Many more cases of child marriage have come to light in Assam after the police arrested 2,442 people as a part of the state government's massive crackdown against the ill practice.
He has been arrested from the Haldwani jail in Uttarakhand and was brought to Delhi on transit remand. He was presented in court after which he was sent to four-day custody.
Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officials on Monday arrested a government employee in Guwahati for accepting a bribe of Rs 2000 from a person to process his pension case forward.
Identified as Deep Bania, the government employee was serving as the Senior Assistant at the Chief
he Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state on Monday arrested former minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
It was alleged that the said public servants alongwith private persons entered into a conspiracy for showing undue favours to the private contractors in the award of contracts.
Three of five accused persons named in the FIR into the alleged lynching of a youth at Manjhi in Bihar's Saran district on Sunday were arrested, the police informed on Monday.
The total number of people arrested in connection with child marriages escalated to 2,441, informed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday.
Kerala Police on Sunday night arrested 113 people who were accused in various criminal cases, under operation AAG, Thiruvananthapuram Commissioner of Police CH Nagaraj.