh Vachhani suffered five blows to the head from a blunt object. As the house was ransacked with belongings scattered, police suspect he was killed during a robbery.The…
Rajkot: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died after falling from the fifth floor of a 7-storey residential building on Kuwadva Road in Rajkot on Monday evening, with police strongly suspecting that she was flung to her death rather than having fallen accidentally.The police have initiated a murder investigation even though the formal offence will be registered after…
Palanpur: Hours after being detained for domestic violence, a man allegedly died by suicide inside the lock-up at Idar police station in Sabarkantha district on Tuesday.Anil Vaghela, who was rounded up around 4am after his wife made a distress call to 112, used the drawstring of his pyjamas to hang himself from the metal grille.Deputy…
