An elderly man in Madhya Pradesh was arrested for a wheat theft that occurred over 45 years ago in 1980. The man, who had been absconding since the incident, was running a grocery store when he was apprehended.
Students at VIT in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, protested against the alleged poor quality of food and water, which they claimed was causing jaundice. The protest turned violent, resulting in vandalism and arson on the college campus.
Ten police personnel, including a sub-divisional officer, have been suspended in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district for allegedly looting hawala money being transported to Maharashtra.
The death toll from contaminated cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh has risen to 22, with two more children succumbing to kidney infections. An investigation is underway, and arrests have been made.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district for allegedly raping at least seven girls after posing as a woman college teacher and calling them in connection with scholarship funds, police said on Saturday.
A church was torched and defiled by unidentified persons in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district, the police said on Monday.
The victim is then seen licking the soles of the feet of the man after the latter forces him to do so. The accused is also seen thrashing the victim on his face repeatedly and verbally abusing him.
The accused, Ravindra Kumar and Atul Bhadoliya, allegedly raped the girl, bit her and inserted a hard object in her private parts on Thursday, police sources stated, but a senior official said this can be confirmed only after her medical examination report is received.
A 16-year-old Hindu boy who had allegedly run away with a girl was beaten up by a group of men in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district allegedly on suspicion that it was a case of so-called 'love jihad', police said on Saturday.
A 12-year-old girl was raped, bitten multiple times and brutalised allegedly by two men working for the trust managing a famous temple in Maihar town of Satna district in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Friday.
A special investigation team (SIT) has been formed to unravel the mystery surrounding the alleged theft of 240 British-era gold coins by four policemen in Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district, an official said on Wednesday.
The lynching took place amid rumours on WhatsApp that child-lifters were on the prowl in rural areas of the district, the officer said.
An African footballer was found dead on railway tracks on the Mumbai-Howrah route in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh, police said.
The students were present for the examination in the school when the incident occurred.
Thirteen top SIMI leaders, including its former chief Safdar Nagori, were arrested from a house in Indore on March 27 where they were holed up to conduct the meeting of the banned outfit. Since then over a dozen SIMI workers have been arrested from different cities in the state.
Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Chhaittisgarh on Saturday, security forces have recovered two powerful tiffin bombs from Naxal-hit Sukma district's Dornapal region.
Madhya Pradesh government on Monday night suspended Datia collector and three other officials in the wake of stampede near Ratnagarh temple, in which 115 pilgrims were killed and scores injured.
Six security personnel were killed and eight injured in back-to-back attacks by Naxals in insurgency-hit districts of Chhattisgarh, which has seen a string of strikes by the red ultras in the past three days.
Police have already arrested three persons in connection with Kothari's murder.
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