Tag: arrest

  • Ten held for selling fake platelets in UP’s Prayagraj 

    By PTI

    PRAYAGRAJ: Ten members of a gang allegedly selling fake platelets to patients were arrested here on Friday, police said.

    Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the accused used to take plasma from different blood banks and then put it in pouches and sell the plasma as platelet.

    The arrests were made following a tip-off, he said, adding some fake platelet pouches were seized from the possession of the accused.

    Pandey also said 12 persons were arrested a few days ago for allegedly supplying blood in an illegal manner.

    When asked about a case pertaining to the sealing of a private hospital on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, he said, “During the course of interrogation, it has not been confirmed whether it was a fruit juice in the pouch or something else.”

    “These people sell plasma as platelets. A sample is being sent to a laboratory and a correct picture will emerge only after an examination,” the SP said.

    A private hospital in Prayagraj was sealed on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, police had said.

    After a video of the alleged incident went viral, the district administration swung into action and on the direction of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak sealed the hospital.

    The patient, Pradeep Pandey, was shifted to another hospital where he died after his condition deteriorated, officials had said.

    However, no FIR has been registered at the local police station in connection with the case.

    The owner of the private hospital had claimed that the platelets were brought from a different medical facility and the patient developed a reaction after three units were transfused to him.

    PRAYAGRAJ: Ten members of a gang allegedly selling fake platelets to patients were arrested here on Friday, police said.

    Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the accused used to take plasma from different blood banks and then put it in pouches and sell the plasma as platelet.

    The arrests were made following a tip-off, he said, adding some fake platelet pouches were seized from the possession of the accused.

    Pandey also said 12 persons were arrested a few days ago for allegedly supplying blood in an illegal manner.

    When asked about a case pertaining to the sealing of a private hospital on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, he said, “During the course of interrogation, it has not been confirmed whether it was a fruit juice in the pouch or something else.”

    “These people sell plasma as platelets. A sample is being sent to a laboratory and a correct picture will emerge only after an examination,” the SP said.

    A private hospital in Prayagraj was sealed on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, police had said.

    After a video of the alleged incident went viral, the district administration swung into action and on the direction of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak sealed the hospital.

    The patient, Pradeep Pandey, was shifted to another hospital where he died after his condition deteriorated, officials had said.

    However, no FIR has been registered at the local police station in connection with the case.

    The owner of the private hospital had claimed that the platelets were brought from a different medical facility and the patient developed a reaction after three units were transfused to him.

  • UP: Two held for objectionable remarks against Mulayam on social media 

    By PTI

    BALLIA: Two men were arrested for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on social media, police said on Friday.

    The Samajwadi Party founder breathed his last on October 10 at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.

    Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rasra) Shiv Narayan Vais said Markandeya Swarnkar and Ajay Verma, both residents of Nagra, were arrested on Thursday for the objectionable post against Yadav on Facebook.

    They were accused of disrupting peace, following which action was initiated, he added.

    Vais said the arrested accused had allegedly compared the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister to Ravana, the demon king in the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’, and also made an objectionable comment about him.

    On Thursday, Samajwadi Party workers submitted a memorandum demanding action to the Nagra police station SHO.

    BALLIA: Two men were arrested for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on social media, police said on Friday.

    The Samajwadi Party founder breathed his last on October 10 at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.

    Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rasra) Shiv Narayan Vais said Markandeya Swarnkar and Ajay Verma, both residents of Nagra, were arrested on Thursday for the objectionable post against Yadav on Facebook.

    They were accused of disrupting peace, following which action was initiated, he added.

    Vais said the arrested accused had allegedly compared the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister to Ravana, the demon king in the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’, and also made an objectionable comment about him.

    On Thursday, Samajwadi Party workers submitted a memorandum demanding action to the Nagra police station SHO.

  • Gas leak: BJP demands immediate arrest of meat processing plant owner

    By PTI

    ALIGARH: A delegation of BJP leaders on Friday met District Magistrate Inder Veer Singh, demanding the immediate arrest of the owner of a meat processing plant, where over 50 workers fell ill following the leakage of ammonia gas.

    The incident had taken place on Thursday morning at the meat plant run by Haji Zaheer Qureshi.

