The arrest of a passenger coming from Dubai with 20 gold bars at the Cochin airport on Saturday shows that smuggling of the precious metal through this airport continues unabated. The passenger, Khader Maitheen, a resident of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, was picked up by the Air Intelligence Unit officials after they became suspicious on seeing him walk through the green channel. After a detailed inspection they detected 20 gold bars weighing around 2330 grams stitched to his clothes .

A man, who accused his wife of having illicit relationships and stabbed her, was arrested in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The accused, identified as Mahesh Govindbhai, stabbed his wife in the neck and back near the Bhavna furniture shop at Delhi Darwaza before fleeing the scene on May 3. According to police reports, Mahesh confronted his wife at around five in the evening, accusing her of inappropriate behavior and having illicit relationships.

Disappointed over her class 12 result, a girl student committed suicide in Assam's Tinsukia district, police said on Saturday. She was a student of Margherita College. According to police, the result of the examination was declared on Thursday.

A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead by forest guards in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, officials said on Saturday. Sonali Ghosh, Director of Kaziranga National Park told reporters: "We received intelligence inputs about the movement of some poachers and accordingly an ambush was set up in the Eralihool area of the park on Friday night." According to her, during the wee hours on Saturday, a team of three or four rhino poachers tried to enter the park.

Jammu and Kashmir Police, in south Kashmir's Shopian district, arrested two terrorist associates and recovered incriminating materials from their possession, police said on Saturday. "Police along with Army (44 RR) and CRPF (14th BN), at a checkpoint established at Malik Chak Crossing, arrested two terrorist associates," police said in a statement. They have been identified as Suhaib Iqbal Malik and Tufail Yousuf Malik, both residents of Baba Mohalla, Shopian.

An eight-year-old girl was kidnapped and then sexually assaulted by a 28-year-old man in South Delhi, police said on Friday, adding that the accused has been arrested. The accused was identified as Arjun a.k.a Umar, a resident of Andheria Mod in the Mehrauli area.

A 30-year-old man was arrested by police who had demanded Rs 20 lakh from a second-hand car showroom owner in west Delhi through a handwritten note, an official said on Friday. The officials said that the accused, identified as Karan Dhingra, a resident of Rani Bagh, was aware of the recent incidents of extortion calls to car dealers and tried to take advantage of the situation.

Australian police confirmed on Thursday that a 45-year-old man was arrested after a domestic violence-related stabbing seriously injured a woman at a gym in Sydney's inner south. Emergency services were called to a fitness facility on O'riordan Street in Alexandria at around 12:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, following reports of an alleged stabbing. Paramedics treated a 39-year-old woman in the car park of the gym before she was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a stable condition. Police believed that the pair involved were known to each other.

A state-level two-time gold medalist wrestler, who was wanted in an attempt to murder case, was arrested from the city's Mukarba Chowk bus stand, police said on Wednesday. The accused was identified as Sumeet, a resident of the national capital.

A 17-year-old boy has been apprehended after he allegedly placed his mobile in the women's washroom of a private medical college in Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district, police said on Wednesday.