Belagavi, Apr 9 : The Special Search Team, had seized Rs 12.94 Lack cash which was carrying without any supporting document, was seized at Murgod checkpost in the district, last night.
Superintendent of of police, Sudheerkumar Reddy, said that during search The cash had been seized from a Maharashtra state government owned public transport bus, being carried by a person identified as Vijay Sattappa at Murgod.
The seized cash had been kept in sub-treasury in Nippani Tahsildar office, he said.

Hassan, Karnataka, Apr 9 : Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis has issued orders for externment of seven rowdy-sheeters in Hassan district, as a precautionary measure in view of the lok sabha elections.
According to a press release issued Hassan Superintendent of Police Chetan Singh Rathor said the rowdy-sheeters facing externment are K.M. Ravi Kumar alias Child Ravi of Vijaya Nagar in Hassan, Santhosh of Samudravalli village in Hassan taluk, Dharmesh, Guru alias Gurumurthy, Mehboob alias Malnad Mehboob, Mufeez, and Raghu of Sakleshpur town.
The action is being taken to prevent any potential threat to peace and tranquility in the district, the sources said.

Moscow, Apr 5 (Sputnik) Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the suspected gunman who carried out deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand’s city of Christchurch, will undergo mental fitness examination to determine if he is fit to plead to 89 charges facing him in the wake of the massacre, local media reported on Friday.
The Stuff news outlet reported that earlier in the day, the suspect appeared in the High Court at Christchurch via a video link from a high-security wing in Auckland Prison where he had been staying.
Tarrant appeared before the court in relation to the mosque massacre for the first time on March 16, when he faced one murder charge. However, the police said on Thursday that the suspect would face 50 murder and 39 attempted murder charges.
The attack on mosques took place on March 15 and left 50 people killed and as many injured.
Brenton, who is an Austrian national and a resident of New Zealand, was captured by the police on the day of the massacre.
The gunman is known to have livestreamed the shooting on social media and have published a manifesto filled with anti-Muslim statements prior to committing the attack

Bengaluru, Apr 2 : Police have nabbed a notorious House Thief and recovered from him Rs 40 lakhs worth stolen Gold ornaments and Silver articles in the City recently.
South East Police in a release here on Tuesday said that the arrested was identified as 32 year-old Prakash.
The arrested was involved in 8 house theft cases reported in various Extensions in the City. The stolen articles recovered from him included 1 kg 216 gram Gold ornaments, 1 kg 800 gram Silver articles.
Suddaguntepalya Police have registered a case and investigating

New Delhi, Apr 1 : Special Judge Arvind Kumar on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in a case registered by the Directorate of Enforcement under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
ED had made allegations of money laundering in the purchase of a London-based property, which is allegedly owned by Mr Vadra, located at 12, Bryanston Square worth 1.9 million pounds.
Counsel for Mr Vadra submitted in the bail application that he was a law-abiding citizen and had appeared before the investigating agency as and when called.
ED had alleged that Manoj Arora, an employee of Mr Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality LLP, was a key person in the case as he was aware of his overseas undeclared assets and was instrumental in arranging funds.
Mr Arora, the ED submitted, arranged funds for Mr Vadra’s undeclared assets overseas and proceeds of crime were used to channel funds from the United Arab Emirates.
Ramifications
A First Information Report was lodged against Mr Vadra and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the month of September last year for alleged irregularities in land deals in Gurugram at Haryana. Mr Vadra had faced allegations that his company, Skylight Hospitality, sold 3.5 acres of land in 2008 in Shikohpur village to realty major DLF at a rate much higher than the prevailing rate. Questions had also been raised over the purchase and subsequent sale of land by the company in Bikaner, Rajasthan, at a significant premium through a maze of transactions.
The business premises linked to Mr Vadra’s associates were raided during the probe and ED had asked him to be present for questioning in the alleged money laundering case.
Directorate of Enforcement submitted that the money laundering charge was lodged against Arora after his role came up during the probe of another case by the Income Tax Department involving absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari under the provisions of a new law against black money and tax evasion.
ED side
ED had earlier submitted that Mr Vadra was not cooperating with the investigating agency so his custodial interrogation was required. Counsel for ED further submitted that it has information about various new properties in London which allegedly belong to Mr Vadra, including two houses of five and four million pounds each, six other flats and more properties.
Special Judge Kumar directed the ED to provide Mr Vadra all the documents seized from his office. Mr Vadra’s counsel had submitted that without providing the documents he has been questioned by the Investigating Agency.
The Judge passed an order to grant bail to Messrs Arora and Vadra with furnishing a surety bond of Rs 5 lac and a surety of the same amount. The court further directed them not to leave the country without its permission or not tamper with the evidence.

Bengaluru, Apr 1 : Police have nabbed a 35 year-old bookie and seized from him Rs 1.89 lakh betting money and two mobile phones during a raid conducted on his rented house in the City.
Police said on Monday that arrested Vishwanath was collecting betting money in advance (minimum of Rs 5000) and he was installing ‘Play 365’ app to their mobile phones and give them user name and password so that they can bet about winning team or losing team, players etc., on the ongoing IPL matches. He was arrested when he was collecting betting on Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that Vishwanath used to give thus collected betting money to another bookie Nitin and collecting 10 per cent commission. Police are on the look out to nab Nitin.