    The general secretary of the BJP’s city unit, Sanju Bajaj, said his party demanded that the plant be sealed and a high-powered inquiry be ordered into its functioning.

    They told mediapersons that if Qureshi is not arrested within 24 hours, their party will intensify its stir. Earlier, police had booked seven members of the factory staff, including the owner, for negligence.

    Barring the owner, who is absconding, the other six officials were arrested.

    Fifty-nine workers were taken ill after the incident at the meat processing plant on the outskirts of Aligarh city.

    All workers are out of danger and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident, District Magistrate Inder Veer Singh had said.

    ALIGARH: A delegation of BJP leaders on Friday met District Magistrate Inder Veer Singh, demanding the immediate arrest of the owner of a meat processing plant, where over 50 workers fell ill following the leakage of ammonia gas.

    The incident had taken place on Thursday morning at the meat plant run by Haji Zaheer Qureshi.

    The general secretary of the BJP’s city unit, Sanju Bajaj, said his party demanded that the plant be sealed and a high-powered inquiry be ordered into its functioning.

    They told mediapersons that if Qureshi is not arrested within 24 hours, their party will intensify its stir. Earlier, police had booked seven members of the factory staff, including the owner, for negligence.

    Barring the owner, who is absconding, the other six officials were arrested.

    Fifty-nine workers were taken ill after the incident at the meat processing plant on the outskirts of Aligarh city.

    All workers are out of danger and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident, District Magistrate Inder Veer Singh had said.

  • Chandigarh University video case: Army man held from Arunachal Pradesh, fourth arrest in case 

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Saturday said it has arrested an Army man in connection with the Chandigarh University case, in which it was alleged that a hostel recorded several objectionable videos of girl students in the common washroom.

    Punjab Director General of Police Guarav Yadav said Sanjeev Singh was nabbed from Arunachal Pradesh. He will be produced before a Mohali court.

    “Crucial breakthrough in the #ChandigarhUniversity case with the assistance of the #Army, #Assam & #Arunachal Pradesh Police. Accused Army personnel Sanjeev Singh arrested from Sela Pass, Arunachal Pradesh. Transit remand obtained from Ld CJM Bomdilla for production before Mohali court,” said the DGP in a tweet.

    He was suspected of blackmailing the accused woman student, said the DGP.

    ALSO READ | All-women SIT to probe Chandigarh University case, three accused sent to 7-day police remand 

    Yadav said based on forensic and digital evidence, a Mohali police team was dispatched to Arunachal Pradesh to arrest the accused.

    Police also obtained a two-day transit remand of the accused from the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Bomdila.

    “The guilty in this case will not be spared and justice will prevail,” said the DGP.

    Police had earlier arrested three people, a girl student and two men, from Himachal Pradesh.

    Protests had rocked the university campus in Punjab’s Mohali last week over allegations levelled by students that a hostel inmate recorded several objectionable videos of students in the common washroom.

    Some students had even claimed that the videos were leaked. The university authorities, however, dismissed these allegations as “false and baseless”.

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Saturday said it has arrested an Army man in connection with the Chandigarh University case, in which it was alleged that a hostel recorded several objectionable videos of girl students in the common washroom.

    Punjab Director General of Police Guarav Yadav said Sanjeev Singh was nabbed from Arunachal Pradesh. He will be produced before a Mohali court.

    “Crucial breakthrough in the #ChandigarhUniversity case with the assistance of the #Army, #Assam & #Arunachal Pradesh Police. Accused Army personnel Sanjeev Singh arrested from Sela Pass, Arunachal Pradesh. Transit remand obtained from Ld CJM Bomdilla for production before Mohali court,” said the DGP in a tweet.

    He was suspected of blackmailing the accused woman student, said the DGP.

    ALSO READ | All-women SIT to probe Chandigarh University case, three accused sent to 7-day police remand 

    Yadav said based on forensic and digital evidence, a Mohali police team was dispatched to Arunachal Pradesh to arrest the accused.

    Police also obtained a two-day transit remand of the accused from the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Bomdila.

    “The guilty in this case will not be spared and justice will prevail,” said the DGP.

    Police had earlier arrested three people, a girl student and two men, from Himachal Pradesh.

