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Police sends MLAT to US; LR to follow in Shujaat Bukhari case
A Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty has been sent by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for the United States requesting for preserving data of Facebook and Twitter accounts of journalist Shujaat Bhukari, who was killed by Lashker-e-Taiba last month, which will be followed by a Letters Rogatory for handing over the data. The request under the MLAT was sent to the Home Ministry which will route it to the United States through legal and treaties department of the Ministry of External Affairs soon, officials said. "We believe that there are threatening messages sent to him on social networking sites from Pakistan which will help the police in nailing all the conspirators behind the killing of the journalist," an official said. This is for the first time that the Jammu and Kashmir Police has been making efforts to gather evidences in a systematic and scientific way. Facebook and Twitter are based out of the US and so is the Google, which runs e-mail services. The preservation of data and ...
BBC wants to challenge Cliff Richard verdict
The BBC will seek permission to appeal a ruling over its coverage of a police raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home.
Minor girl abducted, raped by two youths in UP's Shamli
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by two youths in a village in Shamli district, police said today. The accused, identified as Sachin and Shokat, both neighbours of the minor girl, allegedly abducted her in Balwa village under the Kotwali police station area yesterday, Circle Officer Ashok Kumar said. Citing a complaint filed by the victim's father, the official said the accused took the minor to a forested area and raped her, and added that they beat her up when she tried to fight back. Family members later found the girl in an unconscious state near a railway station, Kumar said. A case was registered against the accused and police were looking for them, he said.
Body of missing girl found in locked house
Body of a 14-year-old girl, who had not returned home from her tutions, was found lying on a bed in a locked house under Bagnan police station in Howrah district today, a senior police officer said. The girl's mother went to her tution class after her daughter had not returned home at New Development block yesterday. On enquiring from her friends, she was told that her daughter had been sighted accompanying the mother of a 15-year-old boy, a resident of Nabasan area under the limits of the same police station. After visiting the house at Nabasan area, about three kilometre from her residence, she found the main door of the house locked from outside following which she lodged a complaint with the police, Howrah Additional Superintendent of Police (rural), B Thakur said. The landlady of the house alerted neighbours today morning after she peeped in through the window and sighted legs dangling from a bed in the locked room, Thakur said. The police broke open the door of the
Dennis Quaid faces lawsuit for using e-cigarette on flight
Actor Dennis Quaid is facing a lawsuit over his alleged use of an electronic cigarette on a flight two years ago.
ACB arrests 2 persons for taking bribe
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Jamshedpur has arrested a dealing assistant and his broker while accepting a bribe from a villager on a property issue. The ACB laid a trap yesterday and caught the dealing assistant of a circle office at Seraikela-Kharswan district and his broker when they were accepting Rs 5,000 from one Ashok Gope, a resident of Pudiyara villag, an ACB official said. Gope said in his complaint, lodged with the ACB on Tuesday, that the dealing assistant Ranjan Kumar Dubey through his broker Arun Mahato were demanding a bribe for mutation of land purchased by his father-in-law, the official said. On verification, the complaint was found to be true following which the trap was laid yesterday, he said.
Court rejects B'deshi man's bail plea, says Aadhaar not proof of citizenship
A Thane court has rejected the bail plea of a 42-year-old Bangladeshi national arrested for illegally staying in India and observed that an Aadhaar card cannot be considered proof of citizenship. District Judge R S Patil Bhosale rejected the bail application of Mohammad Nasir Hafiz Saddar, who was booked under IPC sections pertaining to cheating and forgery, and provisions of the Passport (Entry into India) Act and the Foreigners Act along with 11 other Bangladeshi nationals. The judge said last week that it has been rightly submitted by the prosecution that an Aadhaar card cannot be considered proof of citizenship. "It has been observed by the Calcutta High Court that the Aadhaar card by itself shall not confer any right of or be proof of citizenship or domicile in respect of the holder thereto," he said. In view of these facts, if the accused is released on bail, there is a possibility of his absconding as he prima facie appears to be a foreigner, the court said. Considering the ...
Bihar CM orders CBI probe into Muzaffarpur shelter rape case
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case, where 40 girls were allegedly exploited sexually.Kumar wrote a letter to the state's Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary and the Director General of the Police to hand over the probe of the case to the CBI.Eleven employees of the shelter home have been arrested in this regard.The police, on Monday, raided the premises and rescued 44 girls.While addressing the media, Bihar DGP KS Dwivedi said that medical reports of twenty-nine out of forty-two girls indicated that sexual contact was established with them.Terming the incident unfortunate, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader, Tejashwi Yadav, accused the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led state government of shielding the culprits.One of the victims had revealed her ordeal and told interrogators that a girl was allegedly killed and buried underground in the premises of the shelter home.
Burari deaths: Police seeks psychological postmortem
Delhi Police Crime Branch wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation's Central Forensic Science Laboratory demanding psychological postmortem to be conducted in connection with the Burari death case.The bodies of seven women and four men were found in a house in Burari area on July 1.Earlier, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Alok Kumar said that post-mortem of all the 11 bodies have been completed, and initial reports suggested suicide.Till now, over 200 people have reportedly been interrogated in the case so far.
