Criminal lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, who has represented fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, has been charged with four counts of sexual assault after his arrest in London, the Metropolitan Police said on Thursday.
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Jaipur, Aug 22: A scuffle broke out at a village in Rajasthan when villagers, allegedly accompanied by BJP workers, put up barricades and forcibly pushed back a Cockroach Janta Party team that had gone there to inspect a government school as part of its “School Thik Karo” campaign. Rampura Kanwarpura village in Jaipur district became the latest trouble point for the CJP, which alleged that its workers were attacked and pelted with stones, with co-convener Ashutosh Ranka accusing the state police of failing to intervene. Ranka alleged that members of the CJP team were assaulted, vehicles were damaged and…
New Delhi, Aug 22: Convict Rasik Chandra Mondal, 105, can now live as a free man as the Supreme Court on Friday made final its earlier order granting bail to him in a 1988 murder case. Born in 1920 in West Bengal’s Malda district, Mondal was convicted in 1994 at the age of 68 in the murder case and was in jail till November 29, 2024, when the top court granted him bail. On Friday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said that, having regard to the age of the petitioner, it…
Kurla, Aug 22: Ten persons, including a 3-month-old baby, were injured after a crane toppled onto houses in Mumbai’s Kurla East early Friday morning during preparations for demolition work, a civic official said. The incident, which also affected goods train movement in the area, occurred around 3 am near the site of an upcoming 17-storey building in Indira Nagar, they said. A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said a hydraulic crane was being used to lift a Poclain machine that had been brought to the site. During the operation, part of the crane fell onto a high-tension railway overhead…
A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board, the US military said.
Hyderrabad, Aug 22: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches at the premises of YSRCP MP Y S Avinash Reddy, his father and some others as part of a money laundering investigation linked to the murder of former Andhra Pradesh minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, officials said. Vivekananda Reddy, the paternal uncle of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, was found murdered at his home in Pulivendula, Kadapa district, in March, 2019, and the CBI, which took over the investigation in 2020, alleged a complex conspiracy involving multiple individuals. Initially investigated by the state police,…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has rejected the economic threats made against his country, saying that such “failed policies” will stir more hostility among Iranians and “bring more failures”.
Bhavnagar, Aug 22: Sixty-one persons have been affected so far due to consumption of spurious liquor in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, with eight deaths confirmed and 10 patients being critical, officials said Friday. As many as 25 persons, who consumed the liquor containing methanol, a highly toxic substance, are still undergoing treatment, the district administration said. Police have arrested 13 of the 21 accused named in the FIR registered at Vartej police station in connection with the hooch tragedy. Gujarat is a ‘dry’ state where the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol is banned. “A total of 61 persons have…
Mathhhura, Aug 22: Three workers, including a Nepali national, were killed and several injured when the shuttering of a multi-storey building where construction was underway collapsed in Vrindavan here on Friday, police said. Shuttering is a temporary support structure used to hold wet concrete in place until it hardens and gains enough strength to support itself. The incident occurred around 7 am at the Omaxe Mall construction site in the Rukmani Vihar area under the Vrindavan Kotwali police station limits when workers were pouring concrete for a projecting slab on the fourth floor, Omaxe General Manager R K Jain…