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9Jun By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal: Mother-son duo ‘tortured woman, forced her into prostitution’, absconding

Police have launched a search operation for a mother-son duo accused of allegedly torturing and assaulting a woman in their residence in Domjur in Howrah district and also forcing her into prostitution for nearly five months, an official said on Sunday. The victim, who managed to escape on Friday and reached her family in the North 24 Parganas district, is currently undergoing treatment at the College of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital, the police said. The family filed a complaint at the Khardah police station and has claimed that the victim was also subjected to severe physical and mental torture, which includes beating with rods and cigarette burns on her body. Story continues below this ad The National Commission for Women (NCW), meanwhile, has taken suo motu cogn...

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8Jun By source belowNo Comments

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‘We were planning her wedding’: Kin devastated after Delhi woman murdered, stuffed in suitcase

When 23-year-old Neelesh left her house in Delhi’s Trilokpuri around 12.30 pm on May 28, she told her father that she was going to the bank about a kilometre away to get some details updated. She didn’t return.Her father and three brothers looked for her in every possible place that they could to find her. In the meantime, police found the body of a woman stuffed in a suitcase in UP’s Hapur near a canal on May 30. The body was decomposed. Story continues below this ad “On May 30, we were alerted about a body stuffed inside a suitcase in the Sikhera area that comes under the Pilkhuwa police station. We first sent the body for a post-mortem, and an FIR was registered for murder and disappearance of evidence,” said an officer of the Hapur Police. By then, through a missing pe...

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3Jun By source belowNo Comments

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DU student arrested for killing female friend at Sanjay Van, say police

A Teenager was stabbed and strangled to death allegedly by her classmate at Sanjay Van, in Delhi’s Mehrauli area on Sunday, police said. The accused, a BCom student, has been arrested. The two were students at the Delhi University’s School of Open Learning. A police officer said the two were close. The accused, however, suspected that the victim was talking to another boy and confronted her a few days ago. On June 1, the accused called the victim to Sanjay Van in the morning before she went to her college. “The victim left her house in the morning to meet the accused. Around noon, the victim told her mother that she would return shortly. When she did not return, her mother received a call from the father of the accused, saying that his son had been attacked with a knife in Sanjay Van and w...

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2Jun By source belowNo Comments

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Delhi: 18 years on the run: Fake ‘Army officer’ hiding in Punjab old age home finally caught

On the run for 18 years, a 77-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping people by posing as a colonel in the Army and offering them real estate under a fake Army Welfare Housing Scheme (AWS), the Delhi Police said. The accused, Sitaram Singla, who has an MA in History and Economics from Panjab University, was hiding in an old age home in Patiala since 2007 when he jumped bail. On Saturday, a Crime Branch team received a tip-off about his whereabouts. “The information revealed that the accused is a resident of Mansa, Punjab. After jumping bail, he is presently living in an old-age home in Patiala, Punjab. The team of ARSC Crime Branch reached the spot and arrested the accused,” DCP (Crime Branch) Apoorva Gupta said. Story continues below this ad Police said Singla was ...

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1Jun By source belowNo Comments

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New CFSL building in Rajarhat will bolster evidence-based justice across eastern India: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a new building of the Central Forensic Science Lab (CFSL) at Rajarhat in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and said it was a significant step towards building a data- and evidence-based justice system in eastern India. “It is a significant step towards building a data and evidence-based justice system in India. The state-of-the-art facility, built at an approximate cost of Rs 90 crore, is poised to serve not only West Bengal but also all North Eastern states, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, and Assam, handling complex cases from across the cluster,” he said. Addressing the gathering, Shah talked about the pivotal role of forensic science in the modern criminal justice system, especially with the introduction of the three new criminal laws. St...

