The Delhi Police dismantled a gambling racket in the city's Vasant Vihar area, apprehending four gamblers and recovering over Rs 31,000 in cash, carbon papers and notepads from their possession.

The operation, undertaken by South-West Delhi Police, followed secret inputs received by a Sub-Inspector on Wednesday, in its bid to identify and dismantle spots of organised crime.

The four gamblers arrested by the Anti Auto Theft Squad (AATS) of Delhi Police have been identified as Pappu Bagh, Sanjay, Mandeep Kumar Gupta and Karan, all in the age bracket of 25-31 years.

"A total stake money Rs 31,060/-, four note pads, three carbon papers and three pens were recovered from their possession," said an official statement.

Around 140 kilograms of ganja, valued at several lakhs of rupees, was seized from a secluded area in Tamil Nadu's Anakaputhur on Thursday.

The seizure led to the arrest of a notorious drug smuggler from Andhra Pradesh. The accused was identified as Appala Naidu (20).

Naidu's accomplice, Rahman (28) and several drug dealers are currently absconding.

According to police sources, the contraband was procured in bulk from Odisha.

In a shocking incident, a young woman was waylaid and sexually harassed under the Banasawadi police station limits in Bengaluru.

The incident occurred three days ago on Hennur Main Road, near the Indian Petrol Bunk in the Banasawadi locality, and has come to light only recently.

According to the police, the incident took place when the victim was riding her scooter from her friend’s residence to her own at around 4.30 a.m. Taking advantage of the deserted surroundings, two miscreants chased her scooter and waylaid her.

They behaved inappropriately and sexually harassed her by touching her private parts. When the woman raised an alarm, passers-by stopped and came to her rescue. However, when the public attempted to catch the accused, they threatened them with a knife and managed to flee the scene.

The Kolkata Police on Saturday arrested a man involved in an inter-state racket of printing fake birth certificates in Bihar and using them in West Bengal to arrange fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators.

Sleuths of the Security Control Organisation (SCO) of Kolkata Police arrested Azad Alam in the morning from Garden Reach area on the southern outskirts of Kolkata.

He had applied for a passport and furnished a birth certificate generated in Bihar as a supporting document, but it was found to be fake, said the police.

Alam is being interrogated about the agents through whom he managed to get the fake birth certificate from Bihar, said an official.

In a shocking incident, a woman was allegedly gang raped in front of her two sons in a private bus in Karnataka’s Davanagere district. The police have arrested three accused rapists in connection with the case.

According to sources, the victim was returning home with her children on a bus after visiting the famous religious centre Ucchangidurga temple, located in Harapanahalli in the Davanagere district.

The driver, conductor, and helper of the bus gang raped her near Channapura village, which is close to Davanagere city.

Shockingly, it is alleged that the local police tried to hush up the case, and action was only initiated after the intervention of the Vijayanagar SP, Shrihari Babu B.L.

The Manipur Police arrested 11 militants belonging to various banned outfits and recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition during the past 24 hours, officials said here on Friday.

A police official said four militants were arrested from Imphal East district, five from Imphal West district and one each from Bishnupur and Thoubal districts. The arrested extremists belong to proscribed PREPAK, Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), United People’s Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) and Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) -- all are Manipur’s valley-based outfits.

The arrested militants were involved in abduction, forcible collection of money from traders, officials, and contractors, and were also issuing threat notices to people.

Two dreaded criminals were arrested following an encounter with the police on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

The accused, identified as Manish Yadav and Sonu Yadav of Katihar district in Bihar, were arrested late Thursday night.

Police said the accused persons reportedly belong to a dreaded gang of chain snatchers active in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.

After reviewing the CCTV footage, the police identified the accused and initiated efforts to nab them.

Acting on a tip-off about the duo moving on the Cuttack-Puri Bypass road, police rushed to the spot. The cops came across the duo at Sai Temple Square near Tankapani.

In a shocking incident, a young woman migrant labourer from Bihar was kidnapped and raped while searching for food with her brother in the early hours of Thursday near a railway station in Bengaluru.

The incident was reported from the Mahadevapura police station limits.

The locals, who rushed to the spot on hearing the screams of the victim, managed to get hold of one of the rapists and handed him over to the police after thrashing him. The police, after grilling the accused, arrested one more culprit. One of the accused persons was identified as Ashif.

The police have registered a case under the Bharatiya Nayay Sanhita Sections 115 (2), 126 (2), 351 (2), 351 (3), 352, 64, 3 (5). The incident took place between 1.20 a.m. and 1.45 a.m.

The Tamil Nadu Cyber Security Department has launched a detailed investigation after two individuals in Coimbatore lost a combined total of Rs 31 lakh in separate cyber fraud incidents.

According to the police, Siva Kumar (40), a resident of Anbu Nagar in Edayarpalayam, was deceived by fraudsters who offered him a fake managerial job in Japan.

The scammers conducted an online interview and even issued a bogus appointment letter. Under the pretext of resolving issues related to visa processing, they extracted Rs 22 lakh from him in multiple instalments.

When Kumar did not receive the promised flight tickets, he filed a complaint with the cybercrime police.

A woman was killed and her daughter injured in an attack by a youth, who was in love with the latter, in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, police said.

The shocking incident occurred in Swayamkrushi Nagar under the Madhurawada Police Station limits.

Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner Shankhabrata Bagchi told media persons that D. Naveen, 26, attacked the woman and her daughter in their house with a knife.

Lakshmi, 43, died on the spot while her daughter, Nakka Deepika, 20, was injured. She was admitted to a hospital.