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Mumbai Police crime branch to probe doctor's suicide case
Mumbai Police crime branch will now probe the alleged suicide committed by doctor Payal Tadvi after some of her senior colleagues passed casteist slurs at her at a state-run hospital here, an official said Thursday. Considering the seriousness and importance of the case, the investigation has been transferred to the crime branch, Deputy Commissioner of Police Manjunath Singte said. Tadvi's lawyer Nitin Satpute said the decision came after they demanded that the case be transferred to the CBI or the crime branch as they felt it was not properly investigated by the Agripada police here. "Wesuspect it to be a case of murder, but the police have not conducted the investigation properly, hence we wanted the case to be transferred to some other probing agency," Satpute said. Three women doctors - Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal - were earlier arrested after their 26-year -old junior colleague Tadvi at the B Y L Nair Hospital here allegedly hanged herself at her
Man held with cannabis in Jammu district
A suspected drug peddler was arrested on Thursday after cannabis was recovered from him in Jammu district, police said. During patrolling, Rajinder Singh was apprehended with 45.40 grams of cannabis in Jourian town, the police said. A case has been registered at the Akhnoor Police Station and the matter is being investigated, they added.
Aircel-Maxis case: Court extends protection from arrest to P Chidambaram, son Karti till August 1
A special CBI court on Thursday extended till August 1 the interim protection from arrest granted to former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in the Aircel-Maxis case.Special Judge OP Saini passed the order after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sought more time to argue on their anticipatory bail pleas.Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), submitted that some key information pertaining to the case is awaited from foreign countries such as Singapore."A special director of the ED is in Singapore and the investigation is in progress. Kindly give us time 3 weeks time. We are seeking this deferment for the last time. We can assure you that we will not seek further deferment in the case," he pleaded to the judge.Mehta submitted, "Crucial details regarding the sources of the deposits are awaited. The transaction details routed to the bank account are crucial."Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, ...
Ensure fair hearing without truncating registration: SC to NRC coordinator
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinator, Prateek Hajela, to consider and give a fair hearing to all the persons who wish to get themselves enrolled in the registration process, without cutting short the process and complete the same by July 31.The apex court vacation bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi and also comprising Justice Aniruddha Bose, clarified that IAS officers with judicial experience can head the foreigner tribunals in the case.The court gave the liberty to Hajela to get the matter listed on any day during vacation.During the course of the hearing, the court observed, although the deadline of July 31 for publication of the final Assam NRC list is non-negotiable but that does not mean that those who have filed claims for inclusion of their names in the list, should not be heard properly and given procedural chance to prove their case.SC asks NRC coordinator to ensure fair hearing without cutting short ...
Body of 55-year-old woman found at a vacant plot in Dwarka
The body of a 55-year-old woman was found at a vacant plot in Dwarka's Bharat Vihar on Thursday morning, police said. Police said prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide. The woman might have jumped from the rooftop of her-four storey building on the vacant plot, they said. However, police said that they have not found any suicide note and investigations are in initial stage. The deceased has been identified as Sunita, a resident of Bharat Vihar. The incident was reported at Dwarka North police station at 7.05 AM. When the Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) reached at the spot, the woman was found lying at the vacant plot. She was shifted to Rockland Hospital where she was declared brought dead, a senior police officer said. The family members of the deceased said the woman was a diabetes patient and was in depression due to related diseases. Her husband, who was in Civil Defence, had gone for a morning walk and had also asked Sunita to accompany him but she refused and told him
Double murder case in Delhi
Two men who were returning from a gym were shot dead in Delhi, police said on Thursday.
Bareilly: Woman sub-inspector found dead in transit hotel
A woman sub-inspector, residing at police transit hotel was found murdered here on Thursday."Police were alerted by the neighbours to her room which had been left open for two days. We found that the woman officer was strangulated first and then her head was smashed with an object," said Muniraj, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Bareilly.Prima facie, the crime appears to be committed by an insider as no outsider could have got entry inside the police transit hotel, he added."The victim, identified as Meena Kumari, reportedly estranged from her husband, was living with her 15-year old son. Her son had gone out three days before her death for his admission," said Muniraj.The woman, posted at SP regional office, had been on medical leave. Police are yet to contact her son and husband in the matter.Police have registered a case in the incident and forensic team is investigating the crime scene.Further investigation in the case is underway.
