Crime

A PIL was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking action against the fake travel agents involved in smuggling people to foreign countries through donkey routes. The HC directed the state and the central government to respond within 30 days.

The testimonies of multiple victims indicated that the accused Maulvi Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh had a modus operandi where he invited the victims for Islamic religious healing/problem-solving using supposed supernatural methods, isolated them, and then engaged in unnatural sexual acts.

"Sumon Kumar Pal was hit on the head. It was only after that they robbed the shop. If the purpose was robbery, then they would not have hit him with the intention to murder," the locals told Ajker Patrika.

The Muslim gang in Rajasthan preyed on underage girls by luring them with mobile phones and then started to rape them and pressurise them to introduce their minor friends to them.

Citing Eastern Cape Provincial Police, CNN said that the police were investigating the death of Muhsin Hendricks, who was 58, in Bethelsdorp stating that the motive behind the killing was unclear.

Reports say that the girl got married to someone else in December 2024, and after learning about this, Murshad was infuriated. On 16th February, Murshad killed his girlfriend.

The complaint further stated that the Hindu girl’s family suspects that Dilshad lured the girl to elope with him on the pretext of marriage.

The FIR was registered on 7th February 2025 under Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against two accused, including a public servant from the Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (PCDA), Ministry of Defence, Defence Offices Complex, New Delhi, and a private individual who was a defence supplier.

When her husband was tested, he was found to be HIV-negative, strengthening suspicions that she had been deliberately infected as part of a conspiracy over the demand for dowry.

A 23-year-old man allegedly stabbed five passersby in Villach in southern Austria on Saturday, leaving a 14-year-old dead and four others injured