Varanasi: Under the crime control campaign of Varanasi Commissionerate, a joint team of Sarnath Police and SOG on Thursday arrested 20-year-old Chitransh Kharwar alias Chiku, solving three theft cases lodged in the city in May and June.The police recovered a 110.5 gram biscuit of yellow metal, a 643 gram biscuit of white metal, a DSLR…
Varanasi: In a fresh crackdown on the multi-crore codeine cough syrup smuggling network, Sarnath police have booked 10 already arrested accused under the stringent Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, naming alleged smuggler Lokesh Agrawal as the gang leader.Police said Lokesh’s group operated as part of the syndicate of fugitive codeine smuggling kingpin…
Varanasi: A 20-year-old student of a private institute was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the stairs of a guest house in the city on Wednesday. Although Sarnath police were waiting for the arrival of postmortem report, it was suspected that the woman was administered a dose by her boyfriend to abort…
Varanasi: A one-and-a-half-month-old baby girl was seriously injured after she was allegedly snatched and thrown to the ground by a neighbour in Akatha village slum under Sarnath police station on Saturday evening.The infant was rushed to hospital. Doctors said her condition was stable and she was out of danger.ACP (Sarnath) Vidush Saxena said on Sunday…
Varanasi: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly sold by her mother for Rs 16,000 and 10 saris, repeatedly raped by a 40-year-old man in Chandauli, and later sexually assaulted again by an auto driver in Varanasi after being abandoned near a railway station, police said.According to Sarnath police, the girl was found roaming and crying in…
Varanasi: The Sarnath police busted a pyramid scheme racket in Sarnath on Tuesday, arresting seven members of a gang accused of duping hundreds of youths of lakhs of rupees through a fake Multi-Level Marketing operation. For months, over 250 victims had been turning up at the gang’s office, operating as a call centre front, to…
