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Woman shot by ex-boyfriend
A 24-year-old woman was shot and wounded by her former boyfriend at her residence here, police said on Sunday.
Woman attacked, robbed of valuables in Shahdara
A woman was allegedly attacked and her jewellery and mobile phone was snatched by an unidentified man in Shahdara's Mansarovar Park, police said today. The incident occurred on July 29 and was caught on CCTV camera installed in a lane of Mansarovar Park, they said. In the CCTV footage, a man is seen following the woman who was walking down a narrow lane. He was seen grabbing the woman from behind and holding her by neck, a senior police official said. He then pinned her down and subsequently managed to steal her mobile phone and jewellery before fleeing, he said. When the alleged incident took place, a man was seen driving past them on a motorcycle, the official said. After the accused managed to snatch her belongings, he ran towards the end of the lane where the another man on the motorcycle was waiting for him. The woman later managed to gather herself, the police said. They said that the woman was returning home from a clinic when the incident took place. The police have ...
Kasur rape and murder convict gets 12 more death sentences in Pak
The convict in a high-profile rape and murder case of a minor girl in Pakistan's Kasur city was given 12 more death sentences by a special anti-terrorism court in another three cases of child sexual abuse, according to a media report. Imran Ali, who was already awarded four counts of the death penalty, one life term, 7-year jail term and Rs 4.1 million in fines back in February for raping and murdering the seven-year-old girl, had confessed sexually abusing at least another eight girls, Dawn newspaper reported. The anti-terrorism court (ATC) yesterday awarded Ali, currently incarcerated and on death-row for the rape and murder of the minor girl, the death penalty on 12 more counts for the rape and murder of three other girls, the report said. Ali was also fined Rs 6 million out of which Rs 3 million were directed to be handed to the families of the victims as 'blood money'. Earlier this year, the rape and murder of the minor girl in Kasur had sparked outrage and protests across the ...
Passenger raises hoax bomb threat after altercation at Jaipur airport
A New Delhi-bound flight from Jaipur International Airport was delayed by nearly 40 minutes after a passenger raised a hoax bomb threat after altercation with airline staffers today, an official said. The accused J P Chaudhary, a resident of Jaipur, allegedly ran into altercation with employees of a private airline during security checking and raised a fake alarm that he had a bomb in his luggage, CISF commandant Y P Singh said. Singh said Chaudhary's luggage was checked and nothing was found. The flight, which had to take off at 10.40 am, flew at 11.23 am, he said. The accused was not allowed to board the flight and handed over to Jawahar Circle police station for further investigation, he added.
Man who once drove autorickshaw becomes Pimpri Chinchwad mayor
From driving an auto-rickshaw for a living years ago to becoming the mayor of the industrial town of Pimpri Chinchwad, Rahul Jadhav has come a long way. Jadhav was elected as the mayor of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Pune district yesterday. The 128-member civic body is ruled by the BJP. Belonging to a family of farmers and educated till Class 10, the 36-year-old BJP corporator used to drive a six- seater auto-rickshaw between 1996 and 2003 to make ends meet. "But after the ban on six-seater auto-rickshaws, I turned to farming, but soon switched to driving again and took up job as a driver in a private firm," Jadhav told PTI. He entered politics in 2006 and joined the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in 2007. He soon tasted electoral success and became a corporator. "In 2012, I became a corporatoron the MNS ticket for the first time. In 2017, I joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and became the corporatorfor the second time," he said. After .
Life sentence for woman, lover for killing ex-boyfriend
A court here has sentenced a 26-year-old cab driver and his girlfriend to life imprisonment for murdering the woman's former boyfriend in 2014. The sixth additional district and sessions court judge, D T Puttarangaswamy, also slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 each on Gaviranga and Sushma Priscilla (26). The court said that of the total fine amount, Rs 40,000 would be handed over to the father of the 22-year-old victim Avinash Suvarna. His family is also eligible to get compensation from the district Legal Services Authority, the court said. Gaviranga was booked under Section 302 of the IPC (Punishment for murder) and Priscilla under Sections 120 (b) (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) by the court on August 3. The quantum of sentence was pronounced yesterday. The prosecution case was that Priscilla, employed in a private BPO firm, was in love with Avinash for several years. She gradually lost interest in him and ...
