In a breakthrough, the Cyber Police Station of Central District has busted a notorious ‘Digital Arrest’ scam racket with the arrest of two individuals from different parts of the country.

The accused had allegedly duped a Delhi-based doctor of Rs 14.85 lakh through a fake legal threat. According to police, the victim received a call from someone impersonating a government official, falsely claiming that the doctor was involved in a legal case.

Two days after the sensational daylight killing of gangster Chandan Kumar Singh inside Paras Hospital, Patna Police have made significant progress in identifying the criminals and their aides who helped plan and execute the murder.

According to an official statement of the Patna police, a case related to the murder incident has been registered at the Shastri Nagar police station, and multiple teams have been engaged in an intensive investigation.

Patna police, in its statement, said the identification of the shooters and their accomplices was made possible through technical surveillance, human intelligence, and detailed CCTV footage analysis.

Five persons have been reportedly detained from New Town in Kolkata on Saturday in connection with the murder of a gangster at a hospital in Patna, police said.

Following a raid conducted jointly by the Patna Police and Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police, the accused persons were detained from a housing complex at New Town, said an insider from the Bidhannagar City Police, under whose jurisdiction New Town comes.

An Indian passenger who arrived from Doha at Bengaluru International Airport was arrested for carrying over four kg cocaine valued at around Rs 40 crore, an official of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Saturday.

The contraband was concealed in two superhero comics/magazines, which were found to be unusually heavy, said the official.

The DRI officers carefully recovered the white powder, which tested positive as cocaine, concealed in the covers of magazines and arrested the male passenger early on Friday under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, the official said.

In a separate case earlier, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Srinagar Zone, busted a narcotics smuggling racket operating in South Kashmir and arrested a former militant and his aide.

In yet another horrifying incident in Odisha, a teenager was set ablaze by three unidentified assailants in Balanga police station in the Puri district, police said on Saturday.

The victim has suffered 70 per cent burn injuries and has been referred to AIIMS Bhubaneshwar for further medical treatment.

Police said that they have initiated the investigation and assured that strict action will be taken against the accused.

The CBI arrested an accountant of Border Security Force (BSF) in Delhi while accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 from a colleague for releasing the latter’s pay arrears of Rs 18.73 lakh, an official said on Saturday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the case on Friday against Dharmendra Kumar, Assistant Accounts Officer, Pay and Accounts Office, BSF, Delhi, and another unknown person on the complaint of pharmacist Mahesh Singh of 16 Battalion, NDRF, Dwarka.

Ranchi police on Friday busted an illegal online gaming and betting racket being operated out of a rented house in the Bariatu Housing Colony of the city, officials said.

The police arrested 14 youths involved in the operation.

In a major haul of drugs, the Assam Rifles, along with Tripura Police, have seized drugs worth Rs 30 crore on Wednesday, officials said.

A defence spokesman said that during a routine check, the Assam Rifles troops and Tripura Police personnel intercepted a truck at Khayerpur in west Tripura, and during a subsequent search, three lakh highly addictive banned methamphetamine tablets were recovered from the vehicle.

The cyber cell of Delhi Police nabbed a stalker from Maharashtra on Wednesday, for harassing and defaming a woman by posting her photographs with offensive comments on social media platforms and also writing her phone numbers on public places, including toilet walls.

The accused, identified as Yasin Sheikh, was nabbed from Pune, based on the complaint of a 38-year-old woman at North District police station.

According to the victim, the accused was harassing and torturing her by uploading her pictures on social media and writing derogatory comments.

She also claimed that the accused took out her mobile number from her Instagram account and inscribed it at various public places, including the walls of toilets, railway platforms in Pune.

She also alleged that the accused was creating multiple Instagram accounts with her name and uploading videos with her mobile number, along with derogatory remarks like "Call girl service".

A team from the Surendranagar Mines and Minerals Department in Gujarat carried out a major raid on the outskirts of Chorvira village in Sayla taluka, uncovering large-scale illegal mining of carbocell.

Acting on specific intelligence, officials seized minerals and equipment worth an estimated Rs 55 lakh.

Carbocell is a carbonaceous mineral substance typically found in regions with lignite or low-grade coal deposits. In Gujarat, particularly in districts like Surendranagar and Bhavnagar, it occurs naturally in the subsurface and is often mined for its use as a fuel substitute in local industries and brick kilns due to its combustible properties.