The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation has revealed that arrested Mumbai cop Sachin Waze was running his alleged extortion racket from a room in a Nariman Point five-star hotel booked for him for 100 days at a cost of 12 lakh by a businessman. It appears that the police officer used a false identity to check into the property. The investigation body, which is looking into the recent bomb threat against industrialist Mukesh Ambani, has also questioned several police officers about the affairs of their now-suspended colleague. According to NIA officials, some of them may be arrested in the near…
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In a major development in Mukesh Ambani bomb scare case, CCTV footage has emerged showing suspended Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze and convicted cop Vinayak Shinde traveling in a car three days before Mansukh Hiren’s death. At around 7 p.m. on March 2, the black Audi was spotted on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. This is the eighth vehicle associated with Vaze in connection with the Antilia bomb scare and the Mansukh Hiren dhobi case. A green Scorpio, a white Innova, two black Mercedes Benz cars, a Land Cruiser Prado, a black Volvo, and a white Mitsubishi Outlander have all been…
https://twitter.com/sachin_rt/status/1377853111944015873?s=20 Barely after six days of testing positive, Sachin Tendulkar, the former India captain and batting legend, was hospitalized on Friday. The 47-year-old took to Twitter to announce the development, calling it a precautionary measure. https://twitter.com/sachin_rt/status/1377853111944015873?s=20 As the number of cases increased in Mumbai and Maharashtra, Tendulkar tested positive for the infection on March 27 and has been in home isolation since. The batting legend, who was a part of India’s historic World Cup victory in 2011, also wished his teammates a happy 10th anniversary. “Congratulations to all Indians and my teammates on the 10th anniversary of our World Cup…
https://twitter.com/KashmirPolice/status/1377854147014258689?s=20 Three militants were killed during an anti-terror operation in J&K’s Pulwama district, according to police. They also said that two of them were involved in yesterday’s attack on a BJP leader’s house in Srinagar. Militants were trapped in a three-story house in the Pulwama district of Kakapora, where heavy gunfire and explosions had been heard since the morning. Yesterday, one police officer was killed in a terrorist attack on the home of BJP leader Anwar Ahmad in Nowgam, on the outskirts of Srinagar. The attackers fled with the rifle of a fallen police officer. The attack was carried out…
The Freedom of Religion Act 2003 Bill was passed by the Gujarat Assembly. The bill criminalizes forced or fraudulent religious conversion through marriage. Gujarat is the third state, following Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, to pass legislation prohibiting forcible conversion through marriage. If the accused is found guilty, the Bill provides for 3-10 years in prison and a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh. While the bill was cleared after a day of debate in the state Assembly, Congress MLA Imran Khedawala sparked a scuffle by tearing a copy of it. The bill amends a 2003 law that makes…
Yogi Adityanath attacked the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and the opposition Congress-led UDF for failing to pass legislation to combat ‘Love Jihad.’ He also claimed that his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan’s office is involved in the gold smuggling scheme. According to Yogi Adityanath, he said that both parties were corrupt and had “backstabbed” the state’s people. “This was the appropriate time to respond to the LDF and UDF,” Yogi Adityanath said at Kattakada in Thiruvananthapuram, where senior BJP leader P K Krishnadas is the party’s candidate. “The two fronts that have alternately ruled the state have no development agenda. Their only…
With a daily increase of 72,330 in total cases, the most since October 11 last year, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 12,149,335 on Wednesday to 12,221,665 – an increase of 0.6%. Death toll has reached 162,927, with 459 fatalities in a day, the most since December 6. Now the fifth-most-affected country by active cases, fourth by fatality, third by total, and second by recovered cases, India has added 434,131 cases in the past 7 days. India now accounts for 2.63% of all active cases globally (one in every 38 active cases), and 5.76% of all deaths (one…
A complaint has been filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee before a court in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, amid the high-stakes political battle raging in the state ahead of the assembly elections. Miffed by the TMC chief’s recent disparaging remark about Biharis while campaigning for assembly elections, advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed a complaint with the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Muzaffarpur. Advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha pleaded before the court that the police is directed to lodge an FIR against Banerjee. Ojha has sought evoking IPC sections 147 and 148 (rioting), 295 and 295(A) (deliberate insult) and 511 (attempt to…
https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1377562802634694657?s=20 Voting for the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly election began on Thursday, with some areas reporting incidents of violence. The situation in Keshpur became tense after a BJP polling agent was allegedly beaten up by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers at booth number 173 in area 10 of the Keshpur block, according to the BJP on Thursday. The BJP polling agent was taken to the hospital for medical attention. In another incident, Trinamool workers allegedly vandalized BJP leader Tanmay Ghosh’s vehicle in Keshpur. Tanmay Ghosh claimed that he went to a police station to file a complaint, but…