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Chennai police have arrested three of R. Veeramani's drivers on abetment charges and searched their residences, days after the granite baron was detained under the Goondas Act. Five cases now stand against the 84-year-old — including abetment of a minor's 2004 suicide.
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DIG of Prisons M. Somashekhar allegedly sexually exploited a convict's wife in exchange for her husband's parole and release, the woman claimed in a court statement under Section 183 BNSS. Her husband was freed on a forged Supreme Court order.
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The flydubai co-pilot accused of trying to crash FZ1073 into Tel Aviv told UAE interrogators he planned the attack before being hired and deliberately chose the airline because it flies to Israel; a senior Emirati source says he faces the death penalty.
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Justice K. Govindarajan Thilakavadi on Monday allowed the DMK's application seeking leave to sue Ministers Aadhav Arjuna and CTR Nirmal Kumar for alleged defamatory remarks in the POCSO case against granite baron R. Veeramani. The suit also names the TVK IT wing and Google, Meta and X.
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The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has begun a preliminary inquiry into alleged irregularities in the Mundamveli P&T Apartment Complex in Kochi, where 78 families live in flats commissioned in 2024. The Kochi Corporation has already dropped the contractor from a new tender.
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A 45-year-old farmer in Tiruttani was hacked to death by two youths after he complained to police that one of them was persistently harassing his minor daughter. One accused is in custody; the other is still at large.
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The Kochi unit of the Enforcement Directorate is set to register a money-laundering case over crores of rupees moved abroad for Lionel Messi's proposed Kerala visit — a dream that never materialised and is now described as one of the biggest frauds of the previous government's tenure.
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A minor girl with a disability was allegedly raped at a place of worship in Nellore on Sunday. The accused, a regular cleaning worker, was caught by locals as he tried to leave. The child rights commission has asked officials to ensure her care.
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The FBI arrested Wanying 'Heather' Zhang, 34, at Los Angeles airport before her flight to China, charging her with acting as Beijing's unregistered agent. She allegedly photographed Taiwan president Lai Ching-te's son and family at their Seattle home for Chinese officials. The charges are unproven.
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Santosh Ganpat Kashte, 47, died and another worker was critically injured after entering a Mumbai sewer chamber without safety equipment. The contractor has been arrested for culpable homicide and under the 2013 anti-manual-scavenging law.
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Two women from Nagaland were allegedly molested by a man from Uttar Pradesh in the lobby of Kolkata's JW Marriott on the EM Bypass between 12.30 am and 1 am while they were cheering for the Brazil team; police have arrested the accused and registered a case.
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