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31May By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal: Man held for killing parents, police looking into ‘extremist links’

The police, investigating the double murder of a couple in Memari, North 24 Parganas, are also looking into the “disturbing transformation” of the accused — the couple’s 35-year-old son Humayun Kabir, who once worked as an engineer in Delhi. Police said on Friday that the investigation so far reveals that Kabir, who once held a reputable job in Delhi developed a keen interest in “jihadi literature” and had several such videos on his laptop and mobile. The police are now investigating if he had “extremist links”. Story continues below this ad Kabir allegedly murdered his parents on Wednesday and fled to another district, police said. His desperate flight ended later the same day in Bangaon, where police apprehended him after he allegedly stabbed and injured four more person...

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26May By source belowNo Comments

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Delhi: Poor phone signal? Thieves targeting mobile tower parts could be to blame

In 2023, the national nodal officer of Airtel, one of the largest telecom service providers in the country, filed a complaint with the Delhi Police that its signal transmission was going haywire at many places in the Capital. Turns out, it was because Remote Radio Units (RRUs) and Base Band Units (BBU), components attached to the company’s towers, worth crores, were being stolen.A senior police officer, involved in the probe, explained that this equipment is a vital component of mobile towers: “BBUs receive signals from mobile users via antenna, which transfers the signal to RRUs for further processing of voice calls and data services like the internet.” Between 2023 and 2025, 7,000 RRUs of Airtel towers, worth Rs 350 crore, were stolen from Delhi-NCR. “Frequent calls about service disrupt...

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26May By source belowNo Comments

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On the run for 15 years, man convicted of killing taxi drivers caught in UP

On the run for 15 years after jumping parole, a man convicted of multiple murders was arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch team on Saturday.Police said in 2001, Dhirender Singh Tomar, then a 19-year-old, was leading a gang of criminals who hired taxis in Uttarakhand and NCR, killed the drivers, and then stole the vehicles to sell them across the border in Nepal. Police said they arrested Tomar, now 45, from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, where he was living with his wife under a false identity. Story continues below this ad Tomar, police said, had been on the run since 2010 after he got out of jail on a month-long parole. He had been in and out of prison since March 2001, when he was arrested for a murder in the Capital’s Ashok Nagar area. According to the police, a PCR c...

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20May By source belowNo Comments

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Woman killed in UK: Husband still on the run, last spotted at Gurgaon bank in March

Months after a 24-year-old Delhi woman was murdered — her body found in the boot of a car — in East London, her husband, the main accused in the case, was purportedly spotted in Gurgaon, sources said.The Delhi Police had earlier issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against the husband, after he was suspected to have arrived in the national capital, and declared him a Proclaimed Offender (PO) on May 1. On March 4, sources confirmed, the accused was purportedly seen withdrawing money from a bank in Gurgaon. An officer, privy to the investigation, said he was wearing a mask at the bank. Story continues below this ad “He withdrew Rs 4.3 lakh from the bank branch via a cheque and left. CCTV footage from the bank showed he was alone. Before this, he had withdrawn Rs 21,000 from anot...

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18May By source belowNo Comments

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5 convicted in ‘petty organised crime’ case get one year rigorous imprisonment

In one of the initial cases of conviction under the newly introduced Section 112 for “petty organised crime” under the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), five persons arrested for chain snatching by the Mumbai Police during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival were found guilty by a court on Friday and were sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment. According to police, on September 20, based on a complaint by B Shaikh that his phone was stolen during Ganesh vijsarjan procession, an FIR was registered at the VP Road police station. When it came to light that several such mobile theft cases were registered, DCP (zone II) Mohit Garg formed a team to probe these cases. Story continues below this ad During investigation, five accused were arrested who were identified as Sanjay Raman ...

