Ahmedabad: After a meeting between top police officials and the Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi, the city police launched a city-wide police combing operation. The operation involved checking 21,223 vehicles, including 3,111 two-wheelers, and was led by zonal DCPs along with teams of 30-50 personnel. It resulted in the seizure of 199 weapons under the Gujarat Police Act, including Rambo knives, swords, and other sharp-edged instruments. In total, 1,791 vehicles were detained, and 375 ...Read More

Ahmedabad: A 23-year-old second-year MBA student from MICA, Priyanshu Jain, died on November 11 from stab wounds following an alleged road rage altercation in the Bopal area of the city. Today, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch apprehended the accused, who allegedly stabbed Priyanshu. The accused assailant, Virendrasinh Padheriya, has been identified as a police constable posted at Sarkhej Police Station. After the stabbing, he fled to Punjab but was later detained by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch. It ...Read More

Ahmedabad: In a recent incident, an elderly couple from Vadodara was allegedly stopped by plainclothes policemen near Adani Circle on Ring Road, who reportedly extorted around Rs 12,000 from them. The incident occurred on November 5 when the couple returned from Vietnam. After landing at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, the couple, along with two other individuals, was traveling to Vadodara in a taxi when they were stopped by police personnel near Adani Circle, which falls unde...Read More

Ahmedabad: Amid Diwali festivities and Gujarati New Year celebrations, a 24-year-old man was brutally stabbed to death by four individuals due to an old enmity in the Shahibaug area of the city. According to the complaint filed at Shahibaug Police Station by Bitti Devi Kushwaha, her son Alok had an altercation with Golu Tomar, Gopal Tomar, Gappu Tomar, and several other unidentified individuals around 8:30 p.m. on Friday night (November 1) near their home. Upon learning of the incident, she b...Read More

Ahmedabad: The City Police of Ahmedabad released a detailed press statement regarding the arrest of Mahesh Langa who is the Senior Assistant Editor of 'The Hindu' newspaper. The press statement is presented here in full tex: As per Director General GST Intelligence's (DGGI) report, an FIR was registered on 7 October, 2024 against one shell company Dhruvi Enterprises and 12 other companies which had dealings Dhruvi Enterprises. Some of the details of the facts which have been uncovered in t...Read More

Ahmedabad: After exposing fake offices and government officials, the Ahmedabad police have now busted a bogus arbitration court in the state capital. Maurice Samuel Christian was arrested for allegedly posing as an arbitrator and issuing false rulings in favor of clients in land-related cases, the police announced on Monday. It has come to light that he had been running the fraudulent court for over five and a half years. An FIR was lodged at the Karanj police station in Ahmedabad following a...Read More

Ahmedabad: The city police have arrested two police personnel along with one barber after a video of four cops drinking outside the new Ahmedabad Police Commissionerate went viral. The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday while Dussehra rituals were being held at the new CP office in Shahibaug. Two other cops involved in the case are still at large. After the video came to light, Commissioner G.S. Malik ordered a comprehensive investigation. An FIR was filed with the Madhavpura pol...Read More

Ahmedabad: City traffic police, through a notification, have banned vehicular traffic on Mangal Vidyalaya Road near Mithakhali Circle in Ahmedabad from 12 noon to 11 pm on 7th October. The traffic will remain banned on this road due to the dismantling of a large construction crane at the under-construction Ekansh building by PSP Projects Ltd. The company had approached the city traffic police, requesting the prohibition of traffic during the crane removal procedure, as it could pose a danger ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today inaugurated the new office building of the Police Commissionerate of Ahmedabad during his visit to his home state of Gujarat. This seven-story structure spans an area of 18,068.45 square meters and was built at a cost of around Rs 146 crore. In his address, Amit Shah said that the new building of the Police Commissioner’s Office in Ahmedabad will not only enhance the facilities of the building but will also enable the Ahmedabad police to establ...Read More

Ahmedabad: The city police have arrested one Sahil Ahmed from Pune for blackmailing a Hindu girl from Bopal by recording obscene videos of her through social media. Exhausted from the physical and mental torture, the girl attempted suicide twice by slashing her wrists. The accused also forced her to smoke cigarettes. The girl's mother filed a complaint at the Bopal police station, after which the police arrested the accused in Pune. Bopal police nabbed 21-year-old Sahil Ahmed Ibrahim Satarkar...Read More