The Ahmedabad Zonal office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches in at least seven locations spread over three cities of Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Surat over alleged money laundering charges against M/s Dhruvi Enterprises & others.

During search operations, the investigation agency claimed to have recovered and seized many incriminating documents from the suspicious company and also found it spawning many other fake entities including M/s DA Enterprises.

The agency claimed that Mahesh Langa, senior assistant editor of a leading daily, allegedly controlled the benami company and its transactions, which purportedly used shell companies for evading the GST.

"It has come to notice that Mahesh Langa was controlling the firm M/s DA Enterprises, from whose premises a large quantum of unaccounted cash was seized by the police authorities, and it is further gathered that various other benami transactions are suspected to have happened with shell companies," the agency said in a statement.

The West Bengal Police, on Tuesday, arrested a doctor in Hasnabad in North 24 Parganas district on charges of raping a female patient after injecting her with a tranquillizing serum.

District police sources said the doctor was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim and her husband, who is working in a different state.

In her complaint, she alleged that a few days back when her husband was out of the state, she went to the accused doctor for treatment.

As per her complaint, the doctor first tranquillized her and then raped her. However, that was not the end. As per the complaint, the accused doctor also captured some snaps of the victim in awkward positions while she was in a tranquillized stage and then blackmailed her, threatening to make those pictures viral.

The victim also alleged that by blackmailing her, the accused doctor thereafter raped her more than once. She has also accused the said doctor of extorting an amount of around Rs 4,00,000 from her by threatening to make her pictures viral on social media.

The Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old man from Noida for allegedly issuing death threat to Zeeshan Siddiqui, son of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead on October 12. The threat came via a phone call to the public relations office of Zeeshan, who is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, representing Bandra East.

According to police sources, an unidentified caller contacted Zeeshan Siddiqui’s office on landline last Friday evening and threatened to kill Zeeshan and Bollywood actor Salman Khan, while also demanding ransom money.

Following the call, an employee at Zeeshan's office filed a complaint, on the basis of which a case was registered at the Nirmal Nagar police station.

Upon investigation, police identified the suspect, a 20-year-old man, and subsequently arrested him from Noida Sector 39. Mumbai Police has taken him into custody and shifted to transit remand.

J&K Police on Saturday attached the property of a known drug peddler in Kulgam district.

Police said that in a drug-related crime, the property of a known drug peddler, Imran Ahmad Ganie was attached in Kulgam district.

“The drug peddler, Imran Ahmad Ganie is presently lodged in Jammu’s Kot Balwal jail under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act. He is involved in multiple drug-related cases,” the police said.

Myanmar police seized 238,000 stimulant tablets and 220 grams of heroin in the eastern Shan state, according to the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint anti-narcotic task force intercepted a vehicle in the state's Yatsauk township on October 24 and confiscated the drugs.

The seized drugs had a street value of 122.3 million kyats (about $58,238). A suspect was also arrested,news agency reported.

In another seizure, the Pune Police swooped on a tempo and recovered gold ornaments worth a staggering Rs 138 crore it was ferrying, a top official said here on Friday.

An official of the Sahakar Nagar Police said that at a check-post near the Padmavati complex, they noticed a suspicious-looking temp, intercepted it and subjected it to a thorough search.

Rummaging through the vehicle, the police came across several white bags in which there were boxes concealed and they were opened to reveal the large quantity of glittering gold jewellery, Deputy Commissioner of Police (II) (Mrs) Smartana Patil told media persons.

In yet another horrific and shameful incident, a newly married woman was gangraped in front of her husband in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh.

As per the information, the incident occurred on Monday when the couple had gone to offer prayer at Bhairav Baba temple located under Gurh police station, around 30 km from district headquarters Rewa.

The victim had lodged a complaint on October 22, following which, a medical test was conducted confirming rape. The victim was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Rewa.

She told police that after offering prayer, they (the couple) were sitting at a place when a group of persons came and overpowered them.

Three hotels in the temple town of Tirupati received bomb threats via emails which turned out to be hoaxes.

Police pressed sniffer dogs and bomb disposal squads into service after three private hotels received the bomb threats through emails.

The hotels in Leela Mahal, Kapila Theertham and Alipiri areas received the email on Thursday evening, police said.

"Pak ISI to activate Improvised EDs in listed hotels, Evacuated by 11PM! TN CM involved," read the email received by the hotel.

The email mentions that due to the recent arrest of Jaffer Sadiq of DMK, "international pressure" has mounted.

At least 700 kilograms of adulterated chilli powder was seized from the Hathikhana wholesale market in Gujarat's Vadodara.

The Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) launched raids at four shops in the Hathikhana wholesale market, during which chilli powder was seized from one establishment.

The officials have sent chilli powder samples for laboratory testing to determine their quality.

This latest incident has again cast a shadow over the Hathikhana market, which has been scrutinised for previous cases involving questionable food products.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was, on Monday, conducting massive raid and search operations in at least 14 locations in West Bengal in connection with the multi-crore ration distribution case.

Sources said most of the places where the different teams of ED officials were conducting raids and search operations are concentrated in Kolkata and the adjacent district of Howrah.

Each team of ED officials was escorted by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel.

The raid started with the two residences of a businessman, Mahendra Agarwal at Bangur Avenue in South Kolkata. Besides conducting raid and search operations there, the ED officials are also interrogating the said businessman.