In a major crackdown on illegal call centres, fake customer service centres, the Guwahati city police have arrested three masterminds and detained 191 others while also confiscating a substantial quantity of electronic devices.
"Right from the Chief Election Commission to the CJI to the Prime Minister agree that fake news is a threat to democracy and there are various reports that are suggesting fake news, misinformation is creating chaos in the society," Priyank Kharge said.
According to Victims' lawyer, adv Jaspal Singh, "The three convicts identified as Surinder Singh, Gurdev Singh and Dharm Singh, have been sentenced to life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 2 lakh each by the Special CBI Court."
"The arrested persons are fake Kazis, and they illegally conducted marriages, including minors. In one register, we found that one of the arrested persons had illegally conducted 150-200 marriages in the district. They also conducted child marriages. Our investigation is on," Samir Baruah
Naveed Walter, president of Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), said that police have made fake reports on Jaranwala’s blasphemy incidents. “We reject both versions of police, first of foreign conspiracy just after the incident dated 16 August and now of honour crime to personal interests,”
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will hear after next week pleas seeking a probe into the alleged fake encounter cases in Gujarat from 2002 to 2006, whose probe was monitored by a former top court judge Justice HS Bedi.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Monday sentenced 10-year rigorous imprisonment to the sixth accused in the East Champaran fake currency case.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) on Thursday denied reports of a supposed ban on the use, possession, and circulation of Rs 5000 currency notes after a fake circular with the letterhead of the Finance Division went viral on social media, Geo News reported.
"It is in this background that the BJP leaders have twisted my speech at the TNPWAA conference as ‘inciting genocide’. They consider it a weapon to protect themselves. What is surprising is the Ministers of the Union government like Thiru. Amit Shah and Chief Minister of states ruled by the
The NIA Special Court in Bihar's Patna on Tuesday convicted 46-year-old Munna Singh for the charges filed against him by the anti-terror agency under sections various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The sentence against him w
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.