Inter-State Cell of Crime Branch of Delhi Police has taken major action against smuggling of illegal foreign liquor and arrested an accused. Police have also seized expensive foreign liquor kept in 12 cartons and MG Hector car used to transport liquor from his possession. In this matter, a case has been registered on March 20, 2026 under Section 33/58 of the Delhi Excise Act.

Trap laid in West Punjabi Bagh

Actually, Delhi Police had received information that a person was bringing cheap liquor from Gurugram and supplying it illegally in Delhi and was earning huge profits from it. Based on this information, the Crime Branch team laid a trap on March 19 near Road No. 40 in West Punjabi Bagh area of ​​West Delhi. As soon as the suspect reached his car, the police team caught him on the spot. During the search, foreign liquor kept in 12 cartons was recovered from the car.

No license found

The recovered liquor includes expensive foreign whiskeys like Glenfiddich Single Malt, Chivas Regal and Monkey Shoulder. The accused was preparing to buy these brands of liquor from Gurugram and sell it illegally in Delhi. During interrogation, he could not even show any valid permit or license for liquor.

Case registered earlier also in Gurugram

Let us tell you that the arrested accused has been identified as 35-year-old Naman Kohli, resident of West Punjabi Bagh. A case has already been registered against him under the Excise Act in Sector-56 police station of Gurugram. The Crime Branch team has seized the recovered liquor and MG Hector car. The police is now investigating this entire network and trying to find out who else is involved in this illegal liquor supply racket.

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has finally caught a vicious accused who was defrauding people by promising them property in Delhi. The accused has been identified as Rahul Paswan, who was absconding after dodging the police for a long time. According to the police, he was wanted in several cases and the court had already declared him a proclaimed offender.

Police officials said that a case of fraud was registered against Rahul Paswan in the year 2022 at Laxmi Nagar police station. He had absconded since the case was registered.

Even after a long search, when no trace of him was found, on 3 February 2023, the court declared him a declared criminal. Since then the police was continuously searching for him.

action based on secret information

The Central Range of the Crime Branch recently received secret information that the accused was about to come to Delhi. After this, the police immediately formed a team, which included many officers including SI Birpal Singh.

The team tracked the location of the accused with the help of technical surveillance and informers. Ultimately he was arrested from a parking lot in Kashmere Gate area when he was trying to leave the city.

Investigation revealed that Rahul Paswan used to contact people by calling himself a property dealer. He used to win the trust of people by showing them flats or plots and then took money from them in the name of advance. As soon as the money was received, it would disappear. In this way he made many people his victims.

Kept changing locations in Haryana

According to the police, the accused was hiding in Faridabad, Haryana for the last one year and was constantly changing his locations so that the police could not catch him. Three cases have been registered against him in Laxmi Nagar police station, while many complaints have also been received in Gurugram and Faridabad.

At present the police is interrogating the accused and other people associated with his network are also being searched. Officials say that even bigger revelations may emerge after investigation.

A “shameless” fraudster who stole £300,000 from a vulnerable pensioner and spent it on Botox and other luxuries has been tracked down by Sky News in Tenerife.

Pamela Gwinnett isolated 89-year-old Joan Green from her family while pretending to act as her carer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She convinced Joan to transfer power of attorney to her – giving her control over her finances – and raided the retired accountant’s life savings.

Along with cosmetic treatments like Botox, Gwinnett splurged on expensive meals, a £22,500 car, and mortgages for properties she owned.

Gwinnett, 63, fled to Tenerife in breach of her bail conditions while awaiting trial and has been living in a picturesque seaside apartment in the south of the island for the last 11 months.

She was sentenced in her absence last October to six years for theft and fraud by abuse of position.

Confronted by Sky News outside her Tenerife home, Gwinnett said she was not in the UK “because I’ve got an appeal going on”.

Asked if she stole Joan’s savings, she said: “No, never. Her family took it.”

“I don’t need to answer these questions,” she said. “Did I heck take the money.

