A man has been arrested in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, for the alleged murder of a woman in the Mira Road area of Thane district. The accused, Ashish Madan Meshram, was apprehended after fleeing the scene and travelling through multiple cities.
A 40-year-old domestic help was found murdered in a flat in Thane district, Maharashtra, with police investigating the case as a possible homicide.
Police said that after allegedly murdering Vaidya, Sane had taken pictures of the body and also did many Google searches to find out how to dispose of the body.
The crime came to light after neighbours alerted the police about a foul smell coming out of the flat.
A man wanted in connection with a 2022 murder case in Bihar has been arrested in Thane, Maharashtra, after being on the run for two years.
'The foul smell is still experienced in the premises and we are now sanitising the entire complex'
A court in Thane, Maharashtra, sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the 2017 murder of a fruit seller in Mira Road over a monetary dispute. The court cited strong circumstantial evidence and established motive in the case.
An accused in a Thane murder case, who had been absconding for nine years, has been arrested from Jharkhand. Rajesh alias Uttam Muneshwar Ravidas, the main accused and an alleged contract killer, was apprehended from Hazaribagh.
A court in Thane, Maharashtra, sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment for the murder of a fellow labourer following a drunken brawl in 2017. The court relied on circumstantial evidence, medical reports, and forensic findings to convict the accused.
A 26-year-old man and his friend have been arrested in Palghar, Maharashtra, for the premeditated murder of the man's wife, whom he suspected of infidelity. The crime took place in a remote village, and the body was discovered with severe injuries.
An autorickshaw driver in Palghar, Maharashtra, was arrested after brutally assaulting a four-year-old boy following an argument with the child's father. The incident, captured on CCTV, shows the driver slamming the boy to the ground and hitting his head with an iron rod. The child is in critical condition.
A Mumbai court has ordered the mental examination of Chetansinh Chaudhary, a former RPF constable accused of shooting dead his senior colleague and three passengers on a train in July 2023. The court's decision comes after prison authorities reported that Chaudhary is suffering from a mental disorder. He will be lodged in Thane jail during his medical examination at the Thane mental hospital.
Victim Saraswati Vaidya's live-in partner Manoj Sane, 56, has been arrested for allegedly killing her and dismembering the body in their 7th-floor rented apartment in Mira Road of Thane district.
The constable fired from his automatic weapon, killing an RPF Assistant Sub Inspector and three other passengers of the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express shortly after 5 am, the official said.
Chaudhary not only killed his senior but also three others of a 'particular community' by making them specific targets, the court said.
A 56-year-old man was arrested after the chopped body parts of his live-in partner were recovered from a flat in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Thursday. A court has remanded the man, identified as Manoj Sane, in police custody till June 16, he said.
The victim's son said he visited the police station in suburban Mumbai that is handling the case multiple times and met the investigating officer, but did not get any cooperation.
Dismissed RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of killing his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train, appears to have harboured "anger and grudge" towards a particular community and showed no remorse for the crime committed, the police said in its response to his bail.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh, arrested on charges of gunning down his senior officer and three passengers on a moving train last week, has now been booked for promoting enmity between groups, while a court in Mumbai on Monday extended his police custody till August 11.
Her statement also mentioned that the accused had a "blood clot" in the brain and was taking medicines for the same.
Aaftab Poonawala, the accused in the case of brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in May this year, shifted the belongings from his flat in Maharashtra's Palghar district to Delhi in 37 boxes in June and paid Rs 20,000 for it, a police official said on Monday.
'How was it possible for Singh to have got a government job, and that too one involving the handling of guns, had he been insane?'
A Delhi Police team searched for the murder weapon at a forest in Gurugram using a metal detector on Saturday, but returned empty-handed after one-and-a-half-hours, sources said.
Many pictures showed The Skeleton Named Sheena. For the purpose of the photographs, the skeleton had been re-assembled and looked straight at the camera.
If only The Girl on the Train was as invested in its potential as it is in Parineeti Chopra's kajal in the film, feels Sukanya Verma.
The case took a twist when the defence lawyer sought to call Indian Mujahideen co-founder Sadiq Sheikh as a defence witness after he told the police in 2008 that IM members were responsible for all the blasts that had occurred in India since 2005 including the July 11, 2006 train blasts.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
'He had a carry bag made of plastic. One pistol came out of it. There was also a magazine which had three rounds. And a mobile and a Rs 100 currency note.' No prizes for guessing who that was...
In the witness box, on bald embarrassing display, was not just Sub-Inspector Ganesh Dalvi, but the entire system of police investigation too.
In the dangal of UP politics, much as Muzaffarnagar wants to leave its past behind, the shadows are never be far behind.
The warmest reception came from his soon-to-be ex wife Indrani, who on spying him getting out of the lift, muttered an "Oh dear!" and walked over to him, trailed by her police guards, wreathed in high-wattage smiles.
If an FIR had been registered by the Pen police -- instead of a mere entry in the station diary -- an investigation could have taken place and the body might have been identified as Sheena's, leading to the case being cracked much earlier.
'How can one bring jihad into a relationship? How can one be restricted on the grounds of religion in marital things?'
'Muslims and Dalits must erase the way they remember their past, or carry out their their performances in private,' says Jyoti Punwani, as Maharashtra's Censor Board denies permission to a play Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat.
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