Gumla: A head clerk at the office of district superintendent of education and a retired teacher were arrested by the ACB while taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 on Tuesday. Head clerk Ranjeet Kujur and retired teacher Vats Ravikant had sought the bribe for releasing the arrears of retired teachers. The duo was taken to…
Ranchi: A delegation of the Jharkhand Administrative Service Association’s (Jhasa) on Tuesday met with chief secretary Avinash Kumar and the director general of police (DGP) Tadasha Mishra to voice resentment against the manner Budmu circle officer (CO) Sachidanand Verma was arrested last Friday.Notably, the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) had apprehended the CO in connection with the…
Koderma: Police on Monday seized 360 bottles of illegal liquor, which were being smuggled into Bihar in a SUV, near Ghodsimar post under Satganwa police station limits. The accused were identified as Ajit Kumar, Sajan Kumar and Bihari Thakur, all residents of Nawada district in Bihar. SP Kumar Shivanshish said strict campaign against illegal liquor…
Ranchi: Jharkhand high court on Tuesday upheld the life imprisonment of two men found guilty of murdering former Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand.The bench of Justices Rongon Mukhopadhyay and Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, in their judgement running into 108 pages, observed that “the enormity of the act of the appellants and the audacious nature of its execution…
Gumla: Two inquiry teams constituted by the Gumla administration on Tuesday visited the village where a 3-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old youth on July 11, to investigate charges of panchayat representatives trying to hush up the case by imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the accused and using 20% of…
The accused in police custody Dumka: An alleged cyber fraudster was arrested by cyber police from Kurwa area in Jamtara district.Police said accused Nasruddin Ansari, a resident of Panchrukhi village in Deoghar district, used to travel to Jamtara to target victims by posing as a bank representative. He would offer assistance, claiming their credit cards…
CBI officers and local police outside the Sakchi residence on Tuesday Jamshedpur: An early morning raid by CBI sleuths at a Sakchi residence on Tuesday for suspected cyber fraud turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. After questioning the homeowner and others, the central agency officers later realised that they had knocked on…
Ranchi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday charge-sheeted a sixth accused in a CPI (Maoist) conspiracy case linked to efforts to revive the banned outfit’s activities in the Magadh zone and raise funds through extortion for procuring arms and ammunition.In a statement, the agency said it has filed a third supplementary charge sheet before…
Bokaro: A dispute over an unpaid DJ bill of Rs 13,000 ended in a brutal killing of a 65-year-old Jageshwar Bhula following a heated argument on Monday evening in Kundi village under the Mansadih police outpost area in Giridih district. Police have arrested the accused and forwarded him to judicial custody on Tuesday.According to police,…
Palamu district election officer Dilip Pratap Singh Shekhawat checks the voter list at a booth in Chainpur on Tuesday Daltonganj: The Palamu administration is closely monitoring 213 trans-border polling booths located in neighbouring Garhwa district during the enumeration process for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Of the two assembly constituencies in Palamu with…
