A special POCSO court in Visakhapatnam sentenced Telugu YouTuber and TikTok fame Chippada Bhargav to imprisonment for 20 years for the rape of a minor girl.

The court also directed the accused to pay Rs 4 lakh compensation to the 14-year-old victim, who had become pregnant.

Bhargav, also known as Funbucket Bhargav, was arrested in April 2021 on the allegations of sexually assaulting a girl.

He was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with other sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Bihar's Motihari has arrested three individuals, including a minor, in connection with an attempt to derail a train in the state's East Champaran district, an official said on Friday.

The incident took place on January 8 on the Muzaffarpur-Narkatiyaganj railway line, where a major accident was narrowly averted due to the alertness of the loco pilot of the Champaran Satyagraha Express.

The arrested individuals have been identified as Mumtaz Ansari, Jumman Mian, and a minor.

A fourth individual, believed to be involved, is still at large. Raids are underway to apprehend him.

A Class 12 student, who sent bomb threat emails to 23 schools, has been detained from Delhi.

The minor's detention comes after a police probe into bomb threats found his role in the crime.

Preliminary investigations revealed that he did not want to appear for examinations.

The boy sent bomb threat emails to many schools, barring his educational institution.

In a shocking incident, some bike-borne miscreants hacked a man to death near the busy Rasulgarh square area under Mancheswar Police limits in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. The police have detained three suspects and are searching for two main accused.

This daylight murder has rocked Bhubaneswar as the city is under a heavy security blanket for the three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention from January 8-10.

The deceased was identified as Sahadev Nayak of Kedarpalli slum under the Capital Police station area in the state capital. He was an employee of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and a social worker. Sources said the deceased was also the president of the BMC Safai Karmachari Association.

Two criminals were gunned down and one police sub-inspector sustained injuries during an encounter in Patna’s Hinduni locality on Tuesday.

As per the officials, a gang of around eight to 10 criminals, assembled at Hinduni locality under the jurisdiction of Phulwarisharif police station to execute a big incident. Patna Police learnt about their movement and, accordingly, constituted a team to raid the place.

The incident occurred around 2 a.m.

According to the City Superintendent of Police (SP) Sharat S., the police acted on a tip-off about the gang's activities.

Myanmar authorities have seized 91 kg of heroin blocks in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a vehicle in Kengtung township in Shan state on January 1, and seized the narcotics, the report said.

The confiscated narcotics are worth 1.365 billion kyats (about $650,000), and two suspects were arrested for the case, it said.

According to the investigation, the drugs were being transported from Kunhing township to Tachileik township in Shan state.

The suspects were charged under the country's law, and further investigations are ongoing, news agency reported.

A former cop has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the fake passport racket in West Bengal.

The former cop has been identified as Abdul Hai (61) who retired as a Sub-Inspector just a year ago.

Sources in the state police said that during the last few years of service, he was mainly assigned the task of "police verification" for the new passport applicants.

He was arrested from his residence at Habra under Ashoknagar Police Station in North 24 Parganas district. With this, the total number of arrests made in this connection has increased to nine.

In a shocking incident, a six-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped and then brutally murdered in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district, the police said on Friday, adding the accused has been apprehended.

Police recovered the minor girl's body from near a canal in Nayapura village surrounded by a dense forest area in Seoni around 4.30 p.m. on Friday.

The girl had been missing from home since morning. She was abducted from her house while she was sleeping.

The police, after tracing and recovering the minor girl's body, went to a community health centre where the post-mortem was conducted.

A car, in which Ganja was being allegedly smuggled, ran over policemen at a toll plaza in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada district. Two police constables were injured in the incident that occurred at Krishnavaram toll plaza in Kirlampudi mandal in the early hours of Thursday.

As the car approached the toll plaza, police personnel deployed there for checking signalled the vehicle to stop.

The policemen were gathering details from the driver of the vehicle coming from Visakhapatnam and heading towards Rajamahendravaram. The driver pretended to cooperate but suddenly accelerated, hitting two police constables.

Lovaraju, a constable of Kirlampudi Police Station and another constable who were in front of the vehicle were injured in the incident. They were rushed to a hospital. Alert policemen then chased the car.

After travelling some distance the accused left the car at Rajanagaram and escaped.

Cambodia has recorded a sharp increase in both the number of drug-related suspects arrested and the amount of narcotics seized last year, according to an Anti-Drug Department's report released on Wednesday.

The authorities had detained 26,033 drug-related suspects in 2024, up 30.5 per cent from 19,940 in the year before, the report said, adding that 954 suspects were foreigners of 20 nationalities.

"A total of 14.7 tonnes of illicit drugs had been confiscated from those suspects' possession from January 1 to December 31, 2024," the report said.

According to the report, only 2.97 tonnes of narcotics had been seized in the entirety of 2023.

Most of the confiscated drugs were ketamine, crystal methamphetamine, methamphetamine tablets, heroin, ecstasy, and cocaine, news agency reported.