Ahmedabad: The Economic Crime Prevention Department of the city police's Crime Branch has arrested Juhapura land mafia Mohammad Ismail and three of his accomplices for forging documents of Nikol based land and demanding Rs 12 crore for settlement. The case is based on the landowner's complaint. The four accused would create fake documents of farming land, cause disputes, and extort crores of rupees. They had also targeted land in Nikol and demanded a settlement of Rs 12 crore from the land ow...Read More

Junagadh:In a much-needed relief to the people of Junagadh district, the police have booked the notorious Rahim alias Khuri and his 10 aides under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism & Organized Crime Act (GujCTOC). The gang has a history of murders, kidnappings, rioting, issuing death threats, looting, and supplying weapons. The gang had killed a father and son at Ravni village about a month ago. They were mainly active in the Vanthali area. According to Junagadh district police chief Harshad M...Read More

Surat: The police have added the GujCTOC (Gujarat Control of Organised Crime) Act to the crime filed against the six accused in the Vedroad double murder case in Surat. The Chowkbajar police have added GujCTOC against the six accused in the case where ten youths had allegedly rushed to Ataljinagar at Vedroad-Pandol on 3rd March. They entered a house in Rahematnagar with weapons and attacked three youths, namely Rajesh Vitthal Rathod, Kartik Vrundavan Chauhan, and Balakeshwar Bhuvaneshwar Pari...Read More

Jamnagar: The police have seized a plot worth Rs 3.38 crore belonging to one of the accused arrested under  Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) in Jamnagar. Fourteen accused, including Jayesh Patel, were booked under GujCTOC in October 2020 in various cases of crime. The police had arrested all the accused except Jayesh Patel (who is nabbed in London) and two others. Five of them were released on bail. As per the order of the state home department, the police have b...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Assembly passed the amended Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) bill yesterday, on the first day of its two-day session. During the session, the Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi, said that the State police seized drugs worth ₹6500 last year and 740 people have been arrested in the matter so far. Sanghavi told the Gujarat assembly that two words 'terrorist act' and 'gambling' are being removed from GujCTOC Act 2015. "We are only dropp...Read More

Jamnagar: The special court has issued a show-cause notice to a notorious land mafia Jayesh Patel, his wife and their lawyer in a GUJCTOC case where the names of witnesses were revealed to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Income Tax Department in contravention of the court’s orders in 2020 to keep the names secret. As per details of the case, the police have registered an offence against land-mafia Jayesh Patel and his accomplices under the GUJCTOC Act in 2020. After an assurance th...Read More

Surat: The Athwa police in Surat city have taken recourse to the GUJCTOC (Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime Act) to crack down on the dreaded Mindi gang infamous in Bhaga Talav, Nanpura and Kadarsha Ni Naal areas of the city for carrying out a litany of anti-social activities, detaining 5 of its members. Operating under the leadership of Arif Mindi, offences such as murders, attempt to murder, extortion, abductions, inter-gang violence, bullying and browbeating, usurping proper...Read More