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Uttarakhand: Man held with high explosive grenade
A man was arrested from Kashipur in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district on Thursday for possession of two live hand grenades, police said.The man identified as Sarjit was in possession of a "High-Explosive grenade", police said."Bomb Disposal Squad found it to be a High-Explosive grenade. We are trying to ascertain from where he obtained that grenade," said Superintendent of Police, Jagdish Chandra.
2 killed in Delhi's Jyoti Nagar, 3 suspects held
Two people were killed after two armed assailants opened fire on them in North East Delhi's Jyoti Nagar area, police said on Thursday.
Woman, 4-year-old son found dead in Delhi
A 26-year-old woman and her four-year-old son were found dead at their house in Central Delhi's Prem Nagar area here on Thursday evening, police said.Patel Nagar police station received a PCR call at 7:03 pm that one boy has been discovered hanging inside a house in Prem Nagar, near Gaushala Mandir, Patel Nagar. Subsequently, another call was received at 7:09 pm claiming a woman and child were found dead in the house.The woman, Roopa Devi, was found lying on the floor of the house with her throat slit. Her son, Rocky was also found dead lying on the floor, apparently due to hanging.Roopa's husband Rajiv Kumar works in a factory at Rama Road, Moti Nagar.Further investigation in the case is currently underway.
Member of Tillu Gang arrested
A 30-year-old man, who is suspected to be a member of the Tillu gang and involved in the killing a rival criminal in Najafgarh last year, was arrested, police said Thursday. The accused, identified Jai alias Pramod, is a resident of Sonipat. He had worked as a personal security officer (PSO) to gangster-turned politician Krishan Pehalwan and later shot dead two of his fellow PSOs after an argument over the issue of Jat reservation in 2016, they said. A cash reward of Rs 25,000 was declared on the arrest of Jai, who was also wanted for an attempt to murder case of Kanjhhawala, police said. The arrest was made after a tip off that an active member of the Tillu Pandit gang who is involved in several cases of murder, attempt to murder and Arms Act will come at Surakhpur-Najafgarh Chowk in Najafgarh, Additional Commissioner of Police (crime branch) AK Singla said. "A trap was laid and as soon as Jai was spotted in his car, his vehicle was intercepted Our teams tried to catch him, but Jai .
Woman, child found dead in Prem Nagar
The bodies of a woman and her four-year-old son were found at their rented accommodation in Central Delhi's Prem Nagar Thursday evening, police said. The woman has been identified as Roopa Devi (26) and the child as Rocky. The bodies were found on the floor and the woman's throat was slit, they said. It is suspected that Devi was strangulated and then her throat was slit. The child, it seems was hanged, police said, adding that the woman's husband and brother-in-law have been questioned. At 7:03 pm, it was reported to police that a boy has been found hanging and then at 7:09 pm it was reported that a woman and a child had been murdered at Prem Nagar, they said. The knife used in the crime has been recovered, a police officer said, adding that the cause of death will be ascertained after post mortem. The family of the deceased belong to Bihar. She was living here with her husband and child at a rented house in Prem Nagar for the last five-six months, he said. Her husband Rajiv Kumar, ..
Calcutta HC gives Rajeev Kumar protection from arrest till July 10
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, now under the CBI scanner in connection with the multi-billion rupee Saradha ponzi scam, protection from arrest till July 10 but asked him to cooperate with the investigation agency and deposit his passport.
Student leader of DU's RLA college hanged himself
President of student union of Delhi University's Ram Lal Anand college, Utakarsh Sharma, was found hanging in his house on Thursday afternoon.
Sexual abuse victims testify against R. Kelly before grand jury
Singer R. Kelly accused of multiple counts of sexual abuse is facing the heat as his accusers have testified against the singer in front of a federal grand jury on Wednesday.TMZ reported that a number of witnesses testified alleging that Kelly went to great lengths to fulfill his sexual desires. They also alleged that the 'I Believe You can Fly' singer's team secured travel for them in order to move them across state lines in exchange for sex while they were underage.One of the victims testifying against Kelly said that he was paid for not testifying in the 2008 trial where he was acquitted of child sex tapes charges.The testimonies also brought out the fact that Kelly with his team tried to impact the outcome of the 2008 trial and intimidated and physically harmed the witnesses.Some of the witnesses in 2008 were also sent on a vacation so that they were absent during the testimony procedure. The witnesses' travels were secured by the singer's team.In February, Robert Sylvester Kelly .
