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IIT-Bombay student found dead in hotel; suicide suspected
A 22-year-old student of the IIT Bombay was found dead in a hotel room in suburban Jogeshwari here, the police said Tuesday. Police suspect it to be a case of suicide, saying the deceased Jaideep Swain was apparently suffering from depression. Swain, who hailed from Chhatishgarh, had checked into the hotel last Friday (August 31), a police official said. The cleaning staff of the hotel knocked on the door of Swain's room Monday (September 3) afternoon, but failed to get any response, he said. The staff then called up the police and opened the door with a spare key in our presence, the official said. Police found Swain lying unconscious inside the room, following which he was rushed to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, he said. According to the official, Swain had sent a mail to his sister before taking the extreme step, stating that he was 'feeling sorry for going off-track'. Police have registered a case of accidental death and further investigation is
Teenager accused of theft, beaten to death in Delhi
A teenage boy was allegedly beaten to death by six men here on Tuesday after he entered a house to steal valuables, police said. Two men have been arrested.
SC dismisses plea for CBI probe against Lalu Prasad in 'land for railway job scam'
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for registration of a fresh case against former Union Minister Lalu Prasad and others in the "land for railway job scam". The top court said that the petitioner, claiming to be a whistle-blower of the scam, can approach the appropriate forum for the relief and the plea is not maintainable under Article 32 of the Constitution, under which an individual may seek redressal for the violation of their fundamental rights. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said the present petition cannot be entertained under Article 32 and he can approach the high court with his grievances. Senior advocate C U Singh, appearing for petitioner Vankatesh Kumar Sharma, said that direction should be issued to constitute an SIT to inquire into the acts of commission and omission against the Director CBI and the director of prosecution CBI with respect to the complaint of the ...
Cocaine worth Rs 38 lakh recovered, Nigerian held
A 29-year-old Nigerian national was arrested Tuesday for illegally possessing cocaine worth Rs 37.76 lakh at Jogeshwari, a western suburb here, police said. The accused, Phemmy Olyuanka Opyemi, was arrested in the wee hours by Amboli police from Sahakar Road, Jogeshwari West, an official said. Police recovered 472 grams of cocaine from him during his search, he said. Opyemi had come to sell the banned substance to his customers in the area, the official said.
First jolt to Imran Khan as top aide quits after corruption case filed
Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on parliamentary affairs Babar Awan resigned today after the anti-graft agency registered a corruption case against him, in the first jolt to the Imran Khan-led government. Awan, while stepping down, said the rule of law of must start from himself. He said he has forwarded his resignation to the prime minister. "Just reached PM House to tender my resignation from Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Rule of Law begins with me. Thank you, Insafians for standing by me always. I will never let you down," Awan wrote in a tweet. The resignation of the close aide of Khan came hours after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a corruption case against Awan regarding a delay in Nandipur Project in the Accountability Courts in Islamabad. Geo News reported on Sunday that Awan was questioned by the anti-graft body for three hours over allegedly delaying the Nandipur Project. Quting sources, the report said that a team of the NAB's Rawalpindi chapter, led
Nigerian held in Ghaziabad for online fraud
In a joint operation, Sahibabad police and cyber crime cell arrested a Nigerian from the Rajendra Nagar area here Tuesday on charges of online fraud, police said. The arrested was identified as Friday, son of Ogboo, a native of Lagos in Nigeria. At present, Friday was living in a rented home in Tilak Nagar, New Delhi. The police nabbed Friday using his call details. City SP Shlok Kumar said Sahibabad police had received a complaint from one Dinesh Kumar that a Nigerian national had defrauded him of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of helping him establish a gold business. Kumar had transferred the sum into the account of Friday through net banking. However, when Kumar called him, there was no reply. Following which, Kumar lodged an FIR. Police have recovered three laptops and three mobile phones which were used to hoodwink gullible persons. After a brief period away from India, Friday returned to the country by changing his name and passport. He contacted unsuspecting persons through social ..
