Two notorious Mumbai-based fraudsters engaged in extorting money from people posing as cops of the cybercrime division of Delhi Police were arrested from a hotel at Sealdah in central Kolkata on Wednesday.

The two accused have been identified as Vinode Kovinda Pawar and Dhanji Jagannath Shinde and are residents of Mumbai.

The arrests were made following a recent complaint by a city-based woman to the Charu Market Police Station in South Kolkata.

Three drug peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.

A police statement said, “Continuing efforts to combat the menace of drugs in society, Baramulla Police have arrested three drug peddlers and recovered contraband substances from their possession."

The officials said that a team from Police Station Pattan, led by SHO intercepted a vehicle (Ertiga, registration number JK05M-8404) at a checkpoint near the Railway Crossing Pattan.

The property of a drug peddler worth Rs 50 lakh was attached on Tuesday by police in J&K’s Anantnag district, officials said.

“In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking, Anantnag Police has attached a residential property worth Rs 50 lakh belonging to a notorious drug peddler, Gh Hassan Bandro alias Qasim, son of Wali Mohammad, a resident of Sotkipora. This action was carried out by Police Station Srigufwara as part of the ongoing intensified efforts to combat the drug menace,” an official statement said.

“The accused, a habitual offender, has a history of involvement in drug trafficking and is implicated in multiple cases under the NDPS Act, at Police Station Srigufwara. These cases highlight his repeated attempts to undermine societal well-being through illegal activities. The attachment of the property sends a strong message to those engaged in the illegal drug trade that such activities will not be tolerated,” the police said.

Kolkata Police have busted a major call centre racket in the state capital after arresting 19 people, said officials on Tuesday.

The arrests were made late Monday night.

Sources from the city police said the racket involved luring the potential first targets and giving them an offer to download and install an anti-malware app on their respective devices.

Once the target had fallen into that trap, the entire data on the device where that particular app was downloaded was compromised and through that many of the victims lost huge amounts of money from their banks.

Over 100 people have been charged and arrested in a major police operation targeting Sydney drug dealers, police in Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Monday.

Among the 108 people who were arrested and have been charged following the operation across Sydney over three weekends, 64 have been charged with supply of a prohibited drug and 44 with drug possession offences. One person was also charged with a domestic violence-related offence, reports news agency.

Anyone convicted of supplying a prohibited drug in NSW faces a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment.

During the arrests, police officers from Strike Force Northrop seized cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, ketamine and methamphetamine with an estimated street value of 210,000 Australian dollars ($134,332).

A court in Rajasthan's Ajmer has announced life imprisonment for a man for life for raping and killing a minor girl, an official said on Saturday.

The convict, identified as Arshad, hails from the Pisangan area of Ajmer district.

He had befriended a Hindu minor girl on Instagram by claiming to be Hindu.

Soon, both grew closer to each other, following which he established physical relations with the minor girl forcibly.

Two students were wounded and the suspected gunman was dead after a shooting at a school in Northern California, authorities said.

Deputies were "on the scene of an active incident involving a shooting at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo," the Butte County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday in a statement.

Students were being taken to a nearby church and parents were asked to respond to the church to be reunified with their children, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The office received multiple 911 calls at around 1 p.m. local time regarding an adult male firing shots at students, KRCR-TV, a local TV station, reported, citing the Sheriff's Office as reported by news agency.

A youth was arrested after a narcotics consignment valued at Rs 2 crore was seized from him at Ghutiari Sharif in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday.

The arrested youth has been identified as Abdul Molla.

Sources from the district police said that they received information about a narcotics consignment that had been delivered recently to someone at Ghutiari Sharif.

Accordingly, a team of cops led by a DSP conducted a raid at the residence of Molla early Wednesday.

A couple died by suicide by jumping from the third floor of an apartment building in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

The incident occurred in Akkireddy Palem in the Gajuwaka area early morning. The deceased were identified as Pilli Durga Rao (32) and Sai Sushmita (27), an employee in a pharma company in Hyderabad.

A police officer said they received the call about 5.50 a.m. about a couple jumping from an apartment building in Sheela Nagar in Venkateshwara Colony

Police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies for autopsy.

Quoting the neighbours, the police officer said the couple had been living together in a flat in the same building for the last three months and had an argument before the incident.

A police manhunt is underway on Monday after two people were killed in a shooting in Australia, police said.

Police in the state of Victoria said in a statement that a man and woman were found with gunshot wounds at a home in Rye, a beachside town 65 km south of Melbourne, shortly after 4 a.m. local time on Monday, news agency reported.

Emergency services were unable to revive the pair, and they were declared dead at the scene.

Victoria Police said that detectives believe a second man fled the scene.

"At this early stage in the investigation, it's believed the parties were known to each other," a spokesperson said.