Overview

• A West Bengal court has sentenced nine people to life imprisonment in the nation’s first ‘digital arrest’ fraud case, convicting them of orchestrating a cyber-extortion scheme that preyed on victims nationwide.
• Patna Police and the Special Task Force conducted cross-state raids to arrest suspects linked to the hospital shooting of Bihar gangster Chandan Mishra.
• In Lucknow, authorities arrested a school-van driver accused of raping a four-year-old girl during her commute, and the case has quickly moved toward trial.
• Probes have been launched into the suspected ragging-related death of IIT Kharagpur student Ritam Mandal and the petrol-attack on a 15-year-old girl in Puri, who is now receiving treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar.
• Police in Punjab arrested a mother-daughter team accused of defrauding over seven youths with bogus Canada marriage schemes, while Bhopal Police detained a Bangladeshi national living under forged documents for almost 30 years and Bihar authorities charged veteran journalist Ajit Anjum over his voter-verification reporting.