New Delhi (PTI): The mobile phones of AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and two others were stolen during a roadshow of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in north Delhi's Malka Ganj area on Wednesday, police said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said Tripathi, AAP MLA Somnath Bharti's secretary and Guddi Devi have lodged complaints regarding the theft of their mobiles.

Cases have been registered and an investigation is underway, he said.

Thousands carrying Aam Aadmi Party flags and banners of Kejriwal gathered at Chandrawal road as the chief minister held a roadshow in the area ahead of the upcoming municipal elections in Delhi. Many sang and danced to drumbeats.

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New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has arrested Kamlesh Parekh, a fugitive wanted in a 10-year-old Rs 2,672 crore bank fraud case, after his extradition from the UAE, officials said on Saturday.

Parekh, wanted in the bank fraud case filed against Shree Ganesh Jewellery House (I) Ltd, Kolkata, was extradited from the UAE on Friday, they said.

The CBI had registered the case in 2016 against the company and others for allegedly cheating a consortium of 25 banks to the tune of Rs 2,672 crore.

“The agency had chargesheeted Parekh, the promoter of the company who had been absconding since the probe began, on December 31, 2022,” a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.

“An open-ended non-bailable warrant was issued against him in 2019, while a Red Corner Notice was issued through Interpol in 2024. The authorities in the UAE detained him on the basis of the said notice after which he was extradited to India,” the statement said.