The server used for the purpose was tracked by cyber crime personnel to Divyanshu Patel, a resident of Unjha in Mehsana district, who was arrested, he said.
The deceased Anuj Thapan, 23, hanged himself inside the toilet of the lock-up using a bedsheet.
A court in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded social activist Teesta Setalvad and former state director general of police R B Sreekumar in police custody till July 2 in a case of fabricating evidence to frame innocent persons in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Three Gujarat-based "illegal immigration" agents, who facilitated the family's ill-fated journey, were later arrested.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former Indian Police Service officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, a senior official said on Sunday.
Police heads of various units across Gujarat have been instructed to be on "alert mode" and keep a close watch on anti-social elements as well as sensitive areas to avoid any untoward incident.
The Gujarat police have arrested three individuals for allegedly acquiring hacked videos of women patients and selling them through YouTube and Telegram. The accused, who hail from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, reportedly used international hackers to obtain the clips, which appeared to be from CCTV footage of a Rajkot-based hospital. The police identified and arrested the trio who were allegedly running this racket, after videos of women patients being examined by doctors inside the labour room of a hospital were circulated online.
Jailed journalist Mahesh Langa, already facing multiple charges, has been booked in a fresh case for allegedly extorting Rs 40 lakh from a real estate agent by threatening to malign his image and implicate him in a false case. This is the fifth FIR registered against him since his arrest in October 2023 for an alleged Goods and Services Tax (GST) scam. The latest case was registered based on a complaint by Janak Thakor, a real estate agent, who alleged that Langa threatened to write negative articles about him and trap him in a false case unless he paid the money. Langa has been in jail since his arrest in October and is facing charges in four previous cases registered by Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Rajkot police.
Police recovered the documents from a well near Sidi Sayeed's Mosque in Ahmedabad. "We hauled up huge literature in Urdu, Hindi and Gujarati languages on the basis of eyewitness information that a big packet had been dropped in the well by a man after the blasts," assistant superintendent of police, crime branch Himanshu Shukla said.
He was being brought to Ahmedabad for further action, the official said.
Danish Riyaz, an absconding accused of the Ahmedabad 2008 serial bomb blasts, was on Tuesday arrested from Vadodara railway station, city crime branch officials said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Gujarat police officer G L Singhal in connection with the alleged fake encounter of 19-year old student Ishrat Jahan by a team of Ahmedabad crime branch officers in 2004.
Bhavesh Bhinde, an advertising firm's director, whose company had put up the giant hoarding that collapsed in Mumbai killing 16 people, was brought to the city early on Friday, a police official said.
In the first information report (FIR), the cyber crime branch of the Ahmedabad police said that people from across the country have received Pannun's threat via a pre-recorded voice message sent from a foreign number.
Seventeen persons, including four hailing from Taiwan, were arrested by Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch for allegedly operating a nationwide 'digital arrest' racket, a Gujarat police official said on Monday.
A team of Maharashtra police is camping in Gujarat to question some of Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts of 2008.
The National Investigation Agency has sought the custody of 2008-Ahmedabad serial blasts accused Danish Riyaz, who was arrested recently by the city crime branch.
Bhatt is the third accused arrested in the case after social activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police of Gujarat R B Sreekumar.
Now, the chief justice of the high court will allot the case to a new judge.
Two motorcycle-borne persons opened fire outside Khan's residence at the Galaxy Apartment in Mumbai's Bandra area on April 14 and fled from the spot.
One the accused in the case, Ayaz Saiyed, had turned approver and his statement was crucial in proving the crime against the other accused.
After they landed at Tehran airport a few days ago, a Pakistani agent took them to a hotel and held them hostage for ransom, officials said.
Police on Tuesday lifted the ban they had imposed on mobile internet, social media and SMS services in the wake of violence during the Patel stir in various parts of the state last week.
The police will conduct a voice spectrography test on Patel quota stir leader Hardik Patel, who along with five associates, is facing charges of sedition and "waging war" against the Gujarat government, officials said on Sunday.
The Gujarat police have arrested Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari from Mumbai in connection with an FIR registered against him for allegedly delivering a hate speech and are bringing him back to the state, an official said on Monday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized its biggest-ever cryptocurrency worth Rs 1,646 crore in a money laundering investigation into a fraud investment scheme called BitConnect. The scheme, which ran between 2016 and 2018, promised investors high returns through a proprietary trading bot but was found to be a sham. The ED tracked transactions through the dark web and seized the cryptocurrency from numerous wallets. This is the agency's largest-ever seizure of virtual digital assets and the investigation is ongoing.
Two more Students Islamic Movement of India members have been arrested by Gujarat police in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts. "Two more people have been arrested in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts," Joint Commissioner of Police (crime branch) Ashish Bhatia said.
The Gujarat high court on Monday refused regular bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case related to alleged misuse of money collected through crowd-funding.
Four people associated with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India were arrested on Thursday in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts, which claimed 55 lives.
Wen Johnson (24) had intruded into the pitch at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium just before the drinks break in the final at around 3pm, but was immediately apprehended by security personnel as he approached batter Virat Kohli.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case related to alleged misuse of money collected through crowdfunding.
The Ahmedabad crime branch on Tuesday secured the custody of seven alleged members of the terror group Indian Mujahideen, arrested by the Mumbai police, from a local court, police officials said.All the seven are accused in blasts cases across the country since 2005 including those at New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Bangalore, crime branch sources said.
The Gujarat police killed Ishrat and the others on June 15 claiming they are Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorists and were planning to assassinate state Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants were arrested from Ahmedabad and several documents have been seized from them, police said.
The Ahmedabad police have filed five more chargesheets in connection with last year's serial blasts, which claimed the lives of 57 people. All the chargesheets have more than 1,000 pages each and blame Indian Mujahideen and operatives of the Students Islamic Movement of India for the explosions, Crime Branch officials said.The documents give details of how the different IM modules worked in coordination to successfully execute the terror attack.
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Monday questioned Abdul Halim, an activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India, who was arrested in connection with the serial blasts, as it launched a massive operation to track down those involved.Halim was allegedly involved in recruiting people for Jehadi activities, the police said.The police also conducted raids in different parts of the city last night and detained many people for questioning.
The drug network was busted based on an intelligence input received by the Crime Branch, he said, adding that three persons were arrested and a case has been registered by the DRI.
A raid is being conducted on the Rajkot home of Gujarat cricket bookie Arjun\nNihalchandani, who was arrested for alleged links with Shoban Mehta, a top police official said in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch Abhay Chudasama was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He is the fourth police officer to be taken into custody in connection with the encounter.Central Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Inspector General P Kandaswamy confirmed that Chudasama had been arrested. He has been accused of conspiring to kill Sohrabuddin.This is the first arrest by the CBI.
While three of the accused were arrested on Friday from Surat, one was arrested from Saila town of Surendranagar.
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