A petrol pump manager was shot dead by unidentified criminals while he was on his way to deposit cash at a bank in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district on Tuesday, police officials said.

The incident occurred in the Ichak police station area, highlighting the deteriorating law and order situation in the region.

The victim has been identified as Shankar Kumar, a resident of the Hazaribagh district.

According to the police, Shankar was carrying the cash collection of the last four days from the petrol pump located at Salparni on the busy Ranchi-Patna Road.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths on Tuesday conducted raids at eight places in West Bengal in connection with the money laundering in the fake passports case.

The raids and search operations were conducted in Beck Bagan in South Kolkata, Birati in North 24 Parganas district, and Gede in Nadia district of West Bengal.

Sources said that the raids and search operations were conducted in areas where the criminals used to arrange fake Indian passports for Bangladeshi infiltrators against hefty payments.

Last month, Kolkata Police filed a charge sheet in the case at a lower court in Kolkata, where it was mentioned that of the 130 individuals mentioned in the document, 120 are Bangladeshi residents and the remaining are Indian nationals.

The police have registered an FIR against a person who had beaten a dog to death near the army quarters here in Tamil Nadu's Pallavaram, officials said.

The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India collaborated with Samaran Thamarai, an NGO, and Siddharth of Blue Cross of India to get a FIR registered under Section 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, by the Pallavaram Police Station.

The CCTV footage showed the accused, named A. Paidi Raju, Lance Havildar, mercilessly beating the dog with a stick until the dog succumbed to the injuries.

The army has also taken cognisance of the matter.

"Those who abuse animals often move on to harming humans. It is imperative that members of the public report cases of cruelty to animals such as this one for everyone's safety," says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Sinchana Subramanyan.

The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested two habitual vehicle thieves and recovered two stolen motorcycles from their possession. The operation was carried out by the Shastri Park Police Station team.

In addition to the two stolen motorcycles, the police team also seized another motorcycle that was used in committing the crimes.

According to the information, two vehicle theft complaints were registered at Shastri Park Police Station on April 5. Given the seriousness of the cases, a special investigation team was formed under the leadership of Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Manjeet Tomar.

The team included Sub-Inspector Rocky, Head Constables Amit Malik, Shivraj, Rohit, and Constable Gyan. They worked under the supervision of ACP Seelampur Vikramjeet Singh Virk and were tasked with the swift recovery of the stolen vehicles.

In a shocking case in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, a woman was brutally murdered over a land-related financial dispute.

The body of Anjali, a widow and mother of two, aged between 28 and 30, was recovered in a mutilated state on Saturday near the Chambal river. She had been missing for the past five days.

According to the police, the accused even made a video call after the murder to show the victim’s body to his father and wife.

Earlier, on Thursday, Anjali's burnt scooter was found in a drain near the ITI crossing in the Civil Lines police station area.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has said that it has seized foreign-origin gold worth Rs 6.30 crore from a passenger at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here.

Acting on specific intelligence, DRI officials intercepted a passenger who had arrived from Bangkok on Thai Airways flight TG 317.

A detailed personal search led to the recovery of 14 gold bars of various weights, cumulatively weighing 6,735.42 grams. The gold, valued at approximately Rs 6.30 crore, had been cleverly concealed in the passenger’s shoe.

“The concealment was ingenious, and the gold bars were found hidden in the footwear worn by the passenger,” a DRI official said.

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.