Justice hasn't been done yet: Owaisi on Hyderabad twin blasts case verdict
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday did not approve the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court's order of convicting two out of the five accused in the 2007 Hyderabad twin blasts case and acquitting two others."Justice has not been done yet," he said."It was a very tragic incident for Hyderabad. Lawyer of the acquitted told me that all evidence was circumstantial. Even the eye-witnesses were found one-and-a-half years after the blast. I feel that justice has not been done yet," Owaisi told media here.The NIA, which has been set up inside Cherlapally Central Jail, will pronounce judgement on one more accused on Monday. All five accused are lodged in the same jail. The quantum of the sentence will be discussed on Monday.Those convicted are Aneeq Shafeeq Sayeed and Ismail Chaudhary while those acquitted in the case are Farooq Sharfuddin Tarkish and Mohd Sadiq Israr Shaik. Furthermore, two more accused in the case, Riyaz Bhatkal .
12 detained for participating in rave party
:Police Tuesday detained 12 men for allegedly participating in a rave party at a farm house on the outskirts of the city. A Special Operation Team of the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, acting on reliable information, raided the farm house in the early hours, where the rave party was being organised by supplying five women from Mumbai and Hyderabad, an official release said. Police also said the inmates were found playing cards by betting, consuming liquor and indulging in 'obscene dancing' with the women dancers.
Prime accused in Nagaon gang rape-murder case found guilty
A court here Tuesday convicted Zakir Hussain, who was the prime accused in the gang rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Nagaon district of Assam in March, and acquitted five others. Nagon Chief Judicial Magistrate found the 19-year-old Hussain guilty while acquitted the five others for lack of evidence. Two other accused in the case were minors and they were being tried in juvenile court. The court would pronounce the quantum of punishment to Zakir on September 7. The girl was gang-raped and set on fire when she was alone at home in Dhaniabheti Lalung Gaon in Nagaon district on March 23. The youths fled after the crime and the girl was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital but succumbed to her injuries the next day. A case was filed in the Batadrava Police Station and the accused were later arrested on charges of rape, house trespass, causing disappearance of evidence and murder under the Indian Penal Code. The police on April 28 filed a charge sheet against the prime .
HC sets aside trial court order granting bail to scribe Upendra Rai
The Delhi High Court Tuesday set aside a trial court order granting bail to journalist Upendra Rai, arrested by the CBI for his alleged involvement in dubious financial transactions. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva allowed the CBI's challenge to the trial court's June 8 order granting relief to Rai. On June 18, the operation of the June 8 bail order was stayed by the high court after it sought Rai's response on CBI's plea challenging the relief. Challenging the trial court's order, Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi and advocate Rajdipa Behura, both appearing for the CBI, had argued that Rai's custody was required as fresh arrests were being made in the case and the FIR showed that public servants were involved and under investigation. The agency had argued that the scribe was only a "front" and other big fish were involved in the matter. The CBI's counsel had claimed in the high court that the findings in the trial court's bail order were "utterly perverse" and the investigation was at
Teenaged boy lynched in Delhi on suspicion of being thief
A teenager, who had entered a house to allegedly steal valuables, was lynched by locals in northwest Delhi's Mukundpur in the early hours of Tuesday, following which three people were arrested, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Aslam Khan said the 16-year-old boy had entered the house to steal valuables, but was caught by the owner and beaten to death by some locals. A case has been registered at Bhalaswa Dairy police station for the lynching of the youth. Three people accused of lynching the youth have been arrested while three others are on the run, the police official said. The accused have been identified as Nand Kishore, Raj Kishore, Triveni, Deshraj, Sant Lal and Sohan Lal. Police have also registered a case of theft against the deceased. Police were told that the boy was accompanied by two others when he came to the Mukundpur house for allegedly committing a theft. A woman resident of the house was awakened by some noise and she saw three boys on the second
Nigerian arrested for fraud
Police in Ghaziabad have arrested a Nigerian for online fraud in which he cheated an Indian of Rs 29 lakh.
SC stays Delhi HC order in fraud case involving ex-promoter of Bhushan Steel
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the operation of a Delhi High Court verdict that had held that Neeraj Singal, ex-promoter of Bhushan Steel and an accused in an alleged Rs 2,500-crore fraud case, could not be compelled by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to sign documents under the companies law. The apex court, however, did not interfere with the high court order granting interim bail to Singal and said he can remain out, subject to observing certain conditions including reporting to the SFIO officer concerned. A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, however, took strong note of the haste shown by the high court in executing its order granting bail to Singal on August 29, despite the fact that the top court had kept the appeal of SFIO against the order for hearing the next day. "We may only observe that urgent mentioning of the case was made before the bench presided over by the Chief Justice of India and hearing thereon continued after court ..