Agencies

Chennai, Apr 1 : The Tamil Nadu Government on Monday transferred Coimbatore district Superintendent of Police (SP) R Pandiarajan after he revealed the name of one of the victims
of the Pollachi serial sexual assault and blackmailing case.

An official release here said he was replaced with Sujit Kumar, who held the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Coimbatore.

Pandiarajan was mired in a controversy after he revealed the name of one of the victims in the Pollachi sexual assault case.

The Madras High Court also came down heavily for revealing the name of the victim and directed
the government to take departmental action against him. It also condemned the Government for
revealing the name in the GO, while transferring the case to CBI and asked it to issue a fresh order by removing the name.

Police have arrested four accused in the case, including the key Thirunavukarasu, and all were detained under the Goondas Act.

All the four accused–Thirunavukkarasu, Sathish, Sabarirajan, Vasanthakumar–all in their 20s, were accused of sexually assaulting several young women in Pollachi over a period of time, filming the act and blackmailing them.

The mobile phones seized from the accused had videos of at least 40 women whom the accused had allegedly blackmailed for money and sexual favours.

Cases were registered against them under Sections 354(A) (sexual harassment), 354 (B) (assault or use of criminal force) of IPC read with 66 (E) of IT Act and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of
Harassment of Women Act.

The incident came to light after one of the victims lodged a complaint with the police and created a furore in the State with leaders of various political parties demanding stern action against the culprits.

The State government has ordered a CBI probe into and the CB-CID was also probing the case.

London/New Delhi, March 29 Nasheman News :The Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi suspecting he could “flee” Britain and “interfere with witnesses”, said sources.

Judge Emma Arbuthnot has granted the Metropolitan Police custody of the 48-year-old businessman till the next hearing on April 26. 

Arbuthnot is the same judge who ordered the extradition of former Kingfisher Airlines boss Vijay Mallya last December. 

The court order came after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), appearing on behalf of the Indian authorities, argued against Nirav Modi’s bail. “There is a real risk that he could flee, interfere with witnesses, interfere with evidence,” the prosecution said.

Defence barrister Clare Montgomery said, “I (Nirav Modi) have been in the UK even before the case was registered in India. How can my bail be opposed saying I might flee the UK?” 

Montgomery, who had earlier represented Vijay Mallya, countered to say that his client is not a “flight risk” as he has rented a flat in London in his own name and was trying to open a bank account when he was arrested.

Before the hearing began, the CPS had submitted a new file with additional evidence against Nirav Modi in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Nirav Modi was arrested on behalf of the Indian authorities from Holborn in London on March 19 in connection with the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case. 

He was sent to police custody and the next day, was produced before a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, who denied him bail and deferred the hearing for Friday. 

Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi are being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation after the PNB alleged that they cheated it of Rs 13,500 crore with the involvement of a few bank employees.

Both fled India before the details of the fraud emerged in January 2018. The ED on February 26, 2018 attached property worth Rs 147 crore of Nirav Modi and his associate companies in connection with the case.

On May 24 and 26, 2018, it filed charge sheets and sought non-bailable warrants against the duo.

The Interpol also issued a Red Corner Notice against Nirav Modi in July 2018 at the request of the ED and the CBI. 

An extradition request against him had been pending before the UK authorities since September last year.

However, the businessman’s whereabouts remained a mystery as he was spotted in New York, Hong Kong and other cities at different times. 

His arrest came days after The Telegraph newspaper in Britain published a report earlier this month about Nirav Modi being spotted in London.

The daily reported that he was living in a three-bedroom flat, occupying half the floor of the landmark Centre Point tower block. 

The paper said that Nirav Modi was involved in a new diamond business, run from an office in Soho, just a few hundred yards from his apartment. The new business was incorporated in May 2018, it added.

Robertsganj, Mar 30 : In a daring criminal act, a principal of an inter college under Kotwali police station area in Sonebhadra district was shot dead on Saturday early morning when he was on his routine morning walk.

The criminals shot five rounds on the state teacher awardee Suresh Yadav(62), principal of an inter college at Chapka village at around 0530 hours near his house. He died on the spot.

Three youths, on a motorcycle, came and fired on the principal. Later they left the spot leaving the country made pistol from which they had fired.

The deceased, a native of Saranath in Varanasi, was also the local representative of teacher MLC Chetnarain Singh. He was conferred with state teacher award in 2018.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Salamat Taj Patil, who immediately rushed to the spot, told media persons that a manhunt has been launched to nab the culprit adding that police was investigating the reason behind the crime.

However, the family members of the principal alleged that there was some dispute on the land of the college in which he was killed.

Ahmedabad, March 28 (Nasheman News) A city court on Thursday sentenced 10 people, including 8 women, to jail in the 2009 Ahmedabad hooch tragedy, which claimed more than 125 lives.

The Ahmedabad sessions court has sentenced ten of the 22 accused to prison. Additional Sessions Judge D.P. Mahida slapped 10-year jail on the prime accused Vinod alias Dark along with a Rs 50,000 fine. Another accused Arvind sentenced to seven years in jail and Rs 10,000 fine.

Of the eight women convicts, Somiben Thakur was sentenced to jail for two years and fined Rs 500. Seven other women were handed six months’ jail and Rs 500 fine.

Most victims belonging to low income families came from the Majoorgam, Odhav and Amraiwadi areas of city.

Spurious liquor also affected 200 others, with many losing their vision.

The Gujarat government raided and shut over 1,200 illegal liquor dens and around 800 brewers following the tragedy.