The arrest was made at the Kanchi mutt at around 1800 IST.
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Sobhraj had attempted to escape, possibly to India, from the central jail in Kathmandu.
In her letter to her husband Sajeesh, Lini expressed her pain and anguish that she could not see him again.
The woman said she was a Green Card holder and had worked in the US
Shashi Singh, the woman who allegedly took the victim to MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on the day of crime, has been arrested.
Doctors said she is now stable. It is suspected that she consumed some pills.
The fact that rodents were making merry in the dungeons came to light following media reports that they had overrun the 'Malkhana' (store) of the police stations.
Jonathan Bond, a Swiss national, was detained by the Kerala police for attending a memorial function in Thrissur organised for Sinoj, a suspected Maoist who was killed while making bombs in Andhra Pradesh. The police allege that Bond spoke during the memorial function held in a private hall in Thriprayar, Thrissur on July 28.
A Hindu youth, who allegedly posted the 'blasphemous' content on his Facebook account sparking the outrage, is among those arrested.
Karnataka Lokayukta Police on Tuesday raided the premises of former minister and mining baron Janardhan Reddy in Bellary for alleged illegal mining and possession of disproportionate assets.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today reprimanded a senior police officer for failing to produce Pervez Musharraf before it in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case in which the former military ruler is one of the prime accused.
The police have also detained the wife of Chunnu Thakur, a dreaded gangster lodged in Hajipur jail, for interrogation.
In a communication sent to Kumar, the EC asked him to be cautious in future while making statements.
Police searched expelled Samata Party MLA Sunil Pandey's official residence on Patna's Bailey Road and his ancestral home in Rohtas district.
"It was a hub of crime," Inspector General of Police Kanpur Mohit Agarwal said when asked about the razing of the house.
One of the men held earlier for the crime is an alleged sex offender who targeted children in recent years.
Janata Dal-United MLC Manorama Devi faced an arrest warrant on Wednesday for violating prohibition laws and allegedly harbouring her fugitive son.
A day after being released from jail, rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila was on Friday arrested once again by police under the same charge of attempt to commit suicide by means of her indefinite fast.
Reports show that she had a significant increase in the level of benzodiazepine, a class of anti-depressants.
Police cited the final post-mortem report that said Ansari died due to cardiac arrest.
Jai Prakash Yadav, languishing in the district jail in Gorakhpur since December 11, is embroiled in a case of attempted murder.
District judge Dharmesh Sharma also said the facts and circumstances brought on the record prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused hatched another crucial part of the conspiracy to foist a false case upon the victim by planting a country made gun and four cartridges.
One of the slain terrorists has been identified as Shahbaz Safi Wani alias Rayees Kachru, who was active in the area since June, 2016.
With a video of two sons of a murder accused mercilessly beating their Dalit classmatehere going viral on social media, the duo have been sent to a remand home.
Sinha rubbished the charges against his son saying, 'no such incident of stabbing happened and hence there is no question of his son's involvement in it'.
The apex court was irked when Sebi claimed that the group had allegedly obstructed the process by writing a letter to the Pune police raising the issue of law and order at the prime property.
Chinmayanand was the discharged from Lucknow Hospital and was sent back to Shahjahanpur jail.
The court termed the offence as "grave" and noted that there were serious allegations about the involvement of public servants including the accused, who has been charged by the agency of being a part of an extortion racket being run in the garb of investigation.
The victim's father said he was being coerced by two of the villagers to withdraw the case and being threatened his son would be kidnapped otherwise.
We are gathering evidence, says Bareilly SP; We will definitely take action, says Haryana DGP.
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is facing sexual assault charges, on Wednesday refused to cooperate during a potency test at the civil hospital in Ahmedabad, officials said.
Eight police personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were gunned down in a village near Kanpur city by the henchmen of a criminal who lost two of them in a firefight later, officials said.
Siddharth Vashisht alias Manu Sharma, who is undergoing life term for killing model Jessica Lall in 1999, was on Wednesday granted nine days parole by the Delhi high court to appear in post graduate exams.
A lone attacker, believed to be a Libyan refugee, went on a stabbing spree in a busy park in the southern English city of Reading, killing three people and injuring three others, the deadliest terrorist incident to strike Britain since 2017 London Bridge attack.
The victim's father said the alleged conversation was recorded eight months ago and he had got the tape from Kripal Singh, the slain key witness in the Jodhpur rape case.
A woman was killed and five members of her family were injured when a youth threw acid on them while they were sleeping in their house in Thakuranpurwa village in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
The list includes names like Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, Rampal, Asaram and his son Narayan Sai.
Modi thanked the people of the state for making the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' initiative a fruitful one.