NCB officer, lawyer held in bribery case
The CBI has arrested an intelligence officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau and a lawyer in Kolkata for allegedly taking bribe of Rs 50,000, officials said Tuesday. Amarendra Kumar, the intelligence officer posted at Narcotics Control Bureau, Kolkata, and lawyer Danish Haque were nabbed by the agency, they said. The case was registered based on a complaint alleging the intelligence officer had demanded Rs two lakh bribe and had agreed to accept Rs 50,000 for not implicating the complainant in a narcotics case, a CBI spokesperson said here. After necessary verification, the CBI laid a trap and caught the advocate demanding and accepting the bribe on behalf of the said intelligence officer, he said.
Minor raped, killed in J-K; step-mother among five accused
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and brutally killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said Tuesday, adding five people, including her step-mother and step-brother, were arrested in this connection. The minor had gone missing on August 23 following which her father, a resident of Uri, filed a complaint with the police, Baramulla Superintendent of Police Imtiaz Hussain Mir said. Her body was found in decomposed state on Sunday in a nearby forest area, he said, adding it appeared to be a case of murder. He said a special investigation team (SIT) headed by SDPO Uri was constituted to investigate the murder. "The SIT interrogated the suspects and during sustained questioning of the step-mother of the deceased, a bone chilling and horrible account of murder and rape of the nine-year-old child came to light," Mir said. It was found that the step-mother had been nourishing a long standing grudge against her husband's second wife and her children, he said. "During
2 absconders arrested in JK's Samba dist
Two alleged absconders were arrested Tuesday in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accused were identified as Sanjeev Kumar from Barian and Parmod Kumar from Tarloka Chappri. They were wanted in two separate FIRs registered against them in 2014 and 2016 respectively, a police spokesman said. Based on specific information, a special police team conducted raids at different places and finally succeeded in apprehending the absconders from the Samba area, the spokesman said. The spokesman said Sanjeev is facing charges under various sections of Ranbir Penal Code, including endangering life or personal safety of others, voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from discharging his duty, rioting, among others. Parmod was booked under wrongful restraint and voluntarily causing hurt. Meanwhile, the spokesman said two drug peddler were arrested with 150 intoxicant capsules during surprise checks at the railway crossing in Nanke Chak Supwal in Samba district today. He
Five arrested for Kashmiri minor's gang rape, murder
Five people, including the stepmother, were arrested on Tuesday for the gang rape and murder of a nine-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district in a horrific crime stemming from jealousy.
Have decided to file closure report in missing JNU student case: CBI to HC
The CBI today told the Delhi High Court that it has decided to file closure report in the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who had disappeared from the varsity campus nearly two years ago. The probe agency's submission was opposed by the counsel appearing for Ahmed's mother contending that it was a "political case" and that the "CBI has succumbed to the pressure of its masters". The CBI's submission came during hearing on a 2016 plea by Ahmed's mother seeking directions to the police, which was earlier probing the case, to trace her son who has been missing since October of that year. The bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel reserved its verdict on the plea. Ahmed had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle with some other students, allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the previous night. During the hearing, the CBI's counsel said they have not yet ...
CBI wants to close Najeeb Ahmed missing case
The CBI on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that it has completed its investigation into the disappearance of Jawaharlal Nehru University student, Najeeb Ahmed, from "every aspect" and sought permission to file a closure report in the case.
CJI Dipak Misra ends speculation, recommends Gogoi as his successor
Putting to rest all speculation, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra Tuesday recommended to the Centre that Justice Ranjan Gogoi be his successor, eight months after he was part of a revolt against the country's top judge. Despite the differences, Misra stuck to convention and recommended Gogoi, the senior-most judge in the Supreme Court after the CJI. If confirmed by the Centre, considered a formality, Gogoi will be sworn in on October 3, a day after Misra retires. Highly placed sources said the letter by Misra has been sent by the office of the CJI to the Ministry of Law and Justice for necessary action. Gogoi will have a tenure of little over a year. His term is due to end on November 17 next year when he attains the age of 65. Misra's recommendation is in line with the tradition that the senior-most apex court judge succeeds the incumbent CJI on his retirement. Speculation over Misra's recommendation on the next CJI arose after the court's four most senior judges-- Justices J ...