Rajkot: Rajkot Rural police have arrested a man from Ahmedabad for allegedly impersonating a govt official and attempting to extort money from a factory owner in Jetpur.The accused, Rajesh alias Raju Trivedi, posed as an officer from the labour and employment department at the secretariat in Gandhinagar and threatened to shut down the factory for…
A waterlogged road in Vadodara Vadodara: Heavy rain lashed Vadodara district on Monday, causing widespread waterlogging, disrupting traffic and prompting authorities to declare a holiday for schools and colleges. Karjan recorded the highest rainfall in the district with 104mm, while several roads, homes and shops were inundated.Showers began early in the morning and affected movement…
Rajkot: Gandhigram police have registered an FIR against six persons, including Sajid Kachrawala, for allegedly vandalising a medical store on Raiya Road and causing property damage estimated at Rs 3.25 lakh.According to the complaint filed on Monday by store owner Pranav Undadkat, the incident occurred at Dev Pushp Medical around 9.30 pm on Sunday.The complainant…
Rajkot: A woman was killed and 11 others injured after a state transport bus collided with a private bus near a hotel in Panelli village of Upleta taluka on Sunday morning, police said. The accident occurred at around 7.30am.The deceased was identified as Malti Jogi, a resident of Jamnagar. Following the accident, Manish Bharai, the…
Rajkot: The Bhavnagar Local Crime Branch (LCB) arrested three people, including a railway employee, for allegedly manufacturing and storing counterfeit Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) at a railway colony quarter.The accused were identified as Akshayrajsinh Gohil (32), a railway employee; Vijay alias Mayank Makwana (33); and Jitendra Khavadiya (40). Police seized 17 bottles of suspected…
Liquor smuggled in private ambulance intercepted Rajkot: Babra police in Amreli district intercepted a private ambulance being used to smuggle Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) on the Bhavnagar-Rajkot highway, seizing liquor bottles, the vehicle and a mobile phone, worth a total of Rs 10.66 lakh.Police received intelligence about an ambulance ferrying liquor along the Bhavnagar-Rajkot highway.Setting…
Rajkot: Unidentified persons cut steel wire fencing around a military installation in Jamnagar, causing damage worth an estimated Rs 15,000, according to an FIR registered with City A Division police station.The damage was discovered on the morning of Thursday morning, during a patrol by an Army quick reaction team (QRT). The complaint was lodged by…
Rajkot: In an identical pattern of targeted property thefts across multiple parts of Rajkot, unidentified miscreants broke into several outdoor CCTV surveillance units installed under the Rajkot Municipal Corporation’s (RMC) “Eye-Way Project” and stole 30 industrial backup batteries worth Rs 90,000 since June.Three separate FIRs have been registered across three police stations—A-Division, Pradhyuman Nagar, and…
Rajkot:A 34-year-old textile trader from the city was allegedly duped of Rs 13.01 lakh by cyberfraudsters posing as representatives of two non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) who promised him a Rs 15 lakh business loan.According to the complaint, Rishabh Sanghvi, who runs his business in Wankaner, came across an advertisement on Facebook on Aug 21 that…
Rajkot: Two persons of Morbi were allegedly cheated of Rs 16 lakh in a fake copper scrap deal after fraudsters promised to sell cable scrap lying near Mata No Madh in Kutch.Harilal Gurjar, 42, a scrap trader from Morbi, told police that he transferred Rs 9.48 lakh through RTGS on July 6 after being shown…
