Three teenage boys have been arrested from Assam’s Cachar district for smuggling a significant quantity of heroin. According to the police, the shipment came from a neighbouring state and was headed towards Maharashtra. The market value of the seized drugs is around Rs 7 crore, the police said on Wednesday.

A special investigation team (SIT) of the Gurugram police has arrested five people, including a Haryana Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and a contractual worker of Delhi's Tehsil office, for usurping an NRI's land in Gurugram worth Rs 40 crore, police said on Wednesday. The accused, in a planned manner, had taken over the land of the NRI in their name by pretending to buy the land worth about Rs 40 crore for Rs 6.6 crore, police said.

In a brazen daylight heist, three armed men targeted a jewellery store in north Delhi on Wednesday, making off with around 480 grams of gold, valued at nearly Rs 30 lakh. The robbers, wearing helmets, arrived on a motorcycle at Shriram Jewellery shop in Samaypur Badli area, where they brandished their firearms and threatened the staff before escaping with their loot.

The charge sheet submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a Delhi court mentions how Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) has "roped in" notorious gangsters-turned-terrorists like Harwinder Singh, Lakhbir Singh, Arshdeep, among others, for using their criminal network for planning and carrying out terror attacks and targeted killings in Delhi, Punjab and other parts of the country.

A special CBI team led by its Special Director Ajay Bhatnagar arrived in Imphal on Wednesday to expedite the probe into the murder of two young students, officials said. The Manipur government had earlier said that the murder case of two young students has been handed over to the CBI, while the security forces have also initiated a search operation to nab the perpetrators.

In a shocking incident, a 53-year-old man has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of an eight-year-old minor girl living in a same building in Mumbai's Jogeshwari suburbs, police sources said here on Wednesday. The accused, said to be closely acquainted with the victim’s family, was arrested on Sunday after a complaint registered by the girl’s mother.

Samastipur police arrested a miscreant on the charges of assaulting and molesting a schoolgirl on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred at a village under Musrigharari police station on Tuesday, an official said. Three miscreants misbehaved and passed lewd comments at a student while she was returning home from school.

In a shocking case in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain, a mentally-challenged minor girl was brutally raped, and faced people's apathy as she was left semi-naked on the roadside seeking help. In a viral footage, the victim, who was in a semi-naked condition and bleeding, was seen approaching a man for help, who shoos her away.

A couple of days after they went missing, the bodies of two youths were dug out from a farm land near Palakkad in Kerala, a police officer said on Wednesday. According to the officer, bodies of Shijith and Satheesh, who went missing on Monday, were dug out from a farm land belonging to one Ananthan.