Dacoity

The Bombay High Court expressed surprise with the "lackadaisical and lethargic manner" in which an attempt to murder and dacoity case was being handled by the police in Badlapur in Thane district and said this was a "mockery of the criminal justice s

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested two persons on the charge of dacoity after a woman was robbed of nearly Rs 28 lakh on the promising of gold at "cheap and discounted" rate, an official said today.

Police said Sonu is a habitual criminal and has been previously involved in more than half a dozen cases of robbery involving use of firearms, attempt to murder, drug trafficking, dacoity, and many others in UP's Ghaziabad and Amroha.

Five persons allegedly sought the help of a fortune-teller for an auspicious time and carried out a dacoity of more than Rs 1 crore in Baramati in Pune district, a police official said on Monday.

Acquitting six accused of the charge of dacoity and five of them of the charge of being illegal residents, a court in Delhi has observed that in the country's prevailing scenario, it would be a "misuse" of the Foreigners Act.

A gang of five armed dacoits looted valuables from a bungalow and attacked family members residing in the house, leaving two of them injured, in Thane district in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.

Fourteen years after police booked three accused for the charges of murder and dacoity, a Delhi court has acquitted them saying that the testimony of the prosecution's sole eye witness was "highly doubtful."

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Tuesday claimed the Congress thinks it is entitled to indulge in "dacoity" and no one should question it.

BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit president Swatantra Dev Singh on Saturday hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, he said if "Akhilesh Yadav would have become chief minister and looted (the state); dacoity would have taken place."

The police foiled a dacoity attempt and arrested four persons in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Thursday.

The Thane district court has convicted three Bangladeshi nationals on the charges of armed dacoity and handed them rigorous imprisonment for five years.

Six persons have been arrested in connection with a case of dacoity in Navi Mumbai, in which a jeweller was allegedly robbed of cash to the tune of Rs 19 lakh.

Five people have been arrested from Rajasthan for allegedly carrying out an armed dacoity in a jewellery shop in Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

The Congress on Sunday slammed the Centre over rising fuel prices with former party chief Rahul Gandhi taking a dig at the government, saying the "tax dacoity" on petrol prices is rising.

In the first verdict on north-east Delhi riots, a court on Tuesday acquitted a man of rioting and dacoity charges while noting that the prosecution "miserably failed" to prove its case.

The Bombay High Court expressed surprise with the "lackadaisical and lethargic manner" in which an attempt to murder and dacoity case was being handled by the police in Badlapur in Thane district and said this was a "mockery of the criminal justice s

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested two persons on the charge of dacoity after a woman was robbed of nearly Rs 28 lakh on the promising of gold at "cheap and discounted" rate, an official said today.

Police said Sonu is a habitual criminal and has been previously involved in more than half a dozen cases of robbery involving use of firearms, attempt to murder, drug trafficking, dacoity, and many others in UP's Ghaziabad and Amroha.

Five persons allegedly sought the help of a fortune-teller for an auspicious time and carried out a dacoity of more than Rs 1 crore in Baramati in Pune district, a police official said on Monday.

Acquitting six accused of the charge of dacoity and five of them of the charge of being illegal residents, a court in Delhi has observed that in the country's prevailing scenario, it would be a "misuse" of the Foreigners Act.

A gang of five armed dacoits looted valuables from a bungalow and attacked family members residing in the house, leaving two of them injured, in Thane district in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.

Fourteen years after police booked three accused for the charges of murder and dacoity, a Delhi court has acquitted them saying that the testimony of the prosecution's sole eye witness was "highly doubtful."

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Tuesday claimed the Congress thinks it is entitled to indulge in "dacoity" and no one should question it.

BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit president Swatantra Dev Singh on Saturday hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, he said if "Akhilesh Yadav would have become chief minister and looted (the state); dacoity would have taken place."

The police foiled a dacoity attempt and arrested four persons in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Thursday.

The Thane district court has convicted three Bangladeshi nationals on the charges of armed dacoity and handed them rigorous imprisonment for five years.

Six persons have been arrested in connection with a case of dacoity in Navi Mumbai, in which a jeweller was allegedly robbed of cash to the tune of Rs 19 lakh.

Five people have been arrested from Rajasthan for allegedly carrying out an armed dacoity in a jewellery shop in Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

The Congress on Sunday slammed the Centre over rising fuel prices with former party chief Rahul Gandhi taking a dig at the government, saying the "tax dacoity" on petrol prices is rising.

In the first verdict on north-east Delhi riots, a court on Tuesday acquitted a man of rioting and dacoity charges while noting that the prosecution "miserably failed" to prove its case.