Palanpur: The Aravali district police seized 169 cannabis plants weighing 86.3 kg and valued at Rs 43.1 lakh from a field in Galisemro village of Shamlaji taluka and arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with the case.Acting on the instructions of Gandhinagar Range DIG Virendra Singh Yadav and Aravali superintendent of police Manoharsinh Jadeja, the…
Rajkot: Atkot police in rural Rajkot booked three persons for allegedly running an unlicensed moneylending business, making death threats and usurping agricultural land from a man after he failed to repay a loan on extortionate terms.The accused are Bhaghu Jebaliya and his sons, Pratapi and Raju, all residents of Santhali village in Jasdan taluka.According to…
Rajkot: Police in Madhapar of Kutch west lodged a complaint against a house mother of an SOS Children’s Village shelter home for allegedly subjecting minor inmates to extreme physical and mental abuse, including beating eight boys (all under 14 years), hurling profanities and smearing human excrement on their faces.An FIR was registered at Madhapar Police…
CCTV footage showed that the two men monitored the booth and went in and out 22 times throughout the day Rajkot: In a cunning ATM-tampering operation, two men stole Rs 1.59 lakh in one day by jamming the cash dispenser of an ATM using a cardboard strip, at the SBI branch near Kanta Stri Vikas…
Palanpur: A brother and his sister drowned in a pond on the outskirts of Nanapura village in Radhanpur taluka of Patan district.According to preliminary information, the siblings were returning from a farm when they went to the pond to drink water. They reportedly slipped and fell into the water and drowned.Radhanpur police inspector R B…
Palanpur: Sabarkantha police’s anti-narcotics wing arrested a man after discovering 10 cannabis plants weighing 13.14kg, valued at Rs 6.57 lakh, growing amid a cotton crop on his farm in Dotad village of Poshina taluka.The search was was carried out following a tip-off received by police constable Samatbhai Chandubhai, who was part of a team patrolling…
Rajkot: A special Pocso court in Jamnagar has sentenced a 40-year-old man to death for the rape and brutal murder of his eight-year-old distant niece in 2025, categorising the crime as “rarest of the rare.”Additional district judge V P Agrawal handed the sentence of life imprisonment for rape alongside the capital punishment for murder to…
Rajkot: A woman who allegedly facilitated her husband’s sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and recorded the abuse reportedly exposed him after learning that he had eloped with the minor’s elder married sister, triggering a police investigation into the disturbing case.The Gandhigram police have registered a case against the couple for allegedly sexually assaulting the…
Rajkot: Gondal B Division police have registered a criminal case against Krishnakant Pandya, a retired railway station master, for allegedly possessing and transmitting child sexual abuse material through his mobile phone and social media accounts.The complaint was filed by assistant sub-inspector Bavku Khachar under Section 292 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Sections 67(A) and…
Rajkot: A 72-year-old retired businessman and his wife were allegedly cheated of Rs 17.58 lakh by their tenant, who promised to arrange Dubai Golden Visas for the elderly couple and help them secure lucrative post-retirement investment returns, police said.Following a complaint filed by Chimanlal Patel, University police registered an FIR against the accused, Anuj Prakash…
