THANE: A Thane court has acquitted a man who spent more than eight years in jail after the prosecution failed to establish key facts in a sexual assault case filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The accused, an ayurvedic medicine...

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THANE: A 57-year-old Mumbai man accused of chain snatching and booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been acquitted by a Special MCOCA Court in Thane after the prosecution failed to establish his identity as one of the...

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BIJNOR: A 38-year-old paediatrician from Ghaziabad was shot dead inside his private clinic in Nagina town of Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district on Thursday evening by a man who allegedly posed as a patient, police said. The victim, Dr Rajkumar, a resident of the Nandgram...

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BENGALURU: The autopsy of an exhumed body of a 50-year-old daily wage worker in Karnataka has revealed that he was smothered to death, contradicting his wife’s claim that he had died of a heart attack. Police have arrested the victim’s wife, P Asha (46), and her...

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GURGAON: A one-day-old foetus was discovered in a vacant plot in Sector 93 on Thursday, police said. According to officials, the foetus was found wrapped in a green cloth. A passer-by, identified as Sanjay, spotted the foetus at around 12.30 pm and alerted the police,...

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NEW DELHI: Two days after 26-year-old Tarun was beaten to death in southwest Delhi’s Uttam Nagar following a dispute during Holi celebrations, tension continues in the area after a car and a motorcycle were set on fire on Friday. The vehicles allegedly belonged to a...

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