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18May By source belowNo Comments

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Teenager stabbed to death after argument over DJ songs in Delhi’s Mahendra Park, 4 minors apprehended

The Delhi Police said they have apprehended four minor boys for allegedly stabbing an 18-year-old youth after an altercation over DJ songs in the Mahendra Park area on Saturday. According to the police, a call was received at the Mahender Park police station on Saturday from BJRM Hospital about a medico-legal case of a stabbing incident. “It was reported that one Bheem Sen was admitted to BJRM Hospital by his friend after sustaining injuries during a physical altercation,” DCP (North West) Bhisham Singh said. Story continues below this ad A resident of the Badhola village, Sen succumbed to the two stab injuries, the police said. Investigation revealed that on Friday night, he got into an argument with an accused minor over playing DJ and the choice of songs during an event...

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14May By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai police station head caught red-handed while accepting bribe for providing protection to a school’s trustee

The anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Mumbai, has arrested the head of the Shivaji Nagar police station, Mumbai, red-handed on Tuesday night while allegedly accepting a Rs 1 lakh of the total bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh that he had allegedly demanded from a school’s trustee in lieu of providing police services for helping him in a legal matter. Senior police inspector Bapurao Madhukar Deshmukh, 57, was caught red-handed on Tuesday night at his own police station. According to the ACB, the complainant in the case is a 41-year-old trustee of a trust that runs a school in the Shivaji Nagar area. Story continues below this ad On August 15, 2024, some people had broken the lock of the gate of the said school and forcibly entered the premises over some dispute. The complainant trustee had ...

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14May By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal fake passport probe: Arrested ‘Pak national’ also made fake visas, ED tells court

Seeking court’s permission to question Ahammed Hossain Azad, who has been arrested in connection with the ongoing probe into the fake passport racket, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that the 53-year-old was also involved in making fake visas. Azad, who was arrested by the ED on April 15 from Birati in North 24 Parganas district, earlier claimed to be from Bangladesh. However, on further probe, the ED found that Azad was from Pakistan and had come to India via Bangladesh. The 14-day ED custody of Azad ended Tuesday, and the court sent him to judicial custody. The ED wants to question him in jail. Story continues below this ad In its submission to the court, the ED said they have found fresh evidence of bank transactions worth around Rs 50 crore between Aza...

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13May By source belowNo Comments

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Bengaluru driver flees with Rs 1.5 crore meant to be deposited in bank, arrested

The Bengaluru police on Tuesday arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly absconding with Rs 1.51 crore entrusted to him by his employer of over a decade. The arrested accused, Rajesh B N, a resident of Vyalikaval in Bengaluru, had been working as a driver for a chartered accountant in Kodandaramapura in the city, according to the police. According to the police, the chartered accountant handed Rajesh a bag containing Rs 1.51 crore on May 5 and asked him to keep it safely in the car, as the amount was meant to be deposited in a bank. Story continues below this ad However, when the chartered accountant returned shortly afterwards to leave for the bank, both Rajesh and the car were missing. He rushed to his office address and found the car parked there. When the chartered acc...

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12May By source belowNo Comments

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Court rejects bail plea of 2 booked  for fatal assault on homeless man

A sessions court has rejected the bail application of a resident of a housing society and its security guard, booked for the fatal assault on a homeless man.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Jalil Khan, 45, who did odd jobs as a plumber and handcart-puller, stayed on a footpath outside the housing society. He had an altercation with the security guard and two members of the housing society in Khetwadi area of Girgaon in South Mumbai in 2024, and they allegedly kicked him and hit him with sticks, causing his death. “There are eyewitnesses to the incident. Acts of accused shows that their intention and knowledge to cause death of the accused i.e. culpable homicide not amounting to murder,” additional sessions judge NP Tribhuwan said in the order passed last month. Story continues below this...

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11May By source belowNo Comments

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Three raped teen in moving car, threw out her friend who later died; arrested after encounter: Bulandshahr police

THE BULANDSHAHR Police on Saturday arrested three men for their alleged involvement in raping a teenage girl inside a moving car a few days ago, officers said, adding that the suspects were nabbed after an encounter. Superintendent of Police, Bulandhshahr, Dinesh Kumar Singh claimed, “We found that another girl — the complainant’s friend — who was allegedly thrown out of the moving car by the accused at the time of the crime, later died due to injuries suffered in the fall. All necessary legal action is being taken by the Meerut Police in this regard.” According to the police, “Around 2:30 pm on Saturday, in the Arnia Police station area, on the Bulandshahr-Aligarh Highway, a shootout happened between the three accused and a police team of Khurja Nagar and Arnia, in which two of the suspec...

