Valsad district police in Gujarat have filed a charge sheet in the rape case of a three-year-old girl.

The incident took place on August 27 in Umargam town of Gujarat. The assaulted neighbour has been identified as Ghulam Mustafa, who fled the scene afterwards.

Following intense public outrage, the police arrested Mustafa within an hour near Palghar, Maharashtra, before he could escape to Jharkhand. The police have also filed a 470-page charge sheet against the accused within just nine days of the incident.

The incident sparked protests in the region, with local communities and Hindu organisations expressing anger and demanding the strictest punishment for the perpetrator.

A teacher was arrested for molesting girl students in the Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday, an official said.

The incident came to light after a video surfaced on social media showing the accused teacher cutting the girl student’s hair forcefully.

In the viral video, someone is heard asking the accused teacher - who was identified as Vishal Namdev - to leave the girl. However, the teacher is heard saying, “You can’t do anything against me.”

In the video, the student is seen crying and begging the teacher not to cut her hair.

Police said that Namdev was under the influence of alcohol when he was in the school.

Australian authorities have issued a warning over a rise in the number of children being coerced into producing sexual and violent content online.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Friday cautioned parents and guardians over an online trend emerging in Australia involving young victims who are being coerced over the internet to produce extreme content, news agency reported.

The AFP said that sadistic sextortion is a growing type of internet crime where online communities target children as young as 12 and pressure them to self-produce an image or video of an explicit sexual or violent act to gain acceptance into the community.

Once the image or video is produced and sent to an offender, the recipient will then send the content to other members of the community who will extort the victim by threatening to share the explicit material with their friends or family unless more extreme content is produced.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel have seized diamonds weighing about 163 gm in various sizes concealed in the waist belt of two passengers at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi.

CISF personnel detected the illegal smuggling of diamond at Terminal-3 of IGI Airport on Wednesday. One of the arrested persons, who was carrying about 80 gm diamond, was later identified as Jitendra Farsio who was bound for Istanbul by a Turkish Airlines flight. He was nabbed during the pre-embarkation process.

The matter was informed to senior officials of the CISF and Customs.

A NEET aspirant from Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide in Rajasthan's Kota district, confirmed officials on Thursday.

Jawahar Nagar SHO Harinarayan Sharma said: "The deceased student has been identified as Parshuram (21), who was a resident of Manpur in Barsana, district Mathura, UP. His landlord saw him hanging from the noose and informed the control room on Wednesday. Around 11.30 pm, a police team rushed to the spot and saw the student hanging by the ceiling fan and took him down. Then his body was taken to MBS Hospital. Meanwhile, his family reached Kota on Thursday," when the process of postmortem began.

bu, after hearing all the sides, sentenced the man to jail till his death and also directed the District Legal Service Authority to pay the victim a sum of Rs 1.50 lakh from the fine that was collected from the accused.

The man, a casual labourer hailing from suburban Aruvikara in the state capital district, had remarried after his first wife passed away and his daughter, who was one-and-a-half-year-old then, was staying with them.

He was arrested last year after his daughter disclosed her ordeal to her teacher when she came to take her Class 10 public examination conducted by the state Education Department. Finding the girl deeply disturbed, the teacher asked her the reason, and the girl broke down, saying that on the previous day after she reached home after the examination, her father molested her. The teacher informed the Child Line officials and on further questioning, the girl revealed that her father had been molesting her since she was five years old.

Gujarat Cyber Crime Cell helped a 66-year-old man, who fell prey to a fraudster impersonating a police officer, recover Rs 35 lakh.

The fraudster made the man believe that his phone and bank accounts were linked to anti-national activities and extorted Rs 47.62 lakh from him.

"The scam began when the fraudster posed as a police officer, falsely claiming that the senior citizen's phone and bank accounts were involved in criminal activities like money laundering. The fraudster threatened the victim with arrest unless a large sum of money was paid, resulting in the extortion of Rs 47.62 lakh," police officials shared.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that an infiltration attempt by Bangladeshi nationals was foiled by the police and five people from the neighbouring country were "pushed back."

The incident happened in the Karimganj district. Assam Police conducted a late-night operation on Tuesday along the international border to check infiltration from Bangladesh into the Indian territory.

Five Bangladeshi citizens who were caught by the police are identified as Afroja Jahirul Sardar, Tumpa Haque, Ridoy Sk, Akhi Sk and Lakhipur Akhtar.

In a big breakthrough, the Pune Police have arrested 13 accused absconders in the sensational killing of Vanraj Andekar, a former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator, allegedly masterminded by his sisters over a raging property dispute, officials said here on Tuesday.

Andekar, 32, was attacked in a Bollywood style 'operation' with around 14-15 people vrooming up to him on six motorcycles, attacking him with a chopper and firing five rounds, as he was chatting with his cousin outside his home in Inamdar Chowk, around 9.30 pm on Sunday night.

The deceased's father, Suryakant a.k.a. Bandu R. Andekar lodged a complaint naming his daughters, sons-in-law, (all arrested), and a local gangster, Somnath S. Gaikwad, and others, in connection with the killing.

The others who figure in the complaint are: Sanjeevani J. Komkar, her husband Jayant L. Komkar, relative Prakash J. Komkar, Kalyani G. Komkar, her husband Ganesh L. Komkar, Aniket Dudhate, Tushar Kadam, Sagar Pawar, Pawar Kartal, Sameer Kale and a few more.

The Odisha Vigilance has arrested the deputy director of Mines, Talcher in Angul district on the charges of possessing disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 5 crore which exceeds his legal sources of income by over 500 per cent, said a senior vigilance official on Tuesday.

The accused officer, identified as Dharanidhar Nayak, joined the government service on February 12, 2014, and was posted as a mining officer at Koraput. After about seven years, he was transferred from Koraput and posted at Talcher as a mining officer on January 20, 2021. He was promoted to the rank of Deputy Director of mining on April 18, 2022.