The Rajasthan police arrested a bookie in Ajmer around 12.45am today and seized sheets of paper on which he had allegedly accepted bets worth Rs. 5 lakh on a T20 league eliminator match. Zakir Hussain reports.
A kidnapping and rape accused allegedly committed suicide in a police station in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district prompting police to suspend the station house officer (SHO).
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing alleged irregularities in the transfer of defence land to a trust in Jodhpur, has served notices to the Defence Estate Officer and a trust belonging to a royal family, among others, seeking documents and records.
According to preliminary medical tests conducted on the girls, who were allegedly sexually exploited and mistreated at a residential school run by an NGO, one of them is suspected to be pregnant.
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Five hearing and speech impaired girls were allegedly raped and beaten up by staff of a residential school run by an NGO in the Kanota area of Jaipur. The victims are all orphans aged between 12 and 17 years. HT reports.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today dismissed BJP's allegations that CBI chargesheeted leader of opposition in the Jaipur Assembly, Gulab Chand Kataria, in Sohrabuddin encounter case at the behest of Congress.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today held feedback meetings and interacted with party leaders at Birla auditorium in Jaipur.
Senior BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria, who has been chargesheeted in Sohrabuddin encounter case, today said he would resign from the Rajasthan assembly if arrested in the case.

In a major relief to film actor Salman Khan, Rajasthan high court today rejected the revision petition filed by the state government against him in the 14-year-old blackbuck poaching case.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today offered a chadar at the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti on the occasion of the 801st Urs.
AICC President Sonia Gandhi on Monday offered a chadar at the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti on the occasion of the 801st Urs.
Jeeyaram, a 50-year-old bachelor, has earned notoriety as jamai raja (son-in-law) for reportedly spending a night each with 55 girls who were child brides and robbing the homes of his ‘in-laws’ before escaping.
A spy, allegedly involved in sharing the military and other secret information with Pakistan for the past 3-4 years, was arrested from his residence by a special team of CID in Mathari village.
Amid stiff opposition by Ajmer residents to the visit of Pakistani nationals to the urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty, the central government has sent six companies of CRPF and a company of Emergency Response Team commandos for the visiting pilgrims' security. HT reports.
A 19-year-old girl has filed a complaint against her husband alleging that he forced her to marry him after making her obscene video when she was a minor, police said today.