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3 robbers arrested in Dwarka
Three men were arrested for allegedly being involved in incidents of robbery and snatching in Dwarka following a shootout in the early hours today, the police said. On August 20, Mukul Verma, an Army Captain posted in Siachin, informed police that his Nisaan Micra Car and ATM cards etc were robbed by six motorcycle-borne men in Dwarka Sector 5.The criminals also withdrew Rs 40,000 from the ATM card. In another incident the same day, complainant Budh Prakash, a head constable in the CISF, reported that he was attacked with knife by four motorcycle-borne men near Dwarka Sector 14 metro station and robbed off Rs 4,000, they added. TheNissan Micra car robbed from the Army captain was left by the robbers near Mehram Nagar after it got punctured. They robbed a a Maruti Ritz car from there immediately after leaving the Micra car unattended. They moved towards west district and robbed a Swift Dzire car in Madipur area after leaving the Ritz car. The Swift Dzire car was chasedbut the accused ..
Assam MP says former Deoband MLA threatened him, accused arrested
Assam MP Badruddin Ajmal has filed a police complaint, alleging that he has received extortion calls demanding Rs 1 crore from a former Deoband MLA, a senior official said today. Ajmal filed the police complaint three days ago in New Delhi district and the accused was arrested later, the official said. The MP claimed in his complaint that the accused had been calling him up for the past two years. He used to ask the MP to write a piece of land, the latter owned in Deoband, in his name or else transfer Rs 1 crore, the official added. The former MLA had threatened the MP of dire consequences. Subsequently, Ajmal approached the police and a case was registered.
Brazilian former football boss jailed four years in US
A US federal judge today sentenced Jose Maria Marin, the 86-year-old former head of the Brazilian football federation, to four years in an American prison over the massive FIFA corruption scandal. Marin was found guilty on December 22 in connection with nearly $6.6 million in bribes from sports marketing companies in exchange for contracts to broadcast major tournaments like the Copa America and the Copa Libertadores. He was one of seven FIFA officials arrested at a luxury hotel in Zurich on May 27, 2015, and one of only two defendants convicted at trial in the United States in connection with the scandal that disgraced world football. US Judge Pamela Chen said in Brooklyn federal court that Marin was "a cancer" that corrupted the world's most popular sport, both at home in Brazil and across the planet. "He could have and should have said no," she said at the sentencing hearing. Marin cried and was very agitated during the proceedings, before calming down. The former president of the .
Rafale deal: Not scared of legal notices, says Congress
Congress on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scared as Rafale deal was a "monumental scam" of his government and noted that it was not scared of legal notices being sent out by his "crony friends", when it came to the issue of corruption and was even ready to go to jail.
Seizure of arms in Aurangabad: police remand for accused
Three men, from whom a pistol was allegedly seized by the CBI which is probing the murder case of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, were remanded to police custody for two days by a court in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Aurangabad police yesterday registered a case for illegal possession of weapons against Ajinkya Surle (19), Shubham Surle (20) and Rohit Rege (23) under the Arms Act. They were produced before a magistrate's court this afternoon, and the court sent them to police custody for two days, said an official from the City Chowk Police Station. "We will question them from where they got these weapons and what was the motive for acquiring them," the official said. The CBI last week arrested Sachin Andure, who hailed from Aurangabad. The agency claimed he was one of the shooters who fired on Dabholkar, a renowned anti-superstition activist, in Pune in August 2013. Yesterday, the CBI conducted searches at the premises of Andure's brothers-in-law Ajinkya and Shubham Surle, and his ...
70 Dalit families debarred from village by dominant caste
At least 70 Dalit families from Kanudi village in Rajasthan's Barmer district were allegedly debarred from accessing basic facilities by dominant Rajpurohit families.The matter flared up after a resident of the village Rawat Ram lodged a complaint with the police against few members of a Rajpurohit family for allegedly posting some derogatory remarks over Dalits on social media sites.Soon after the complaint, the dominant caste allegedly ousted the villagers from the village. The complainant also claimed that the Rajpurohit families have restricted the Dalits from taking water from the common well and also their children were stopped by the dominant caste from going to school.After receiving the complaint, police has registered a complaint against 16 members of the village and assured that fair probe will be initiated in the matter. Police have been deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incident. Due to police's interference, the children were also allowed to attend ...
Car belonging to son of Delhi police official snatched
A car belonging to the son of the SHO of Naraina police station was allegedly snatched by an unidentified person in Dwarka today, police said. They said CCTV footage and examination of a few eyewitnesses revealed that the accused was a man in his early 20s. The accused found the car parked outside a DDA pocket in Dwarka with the key in ignition and the gate open, the police said. Taking advantage of the situation, the accused sat in the car and as he was driving away with it, the victim tried to stop him. The accused then intimidated him with a weapon and sped away, they said. A case has been registered and the matter is being investigated, police said.
Man arrested for killing Sikh man in his store in US
A man has been arrested in the US for allegedly killing a Sikh man who was found stabbed to death at his store in New Jersey last week. Terlok Singh, 55, was found dead by his cousin on August 16 in his store with an apparent stab wound in the chest. It was the third incident targeting the minority Sikh community in the country in three weeks. Ubiera, 55, of Newark has been arrested and charged with the murder of Singh, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino said. Ubiera did odd jobs at the store and a detention hearing is schedule for him tomorrow. The Essex County Prosecutor's office had called the incident a homicide. The motive behind the killing was not immediately known. Singh, described as a very kind person, is survived by his wife and children who live in India. He owned the store to support his family. Singh ran his store for at least six years and a neighbour said he should not have had to worry about being attacked in his work place. Civil rights organisation the ...
Why arrest in Dabholkar case was made after 5 years: Kanhaiya
Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar today questioned the delay in the arrest made by the CBI in the 2013 murder case of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. The Central Bureau of Investigation last week arrested a man on a tip-off by Maharashtra police, claiming he was one of the two shooters who fired on and killed Dabholkar in Pune in August 2013. Speaking at the Mumbai Press Club, Kumar asked why it took so long to make the arrest in the case. "Five years have passed since Dabholkar's death. Why the arrest was not made earlier? Maharashtra police could have made the arrest (instead of tipping off CBI). Police in neighbouring state (Karnataka) arrested killers of (journalist) Gauri Lankesh," he said. Kumar alleged that the group involved in Lankesh's murder is being protected by the government to "terrorise those who speak or write against it". He claimed that one of the persons arrested recently by Maharashtra Police for allegedly conspiring to trigger blasts in the state had tried to heckle .
German police arrest Russian over alleged jihadist bomb plot
German police commandos today arrested a Russian suspected Islamist militant accused of having plotted an explosives attack in the country. Identified only as 31-year-old Magomed-Ali C., he was allegedly an accomplice of Clement Baur, who was arrested in Marseilles shortly before the 2017 French elections accused of plotting an imminent attack. The Russian man "is suspected of having plotted, together with Clement B., detained in France, a serious act of violence against the state", German federal prosecutors said in a statement. Commandos of the elite police unit GSG 9 stormed the man's Berlin apartment in an operation which prosecutors said was linked to the Baur case. "No explosives were found during today's search operations," federal prosecutors' spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said. Baur and another suspect, who had both pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, were arrested in April 2017 in a Marseilles apartment. French police found an IS flag, a loaded Uzi sub-machine gun, ..
5-yr-old raped by neighbour in Delhi
A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 60-year-old neighbour in southwest Delhi's Palam, the police said today. The accused, a rickshaw-puller, was known to the victim's family, they added. On August 20, he had gone out with the minor and her father. The father left the girl with the accused for sometime, which is when he allegedly raped her, they said. The girl narrated her ordeal to her mother after returning home, following which the family approached the police. The accused was arrested the same day, the police said.
Agri girl student accuses TN professor of sexual harassment
: A 22-year old girl student of a state-run agriculture college near here today accused an assistant professor of sexually harassing her. A second year B Sc Agriculture student and hostel inmate of Agricultural College and Research Institute at Vazhavachanur, she said she rejected his advances. In brief remarks, she told reporters that she was sexually harassed by the assistant professor. He lured her, saying that she could come up in life if she cooperated with him, which she rejected. The student today recorded her statement before Principal District Judge G Mahizhenthi and an initial probe was done by Tiruvannamalai Rural police. The institution is a constituent college of state run Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. Mahizhenthi told reporters: "It is anguishing that the Assistant professor has behaved in such a despicable manner." The Judge said the varsity has been directed to transfer the student to another agricultural college. Also, he said police have
2 get death sentence for killing man in Jharkhand
A court here sentenced two persons to death today for killing a man in the district four years ago. Principal District and Sessions Judge Satyanand awarded capital punishment to Brijlal Murmu and Sohon Manjhi for hacking to death Chhotelal Kishku in Pasaria village on November 14, 2014. Seven other accused in the case were acquitted for lack of evidence. Manjhi's son died a few days before the incident and there was a rumour that the death was because of black magic practised by Kishku. During trial, public prosecutor Uday Pratap Singh informed the court that nine people, including Murmu and Manjhi, attacked Kishku with axes and sticks killing him on the spot.
Store worker charged with murder of Sikh business-owner in US
Authorities have arrested a man who had worked at a store in the city's suburb of East Orange and charged him with the murder of Tarlok Singh, the Sikh who owned the shop, according to the local prosecutor's office.