    Protests had rocked the university campus in Punjab’s Mohali last week over allegations levelled by students that a hostel inmate recorded several objectionable videos of students in the common washroom.

    Some students had even claimed that the videos were leaked. The university authorities, however, dismissed these allegations as “false and baseless”.

  • Turkish pop star jailed over joke about religious schools

    By Associated Press

    ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

    The 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.

    The arrest sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative ahead of elections in 10 months.

    The charges were based on a joke Gulsen made during an April concert in Istanbul, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school. A video of the singer’s comment began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.

    Gulsen — who previously became a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert — apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.

    During her questioning by court authorities, Gulsen rejected accusations that she incited hatred and enmity, and said she had “endless respect for the values and sensitivities of my country,” the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

    Her request to be released from custody pending the outcome of a trial was rejected.

    Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, called on Turkey’s judges and prosecutors to release Gulsen.

    “Don’t betray the law and justice; release the artist now!” he wrote on Twitter.

    The spokesman for Erdogan’s Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, appeared however, to defend the decision to arrest the singer, saying “inciting hatred is not an art form.”

    “Targeting a segment of society with the allegation of “perversion” and trying to polarize Turkey is a hate crime and a disgrace to humanity,” AKP spokesman Omer Celik tweeted.

    Erdogan and many members of his Islam-based ruling party are graduates of religious schools, which were originally established to train imams. The number of religious schools in Turkey has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.”

    Among those calling for Gulsen’s release was Turkish pop star, Tarkan, best known internationally for song “Kiss Kiss.”

    “Our legal system, which turns a blind eye to corruption, thieves, those who break the law and massacre nature, those who kill animals and those who use religion to polarize society through their bigoted ideas – has arrested Gulsen in one whack,” Tarkan said in a statement posted on Twitter.

    ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

    The 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.

    The arrest sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative ahead of elections in 10 months.

    The charges were based on a joke Gulsen made during an April concert in Istanbul, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school. A video of the singer’s comment began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.

    Gulsen — who previously became a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert — apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.

    During her questioning by court authorities, Gulsen rejected accusations that she incited hatred and enmity, and said she had “endless respect for the values and sensitivities of my country,” the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

    Her request to be released from custody pending the outcome of a trial was rejected.

    Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, called on Turkey’s judges and prosecutors to release Gulsen.

    “Don’t betray the law and justice; release the artist now!” he wrote on Twitter.

    The spokesman for Erdogan’s Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, appeared however, to defend the decision to arrest the singer, saying “inciting hatred is not an art form.”

    “Targeting a segment of society with the allegation of “perversion” and trying to polarize Turkey is a hate crime and a disgrace to humanity,” AKP spokesman Omer Celik tweeted.

    Erdogan and many members of his Islam-based ruling party are graduates of religious schools, which were originally established to train imams. The number of religious schools in Turkey has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.”

    Among those calling for Gulsen’s release was Turkish pop star, Tarkan, best known internationally for song “Kiss Kiss.”

    “Our legal system, which turns a blind eye to corruption, thieves, those who break the law and massacre nature, those who kill animals and those who use religion to polarize society through their bigoted ideas – has arrested Gulsen in one whack,” Tarkan said in a statement posted on Twitter.

  • Nearly 800 arrested in drive against hookah bars, drug smugglers in UP 

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW:  Nearly 800 people were arrested and narcotics worth more than Rs 5.58 crore were seized in raids conducted under a state-wide drive against hookah bars and narcotic smugglers, police said on Monday.

    Uttar Pradesh Police arrested 785 persons in raids conducted at 4,338 places across the state on Sunday.

    Raids were conducted at 342 hookah bars located in 22 districts and commissionerates of Agra, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Basti, Santkabirnagar, Siddharthnagar, Etawah, Hardoi, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Ayodhya, Barabanki, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Prayagraj, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Gautam Buddh Nagar.

    As many as 702 cases have been registered in this connection, the statement added.

    LUCKNOW:  Nearly 800 people were arrested and narcotics worth more than Rs 5.58 crore were seized in raids conducted under a state-wide drive against hookah bars and narcotic smugglers, police said on Monday.

    Uttar Pradesh Police arrested 785 persons in raids conducted at 4,338 places across the state on Sunday.