HC grants pre-arrest bail to BMC engineer in pay and park case
The Bombay High Court has granted pre-arrest bail to a civic sub-engineer, accused in a Rs 3 crore 'pay and park scam', observing that prima facie he has been made a "scapegoat" in the case. Justice Ajey Gadkari last week allowed the anticipatory bail plea filed by Milan Mehta, claiming that he was falsely implicated in the case. Mehta was entrusted with the work of contracts for payments and parking of vehicles. According to police, despite the fact that cheques issued by contractors were dishonoured and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) did not get its revenue, Mehta continued to extend their tenders from time to time, thereby causing a loss of up to Rs 3.84 crore to the public exchequer. The court, however, noted that the basic process of tender was initiated under the signature of Assistant Commissioner of 'A' Ward of the corporation. "In the hierarchy of officers of the corporation, the applicant (Mehta) is the lowermost officer, being a sub-engineer, and it prima ...
First time: PMLA case on banking conmen who stole savings from remote J'khand town
In a first-of-its kind criminal case aimed to choke cyber banking fraudsters, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has launched a money laundering probe against a clutch of alleged conmen based in a sleepy Jharkhand town who make fake calls to gullible people and steal monies from their accounts. The agency has filed as many as three Enforcement Case Information Reports (ECIRs), ED equivalent of a police FIR, against Pradeep Kumar Mondal, Yugal Mondal and Santosh Yadav and their associates whom the agency has charged to have conned numerous people in the last few years by obtaining their vital banking information over phone after posing as bank officials. These banking crimes perpetrated over phone and using stolen e-database has seen a phenomenal rise in the last few years prompting banks to ask their customers not to share their personal account details with anyone. "It is alleged that these people and their associates, sitting in a remote town of Jharkhand, siphoned off huge amount of .
Kathua case: Accused was not in Meerut, handwriting tests claim
The crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir have carried out scientific tests to support its probe that Vishal Jangotra, an accused in the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua, was not in Meerut when the crime took place in January. The charges of rape and murder of the girl were framed by the district and sessions court in Pathankot against Vishal, who is pursuing a bachelors degree in agriculture from a college in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district, and his juvenile cousin, his father Sanji Ram, and special police officer Deepak Khajuria alias Deepu. It is alleged in the charge sheet that Vishal, accused of raping the girl, had tried to create an alibi of his absence from the crime scene by allegedly "resorting to manipulation of records and creation of false evidence with the connivance and assistance of his father". According to the charge sheet filed by the crime branch, the answer sheets as well as attendance sheet of Vishal, son of alleged main accused Sanji Ram, were sent to
Bodies of Russian journalists killed in C.Africa brought to Moscow
The bodies of three Russian journalists killed while on a reporting trip in the Central African Republic were brought to Moscow on Sunday, Russia's Investigative Committee said. Journalists Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal were killed in the strife-town African country on Monday. They were reporting on the so-called Wagner Group, a company that sends Russian mercenaries to hotspots such as Syria and Ukraine and has been described as Moscow's shadow army. "Today the bodies of the three victims were brought to Russia," the Investigative Committee said in a statement. It added that the bodies will undergo forensic medical examinations to "establish the cause of death of the Russian citizens". "Work is continuing to clarify the circumstances of the crime. Friends and other persons that may have any information in connection with the investigation of this crime are being interviewed," the statement said. The news agency Interfax reported the bodies were brought on
Abducted boy found begging in UP; accused held
A 13-year-old boy was found begging on the streets, 12 days after he went missing, from the district headquarters area, police said today. Zishan Ali, who works as a labourer, yesterday found his son Shoaib, who was missing since the last 12 days, begging on streets, they said. The boy alleged that one Mannu had abducted him when he was out of home and forced him to beg, the police said. On the basis of Shoaib's complaint, a case was registered against the accused and arrested him, the police added.
Wrestler rapes woman near Kohima
A wrestler was arrested for allegedly raping a non-Naga woman at Kevuoliezha on the outskirts of the Nagaland capital, the police said today. Zasituo Tsukru had raped the woman, a mother of two children, when her husband was away on August two. He was caught by locals and handed him over to the police yesterday, they said. A women's organisation filed a complaint with the police. Acting on it, the man was arrested from the D Khel Kohima village.
Man brutally kills brother over monetary tiff; arrested
A 21-year-old man allegedly hacked his elder brother to death over a monetary dispute here, police said today. The accused, Simon Patrao, was apparently angry with his elder brother Wilfred Patrao (36) for having withdrawn Rs 20,000 from the former's bank account without his knowledge, said Assistant Superintendent of Police Atul Kulkarni. He killed the victim, who worked as a security guard, at their home in Bhayander township yesterday, by allegedly attacking him with a sharp weapon, the official said. The accused, presently jobless, then called up his another brother staying in Dubai to inform about the incident. After that, he walked into the Navghar police station in Bhayander and confessed to the crime, Kulkarni said. Based on his information, the police recovered the body, with the head and limbs severed and found packed in plastic bags, from their house, he said. Some of the body parts were also found stuffed in a plastic bag dumped in the bathroom, the official ..
