New Delhi, June 26: The Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Friday arrested gangster Shabir Ali alias Shabir Chaudhary, who led an organised crime syndicate operating across North-East Delhi and the Trans-Yamuna region. Police said the accused had been absconding since April 2025 in a case registered under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

According to a statement issued by the Special Cell on Friday, Shabir Ali was wanted in a 2025 MCOCA case being investigated by the Special Cell. Nine members of his organised crime syndicate have already been arrested in connection with the same case.

The arrest was made by a team of the Special Cell’s NDR unit led by Inspectors Alok Kumar Maurya and Nitu Kumar under the supervision of ACP Ashish Kumar.

Police said that, acting on intelligence gathered through credible human sources and technical surveillance, the team apprehended Shabir Ali from the Shambhu Border in Haryana on June 14 and subsequently brought him to Delhi for further legal proceedings.

During the operation, police recovered one XUV and a scooty from the accused.

According to the Special Cell, Shabir Ali alias Shabir Chaudhary heads the Shabir Chaudhary-Hashim Baba-Anwar Chacha organised crime syndicate. The gang is allegedly active in the Trans-Yamuna and North-East Delhi regions, including Seelampur, Bhajanpura, Maujpur, Shahdara and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Police alleged that members of the syndicate have been involved in several cases of extortion, murder, attempt to murder, land grabbing and other serious offences. Investigators also claimed that some members of the gang have been operating from abroad, particularly from Nepal and Dubai.

The Special Cell said it has taken a series of actions against the syndicate in recent months. In one such case, registered as FIR No. 08/2026 under the Arms Act at the Special Cell Police Station, alleged sharpshooter, Sohail alias Alam alias Tohid, was arrested on the intervening night of January 10 and 11. Police recovered one pistol and three live cartridges from his possession.

In another operation linked to FIR No. 303/2025 under the Arms Act, police arrested two alleged gang associates — Jasim alias Aalu and Jahangir alias Ikka — on December 11, 2025. Four pistols and 14 live cartridges were allegedly recovered during that operation.

Police said Shabir Ali is a native of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh and allegedly entered the criminal world in the mid-1990s through his association with Haji Afzaal of Seelampur. He allegedly became involved in several incidents of firing, murder and gang rivalry across North-East Delhi and the National Capital Region.

According to the police, following the murder of his brother Shamim Ahmed in 2008, Shabir intensified his criminal activities. During his incarceration in previous cases, he allegedly came into contact with several hardened criminals, including Hashim Baba and Anwar Khan alias Chacha, strengthening the organised crime network.

Police said Shabir Ali has previously been arrested in several criminal cases, including one under the MCOCA, and has been involved in 14 criminal cases relating to murder, attempt to murder, extortion and other serious offences. He is also wanted in FIR No. 629/2024, which is being investigated by the Special Cell and is facing a non-bailable warrant issued by a Delhi court in connection with an Arms Act case registered at Bhajanpura Police Station in 2022.

According to the Special Cell, key members of the organised crime syndicate, including Hashim Baba, Anwar Khan alias Chacha, Zoya Khan, Sameer alias Baba, Salim Ahmed alias Salim Pistol, Harsh Pal Singh alias Rubal and Illiyas, are currently lodged in jail under the MCOCA case.

New Delhi, June 26: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested a manager of the Punjab National Bank’s Bhadrauli Branch in Agra’s Barhan, Uttar Pradesh, in connection with an alleged bribery case.

According to the CBI, the case was registered on June 25, based on a complaint filed by an employee of a private company. It was alleged that the bank manager demanded illegal gratification of Rs 7,000 per loan file to process and clear around 19 solar panel loan applications.

The complainant alleged that after negotiations, the accused agreed to accept a total bribe of Rs 52,000 to clear the 19 loan files, which had already been sanctioned by the bank.

Acting on the complaint, the CBI laid a trap and caught the accused manager red-handed while allegedly demanding and accepting a part payment of the bribe amounting to Rs 30,000 from the complainant.

The accused was arrested on June 25 and is scheduled to be produced before the competent court in Ghaziabad on Friday. Further investigation into the case is underway.

Earlier on June 25, the CBI held a coordination meeting with the Department of Financial Services (DFS) and Chief Vigilance Officers of public sector banks, IDBI Bank and Life Insurance Corporation of India here on Thursday on measures to expedite investigations into bank fraud cases, according to an official statement.

The meeting was attended by the Department of Financial Services Secretary Sanjay Lohiya, the CBI Additional Directors A.Y.V. Krishna and N. Venu Gopal, Joint Directors of the CBI and DFS Joint Secretaries Shalini Pandit, Ashish Madhaorao More and Manoj Muttathil Ayyappan, along with other officials.

“During the day-long meeting, several issues, including previous approval under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, sanction for prosecution under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, awaited documents, bank fraud complaints, one-time settlement (OTS) issues, recent court judgments and issues related to mule accounts were discussed and deliberated upon,” the CBI statement said.

Kolkata, June 25: The roof collapse in the under-construction warehouse in the Taratala area of Kolkata was due to faulty construction, low-quality materials, and wrong planning.

These points have been highlighted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in a report submitted to the Commissioner of KMC on Thursday.

According to the report, the construction design was approved on the 54-katha land in February 2025, following which a three-storey structure was built there. According to the rules, iron casting has to be done from the first floor. But in the warehouse case, the casting work was started from the third floor. The construction structure could not bear that load.

The report said the material used for casting was of low quality.

The three-storey structure was erected without strengthening the base and the lower side, which led to the disaster on Thursday afternoon.

The report also said that this construction design was approved for 43 out of 54 kathas of land.

Following the disaster, the investigation has thus far found that construction activities were taking place on an extra five kathas of land, exceeding the sanctioned design. The builders had unlawfully expanded the warehouse dimensions.

The report submitted by the building department said that there was no error in the original construction design. But there was negligence in supervision by the concerned officials and those involved in the construction.

The building department has mentioned in the report that due to a lack of sufficient staff, supervision of work is affected in such constructions.

Nine workers were killed, and 20 others were injured after the roof of the under-construction warehouse collapsed in Taratala. The injured have been admitted to the SSKM Hospital for treatment. The condition of the two is said to be critical.

So far, five people have been arrested in the warehouse collapse incident. The police have lodged a suo motu FIR under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including culpable homicide and attempt to commit culpable homicide.

The Kolkata Police have also formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident.