Rehankhan Pathan and Yashrajsinh Vaja in police custody Ahmedabad/Rajkot: Three persons, including man who was killed by a lion, have been booked by officers in the Liliya forest range of Amreli for allegedly conducting an illegal “lion show”.Forest officials said the range initiated one of its strongest enforcement actions in recent months after the incident,…
Car Collided Head-On With Truck Rajkot: Six people, including a couple and their six-month-old daughter, were killed when their Ertiga car collided head-on with a truck near Hotel Amardeep on the new Junagadh bypass while travelling from Rajkot to Somnath on July 11.The deceased have been identified as Shailesh Dalwadi (30), his wife Pooja Dalwadi…
Palanpur: A fresh visa fraud case has surfaced in Himmatnagar, with police investigating allegations that a consultant collected crores of rupees from dozens of aspiring migrants by promising Canadian work permits, where application files allegedly never existed.Investigators suspect the value of the scam could be much bigger than initially reported.Preeti Vyas, who ran an ‘institute’…
The truck reportedly entered the wrong side of the Junagadh bypass on Saturday RAJKOT: Six people, including a couple and their six-month-old daughter, were killed when their Ertiga car collided head-on with a truck, which reportedly entered the wrong side on the Junagadh bypass, on Saturday.The deceased have been identified as Shailesh Dalwadi (30), his…
Anxious relatives of the victims at the hospital in Botad Rajkot: A dispute over an Instagram friend request turned deadly in Botad district on Thursday night when five men allegedly attacked three youths during what was supposed to be a peace meeting, leaving one of them dead and two critically injured.In a tragic twist, the…
Rajkot: A 30-year-old prisoner at Gondal Sub-Jail attempted suicide by slashing his throat, allegedly as fellow prisoners repeatedly threw rats and cockroaches into his barrack and kept threatening to kill him.Based on his complaint, Gondal City B Division police registered an FIR against Ajay alias Tido Sakariya, Bhavik alias Pako alias Gandhi Parmar, Dilip Rathod…
Rajkot: A Special POCSO Court in Morbi has acquitted a 26-year-old man of all kidnapping and rape charges after the prosecution failed to prove its case and key witnesses, including the victim herself, turned hostile during the trial.According to the initial police complaint, the prosecution alleged that between August 9 and 10, 2020, the accused…
Rajkot: The carcass of a lioness was found on the banks of the Shetrunji river in Gariyadhar taluka of Bhavnagar district on Thursday. According to the forest department, the lioness, between five and nine years old, was found stuck in bushes after the river water receded.Govindsinh Sarvaiya, deputy conservator of forests, Botad, said, “Prima facie,…
Rajkot: In dry Gujarat, a primary school teacher at Khapat Primary School in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district has been accused of sending a Class VII student to fetch liquor during school hours.The matter came to light after the student was found carrying a liquor bottle on campus, triggering both a police complaint and…
Rajkot: A late-night raid on an alleged gambling den in Veraval took a turn when a crowd of 200 allegedly attacked personnel of the state monitoring cell (SMC) and tried to free detained gamblers.Police said officers were forced to fire a warning shot in the air before reinforcements brought the situation under control.The SMC team…