Jilted lover shoots woman after break-up in northwest Delhi
A man allegedly shot at a woman after barging into her residence after their break-up, police said today. The incident took place in northwest Delhi's Bharat Nagar last night, they said. They were in a relationship but after the woman ended it, he allegedly attacked her, the police said. Following which the accused was arrested, they said. Further details are awaited.
'Data protection bill deterrent for businesses who wilfully do
The proposed data protection bill, making offences cognisable and non-bailable, is a deterrent for businesses who wilfully do wrong as giant corporations can otherwise get away with flagrant breaches 'merely by throwing the fine monies,' Justice B Srikrishna has said. "Every modern statute has a criminal liability clause. That is a deterrent for those who will do wrong intentionally or grossly negligently. Without such provision, merely imposing civil liabilities will make the law a toothless tiger as giant corporations can and will get away with flagrant breaches merely by throwing the fine monies," he told PTI. Data privacy is a fundamental right emanating from Article 21, as held by the Supreme Court in the Puttaswamy case, and breach of fundamental right must be viewed very seriously, he added. Some businesses are gripped with fear about making offenses cognisable and non-bailable under the bill by saying this will make it tougher for businesses.They have argued that
Indian man in US gets over 4 years in jail for possessing child pornography
An Indian man in the US has been sentenced to over four years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction for possessing child pornography. Abhijeet Das, 28, of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 52 months imprisonment for possession of material depicting the exploitation of a minor, US Attorney Scott Brady said. According to information presented to the court, Das unlawfully possessed computer graphic files containing approximately 1,000 photographs and 380 videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
3 persons booked for thrashing 2 Dalits for refusing to work in UP
Three persons have been booked for allegedly thrashing two Dalits for refusing to work for them at Tuglakpur village here, 14 days after the incident. According to Monu, he and his uncle were thrashed by Mahak Singh and two others for refusing to work for them on July 20. However, police registered a case against the accused yesterday, the victim said. Circle Officer Rizwan Ahmad said the case was registered yesterday against the accused under relevant sections of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and a probe has been initiated into the matter.
Ashok Vihar shooting: Accused held
The man who shot at a woman on Saturday night in Delhi's Ashok Vihar area was nabbed on Sunday morning.As per the police, the accused, Harish, was stalking the victim for a long time. The girl had also filed a complaint about the matter to authorities at her workplace in Gurugram.According to the eyewitness, advocate Karmesh Sharma, the man shot the woman and immediately fled the spot.Speaking to media, Sharma said that he came to know about the incident after checking the footage of the CCTV installed outside his office. The eyewitness also said efforts were made to chase the accused after seeing the victim wailing in pain."While working, we heard a firecracker-like sound in the area. On checking the CCTV of my office, we noticed a man running away. We immediately came out and saw dogs barking incessantly, after which we heard a woman wailing in pain. On reaching the house, we saw a magazine, blood on the floor and an old lady. We even tried to chase the man but couldn't nab him. He .
Minor boy, uncle stab neighbour over parking feud
A man was allegedly stabbed by two of his neighbours in Delhi's Bharat Nagar on Saturday night, following a tiff over a parking space.As informed by locals, the argument started after victim Raja Raheja parked the car at the accused's spot.The quarrel took a violent turn when the minor boy named Garv stabbed the victim thrice on the head with a knife.The injured was rushed to a nearby hospital.One of the neighbours said, "I came back from work and saw him (Raja) severely injured and immediately took him to the hospital. He has been hit on the head and face.""At around 10 pm, a fight over parking spot began during which a minor boy named Garv, along with his uncle, stabbed Raja ji with a knife. The man has been admitted to a nearby hospital," said another local.Further details are awaited.
J-K: Gunmen open fire at Gangera Hills
Unidentified men opened fire at Gangera Hills area in Udhampur on late Saturday night.Additional SP Udhampur Tabussum Parveen said, "According to locals, a car with about four people on board reached the area, fired three rounds and fled. This seems to be a case of local crime and not militancy."The police also recovered empty shells of bullet from the spot, and said, "It is too early to comment on this but we will investigate the matter and arrest the culprits soon."No casualties have been reported yet.Further details are awaited.