Category Articles: Crime

Court denies Ahmedabad serial bomb convict’s requests for collective Namaz, skull cap, etc.

December 20, 2023
Court denies Ahmedabad serial bomb convict’s requests for collective Namaz, skull cap, etc.

Ahmedabad: A special court in the city rejected multiple requests from Hafizhusain Tajuddin Mulla, a man convicted in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case. The court, designated for speedy trial of serial blast cases, cited security concerns in denying Mulla's appeals, which included permission for collective Friday prayers, access to newspapers, wearing a skull cap, and being kept in an open cell from sunrise to sunset. Hafizhusain Tajuddin Mulla, sentenced to death last year along with 3...Read More

Gujarat ATS busts weapon smuggling gang; arrests 6 with 15 pistols

April 08, 2023
Gujarat ATS busts weapon smuggling gang; arrests 6 with 15 pistols

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) took down a gang that was involved in smuggling and supplying weapons in Ahmedabad on Saturday, resulting in the arrest of six individuals who possessed 15 pistols and five locally-made guns. Acting on a tip-off about individuals smuggling weapons from Madhya Pradesh, the ATS team arrested two persons at a bus station on April 4 with four pistols and four cartridges. The duo, who hailed Gujarat’s Rajkot district, was arrested under the ...Read More

Gujarat ATS arrests 30 in Junior Clerk Paper Leak Case

April 07, 2023
Gujarat ATS arrests 30 in Junior Clerk Paper Leak Case

Gandhinagar:  Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Thursday, arrested 30 people for allegedly buying the leaked question paper of the state's junior clerk recruitment exam, which was cancelled hours before it was supposed to take place on January 29. This brings the total number of accused in the paper leak case to 49. Earlier, 19 people, including agents and middlemen, were arrested after the leak was detected in January and they remain in custody. During a raid on a computer center in Vad...Read More

Surat police nabs a religious teacher under POCSO for raping kids during Islamic education classes

March 27, 2023
Surat police nabs a religious teacher under POCSO for raping kids during Islamic education classes

Surat: The police nabbed a 40-year-old religious teacher, a migrant, Mohammad Mudabbir, who has been accused of repeatedly raping two children over six months after showing them obscene videos. A complaint of rape has been filed against him at the Udhna police station. Mohammad was formerly a cleric working with a Madrasa. Mudabbir, also known as Mohammad Basirudin Digdhi (Shaikh), resides in Azmi Apartment in Shantinagar, Udhna, but is originally from Godda in Jharkhand. He runs private tuit...Read More

Jetpur court orders death Penalty to Srushti Raiyani’s murderer Jayesh Sarvaiya

March 13, 2023
Jetpur court orders death Penalty to Srushti Raiyani’s murderer Jayesh Sarvaiya

Rajkot: The Jetpur sessions court of Additional district judge Chaudhary has given the death penalty to convict Jayesh Sarvaiya for the murder of Srushti Raiyani in the year 2021. Srushti Raiyani (16), a class XI student, and daughter of a farmer was dragged out of her house in Jetalsar village of Jetpur taluka of Rajkot, by a then 23-year-old Jayesh Sarvaiya, a resident of same village, who thrashed her for rejecting his marriage proposal. When the girl refused to give in, Sarvaiya stabbed...Read More

Vadodara man cheated of Rs. 43 lakh while attempting to send money to Canada via hawala

March 11, 2023
Vadodara man cheated of Rs. 43 lakh while attempting to send money to Canada via hawala

Vadodara: The Karelibaug police have filed a complaint against a male and female living in Canada for allegedly cheating a person named Dip Patel of Rs 43 lakhs after offering to convert them into dollars. Arpan Patel, who lives in Shriji society on New Sama Road, filed a complaint stating that his brother Dip Patel came to Vadodara from Canada on 26th January for his marriage and wanted to convert the money he received as a gift for his wedding into dollars. Dip's cousin contacted a group on...Read More

Surat man duped of Rs 29 lakh while attempting to send money to Canada via Hawala

March 06, 2023
Surat man duped of Rs 29 lakh while attempting to send money to Canada via Hawala

Surat: A gang has allegedly cheated a resident of Surat out of Rs. 29 lakh through an advertisement on Facebook claiming to send money to Canada from India via Hawala at cheaper rates. A complaint has been filed against the gang of 3 to 4 persons at Varachha police station by Alpesh Ravjibhai Ukani (age 39, occupation: diamond business, Shivdhara residency, Vedant Gate, Maharaja Farm house, Mota Varachha). In his complaint, Ukani stated that his maternal uncle, Kalyan Parsotambhai Jesani, set...Read More

2 Brothers-in-law kidnapped in Vadodara; one die of torture

February 27, 2023
2 Brothers-in-law kidnapped in Vadodara; one die of torture

Vadodara: Two brothers-in-law were kidnapped on suspicion of purchasing a stolen battery, and one of them was found brutally murdered after being tortured in Halol. Kailashnath Yogi, who runs a scrap shop, and his brother-in-law Rajunath Yogi were kidnapped on the afternoon of February 24th. It is alleged that they were kept at a farmhouse on Ajwa Niveta Road, where the kidnappers allegedly tortured them by feeding them chili peppers without giving water and beating them up throughout. As ...Read More

PT Teacher of St Xavier Loyola sent to Bhuj jail under PASA

February 27, 2023
PT Teacher of St Xavier Loyola sent to Bhuj jail under PASA

Ravirajsinh Chauhan, a Physical Training teacher at St Xavier's Loyola Hall School, has been detained in Palara jail in Bhuj over allegations of sexual harassment and cybercrime. The detention was made under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) after he was accused of sexually harassing a ninth-grade student. Chauhan was charged under various sections of the POCSO Act, IPC, and IT Act by Gujarat University police. Chauhan had been granted bail by the court earlier, but he filed...Read More

Gandhinagar Police nabs a stalker for assaulting married women colleague

February 09, 2023
Gandhinagar Police nabs a stalker for assaulting married women colleague

Gandhinagar: Women's Police on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old man in Sector 7 of Gandhinagar for allegedly stalking, molesting and assaulting his 25-year-old colleague as she rejected his relationship proposal. According to the police, the accused Nitin Valani assaulted, molested and threatened the woman near a commercial complex in Sector 4 on February 2. CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media. As per the complaint filed by the victim, she and the accused used to wo...Read More