Rajkot: Vishwagram Trust will organise a special cultural and fashion festival, ‘Bande Mein Hai Dum: Gandhi 158 Not Out!’, in Rajkot as part of celebrations marking Mahatma Gandhi’s 158th birth anniversary. The event will be held at Hemu Gadhvi hall on Saturday and will feature a fashion show themed ‘Khushboo Khadi Ki, Geet Gandhi Ke’…
Rajkot: A govt contractor in Jamnagar has accused a police constable and his three associates of running an illegal moneylending racket, extorting and threatening him and using coercive recovery practices despite him having repaid more than Rs 1 crore against Rs 50 lakh borrowed.Rajkot range IG Nirlipt Rai transferred the probe to Surendranagar police and…
Rajkot: Aji Dam police on Thursday arrested two women for allegedly forcing a 12-year-old girl into prostitution, for four days, after promising her catering work.The arrests came after the girl’s mother, a labourer, 36, who lives in the Punit Nagar area, filed a complaint against Rekha Sagathiya (29) and Alpa alias Bhuri Galchar (43) and…
Rajkot: A 55-year-old woman was found murdered at her residence in Bapa Sitaram Park behind Matuki Restaurant on Kalawad Road on Thursday morning. The victim, Geeta Vaja, had wounds to her face, neck and hands that were inflicted by a bladed weapon.Her husband, Kishor Vaja, 50, lodged a complaint of murder at University police station…
Rajkot: A lion was spotted feeding on a cow near the new campus of Bhakt Kavi Narsinh Mehta University (BKNMU) in Junagadh, raising concern among students and staff. A video of the incident, recorded by students from their classroom windows on Wednesday, went viral on social media.According to sources, the lion had entered the university’s…
Police at the house where the murder-suicide took place in Hadida village of Amreli district Rajkot: A five-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her father, who decked up her body and placed it in the refrigerator before taking his own life, in Hadida village of Amreli district’s Savarkundla taluka late on Wednesday night.Preliminary investigation and…
Rajkot: What seemed to be a suspicious death at a construction site in the Railnagar area of the city was found to be murder, leading to the arrest of three men accused of assaulting, strangling and disposing of a labourer’s body.The deceased, Dukhishyam Bag, 45, was from Kalahandi district in Odisha. His nephew, Praful Sugariya,…
The accused in police custody Palanpur: An inter-district gang allegedly involved in stealing valuables from 22 temples across Patan, Mehsana and Banaskantha districts was busted with the arrest of four persons.Police recovered gold and silver ornaments, vehicles and mobile phones worth Rs 6.70 lakh from them.The accused visited temples during the day under the pretext…
Rajkot: Nearly two months after a 24-year-old woman died by suicide, her mother has lodged a complaint alleging that the woman’s husband and brother-in-law subjected her to physical and mental harassment.Sunita Sangod of Dahod district allegedly died by suicide at a farm in Neknam village of Morbi’s Tankara taluka on July 19. Her mother, Mali…
Rajkot: Morbi City A Division police have arrested a 53-year-old man and his 24-year-old son for allegedly burgling Radhakrishna Jewellers on Sardar Road and stealing gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 17.24 lakh.Police identified the accused as Karim Manek and his son Mustak Manek, residents of Shreeji Park on Vavdi Road in Morbi. The stolen…