Give fair chance to people not included in NRC: SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the NRC Coordinator to provide a fair chance to those who have challenged the non-inclusion of their names in the National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Assam.
Rajeev Kumar moves Cal HC, seeks quashing of CBI notice in Saradha chit fund case
West Bengal additional director general (ADG), CID, Rajeev Kumar moved the Calcutta High Court Thursday, seeking quashing of the CBI notice served on him over alleged suppression of facts in the Saradha chit fund scam case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had served a notice on Kumar asking him to appear before it for assisting the investigation into the case. Justice Pratik Prakash Banerjee granted leave to Kumar's counsel for filing a petition in the registry of the court and move the matter for hearing at 2 pm. Kumar's counsel moved the vacation bench of the high court and prayed for leave to file the petition. Kumar, a former commissioner of Kolkata Police, was appointed ADG, CID, by the Mamata Banerjee government before the Lok Sabha elections. He was, however, removed by the Election Commission during the poll process and was attached to the Home Ministry in New Delhi. The state government reinstated him following the withdrawal of the model code of conduct. The ...
Kodak Black to stay in jail until trial
Rapper Kodak Black has been ordered to remain in jail until his trial in a weapons possession case in Southern Florida.
Man detained for plucking mangoes in Andhra dies
A middle-aged man, who was detained by the Singampalli police, for allegedly plucking mangoes from a farm, was found dead under suspicious conditions.This incident took place in Singampalli village situated in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.The deceased has been identified as Bakki Srinu of Gollala Mamidada village.According to the police, after dropping his wife and children at his inlaws' place, Srinu visited a mango garden. Without taking prior permission from the farm owners he plucked mangoes and ate. Following this, the owners got furious and took him to Local Panchayat Raj office where he was detained.A few hours later, police intervened in the matter and found Srinu dead inside the premises of the office.The investigation into the matter is underway. Additional forces have been deployed in the region to keep the situation under control.
Two revenue officials held in Rajasthan's Bundi for taking bribe
Rajasthan's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a panchayat secretary and a patwari of the revenue department in Bundi district for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000, officials said Thursday. The two accused, held Wednesday, were posted with the revenue department in Bundi and had demanded the bribe for mutation of agricultural land in Bundi's Namana area, the officials said. Bundi (City) patwari Dilip Goyal and panchayat secretary Sanjeev Goyal, both are brothers and residents of Bayana city in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, DSP, ACB, Bundi Tarunkant Somani said. Both were caught red-handed taking the bribe near a marriage garden alongside the Kota-Bundi road, the DSP said. The accused revenue officials had demanded the bribe of Rs 25,000 from one Kunal Singh, a resident of Kumhariya village in Namana area of the district, for mutation of his agricultural land, following which Singh on Monday lodged a complaint with the ACB in this connection, the DSP added. Sleuths of the ...
Assam: Army monitoring retired 'foreigner' JCO case
Indian Army is in touch with the family of a retired Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), who has been sent to a detention camp in Assam after a foreigners' tribunal declared him a 'foreigner'.Police in Assam detained the Kargil war veteran and serving police officer identified as Mohammed Sana Ullah, 52, on Wednesday after a court declared him a foreigner."The Director of the Rajya Sainik Board in Guwahati has met the retired JCO and advised him to approach the state High Court on the matter. The Army is monitoring the case and is in touch with the family," the Army officials said.The officials said that the JCO seems to have joined the Army in 1987 through the recruitment office in Narangi Cantonment near Guwahati which is now going through its records for his documents.The JCO's son is a student of the Rashtriya Indian Military College in Dehradun and his daughter is also studying in an Army school.Ullah, a resident of Guwahati, was detained from his house in Satgaon by the police on
Fed up of abuse, woman kills husband, walks to cops with severed head
Fed up with years of physical and mental torture, a woman in Assam's Lakhimpur district killed her husband and landed at the local police station with his severed head.The incident happened late Tuesday night when the woman from Mazgaon arrived at the Dhalpur police outpost carrying her deceased husband's head in a plastic bag.The accused, Guneswari Barkataky, 48, confessed of killing her husband Mudhiram, 55."He had been beating me for many years. On several occasions, he even injured me with an axe. I had thought of leaving him long ago, but didn't because of our children. In the end, it became unbearable and I had to do it, else he would have killed me," Guneswari told media persons.The mother of five - two sons and three daughters - allegedly attacked her husband with a machete and walked nearly five kilometres to the nearest police station carrying his severed head in a plastic bag."The woman came to the police station with her husband's head and surrendered. On being questioned,
Kolkata ex-top cop moves Cal HC, seeks quashing of CBI notice in chit fund case
ADG CID Rajeev Kumar on Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking the quashing of notice served on him by the CBI in connection with alleged suppression of facts in the Saradha chit fund scam probe. The CBI had sent a notice to Kumar asking him to appear before it for assisting the probe into the case. Justice Pratik Prakash Banerjee granted leave to Kumar's counsel for filing a petition in the registry of the court and moved the matter for hearing at 2 pm. Earlier in the day, Kumar's counsel had moved the vacation bench of the high court and prayed for leave to file the petition. The state government recently reinstated former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who was removed by the poll panel as Additional Director General, CID, before the seventh phase of polling. The Supreme Court had last week dismissed a plea of Kumar seeking extension of protection from arrest in the multi-crore chit fund scam case. A vacation bench of the apex court, headed by Justice ...