“I was her power of attorney and executor, her solicitor’s got all the money.

“I didn’t have her bank card, her family had it. They have made me a scapegoat.”

Gwinnett’s crimes have become known at her apartment complex, where furious residents have put up posters.

One says “justice for Joan Green” and another is a picture of Gwinnett with the caption “wanted”.

Gwinnett’s ‘brass neck’

Joan, from Chorley, Lancashire, died in 2022.

Speaking to Sky News, her step-grandson David Bolton said his biggest fear was that she died believing Gwinnett’s lies that her family had abandoned her and didn’t love her.

David said: “The fact [is] that she’s just sunning it up in Tenerife, walking around, doesn’t care – only about herself.

“All the pain she’s caused everybody over here, all the upset. It’s just so annoying.”

Gwinnett took extreme measures to stop Joan’s family from intervening in her scheme, changing Joan’s landline number, padlocking the gates and telling carers to stop the family coming in.

During her sentencing, Judge Michael Maher said Gwinnett “played the long game” to isolate Joan and treat her like a “cash cow to be milked”.

The trial was played a video secretly filmed by David, showing a row with Gwinnett.

In the footage, Gwinnett shouts: “This is nothing to do with you – I’m power of attorney.”

When the family say she doesn’t speak for Joan, she yells: “Yes I do!”.

She also accuses David of being a “criminal” and “grooming” his grandmother.

Joan can be heard asking “what’s happening?” as David holds her hand and comforts her.

Judge Maher said the video showed Gwinnett’s “self-assured shamelessness” and “brass neck”.

Calling for Gwinnett’s extradition, he said it was an “affront to justice and the rule of law” for her to remain in Tenerife.

The UK authorities are trying to extradite Gwinnett from Spain. Police in Spain did not respond when we asked if her arrest was imminent.

Flight from justice

Joan’s family feel let down by the authorities’ handling of Gwinnett’s case while she was in the UK.

In March last year, a judge decided not to force Gwinnett to hand over her passport as part of bail conditions.

A month later, Gwinnett was issued with a bail notice requiring her to hand in her passport to police.

But she left the UK for Tenerife five hours after that notice was issued and has not returned to the UK since.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it did all it could to keep Gwinnett in the UK and that when it became clear she was breaching her bail conditions by travelling between the UK and Tenerife, it asked Greater Manchester Police if an arrest could be made.

Greater Manchester Police said it arrested Gwinnett for fraudulently obtaining a new passport when it became aware she was breaching her bail conditions. The force said it tried to get Gwinnett remanded in custody on four occasions, but her lack of previous convictions meant these attempts did not succeed.

Joan’s family have complained to Lancashire Police for failing to launch a criminal investigation into Gwinnett’s initial offending.

When relatives raised concerns about the huge sums of money leaving Joan’s bank account, Lancashire Police concluded it was a civil matter and took no further action.

But when Joan’s family took the same evidence to Greater Manchester Police, the force immediately launched a criminal investigation and arrested Gwinnett.

Lancashire Police said: “We can confirm that in March 2023 we were contacted in relation to an allegation of fraud. Our handling of that allegation is currently subject to an ongoing complaint which is with our Professional Standards Department and for that reason it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this time.”

‘She’s evil, but very clever’

Last month, Preston Crown Court made a confiscation order of £350,180.79 against Gwinnett.

She must pay this amount within three months or she faces three and a half more years being added to her six-year prison sentence.

Joan’s family are convinced this is not the first time Gwinnett has defrauded a vulnerable person.

“She’s evil but she’s very, very clever at what she does,” step-grandson David said.

“She knows how to play the system. This isn’t her first time of doing it, there’s no way.

“She’s too confident, she’s too clued up on what to do and how to behave.”

Additional reporting by Darren Little, news editor, and Charlie Brunskill, camera operator

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clashed with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday as the two debated the effects of the war with Iran, specifically with regard to oil, as gas prices have skyrocketed since the war began.

