Three persons have been arrested for stabbing a 25-year-old man to death in Delhi's Mandoli area after he resisted robbery, officials said on Wednesday.
On Monday, the Pakistani police arrested the accused principal employed at a private school in Karachi for allegedly raping and blackmailing several women.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, was arrested shortly after being released from prison on Tuesday, Pakistan-based Express Tribune reported.
With the arrest of five people, police claimed to have busted a fake recruitment scam in the military engineering service in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.
A senior CBI official informed that the arrested persons were involved in bribery of Rs 50 lakh. A complaint was received into the matter, and the trap was laid. The accused promised a GAIL project to a person, and a bribe was demanded in return for the project.
A large protest rally was also carried out by Hindu and Muslim businessmen in Kashmore to condemn the kidnappings and failure of law enforcement agencies to arrest the culprits.
Former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi has challenged his arrest under MPO in Islamabad High Court. He pleaded with the court to strike down his arrest under MPO and order his immediate release.
Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Mohal filed the petition, representing Bushra Bibi pleading that the agencies including FIA, NAB, police and ACE have been keeping the FIRs secret so the petitioner could not approach the courts for grant of pre-arrest bail.
According to Pranab Jyoti Goswami, CPRO of Assam police, the arrested police officers have been identified as Shiddhartha Buragohain, IPS, the then Superintendent of Police of Bajali district and Pushkal Gogoi, APS, the then Deputy Superintendent of Police (HQ).