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The arrested persons have been identified as Dayaram Dubey, Brijesh Kesharwani and Sanjay Tiwari. Dubey has a puja material shop near the court premises and he allegedly sold prohibited wildlife products used in tantric rituals, which he sourced from Kesharwani and Tiwari. Police also recovered 20 leopard teeth, 24 nails of leopards, 110 horns of golden jackal, 140 Indrajal plants, skin of two monitor lizards, three mobile phones and Rs 2,550 cash from the accused. Deputy superintendent of police, STF, Pramesh Shukla said that acting on a tip-off from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the forest department, a…

The survivor had shifted to Lucknow around six months ago for a job and met the accused Abhishek Singh of Aashiana through a matrimonial site where she had posted her profile for a possible match for a life partner.She said that Abhishek called her on June 18 and asked her to meet him at a coffee shop in Hazratganj.“I met him at the coffee shop and from there he took me to a restaurant where we dined together. He then took me to the 1090 crossing in his car and we stayed there for a long time. I asked him…

An FIR of fraud was registered on Thursday.The woman, Rinki Ojha, had a bank account at the JB Road branch of a government bank in the area.Last week, she received a call from the bank notifying her that she had failed to deposit the installment of her personal loan of Rs 11.18 lakhs.“She told the caller from the bank that she had neither ever applied nor was granted any loan from the bank and that financially too she was ineligible to secure a loan of Rs 11 lakh,” said the police.She met the bank manager at the branch.“I had a…

Raj Kumar Bala molested and raped the victim between the night of February 21, 2020 and the early morning of the next day at a rented flat, The Straits Times reported, citing prosecutors. Of the 13 witnesses who had lined up to prove Bala’s crime, prosecution presented two witnesses identified as B1 and B2 in the court documents. B1 and B2, like the victim, had run away from a Girl’s Home and were staying and working at Bala’s bar on Dunlop Street in Little India. The court was told that B1 had been sexually assaulted by Bala, but since she…

According to district government counsel (criminal) Gulab Chandra Agrahri, though this date was fixed for framing of charges against the accused, but when the accused appeared before the court through video conferencing, they requested that they wanted to engage their own counsel in the case. Accepting their request, sessions judge Santosh Rai said if they do not engage their counsel by August 16, they will be provided state counsel to represent them in court proceedings. On July 13, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) had submitted a charge sheet against the three assailants — Lavlesh Tiwari, 22, Mohit Singh Shani, 23,…

Trump and Nauta, a former White House military valet turned personal aide, are facing charges which accuse the two men and a third aide of conspiring to conceal surveillance footage at the former President’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reports the BBC.They have already pleaded not guilty to previous charges against them.The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the documents case and also overseeing a separate indictment of Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, on Thursday recommended to a federal court in Washington D.C.…

The quake’s epicentre was 46 km (28.58 miles) below the Earth’s surface, GFZ added as quoted by Reuters report.–IANSkhz

“As firefighting efforts continue, 17 additional fatalities have been confirmed today amid the active Lahaina fire. This brings the death toll to 53 people,” Maui County wrote in a statement posted to the county website on Thursday, The Guardian reported.Crews have continued mass evacuation efforts and desperate searches for survivors as displaced residents try to come to terms with what appears to be widespread destruction, particularly in the historic community of Lahaina.”Lahaina, with a few rare exceptions, has been burned down,” Josh Green, Hawaii’s Governor said.The US president, Joe Biden, on Thursday approved a disaster declaration for Maui, which will…

During the phone call, the two ministers talked about the bilateral relations and opportunities to strengthen them across all domains, the official news agency WAM said on Thursday.The two sides reviewed efforts aimed at enhancing joint cooperation in all fields, discussed several issues of common interest, and exchanged views on regional and international developments, the report added as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.–IANSint/khz

As per media accounts, 59-year-old Fernando Villavicencio was tragically gunned down post his participation in a political rally in Quito, the nation’s capital, on Wednesday evening.This tragic event transpired a mere fortnight ahead of the scheduled August 20 election, in a backdrop filled with escalating criminal activities and unrest, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.While addressing the media in New York, Farhan Haq, the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Spokesman, conveyed the sentiments of the UN Country Team. He emphasised the urgency of an inquiry, “so that the feeling of lawlessness is dispelled, and to amplify measures against the ongoing surge of…