Welker pressed Bessent on why the Treasury Department “lifted sanctions on Iranian oil stored on tankers,” which, according to Welker, would allow Iran to “get more than $14 billion of oil revenue.” Bessent rejected Welker’s framing, and said, “Kristen, why don’t we have good facts here?”

“That Iranian oil was always going to be sold to the Chinese. It was going to be sold at a discount. So, which is better, Kristen? Which is better if oil prices spiked to $150, and they were getting 70% of that, or oil prices below $100? It’s better to have them where they are now. And to be clear, we had always planned for this contingency. About 140 million barrels are out on the water. In essence, we are jiu-jitsu-ing the Iranians,” he told Welker.

Welker then asked Bessent about how much lifting the sanctions would really help prices.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington D.C., Sunday, November 23, 2025. (Shannon Finney/NBC via Getty Images)

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“Let me talk about the real-world impact of this because you’re talking about 140 million barrels of Iranian oil, and that’s just a little bit more than what the world uses in one day. How much can that really change prices here?” Welker asked. 

Bessent responded by saying, “Kristen, terrible framing. Terrible framing.” He then went on to explain that roughly 20 million barrels per day come out of the Gulf, and that five million are repurposed by Saudi Arabia.

“One hundred and forty million barrels, about 20 million barrels a day, come out of the Gulf. About 5 million has been repurposed by the Saudis, by the UAE. So we’re at a 15 deficit. About one-point-five is Iranian oil that comes out. So we are at between a 10 and 14 million deficit on a daily basis. So, if you think about 140 million barrels, that’s between 10 days and two weeks of supply,” Bessent said.

He continued, saying, “And one of the reasons that prices in the U.S. of West Texas intermediate are below $100 — and we have not seen this massive spike as we did during the beginning of Russia-Ukraine — is because we are well supplied in the market. Whether it is the Russian oil, whether it is the Iranian oil, or it is the largest SPR release in history done by a coalition of 32 countries, 400 million barrels.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20. (Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Welker accused the Trump administration of “rewarding” Russia by easing sanctions earlier this month, to which Bessent said she was “missing the point.”

“Again, Kristen, you’re missing the point. Which is better? Does Russia get more money if oil goes to 150, and they get 70% of that, that’s 105, or if oil stays below 100? So they’re getting less money. Our analysis shows that the maximum extra amount the Russia could get would be $2 billion, which is one day of the Russian Federation’s budget,” Bessent said.

“I don’t know who does your research, you should get rid of them because they were getting it. It was going into China. China was buying over 90% of the Russian oil,” Bessent said, as Welker insisted Russia wouldn’t be getting any of the money if they didn’t ease the sanctions.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during the Trump Accounts Launch Summit in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran on Saturday, warning the U.S. would strike its power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened.

“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a global choke point for oil and gas transport that supplies roughly one-fifth of the world’s crude oil, has been largely limited since early March, shortly after the war with Iran began.

Iran-USA Conflict: The conflict in the Middle East has now become more dangerous. Iran has said that if US President Donald Trump attacks its energy centers, it will completely close the Strait of Hormuz. After this threat, tension has increased in the entire area.

iran The Revolutionary Guards said that the energy centers in the countries where America has military bases will now become targets for attack.

Trump had warned

President Trump had warned, “If Iran does not fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours without any threat, the United States will attack their various power plants, starting with the largest power plant.” In response to Trump’s warning, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqir Kalibaf said that if Tehran’s infrastructure was attacked, the entire region could target their investment projects. Iranian military officials also said they could target US-linked energy, technology and water facilities in the Gulf.

Iranian stance on the Strait of Hormuz

iran The Revolutionary Guards said that the Strait of Hormuz would remain completely closed until their destroyed power plants were rebuilt. This strait is one of the most important shipping routes in the world and a large part of the global oil and gas passes through it. Iran closed it down on 28 February. The blockage in the Strait of Hormuz has already slowed tanker movements, raised fuel prices and roiled global markets.

increasing sequence of air strikes

The ground situation is still unstable. Air raid sirens sounded in many parts of Israel after the new missile was fired. The attacks intensified on March 21, with US-Israeli attacks focused on Tehran and around central and southern Iran, including areas near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded with attacks on Israel and parts of the Gulf.