Saradha case: Calcutta HC directs CBI not to take "coercive step" against Rajeev Kumar for a month
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed that "no coercive step" be taken against former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar for a month by the CBI in Saradha chit fund scam case.Kumar had earlier in the day moved a plea in the court seeking quashing of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) notice that had asked him to appear before the agency in connection with the case.While accepting Kumar's plea, a vacation bench of Justice PP Banerjee asked the police officer to deposit his passport and cooperate with the agency in the investigation.Kumar was also instructed by the court to not go outside Kolkata. Justice Banerjee directed CBI officials to visit the former Kolkata police chief's residence every day at 4 PM to mark his attendance.The matter is slated to be heard again on June 12.Kumar, who is accused of tampering with evidence in the multi-crore Saradha scam, was summoned on May 26 by the probe agency to appear before it at 10 am the next day.He failed to appear and ...
Two held for allegedly molesting minor girl
The Gurgaon police has arrested two persons for allegedly molesting a minor girl after inviting her to a birthday party, a police officer said on Thursday. Aman and Ashutosh, both 26, were arrested from Ashok Vihar area, where they were hiding, on Wednesday night under the POCSO Act, Gurgaon police PRO Subhash Bokan said. During interrogation, Aman disclosed that he is unmarried and runs a cab. He said he befriended the 17-year-old girl a few months ago and had on Tuesday invited her to his birthday party, Bokan added. "When the girl reached the said place, he came along with Ashutosh to receive her. As soon as the victim boarded the car, they started molesting her. They threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the matter with the police," he added. The victim later narrated her ordeal to her mother and filed a complaint against the two persons, the officer added.
Crime Branch to investigate Mumbai doctor's death
In a significant development, the Mumbai police's Crime Branch will take over the investigations into the alleged suicide of Mumbai medico Payal S. Tadvi, official sources said here on Thursday.
Three BMC officials held for taking Rs 4.50 lakh bribe
Three Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials were Thursday arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4.50 lakh, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) said. The civic officials had sought the bribe in lieu of giving permission to the woman complainant to carry out renovation work at her residence, it said. The accused were identified as executive engineer Prahlad Mahisi, junior engineer Dhananjay Suryavanshi and sub engineer Chandrasekhar Dighaokar, an official said. The three officials, in connivance with a private person identified as Harish Patkar, demanded a bribe of Rs 6 lakh from the complainant, the anti-graft agency said. However, the amount was later settled at Rs 4.50 lakh. Thereafter, the complainant approached the ACB, which laid a trap and arrested the accused, the official said.
Musharraf's health deteriorates, rushed to hospital
Pakistan's former military ruler General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf's health suddenly deteriorated on Thursday and was rushed to a hospital here, according to a media report. Musharraf, 75, has been restricted from meeting or talking to anyone, The Nation newspaper reported from Dubai. Musharraf, who has been living in Dubai since March 2016, is facing treason charges for suspending the Constitution in 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014. A conviction for high treason carries the death penalty or life imprisonment. The former army chief left for Dubai for medical treatment and has not returned since, citing security and health reasons. The former president has been ill for a while now. He was earlier shifted to hospital in January when he fell sick. The former president's disease has "weakened his nervous system". Musharraf has difficulty in standing and walking, earlier reports said. Earlier, a special court while accepting Musharraf's request to postpone ...
Man held for raping three daughters
A 45-year-old man was arrested from Khajrana area in the city for allegedly repeatedly raping his three daughters, two of them minors, police said on Thursday. The accused was arrested on Wednesday, police said, adding that he was Thursday produced before a court, which remanded him in judicial custody till June 12. "We arrested the accused for raping his three daughters aged 15, 17 and 19. He had been sexually assaulting them for the last four years by threatening them with a sword," police inspector Pritam Singh Thakur said. The accused, a building contractor, used to threaten his daughters that if they told about their ordeal to anyone, he would hack them to death with the sword, the police officer said. However, the victims finally mustered courage to confide in their mother about their ordeal recently, he said. When the woman questioned her husband about his misdeeds, he threatened to kill all the members of the family, Thakur said. Thereafter, the woman approached .
