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.
The accused has been identified as Vivek Porwal (around 38 years old). The police arrested him from a shop in Dhodhar area, Ratlam district on Friday late evening.
In a major crackdown against child marriages, Bongaigaon Police arrested 87 accused in 140 registered cases under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act and POCSO act, the police said.
The police arrested a terrorist identified as Arif who was in contact with the Pakistani handlers for three years. As many as nine people were injured in the twin blasts that occurred in Narwal last month in a gap of 20 minutes.
The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday at around 3 am when the couple- Ankita Jaiswal and Kush Jaiswal were returning to their flat in their car on Sarjapur Main Road.
Gujarat Police arrested one person on Thursday for allegedly killing a biker after hitting him with his car and dragging him under the vehicle for 12 kilometres in Surat in Gujarat.
In a mega crackdown on the weapon smuggling mafia, Punjab Police arrested two Rajasthan-based weapon smugglers after recovering eight pistols and fake Indian currency from their possession in Fazilka, police said on Friday.
The Chhattarpur police on Tuesday apprehended an accused for allegedly giving death threats to self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri, also known as Bageshwar Dham Sarkar.
The Kanchipuram district police arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary for putting up derogatory remarks about Chief Minister MK Stalin and his family.