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8May By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal: In case of ‘Pakistan national’ who ‘made fake Indian passports’, ED seeks 5 more days of custody

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday sought an additional five-day custody of Ahammed Hossain Azad (53), initially arrested in a fake passport case as an alleged Bangladeshi national, but later allegedly found to be a Pakistani national. Azad was arrested on April 15 from Birati, North 24 Parganas and produced before Chief Judge Sukumar Ray of the City Sessions Court. The ED’s counsel stated on Thursday, “We have enough evidence that shows that Azad has connections with Pakistan and the agency would like to interrogate the accused further in custody.” Azad’s counsel said, “The accused has been in custody for a month. The liberty of my client is being curtailed. Last time the ED sought custody, (they) questioned him for only one day. We pray for judicial custody.” Story continu...

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6May By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai: CBI arrests junior assistant, pvt agent for issuing passports after accepting bribe

THE CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday arrested a junior passport assistant and a passport agent in connection with alleged corruption to the tune of Rs 6 lakh in issuing passports. The CBI also alleged that they have found that two passports of unknown applicants were issued based on forged documents, stating that this is a “grave national security concern”. Junior Passport Assistant Aakash Rathee, posted at the Passport Seva Kendra in Malad, was produced before a special court on Tuesday in Mumbai. The central agency sought Rathee’s custody for questioning alleging that it is a larger conspiracy in which the accused persons have facilitated passports based on forged documents. Story continues below this ad The CBI also arrested private passport agent Sanjeev Ra...

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6May By source belowNo Comments

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15-year-old girl raped in parked car in Faridabad, multiple teams formed to nab accused: Cops

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two men on Saturday morning in Faridabad in a parked car, said police, adding that multiple teams have been formed to apprehend the accused. Raids have been conducted in various states, including Uttar Pradesh. The teen was allegedly forced into a parked car after the accused opened a window and pulled her inside, sources in the police said. After allegedly raping her, they threw her out of the car near her village and fled. She narrated the ordeal to her family upon reaching home, who then approached the police on Sunday, officers said. Story continues below this ad “They took her to a secluded place and raped her, not in a moving vehicle as mentioned in some reports. So far, we are narrowing down the details about the whereabouts...

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6May By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai: Housing society security guard sentenced to 5 yrs in jail for sexually abusing girl inside lift

The sessions court in Mumbai sentenced a security guard of a housing society to five years in jail for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl inside the building lift. The incident had taken place in 2020 when the girl, who was staying with her aunt, was returning in the building lift after she went out of her house to give her uncle a face mask. The security guard, who was present in the lift, then sexually abused the girl. Story continues below this ad After she returned home and narrated the ordeal to her aunt, a complaint was filed at the police station concerned and the guard was arrested. Special Public Prosecutor Geeta Malankar had submitted before the court that the girl in her testimony told the court that on November 6, 2020, when she was alone in the lift, the guar...

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5May By source belowNo Comments

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Businessman shot at near Pragati Maidan in Delhi, injured in robbery bid plotted by employee

R K Singh (63), a Noida resident who owns a perfume shop in Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, was heading home from work around 9 pm on Friday in his car. He took a detour since he wanted to stop at a CNG station to refuel his WagonR. He was near Pragati Maidan when he realised that he was being chased. A biker allegedly tried to intercept him, but Singh reversed his car in a bid to escape. Another biker then fired a round at him. The car window was closed but a bullet smashed it and Singh was injured in the stomach. However, he managed to evade the attackers, who allegedly wanted to rob the cash he was carrying. He then called a relative and handed him the cash before heading to Safdarjung Hospital. Hours after the incident, a 21-year-old man was arrested. He was identified as Govind, who had be...

