Palanpur: The Special Pocso court in Aravalli sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and brutally murdering a five-year-old girl in a village in Dhansura taluka in 2023.According to the prosecution, the girl, who lived in the village, had gone to the house of the accused, a neighbour, to play. The accused raped the…
Rajkot: Rajkot Taluka police have booked a Surat-based woman, her son and unidentified accomplices for allegedly forging documents related to a plot worth Rs 3.17 crore, using the fabricated papers in court and attempting to sell the land.The FIR was lodged on Friday following a complaint by 42-year-old lawyer Pintu Pansara.According to the FIR, Pansara…
Rajkot: Cybercrime police booked four men after allegedly tracing Rs 39.08 lakh from online financial frauds reported in four states to a bank account of a nationalised bank in Kalyanpur.The FIR, registered on Friday following an inquiry under ‘Operation Mule Hunt’, names account holders Dilip Pala, Shaktirajsinh Jadeja, Dhruvarajsinh Jadeja and Ridhesh Vanar.Police said information…
Rajkot: An afternoon outing ended in tragedy on Friday when four young migrant workers from Rajasthan drowned in the Umai River near Nagara village, in the Wadhwan taluka of Surendranagar district.The deceased are Mohanram, Jeevaram, Khusharam and Ramesh. According to preliminary investigations, the four had come from Rajasthan to work at a solar plant near…
Rajkot: Diu police arrested the alleged mastermind of a holiday membership fraud operating under the name White Dolphin Holidays, a Gurgaon-based company accused of cheating 40 to 50 tourists of an estimated Rs 70 lakh to Rs 80 lakh through fake vacation packages and misleading sales pitches.Investigators are identifying additional victims, tracing the financial trail,…
Rajkot: A 52-year-old farmer was hacked to death at his house in Dadli village of Vinchhiya taluka of Rajkot in the wee hours of Friday.Jayanti Solanki was found in a pool of blood on his cot. Based on a complaint filed by his wife, Manju Solanki, 50, Vinchhiya police registered a case of murder.According to…
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Villagers, commuters and passersby gathered in large numbers at the spot to witness the unusual activity, which has been occurring for the past five days. MORBI: An 18-foot-deep well in a remote village in Gujarat’s Morbi district has drawn widespread attention after it began showing continuous waves and ripples on its water surface, leaving locals…
The waiter hailed from Nepal Rajkot: What began as an investigation into an assault by an employer after a man asked for unpaid wages for the past four months, may lead to murder charges after a 50-year-old Nepalese worker died at Rajkot Civil Hospital on Thursday.Gumansingh Thakur had been employed for several years as a…
Rajkot: An organised post-matric scholarship scam targeting scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) students has been uncovered in Junagadh, with police registering a case against the director of an educational institution and his accomplices.Based on a complaint filed by S A Solanki of the parole furlough squad, Junagadh City B Division police registered an…
