Kutch: Local authorities today carried out a demolition action in the Shikarpura area of Bhachau, targeting the illegal encroachment of notorious criminal Haji Amad Traya, who has been involved in cases related to murder, robbery, and prohibition. In Gujarat, illegal occupants of government land are facing strict action as authorities continue their statewide crackdown on encroachments. As part of this effort, Kutch police demolished Traya’s illegally constructed house on government land. La...Read More

Kutch: A Bhachau court on Saturday granted bail to CID head constable Nita Chaudhary, who was apprehended last week. Nita was booked along with alleged bootlegger Yuvrajsinh Jadeja for attempting to murder six policemen by trying to run them over with a car while transporting liquor. On the same day, the police took Chaudhary to Abu Road town in Rajasthan, where she allegedly purchased the liquor, but they made no progress in the investigation as the liquor shops were closed. Chaudhary was...Read More

Kutch: The female head constable of CID (crime), who was apprehended on Monday along with an alleged bootlegger for purportedly attempting to run over pursuing police officers, was transporting liquor from Rajasthan in their vehicle, as disclosed by police to the local court in Bhachau on Tuesday. Bhachau Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate D S Dabhi remanded both the accused, head constable Nita Chaudhary and Yuvrajsinh Jadeja, to judicial custody. Nita and Yuvrajsinh allegedly tried to ...Read More

Kutch: Videos have gone viral recently on social media from Adhoi village in Bhachau taluka, where students and parents confront the Christian teachers of an English school after they gave the Bible to Hindu students in an alleged attempt at conversion. In the viral video, the parents can be seen confronting and questioning the teachers about why the Bible was given to Hindu students. When the teacher claimed that the students asked for the Bible, the young student promptly said that he did n...Read More

Kutch: The Samakhiali National Highway in Bhachau taluka has been witnessing a traffic jam since 10:30 am today, causing long queues of vehicles on both sides of the road. There is a 25-kilometre traffic jam on the National Highway, and stones were pelted at a government bus during a protest. One person was injured in the stone-pelting. The protesters further vandalised the bus. Truck drivers in Kutch are protesting against a new Central Government law that mandates a ten-year sentence for driv...Read More

Bhachau: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat has nabbed a Police Inspector and an Additional Head Constable cum PI Writer of Bhacuah Police Station in the Kutch district in the bribe case. A complainant in this case had taken money on interest and later he was facing harassment over repayment of lent money. When the complainant contacted Bhacuah Police Inspector AB Patel against this harassment by the loan shark, the Police Inspector demanded Rs. 5 lakh bribe for filing a complaint. As...Read More

Bhuj: Collector of Kutch Pravina DK stated in a letter to the secretary of Gujarat Road and Buildings Department about the delay in the development of Bhuj-Bhachau Highway and Bhuj-Nakhatrana Highway and in construction of overbridge between Bhuj and Bhachau. It was requested in the letter to hand-over these works to the Roads and Buildings Department which is currently under GSRDCL (Gujarat State Road Development Corporation Limited) so that regular monitoring by regional officers can be possib...Read More