Kochi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Sabarimala temple gold scam, is believed to have seized over key evidence containing details of gold cladding carried out by businessman Vijay Mallya in the temple in 1999, media reports said.The SIT unearthed the documents after the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) expressed helplessness in detecting the papers …
Kochi: Sabarimala gold robbery case prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti was today remanded by a court in Pathanamthitta, media reports said.Potti was produced before the Court in Ranni after 14 days of his police custody ended today.The court had sent Potti to 14 days police custody in connection with the robbery of gold cladded artefacts in …
Kochi: A court in Idukki sentencedHameed to death for burning to death his son, daughter in law and two grandchildren in Cheenikuzhi in Thodupuzha today.The court also sentenced him for 10 years of Rigorous Imprisonment and fined Rs 5 lakh.The convict Hameed locked the four in their house and torched it.Muhammed Faizal 45, Faizal’s wife …
Kochi: A Kerala High Court judge has recused from hearing a PIL seeking a CBI probe into allegations of financial fraud against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter T Veena, The Times of India reported.The Income Tax Department has accused Veena of receiving monthly financial benefits from Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) without providing any …
Kochi: Sabarimala Temple gold robbery case second accused Murari Babu was sent to four days police custody by a court in Pathanamthitta in Kerala, media reports said.The suspended Travancore Devaswom Board official was taken to the Crime Branch office in Thiruvananthapuram by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Kerala High Court to …
Kochi: Three persons including father of a newborn boy were arrested while trying to trade a two month old baby for Rs 50,000 at Kummanam in Kottayam, Manorama News reported.The father was from Assam while the buyer and the agent were from Uttar Pradesh.It was the timely intervention by the mother of the child that …
Kochi: Cops have arrested two suspects in connection with the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum last Sunday, BBC quoting French media reported.The men were originally from the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Den, BBC quoted Le Parisien newspaper. One of them was preparing to board a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport.Four robbers …
Kochi: In a major move, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has recovered gold from Govardhan in Bellary in Karnataka, Asianet News reported.The gold was found from the jewellery shop of Govardhan where the SIT led by Shashidharan, SP, last evening.The gold was found in bars weighing over 400 grams.Gold coins were also recovered from the …
Kochi: Sabarimala gold robbery prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti has confessed to having sold the robbed gold to a trader Govardhan in Bellary in Karnataka, media reports said.Potti, who is in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody, allegedly confessed to selling 476 grams of gold in 2019.After extracting gold from the gold articles of the temple, …
Kochi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) arrested suspended Sabarimala Administrative Officer Murari Babu in connection with the gold robbery from Sabarimala temple in Kerala today.He was detained from his house in Perunna in Changanasserry in Kottayam last night.Murari, who is the second accused in the robbery case, is the first official to be arrested in …
Kochi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) took into custody suspended Sabarimala Administrative Officer Murari Babu in connection with the gold robbery from Sabarimala temple in Kerala.Murari, who is an accused in the robbery case, is the first official being arrested in the case.Murari was the official who first entered in the temple records that the …
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed a thorough probe into the larger conspiracy behind the gold scam in Sabarimala temple to spot the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) officials involved, media reports said.The Devaswom division bench observed that the probe should be done in a fair, transparent and expeditious manner, the reports said.During the …
Kochi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing gold robbery in the Sabarimala temple will file its report in Kerala High Court on Tuesday, media reports said.A division bench of the High Court, which had set up the SIT, had set a six-week deadline for the SIT to complete its investigation.The SIT is said to have …
Kochi: Sabarimala Temple gold robbery case prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti has pointed fingers at others as beneficiaries at his cost, media reports said.There are reports of Potti putting the blame on a five-member syndicate operating from Bengaluru in the gold case being probed by a Special Investigation Team set up by The Kerala High Court.He …
Kochi: A CPM Councillor P P Rajesh was arrested for snatching a gold chain from an elderly housewife in Koothuparambu Kannur, media reports said.The crime happened last Thursday when the 77-year-old woman Janaki was alone and busy in the kitchen.A person rushed through the open main door into the kitchen wearing a helmet and snatched …
Kochi: Chenthamara (54) was sentenced to double life imprisonment in the Nenmara Sajitha case in 2019 bythe Additional District and SessionsCourt-IV on Saturday, Manorama News reported. The court imposed a fine of ₹3.25 lakh on the convict.The prosecution’s demand for capital punishment was rejected by the court, observing that the case does not fall under …
Kochi: A Technopark staff was allegedly raped by an unidentified person in her hostel room at Kazhakkoottam in Thiruvananthapuram in the wee hours on Friday morning, media reports said.The accused entered her hostel room at about 2 am. She screamed after which the accused escaped.The hostel authorities rushed to her help. They helped rhe 25-year …
Kochi: Prime accused in Sabarimala gold loot case, Unnikrishnan Potti, has been sent to 14 days police custody by a Pathanamthitta court on Friday, media reports said.Potti, who was arrested in the wee hours, was produced before the Court where the police submitted an arrest report which said that the accused had removed two kg …
Kochi: Prime accused in Sabarimala gold scam Unnikrishnan Potti was arrested in the wee hours of Friday.The Special Investigation Team arrested him after 10 hours of interrogation in connection with the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple gold missing case on Thursday, media reports said.The SIT headed by ADGP H Venkatesh headed the interrogating near Thiruvananthapuram.He was arrested …
Kochi: The Special Investigation Team took Unnikrishnan Potty into custody in connection with the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple gold missing case on Thursday, media reports said.The SIT headed by ADGP H Venkatesh is interrogating Potty at a secret location.Potty, who is the prime accused in the case, was picked from his residence at Pulimathu in Thiruvananthapuram.His …
