A self-styled mystic was arrested by J&K Police on Saturday after he axed a 60-year-old woman to death in Handwara area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir. Police said that a self-styled mystic named Ghulam Rasool alias Lassa Bab, axed a 60-year-old woman to death in his room in Chogal village of Handwara tehsil on Friday.

A speeding car ran over 11 persons sleeping on the roadside at Mahwa town in Rajasthan's Dausa district, killing three persons and leaving eight others injured, the police said on Friday. While two injured persons have been admitted to the government hospital in Mahwa, six others were referred to the SMS Hospital in Jaipur.

Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Friday that a case has been registered after some miscreants attempted to disrespect a local shrine in Dadsara at Tral in South Kashmir by damaging windowpanes. The attack was carried out on Thursday night.

Delhi Police have arrested a couple for drug peddling in the national capital, said an official here, adding that heroin valued at over Rs 20 lakh was recovered from them. The accused were identified as Rajesh Rana a.k.a Bunty (44), and his wife Neelam Rana (43), residents of Tilak Nagar.

Two youths, including a 19-year-old woman, wearing ‘Spiderman’ costumes were booked for various offences while performing stunts on the road in Delhi, an official said on Friday. The accused are identified as Aditya (20), and Anjali (19), both residents of Najafgarh.

A 24-year-old sharpshooter of gangster, Naresh Sethi, wanted in a firing incident on a property dealer's office for extortion, was arrested by the Crime Branch from Delhi’s Rohini area, police said on Friday. The accused was identified as Mohit a.k.a Moji, a resident of Rohtak district in Haryana. The officials said that Mohit is a close associate of Naresh Sethi and Akshay Gang and he used to manage the shoot-outs and harbour the shooters before and after the commission of crime till further directions from the gang leaders.

A 24-year-old man impersonating a ‘pilot’ of Singapore Airlines was nabbed while wandering in the Metro Skywalk area near Delhi airport, police said on Friday. The accused was identified as Sangeet Singh, a resident of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. According to police, on Thursday a person clad in a Singapore Airlines pilot uniform was spotted wandering in the Metro Skywalk area.

A cashier at Lucknow Electric Supply Authority’s (LESA) Mahanagar sub-divisional office allegedly vanished after stealing over Rs 52.5 lakh in collected revenue from customers. After waiting for more than a week, an official from the Executive Engineer’s office filed a complaint with the Aliganj police station on Thursday. The matter had been circulating internally at LESA since Ajay Kumar Verma, a cashier from Sector C, Indira Nagar under the Ghazipur police station’s jurisdiction, disappeared from his duties and failed to report to his supervisor.

Two terrorists were killed while a civilian and two soldiers were injured in the ongoing gunfight between the security forces and holed-up militants in Sopore town of J&K’s Baramulla district on Friday. Security forces, including the local police, Army and the CRPF started a cordon and search operation in the Nowpora locality of Sopore town on Thursday after receiving information about the presence of terrorists there.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials are questioning five district collectors of Tamil Nadu in a case related to illegal sand mining. The district collectors of Vellore, Tiruchirappalli, Karur, Thanjavur and Ariyalur are being questioned at the ED office in Chennai.