A Colorado court sentenced funeral home co-owner Jon Hallford to 40 years in prison after he was found guilty of abusing and improperly storing 189 human remains. Families were given fake ashes, and the case exposed serious lapses in funeral industry regulation.
Sharma was produced before a city court and has been sent to six days of police remand. The Gurugram Economic Offences Wing (EOW), which investigated the case, said the fraud took place between 2021 and 2023.
Independent MP Pappu Yadav was arrested by Patna Police after a late-night standoff at his residence following a court order in a 1995 forgery and fraud case. He was taken for a medical check-up and will be produced before court as per legal procedure.
The local police said that Venkatesh and Aziz's families have been neighbours for about 15 years. Recently, Aziz and his wife, Afia, had a falling out, after which Afia left the house with the children. Aziz sought Venkatesh's help to prevent the family from breaking up.
Basti police arrested AIMIM leader Ajfarul Haq for allegedly running a large-scale exploitation and forced conversion racket. Haq reportedly posed as a Hindu to trap women, with the victim claiming nearly 300 others were targeted by his family-run network.