Bengal Chit Fund fraud leaves a trail of deceit and death

cise Officer (DEO) and three head excise constables were suspended in the death case of eight persons who had consumed spurious liquor in Amethi. The state government took a serious note of the deaths after the news was broke and Chief Minister ...

The father, brother-in-law and two uncles, who the victim of an attempted honour killing tried to shield, were arrested Friday from Bihars East Champaran district. The four and two others had thrown acid at the 17-year-old victims face, stabbed and attempted ...

The family of a teenaged girl who had been attacked with acid in East Champaran district had tried to kill her to preserve their honour, police said today. The girl had sought to pin the blame for the attack on a boy, who hails from the same ...

The body count, mostly from suicides after the chit fund bubble burst, went up to 11 today with the death of an agent and an alleged suicide by a chit fund firm director.42-year-old chit fund agent Mrinal Kanti Mondal, who had consumed poison on ...

Amravati: Six Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths, including two police inspectors, were killed and three others injured when their jeep rammed into a tree near Kamargaon on Karanja-Amravati road in wee hours on Wednesday, police said. The mishap ...

Lucknow: Eighteen days after Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq was shot dead, his widow Parveen Azad joined the UP police as an officer on special duty (OSD), a post offered to her on compassionate grounds by the state government. Parveen joined the office of ...

Pratapgarh: The CBI team probing the killing of DSP Zia-ul-Haq today detained a person said to be close to former UP minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh 'Raja Bhaiya', who is also among the accused in the case. Chavinath Yadav is suspected to be involved ...