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3May By source belowNo Comments

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Delhi: Illegal immigration gang busted; 5 Indians among 11 arrested

With the arrest of six illegal Bangladeshis, and their five Indian accomplices, the Delhi Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a gang facilitating the unlawful entry of immigrants into India.The gang was operated by Chand Miya (55), who reportedly entered India at the age of four in 1974, DCP (South East) Ravi Kumar said. Besides Chand Miya, who was arrested from Chennai, the other Bangladeshi nationals who have been arrested are Aslam (25), Mohd Ali Hussain (28), Mohd Mizan (25), Radish Molla (24) and Fatima Afross (32). They all were arrested from parts of Delhi, said police. Story continues below this ad Kumar identified the five arrested Indian accomplices as Mohd Anis (41), Ranjan Kumar Yadav (32), Rahisuddin Ali (37), Shabbir (28), and Lokman Ali (35), who were ...

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2May By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai: Man who molested woman was killed by her brother and friends; three arrested

Three persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Malwani area in Mumbai recently. The Byculla police have arrested Mohammed Saif Shaikh, 28, Azim Khan, 19 and Suraj Thakur, 19 for allegedly killing Fahim Nazir alias Fahim Machmach. The three have been arrested on the basis of the information received from informers. According to the police, havaldar Harshal Deshmukh, who was earlier posted in Malwani, received information regarding Machmach, who was reported missing since April 15 by his family. Story continues below this ad Deshmukh received information about three suspects who allegedly killed Machmach and then after putting his body in a gunny bag, disposed it off in an open nullah on Marve Road, Malad (West). Deshmukh shared information with B...

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29Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Jamia Millia Islamia staffer arrested for stalking, harassing student

On Monday, a post-graduate student from Jamia Millia Islamia lodged a complaint against a college staff worker for allegedly assaulting her on Sunday night. Police said following the complaint, a 22-year-old man working in the university hostel’s mess has been arrested. According to police, they received a distress call on Sunday at 9.30 pm that a woman had been harassed and molested near the college’s gates. Story continues below this ad Purported videos in the aftermath of the incident were shared widely on social media. In the clips, the woman can be seen approaching the man asking, “Why did you do that?”. She then said, “He punched me on the chest.” Another video showed the man surrounded by university students. He then received a slap across his face. Student organisa...

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27Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai: Three arrested for assaulting police officers, threatening to defame force on social media

Three individuals were arrested by the Pydhonie police early on Sunday for allegedly assaulting a police official during an ongoing bandobast in south Mumbai. The police stated that two persons were initially stopped for not wearing helmets, and when they charged at the officer, backup was called. The third accused, who came from behind, started recording the incident and threatened to post it on social media, aiming to defame the police department. The three arrested individuals have been identified as Mustafa Shehbaz Patka (24), Mawia Mustafa Sheikh (24), and Abdul Rehman Ghaffar Sheikh (23). They were produced before court and remanded in police custody for two days. According to police officials, the incident began when the police signaled the two men on the scooter to stop. Story...

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27Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Mumbai: Nine BJP workers booked for ‘abusing, assaulting’ Muslim hawkers in Dadar

Nine BJP workers were booked for allegedly abusing and assaulting Muslim hawkers in Dadar market area, Mumbai police said on Sunday.Shivaji Park police registered a case against Akshata Tendulkar, president of Mahim Assembly and eight others on a complaint filed by a hawker Saurabh Mishra. According to the complainant, the incident happened on Thursday evening. Tendulkar and his eight associates reached Dadar market area opposite Rangoli store and allegedly asked hawkers if they were Muslims, the complaint read. According to Mishra, they assaulted one of the Muslim workers who work under him. Story continues below this ad “They asked my worker Sofiyan Shahid Ali his name and then abused and assaulted him. When Ali ran away from the place, they chased him and again assaulte...

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