Kochi: Farmaan Khan has been booked Farmaan Khan the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly marrying an underaged Kumbh Mela fame Monalisa Bhosle, media reports said.The Madhya Pradesh police have registered the case against Khan forallegedly marrying the minor.According to Madhya Pradesh police, Monalisa was only 16 years old when Khan …
Kochi: Nine policemen were sentenced to death by a court in Madurai in Tamil Nadu for custodial death of a trader P Jayaraj and his son J Benicks in Thoothukudi district.Inspector Sridhar, Sub-Inspectors Balakrishnan and Raghu Ganesh, and policemen Murugan, Samadurai, Muthuraja, Chelladurai, Thomas Francis, and Veilumuthu were sent to gallows, NDTV reported.Observing that this …
Kochi: Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA) has suspended noted director Ranjit its different outfits after he was booked in an alleged sexual abuse case, Asianet News reported.FEFKA Director’s Union and FEFKA Writers unions suspended him.FEFKA Director’s Union general secretary Ranji Panicker, General Secretary G S Vijayan said.The film maker Ranjit was arrested last night …
Kochi: A US journalist Shelly Kittlesonhas been kidnapped in Baghdad by an Iran-backed militia among others on Tuesday, BBC quoting Iraqi and US officials said.One suspect was arrested escaping in a vehicle which overturned while being chased by security forces.The suspect had ties to an Iranian-aligned militia group, Kataib Hezbollah.Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state …
Kochi: Noted Malayalam film director and scriptwriter Ranjit was arrested on the basis of a harassment complaint lodged by a young actress against him, Kerala Kaumudi reported.According to the complaint the accused had allegedly harassed the actress of his new film on the set of Ranjith’s new film.The arrest was made at the direction of …
Kochi: The High Court of Kerala on Tuesday ordered the issue of a notice to the Priest (Thantri) Kandaruru Rajeevaru of Sabarimala temple while hearing the plea of prosecution opposing bail granted to him in the temple gold robbery case.The High Court also stayed the Kollam vigilance Court’s observations giving a clean chit to Thantri’s …
Kochi: A terror suspect was killed when he drove his vehicle into a Jewish temple in the US on Thursday afternoon, BBC quoting officials said.The suspect’s vehicle went into flames after he drove it through the doors of Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Michigan.Security guards at the temple fired as he approached the temple.The …
Kochi: Kerala Transport Minister K B Ganesh Kumar’s wife Bindu Menon has accused Ganesh of involvement in immoral activities in their house, Asianet News reported.Bindu claimed she has got evidence to prove her claim.Bindu accused Ganesh’s personal staff of misbehaving with her and the police not taking any action.She alleged that the minister’s staff tried …
Kochi: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect was acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati murder case of 2002 on Saturday, media reports said.A division bench overturned the verdict of a special CBI court in Panchkula in January 2019.The journalist was shot …
Kochi: Kerala government has filed petition in the High Court of Kerala challenging the verdict of trial court’s December 8, 2025, verdict acquitting actor Dileep and others in the 2017 actress gang rape case, Bar and Bench reported.Ernakulam Principal District and Sessions Court convicted six others to 20 years rigorous imprisonment which is the minimum …
Kochi: A Bangladesh national and seven other terror suspects were arrested from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for allegedly plotting a major terror conspiracy in India backed by groups in Pakistan and Bangladesh, NDTV reported.Six were arrested from garment units in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district and two from West Bengal, sources said.Officials said that the …
Kochi: Ram Bhawan (50), and his wife Durgawati (47)were given capital punishment by a special POCSO court for sexually abusing 33 poor minor boys for a decade and selling their videos on the dark web in Uttar Pradesh, Times of India reported.The court in Banda sentenced the former government engineer and wife describing the case …
Kochi: Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha on Friday appeared before the MP MLA court in Sultanpur criminal defamation case, Times of India reported.The Congress leader recorded his statement in connection with a 2018 case linked to his alleged remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018.The next hearing for the …
Kochi: The High Court of Kerala has found discrepancies in income and expenditure of the finances of Global Ayyappa meet at Sabarimala.There was no proper accounting and tendering during the meet. The court has sought clarification from Travancore Devaswom in this regard.The Court will hear the case after 10 days.Despite the organisers claim of getting …
Kochi: The Supreme Court refused bail to Govardhan accused of involvement in gold robbery in the hill shrine of Sabarimala in Kerala as probe into the case is still continuing.The court also directed that the bail plea can be filed after the charge sheet is submitted.A jeweler from Bellary in Karnataka, Govardhan had moved the …
Kochi: In a serious allegation, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has urged the Union Home Ministry to probe into Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, MP’s, suspected links to Pakistan, NDTV reported.The allegations are serious in nature and must be probed by a central agency in the interest of national security and transparency, Sarma told a …
Kochi: A septuagenarian father has commended police for killing his criminal son Prince in an encounter in Vaishali in Bihar, media reports said.Nand Kishor Singh, 70, defended police action in killing his son Prince who was accused of 31 crimes including looting of gold jewellery from showrooms and banks.Singh said he tried to reform Prince …
Kochi: Congress is in trouble as police grilled party leader Adoor Prakash, MP, in connection with the Sabarimala gold robbery case, media reports said.Prakash was questioned for his alleged association with the prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti.The questioning comes at a time whenCongress had been slinging mud at CPM following the arrest of a number of …
Kochi: Atleaat 69 people were killed and several injured in a suicide bomb blast in a Shia mosque in Islamabad in Pakistan.The explosion occurred at Khadija Tul Kubra mosque, in southeastern Islamabad’s Tarlai Kalan area, on Friday.The victims included adults and children. Photo: X
Kochi: Three sisters below 16 years were found dead near their apartment near New Delhi in the early hours of Wednesday, media reports said.They were suspected to have jumped to death from the ninth floor of their apartment building in Ghaziabad.The 16, 14 and 12 year sisters were lying next to each other on the …
