Surat: A police investigation into the suicide of two female college students in the Dindoli area of Surat has revealed that both girls were reportedly under severe emotional stress following recent break-ups in their relationships, officials said on Monday. The development has emerged as a key angle in the preliminary probe, although police said the investigation is still in progress and final conclusions will depend on forensic and medical reports. According to the police, the deceased fema...Read More

Surat: The suicide of two college students in Surat has sparked an international debate on the misuse of artificial intelligence after tech entrepreneur Elon Musk reacted to a social media post linking the incident to AI-based searches related to self-harm. The case, reported from the Dindoli area, involved two young women who allegedly died after injecting anaesthetic drugs, with police finding suicide-related search queries on their mobile phones, including on ChatGPT. According to police, ...Read More

Surat: The Cyber Crime Police in Surat have busted an illegal online betting and gaming racket operating through a website and arrested nine individuals from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. Investigations revealed that the accused used the betting platform to circulate and launder money siphoned off through cyber frauds committed across the country. According to police, the accused are linked to 110 cyber fraud complaints across 21 states, involving transactions worth ₹19.24 crore routed through 391...Read More

Surat: A day after filing an FIR in the alleged Rs 1,928 crore fraud case, Surat police on Monday issued look-out circulars (LOCs) against the four Gajera brothers, Vasant, Chuni, Ashok and Bakul along with their nephew Rakesh Gajera. LOCs were also issued against co-accused Hitesh Pardeshi and Gautam Prajapati. The Economic Offences Cell said the move was taken as the accused are untraceable and may attempt to flee the country. Their phones were found switched off and searches at multiple lo...Read More

Surat: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) police have registered a massive cheating and forgery case involving ₹1,928.39 crore against four Gajera brothers, Vasant, Chuni, Ashok and Bakul, along with five other individuals. The case is linked to prominent textile market projects developed on Ring Road in the city. The complaint was lodged by Pravin Agrawal (51), a partner in Shanti Residency Pvt Ltd, a real estate company. Acting on directions from the Gujarat High Court, police registered...Read More

Surat: Umra Police nabbed a woman in connection with the suicide of city-based builder Tushar Ghelani, registering an offence of abetment to suicide against his alleged close associate, Poonam Bhadoriya, following a detailed probe into financial and personal transactions between the two. According to police, the action was initiated after Ghelani’s family submitted an application accusing Bhadoriya of mentally harassing and blackmailing him. The family alleged that she had extracted substanti...Read More

Surat: A day after Chirag Goti was arrested in connection with a mephedrone drug-planting case, Chowk Bazar police registered an FIR against him and six others, booking them for extortion and abduction. Police officials said several alleged victims approached the Police Commissioner’s office following Goti’s arrest, accusing him of torture and extortion. At least four videos have surfaced in which Goti is purportedly seen assaulting individuals, firing in the air, and brandishing a firearm....Read More

Surat: Chirag Goti, a businessman accused of orchestrating the planting of mephedrone in a vehicle to falsely implicate his former business partner, surrendered before a Surat court on Monday following directions from the Supreme Court. Subsequently, a local court on Tuesday granted the police four days of custodial interrogation, intensifying a probe that has now widened to include allegations of assault, extortion, and a broader criminal network linked to the accused. Drug Seizure and Allege...Read More

Surat: An assistant engineer of the Surat Municipal Corporation and her self-styled journalist husband have been booked for allegedly extorting ₹2.5 lakh from a builder. The complainant, Anisul Hasan Hakim, a builder residing at Hakim Manzil near Kazi’s Ground in Gopipura, had purchased a dilapidated property in Sagrampura in 2021 and was preparing to redevelop it. During this period, Mohammad Shakib Jariwala approached him, introduced himself as a journalist, and claimed that the construct...Read More

Surat: A 35-year-old head constable posted at the office of the police commissioner was allegedly assaulted by four persons in Nana Varachha on Thursday night while attempting to ease a traffic jam. The incident took place around 9:30 pm near a health centre in Nana Varachha when head constable Akshay Ahir was returning home after duty. Noticing severe congestion caused by private buses, he got out of his car and began regulating traffic. During the process, he observed a car parked carelessly ...Read More