According to the IDF, Iran has fired more than 400 ballistic missiles at the country since the war began, but most of the missiles were intercepted by its defense system. According to officials, about 92 percent of the missiles were destroyed before reaching their targets.

The process of storm and rain has stopped in Uttar Pradesh. But after the rain the temperature has come down and people have got relief from the scorching sun. The Meteorological Department has predicted clear weather in both the divisions of the state today, Monday 23 March. Light clouds will be seen at some places in the morning, but by the end of the day the sun will come out and the weather will remain dry.

The ongoing spell of rain and hailstorm with thunder and lightning in UP for the last three days has now stopped. The weather will be dry today in both western and eastern divisions of the state. There will be bright sunshine during this period. No rain or other warning has been given anywhere. The maximum temperature in the state today is expected to be between 32-35 degrees. The weather will remain dry in the state till 24th and 25th March.

How will the weather be from Noida to Lucknow-Varanasi?

Talking about the capital Lucknow, it will remain partly cloudy throughout the day today. But there is no possibility of rain or storm during this period. Today the maximum temperature in Lucknow is expected to be 31 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature will be 17 degrees Celsius. right there adjacent to Delhi Noida There will be light clouds in the morning but as the day progresses the sky will clear and there will be sunshine.

Even in Varanasi, the weather seems to have completely changed in the last 48 hours. After late evening there was light drizzle with wind amidst sunshine and shade. Due to which the temperature has also dropped. In Varanasi also the maximum temperature has reached 27 degrees and the minimum temperature has reached 17 degrees Celsius. Experts believe that usually in the last week of March, this type of change in weather is seen less after the cold goes away completely.

Now the temperature will increase rapidly

Season According to the department, after the rain, there will be a rapid rise in temperature, in the next four days the temperature will rise by 7-10 degrees in most parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, while in the western state it is likely to rise by 4-7 degrees. After this there will be no major change in temperature. There is no possibility of any major change in the minimum temperature.

A new western disturbance seems to be active once again from March 26, due to which the phase of cloud movement will begin in the state. During this period, there are chances of light rain and thundershowers at some places. However, no specific warning has been given anywhere. All the districts of the state will remain in the green zone.

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President Donald Trump spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday to discuss escalating tensions in the Middle East, with a focus on the urgent need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore global shipping.

The leaders discussed the current situation in the Middle East, and in particular, the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to resume global shipping, Downing Street said in a statement.

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“They agreed that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was essential to ensure stability in the global energy market. They agreed to speak again soon.”

The call came amid a rapidly intensifying conflict in the region, with Iran blocking the strategically vital strait since the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iranian targets on Feb. 28.

The military action triggered swift retaliation from Tehran and has since escalated into a broader regional war as Iran has sent missiles into numerous neighboring countries not directly involved in the initial conflict.

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On March 21, Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran demanding the reopening of the key maritime route, through which approximately 20% of the world’s oil supply passes.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump warned that failure to comply would result in further U.S. action, including potential strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure.

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Bulk Carrier, Belray, in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz on March 22, 2026 in northern Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images/Getty Images)

Sunday’s conversation between Trump and Starmer perhaps reflected a thaw in the tense relationship between the two leaders.

Trump had publicly criticized the U.K. government, stating that Britain “should have acted a lot faster” in allowing the U.S. to use British military bases for strikes targeting Iranian missile sites.

Starmer had also maintained that the use of U.K. bases could only be justified under the principle of “collective self-defense” in the region.

He had initially declined to support the U.S.-Israeli military operation, drawing repeated criticism from the White House.

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Meanwhile, Trump appeared to apply public pressure, sharing a “Saturday Night Live” clip Sunday mocking the British prime minister’s handling of the crisis.