Deterrence theory of punishment a misplaced aspiration, says Khurshid
Nobody has ever been deterred from committing a murder because there is a possibility of death sentence, former Union Law minister Salman Khurshid today said while discarding the deterrence theory of punishment as a misplaced aspiration. Khurshid was speaking at the release of a study 'From Addict to Convict: The Working of the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act (1985) in Punjab', conducted by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, an independent think tank, here. The former union minister also said that there was a need to reexamine the overall perspective regarding crime as at present, deterrence is the "only magic formula" to deal with it. "Deterrence is a misplaced aspiration. The problem is the entire perspective regarding crime. The only magic formula that we see to address crime is deterrence. There is need to reassess and reexamine the overall concept. It has not yet happened that anybody has been deterred from committing a murder because there is a possibility of ..
Trump claims Obama's campaign finance violation was 'easily settled'
Donald Trump today claimed that his predecessor Barack Obama had a campaign finance violation that was "easily settled", a day after the US President's former lawyer Micheal Cohen implicated the US President by pleading guilty to campaign finance laws. In a stunning admission that implicates Trump, his former lawyer Cohen, 51, pleaded guilty to buying the silence of two women about their alleged affairs with Trump. The admission to paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 US election potentially leaves the US president in legal jeopardy. In a series of tweets, Trump slammed Cohen, saying he is not a good lawyer and is making up stories while praising his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a "brave man". "If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!" Trump tweeted, a day after Cohen admitted in a Manhattan court that he had paid two women in 2016, at the direction of Trump, to silence
Tajikistan releases comedian and journalist jailed for 12 years
Tajikistan released an independent journalist and comedian today in an unexpected move after his imprisonment last month prompted widespread criticism from international rights groups. Khayrullo Mirsaidov, 40, in July received a 12-year jail term on charges including embezzlement and providing false testimony, which he denied. Today, a higher court in the impoverished ex-Soviet nation freed him on appeal after reducing his sentence to a fine, his lawyer Bakhtiyer Nasrulloyev told Tajik media. Mirsaidov was ordered to pay a fine of around 80,000 Tajik somoni ( USD 8,500 or 7,300 euros), the lawyer said. Today's court hearing was closed to journalists. Amnesty International hailed the verdict as a "rare victory for freedom of expression", while adding that Mirsaidov should never have been charged in the first place. Until his arrest, Mirsaidov headed a troupe of Tajik comedians who competed in televised contests run by Russia called KVN or Club of the Funny and Inventive. The charges ...
Man stabbed to death in Delhi over Rs 500
A 24-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by three people, including a juvenile, following an argument over Rs 500, which he had lent to one of the accused, the police said today. The incident took place on Tuesday night in east Delhi's Kalyanpuri. The victim, Shahrukh, went to the house of his friend Mukesh (30) to ask for Rs 500, which he had lent to the latter's wife a month ago. Mukesh was not at home at that time and was informed by his wife of Shahrukh's visit when he returned, the police said. A furious Mukesh went out in search of Shahrukh and picked up a fight with him, they said. Mukesh was joined by two others -- Khalid (20) and a juvenile. The three thrashed Shahrukh and later stabbed him to death, the police added. Shahrukh was stabbed 12 times in his chest, abdomen and neck, they said. Khalid and Mukesh have been arrested while the juvenile has been apprehended by the police. In the past, Mukesh was booked in a case of fight and Khalid was involved in a robbery, ..
Businessman robbed of his car at gunpoint in Delhi
A businessman was allegedly robbed of his car at gunpoint by four unidentified men in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh, police said today. The incident took place in front of a supermarket in Shalimar Bagh in the early hours on August 19. Amit Malhotra (25) and his friend were seated inside the the car, when four men arrived there. One of the accused threatened to shoot Malhotra if he and his friend did not step out of the car, police said. Fearing for his life, Malhotra and his friend stepped out of the car and the accused fled after snatching his phone, they said. The entire incident has been captured on CCTV and a case has been registered in connection with the matter, police said, adding they have got some clues and the accused would be nabbed soon.
ICJ likely to hear Jadhav case in Feb 2019
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has fixed February 2019 for hearing the case of retired Indian Naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav.The ICJ turned down Pakistan's request for an early date for hearing while fixing February 2019. Attributing to sources, Geo News reported that the international court would hear the case on a daily basis for a week between February 19-25.Last month, Pakistan had filed its second counter-memorial. As part of the reply, they refuted Indian allegations that Jadhav's wife and mother were mistreated when they visited him last year, according to a report of the Express Tribune.On April 10 last year, a Pakistan military court pronounced death sentence to Jadhav. Subsequently, on May 8 India approached the ICJ for egregious violations of the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963 by Pakistan in the matter. On May 18, the court passed an order obligating Islamabad not to carry out the sentence that was awarded to Jadhav.On September ..