Four held for robbing rail passengers in Maharashtra
Four persons have been arrested by Thane police in Maharashtra for allegedly robbing passengers on the pretext of getting them berths in trains, police said on Thursday. The accused generally targeted people travelling late night in trains going to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. They would get friendly with such passengers and offer to secure berths for them in trains starting from the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in neighbouring Mumbai, a release from the Kalyan railway police here said. While taking the gullible victims to LTT through dimly lit areas, the accused used to rob them of their cash, mobile phones and other valuables at knife-point, it said. The Kalyan railway police received several complaints of robbery using the same modus operandi and launched a probe. After going through the CCTV footage of various railway stations, the police on Tuesday arrested Mohammad Chand Lulle Khan (23), Afzal Kasim Khan (22), Din Mohammad Ayub Khan (35) and Farman Razzab Khan (24), ...
Saradha scam: CBI again grills Bengal officer
West Bengal IPS officer Arnab Ghosh was on Thursday again interrogated by the CBI after he was grilled for more than nine hours on Wednesday in connection with the multi-crore Saradha Chit Fund scam case, a CBI source said.
UP: STF arrests 2 inter-state liquor smugglers
Uttar Pradesh STF arrested two interstate smugglers last night and seized 300 cartons of illegal liquor from their possession.The two accused - Ram Kumar Jogi and Naushad were arrested from Lucknow National Highway.This comes after several deaths were reported in the state due to spurious liquor.According to police, around 300 cartons of liquor worth Rs 30 lakhs, and Rs. 1780 in cash were recovered from the accused.On being interrogated, the accused revealed that they were involved in large scale smuggling of liquor from Haryana and Punjab. This was then supplied in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Money laundering case: Robert Vadra appears before ED
Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to purchase of alleged illegal assets abroad, officials said. Vadra was dropped by his wife and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi outside the agency's office near India Gate here at about 10:30 AM. He was summoned to depose before the investigating officer of the case where his statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Taking to Twitter and Facebook, Vadra said this is the 11th time he has appeared before probe agencies in cases against him and has been subjected to 70 hours of questioning so far. "I maintain my belief in the Indian judiciary. I have and will adhere to all summons/norms of government agencies. I have deposed 11 times with questioning of approximately 70 hours. In future also, I will cooperate, till my name is cleared of all false allegations and accusations," ...
Ecuador court denies bail to accused hacker linked to Assange
A Swedish national linked to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and accused of computer hacking was denied bail by a court in Ecuador on Wednesday. Ola Bini was arrested while trying to leave Ecuador for Japan on April 11 -- the day Quito withdrew its offer of asylum to Assange, who had taken refuge in its London embassy since 2012. The Ecuadorian government has accused Bini, 36, of plotting to attack computer systems in the country. Bini had refused to cooperate with investigators and the prosecution was therefore unable to identify the possible victims or damage caused by the alleged hacking, Judge Yadira Proano said in denying his bail application. Defense lawyer Jose Charry said Bini's rights had been infringed and the prosecutor "did not do his job" by failing to identify or explain the nature of the charges. Assange was taken into British custody and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating the conditions of his bail in 2012, when he sought asylum at the embassy in London. He