Prayagraj: Taking a serious note of complaints about people consuming liquor openly on roads outside liquor shops and causing traffic congestion in the city, Prayagraj district administration has warned that licences of such shops may be suspended if the problem is not checked.Chairing a meeting of the district road safety committee on Friday, district magistrate,…
Prayagraj: A 16-year-old boy staged his own kidnapping on Friday, allegedly planning to flee to Mumbai after being upset over his father’s scolding.He even roped in his 14-year-old younger brother, a Class IX student, to help script and narrate the fake kidnapping story to their family and the police.However, the plan failed when the younger…
Prayagraj: Police on Tuesday attached benami properties worth Rs 1.10 crore of former block chief and mafia don Dilip Mishra at Silaudhi village under Meja tehsil amid tight security.DCP (Yamuna Nagar) Vivek Chandra Yadav told TOI the court of the commissioner of police ordered the attachment of the property on Monday.Police said Mishra was a…
Prayagraj: City cops recovered and handed over 210 lost mobile phones worth about Rs 63.24 lakhs to their owners on Monday. This operation followed several complaints from the public about missing phones received by the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal.DCP (Ganga Nagar) Kuldeep Singh told TOI, “Surveillence cell has managed to recover 210 lost…
Prayagraj: Police on Thursday arrested a man identified as Rahul Kumar Srivastava, 35, from Patna for allegedly purchasing codeine cough syrup worth Rs 1.05 crore illegally from a firm in Prayagraj and smuggling it to districts in Bihar.The accused was brought to Prayagraj the same day and sent to jail in the evening.An FIR in…
Prayagraj: Cops on Wednesday intensified security arrangements for Bakrid, to be celebrated on Thursday and divided city areas six zones and 17 sectors with the objective of maintaining peace during the festival.As namaz (prayers) is scheduled to be offered at around 400 mosques and Idgahs in city limits, cops on Wednesday claimed to have held…
Prayagraj: Prayagraj police have attached property worth nearly Rs 60 lakh belonging to alleged copying gang leader Sonu Singh Yadav and his wife, Sharda Yadav, under the Gangsters Act.According to police, Sonu Singh Yadav, resident of Katra Kaudihar in Nawabganj area, is accused of running a gang involved in facilitating copying in exams and other…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has said that the act of torturing or harassing relatives of an accused by the police is a “colonial practice” which violates the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.The court restrained police authorities from summoning the petitioners to police station or…