    Raids were conducted at 342 hookah bars located in 22 districts and commissionerates of Agra, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Basti, Santkabirnagar, Siddharthnagar, Etawah, Hardoi, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Ayodhya, Barabanki, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Prayagraj, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Gautam Buddh Nagar.

    As many as 702 cases have been registered in this connection, the statement added.

  • Moosewala murder: Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s associate arrested from Bihar

    Express News Service

    PATNA: A close associate of a wanted gangster, arrested in Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder, Lawrence Bishnoi has been arrested from Bihar’s Gopalganj district. Bishnoi is wanted in connection with the murder of noted Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.

    Acting on a tip-off, a Punjab police team with the help of Gopalganj police arrested Mohammad Raja Hussain from his native village Rajapur under the Mirganj police station area late on Friday evening.

    Gopalganj SP Anand Kumar said that Hussain is stated to be an active member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. He also worked for a Canada-based gangster identified as Goldi Brar in Delhi, Punjab and Bihar.

    Police said that Raja’s accomplish Shakti Singh was earlier arrested by Punjab police from Bilaspur in Chandigarh and Mohammad Afzal Khan from Chapra in Bihar’s Saran district.

    During the investigation, it came to light that the gangsters were allegedly involved in demanding extortion money from a Ludhiana-based businessman. They used national and international phone numbers for making extortion calls in India.

    “We have handed over Raja to the visiting police team from Punjab after completing legal formalities. The gangster on the run will be taken to Punjab on transit remand,” Gopalganj SP said.

  • Case against ex-SP MLA Rameshwar Yadav for illegal occupation of government land

    By PTI

    ETAH: A case was registered on Saturday against ex-Samajwadi Party MLA Rameshwar Yadav, who was arrested two days ago in another case, for alleged illegal occupation of government land, police said.

    He was arrested from Agra on Thursday night and sent to judicial custody by a court the next day. The arrest had come after an FIR was lodged against Rameshwar Yadav and his brother Jugendra Singh Yadav under the Gangster Act on April 18 for alleged land encroachment. The duo was absconding following the FIR.

    Another FIR has been lodged against the former SP MLA, his absconding brother Jugendra Singh Yadav, who is also the district panchayat chairman, and some others at the Jaithra police station, Additional Superintendent of Police Dhananjay Kushwaha said.

    The SP leaders have been accused of illegally occupying the government’s barren land and building a marriage hall and their houses on it, the police officer said.

    According to police, over 70 cases are lodged against Rameshwar Singh Yadav at various police stations of the district under serious charges, including an attempt to murder and voluntarily causing hurt.

  • Former Punjab forest minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot arrested on graft charges

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested former state minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot on corruption charges in the early hours of Tuesday, official sources said.

    The social welfare and forest minister in the previous Congress government was arrested from Amloh. This came days after the arrest of district forest officer Guramanpreet Singh and a contractor Harminder Singh Hummy in a corruption case.

    Both of them are learnt to have provided details of the alleged wrongdoings in the forest department when Dharamsot was the minister, sources said.

  • BJP seeks resignation of Kejriwal, Satyendar Jain after AAP minister’s arrest in money laundering case

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and health minister Satyendar Jain, who was arrested by the ED in connection with a money laundering case, alleging that the AAP chief’s stand on the issue shows that he not only condones corruption but is also involved in it.

    BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia also rejected the Aam Aadmi Party’s allegation of “political vendetta” and that Jain’s arrest was linked to upcoming polls in Himachal Pradesh.

    No court has quashed any proceedings of central agencies in a corruption case, he asserted.

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    The BJP government at the Centre has zero-tolerance against corruption and will continue to target graft, Bhatia said, adding that polls keep taking place in the country, and probe agencies cannot be asked to step back from acting despite evidence because of elections.

    Both Kejriwal and Jain should resign, he said at a press conference, alleging the health minister had been acting at the behest of the AAP supremo. It is clear that Kejriwal has been left with no morality, he claimed.

    Noting that former Punjab health minister Vijay Singla was also arrested in a corruption case recently, Bhatia alleged that the AAP has maintained a “100 per cent corruption” record.

    The allegations of money laundering against Jain are serious, Bhatia said and noted that he had so far got no relief from any court.

    Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday in connection with a money laundering case.