Ranchi Apr 23 PTI A woman was killed after an IED laid by Maoists exploded when she was collecting mahua flowers in a forest on the Lohardaga-Latehar border in Jharkhand police said on SaturdayThe incident happened in the Bulbul forest on Friday when Shakunti Devi a resident of Latehar district was collecting mahua flowers they saidThe authorities got to know about it when her body was brought to the village on Saturday they addedDuring the Operation Double Bull the IEDs which were planted by the Maoists in the forest had been destroyed by the police It seems some IEDs are still there Police are investigating the matter Jharkhand Police spokesperson Amol V Homkar told PTIThe operation which began on February 8 in the Bulbul forests led to the arrest of nine Maoists of the rank of sub-zonal commander and area commanderOne insurgent was killed while five top Maoists with bounties ranging from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 25 lakh surrendered A huge cache of arms and ammunition were also seized PTI SAN SOM SOM
Jamshedpur Jan 29 PTI A court in Jharkhands East Singhbum district on Saturday sentenced three persons including a woman and her lover to life imprisonment for killing her husband here three years agoAdditional District Judge-4 Rajendra Kumar Sinha had on January 27 convicted Sweta Das her lover Sumit Singh and their accomplice Sonu Lal for the murder of Tapan Das The quantum of punishment was pronounced on SaturdayThe court also slapped a fine of Rs 7000 on each of them Tapan Das was murdered on January 12 2019 at Telco locality of Jamshedpur The three convicted persons then put the body in a refrigerator carried it in an autorickshaw to Barabanki and dumped it in a bushLocal people informed the police after stench came out of the bush a couple of days laterThe police cracked the case by examining CCTV footage collected from in and around the apartment block where Sweta and Tapan lived and the call details of the three accused personsThe couple had a nine-year-old daughterSweta Sumit Singh and Sonu Lal are now lodged in different jails They were produced before the court via virtual mode PTI COR BS NN NN
Jamshedpur, September 19: A 25-year-old jumped into the Kharkai river along with her minor kids on Friday night in Jameshpur city of Jharkhand’s Singhbhum district. The deceased have been identified as Santoshi, her four-year-old daughter Manisha and her one-year-old son Manish. The incident took place at the Kadma toll bridge site. It comes under the Kadma police station […]
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