Tejaram

Vimal Bhatia | TNN

Police in Jaisalmer have arrested Tejaram Suthar, a thief with an unusual style. Suthar would spend hours in homes, eating and drinking before stealing. He also left sarcastic messages. He openly confessed in court, avoiding police custody. Suthar is a habitual offender with many cases. A stolen laptop was recovered. Investigations continue into whether he worked alone.

After much dilly-dallying officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) produced Tejaram Parmar alias Khalifa before the IV Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge at the Nampally court here on Thursday.

The family members of Tejaram, who is accused of planting one of the bomb triggering a blast in Mecca Masjid in 2007, said that let alone Hyderabad city, Tejaram since his birth had never travelled to any place outside Madhya Pradesh and claimed that he was 'framed' in the blast case.

After four months in jail, Tejaram Devasi, a cattleman from Bankli village of Sumerpur in Pali district was released on the orders of a local court here on Thursday.

Police have detained a three-member gang that made away with 320g of gold jewellery worth 8 lakh from a jeweller at Korrukupet on Sunday. The three people were identified as Baghwan, Mahendran and Amar.

A fight between two persons over a minor argument at Sama-Savli Road took the life of a man, who tried to intervene.

Rajasthan High Court on Friday issued notices to the state government and defence estate officer, government of India seeking reply in six weeks in a matter related to encroachment of land during acquisition for defence use. Petitioner Tejaram and Khinyaram Patel from Karwar village in Jodhpur has moved a petition in the high court stating that agriculture land parcels in their village and around, had been acquired for defence purpose in 1983 and this exercise continued till 1989.

A 22-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself at the godown in his workplace here on Friday evening.

A murder accused was shot dead in the Virat Nagar area of Jaipur district, police said on Tuesday.

Rajendra Chaudhry and Tejaram Parmar, the two accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case of May 2007, conducted a recce of the mosque and other places in Hyderabad three months before they carried out the attack.

A five-month pregnant woman was held hostage and beaten for dowry by her in-laws under the Sheo police station area of Barmer district.

Four labourers from Rajasthan died and one other was injured after they were hit by an unidentified vehicle near Maliya railway crossing on the outskirts Morbi town early Thursday morning.

Om Prakash Chautala and his father Devi Lal, together ruled Haryana as chief minister seven times, but the family doesn't belong to the state originally.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday named one Amit alias Prince as an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.