HC upholds man's life term for raping minor daughter, making her pregnant
The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the life imprisonment of a man for raping his 15-year-old daughter, who became pregnant and gave birth to a child. A bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Manoj Kumar Ohri said the testimony of the victim, which has remained un-shattered and uncontroverted, is creditworthy and has ring of truth in it. "... although there is no gainsaying the legal position that her testimony by itself is sufficient to establish the case of the prosecution, in this case, the prosecutrix's testimony is materially corroborated by the other evidence on record. We have, therefore, no hesitation in saying that the cogent and clear evidence on record, leads to but one inescapable conclusion, that of the guilt of the appellant (convict)," the bench said. The high court upheld the April 2018 decision of a trial court convicting the man for the offence of raping his minor daughter and awarding him life imprisonment. It dismissed the man's appeal challenging the trial ...
Corrosion caused pedestrian bridge near CSMT to fall: experts
The foot over-bridge (FoB) outside the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) here collapsed due to heavy corrosion, a forensic report from a city-based engineering college has said. The collapse of the bridge during rush hour on March 14 killed seven people and injured 30. Police cited the forensic report in a supplementary charge sheet filed in a local court Thursday. Three civic officials and a private structural auditor have been booked in the case for alleged negligence. Police had asked experts from the government-run Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) to conduct a forensic analysis. The charge sheet cited the report as saying that the bridge collapsed due to heavy corrosion. The thickness of iron parts had decreased from 15 mm to 2 mm, it said. The 306-page second charge-sheet includes statements of 90 witnesses. Among the accused are Anil Patil and S F Kakulte, executive and assistant engineers, respectively, with the bridges department ..
Man arrested on charges of child sacrifice in Nepal
A man was arrested in southern Nepal for allegedly sacrificing a toddler to attain occult power, police said here on Thursday. The 55-year-old shaman, identified as Shatrudhan Mahato, was arrested from Dhanusha district on Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Shekhar Khanal said. Mahato allegedly "sacrificed the two-and-a-half-year old boy to attain occult power," the SP said, adding that he slit the throat of the child. The boy went missing on May 6. His dead body was discovered on May 7, following which the child's grandfather complained to the police alleging that Mahato murdered his grandson. The police registered an FIR against the shaman and he was arrested subsequently. The murder weapon as well as the clothes Mahato was wearing during the incident have been confiscated from his possession, Khanal said. According to a police investigation, Mahato abducted the child while he was playing in the courtyard of his house. The family of the child was away when the abduction took place.
Pakistan Army officer gets death sentence for spying
The Pakistan Army said on Thursday a military court had awarded death to an officer and a civilian official over the charges of spying for foreign agencies, a statement said.
Pak Lt.Gen sentenced to 14 years, Brigadier, civilian doctor to face gallows for espionage
Pakistani military courts have sentenced a three-star retired Pakistan Army General to 14 years in jail and a retired Brigadier to death sentence on charges of espionage, the military announced Thursday. A doctor associated with a sensitive organisation has also been handed the capital punishment on similar charges, according to a brief statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa endorsed the punishment to the officers on the charges of espionage/leakage of sensitive information to foreign agencies prejudice to national security, the statement said. The officers identified by the ISPR as Lieutenant General (retd) Javed Iqbal, Brigadier (retd) Raja Rizwan, and Doctor Wasim Akram were tried under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and Official Secret Act by separate Field General Court Martial for separate cases, the Express Tribune reported. Lt Gen (retd) Iqbal has been sentenced to 14 years rigorous imprisonment, while ...
23-year-old arrested for killing a man in northeast Delhi
A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing another person in northeast Delhi's Welcome area, police said Thursday. The accused has been identified as Danish, a resident of Welcome area. Danish, who was arrested on Wednesday from near ISBT area, was one of the three accused involved in killing 28-year-old Imran last Sunday. During interrogation, Danish told police that Imran had had fired on him two years ago back. Danish feared that Imran would attack him again which is why he decided to kill him," said Atul Kumar Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast). The accused along with his two accomplices fired at Imran last Sunday before fleeing from the spot on their motorcycle. Imran was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead, he said. Two of his accomplices involved in the killing have been identified and efforts are on to nab them, the senior officer said, adding both the accused and the victim often used to fight with each other following a ...