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No CCTV or weapon of offence, chargesheet relies on Vikash Yadav’s disclosure in 2023 extortion case

Chargesheet against Vikash Yadav states that ex-RAW official accused by US in foiled plot to assassinate Pannun admitted to kidnapping and extorting Delhi-based cafe owner.

Karnataka Police lodge FIR against Sitharaman, BJP leaders & ED officers over poll bond ‘extortion’

FIR registered on special court's orders. Complaint alleges that accused 'committed extortion under guise & garb of electoral bonds', benefited to the tune of over Rs 8,000 crore.

Business partner wanted in call centre scam emerges as crucial link in Delhi gym owner’s murder

Murder planned two months ago, when Lawrence Bishnoi gang learnt that gym owner Nadir Shah stopped his business partner Kunal Chhabra from sending them extortion money, it is learnt.

Extortion calls a new normal in Punjab. Cops point fingers at Canada-based gangsters

Extortion calls from ganglords have become a law & order issue in Punjab. There was a spurt in such calls after Sidhu Moosewala’s killing in May 2022 & the numbers have plateaued since.

5 criminal cases, extortion charges & more — ‘complex’ past of ex-Punjab AIG who ‘killed’ son-in-law

Malwinder Singh Sidhu faces charges ranging from misusing official position to organising paid-protest to get favourable judgment in ‘fake’ SC certificate row involving son-in-law.

How a hush-hush ops by plainclothed cops in unmarked vehicles busted Rs 5 lakh a day ‘extortion racket’

3 policemen & their dalaals were arrested by UP Police for allegedly collecting Rs 500 in bribes from each trucker crossing into UP from Bihar. SP says, this is 'tip of the iceberg'.

‘Jungle raj’ — Haryana traders, Oppn lash out at BJP govt over spate of firings & extortion calls

Bhartiya Vyapar Mandal state chief says ex-CM Hooda’s strategy needed to deal with crime. Haryana govt insists police actively pursuing criminals, ‘Saini serious about curbing crime’.

Allahabad HC accepts former MP Dhananjay Singh’s criminal appeal in abduction & extortion case

A bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file its objection to the bail pleas of Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram Singh by 22 April.

From ‘party society’ to ‘bahubali’ society — how Bengal changed, yet remained same from Left to TMC rule

Under the Left Front, there was seemingly more party control, less money politics. Situation is reversed now with TMC strongmen running businesses in villages & syndicates in cities.

Inter-gang rivalry being probed in Faridabad murder of gangster linked to Lawrence Bishnoi

Surajbhan alias Ballu, a relative of Kapil Sangwan and active member of his gang, was killed Tuesday evening in front of a gym in Sector-11, Faridabad.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.