In a shocking case, a youth was allegedly killed over a financial dispute and his body was burnt in a forest in Palamu district of Jharkhand in an attempt to destroy evidence, officials said on Thursday.

The police in Gujarat's Banaskantha, on Thursday, exposed a major racket involving a man posing as an IPS officer on social media to dupe people, officials said.

A senior official from the Ministry of Health has filed a criminal complaint against a self-proclaimed currency market investor, alleging a meticulously orchestrated scam that siphoned off Rs 31 lakh from the complainant and his family.

In a significant breakthrough, Jaisalmer Police have busted a fake currency racket and arrested two accused with counterfeit notes valued at Rs 67,000.

West Bengal Police have arrested a woman and her lover from Andhra Pradesh on charges of killing her three-year-old daughter.

The accused, Nazira Bibi and her lover Tajuddin Molla, were arrested from Andhra Pradesh by Parulia Coastal Police in South 24 Paraganas district based on a complaint lodged by her husband, Azahar Lashkar.

Diamond Harbour Police District's Additional SP (Zonal) Mitun Kumar Dey said that the child was taken to Andhra Pradesh's Katrenikona area and killed.

Initially, the duo claimed it was an accident, but during interrogation, they confessed that they considered the child an obstacle to their new life together.

Nazira said as she was pregnant with her lover's child; therefore, the daughter from her previous marriage was seen as a threat to their future.

The man who attacked Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta during the weekly 'Jan Sunvai' event at her official residence has been identified as Rajesh Bhai Khimji Bhai Sakariya, a resident of Gujarat's Rajkot, sources said.

The Delhi Police have contacted their counterparts in Gujarat regarding the same, the sources added.

The sources also said that 41-year-old Rajesh told the police that he hails from Rajkot.

The police are interrogating the man to ascertain the cause of the attack.

The police on Tuesday apprehended a dreaded criminal after an encounter near Khandual in Dhanupali police limits of Odisha's Sambalpur district, said officials.

The accused, identified as Md. Samad, a resident of Motijharan in Sambalpur, sustained bullet injuries on his left leg during the encounter with the police team in the early hours.

He was immediately rushed to VIMSAR Medical College and Hospital, Burla, for treatment.

As per police sources, the accused, Samad, along with his brother, Md. Wasim brutally attacked Asfaq Khan of Motijharan with sharp weapons at around 10 p.m. on Monday. Khan later succumbed to injuries caused by the stabbing assault by the accused siblings.

Subsequently, Samad and Wasim escaped the crime scene to avoid arrest.

A man in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur allegedly killed his wife over suspicion of an illicit relationship, before committing suicide by coming under a train, officials said on Thursday.