Wanted village head shows up at police station to welcome SHO, arrested
Congratulating a police officer proved costly to a village head as he was arrested on the spot for his alleged involvement in an attempt to rape case in Shamli district. The Partappur village head, Itwari Singh, who was wanted in two cases, yesterday went to Jhinjhana police station to congratulate newly-posted Station House Officer Rajkumar Sharma, Circle Officer Rajesh Kumar Tiwari said. Sharma said his subordinates informed him that Singh, who was sitting in the police station, was wanted in two cases. On learning this, he immediately arrested him, the SHO added. Singh was wanted in an attempt to rape case and for attacking a police party, the Circle Officer said.
3 brothers get life term for beating labourer to death
A court here has sentenced to life three brothers for beating to death a labourer for demanding his wage in 2015. According to prosecution, Additional District Sessions Judge Ramsudh Singh sentenced Mohar Singh and his brothers Satish and Harpal, to life imprisonment last evening for killing the labourer. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of the convicts. According to prosecution, Monu was beaten to death by the three brothers when he demanded his wage for working in their brick kiln at Sindhawli village here on March 5, 2015. Ramesh, victim's father, had lodged a complaint against the trio.
Two separate probes underway on Mandawali sisters' death
The sub-divisional magistrate of Delhi's Preet Vihar area said two separate inquiries have been initiated to probe the death of three sisters in East Delhi."We are doing a separate enquiry on the incident apart from the police. Reports of the second post-mortem are yet to come. Last rites have been performed," Preet Vihar SDM Arun Gupta told ANI.The initial post-mortem examination report indicated that the girls, aged two, four and eight, died of starvation.Police were reportedly treating it as a case of natural deaths initially, but the recovery of pills and medicine bottles prompted them to look into the poisoning angle.The girls, who were brought to the hospital by a member of the family, were declared dead on arrival.
MP: Pregnant woman carried on cot through flooded streets
In yet another case of lack of medical facilities, a pregnant woman was carried on a cot by her family members to a hospital through Tikamgarh's flooded streets.The family members took the decision as the ambulance service number 108 failed to respond on time.The woman was undergoing severe labour pain, after which her family members dialled the helpline number and urged hospital authorities to send an ambulance immediately.However, the ambulance was unable to reach their village due to severe floods and water-logging."I was not aware of this incident. Hence, I'll be able to tell you anything only after checking with the concerned authorities," said Dr Ravi Rawat of Prithvipur district hospital.Similar incidents stemming from the lack of prompt medical facilities have taken place in the recent past.Over two weeks ago, a man in the same district was forced to carry the body of his mother on a motorcycle for post-mortem.The woman, identified as Kunwar Bai, had died due to a snake bite. .
Courts in country lack basic facilities: CJI Misra
Various courts across the country do not have basic facilities for litigants, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Wednesday.
Muzaffarpur shelter home case: Wife of accused points fingers at minister's husband
The wife of one of the accused in the Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal today alleged that her husband, a government official, was falsely implicated to shield the husband of a state minister who frequented the facility. The minister, however, dismissed the allegation as politically motivated and said none of the victims had given statements that could corroborate what was being alleged. I demand a CBI inquiry into the case. My husband is being framed to save some big people. He was doing his duty honestly," the accused official's wife said, demanding investigation into the role of Chandeshwar Verma, the husband of social welfare minister Manju Verma. Shibha Kumari, wife of Muzaffarpur District Child Protection Officer Ravi Roshan, who was arrested a month ago, told TV channels he used to visit the shelter home frequently and his role needs to be probed. My husband had been pressing for necessary renovations, replacement of CCTV cameras, things which were essential for the security of .
Three minor sisters starve to death in Delhi, probe ordered (Roundup)
Three sisters -- aged two, four and eight -- were found dead in their house here with autopsy reports suggesting that they died because of hunger, officials said on Wednesday. The government has begun a magisterial probe into the incident that has shocked people in the richest state of country.
French police spot helicopter jailbreak gangster 'in car with explosives'
A French gangster on the run for weeks after a dramatic helicopter jailbreak has narrowly avoided capture by a police patrol and had to abandon a car containing explosives, officials said tday. Officers identified Redoine Faid as one of two people who sped away when police tried to carry out a security check on their car north of Paris yesterday, a source said. It was the first sighting of 46-year-old Faid since he broke out of prison on July 1, whisked away by accomplices in a hijacked helicopter. A source close to the investigation said a "major" search operation was underway today. The officers spotted Faid and an accomplice while going to check on a suspicious vehicle waiting near a petrol station in the Paris suburb of Piscop. As they approached it sped off, sparking a police chase which ended when officers found the car in an underground car park at a shopping centre in nearby Sarcelles. Police found six packages of plastic explosives and fake licence plates in the car boot, ...
Germany jails Vietnam man who aided Cold War-style abduction
A German court today sentenced a Vietnamese man to nearly four years in jail for taking part in a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping ordered by Hanoi of an oil executive from a Berlin park. Judges at the Berlin court said the 47-year-old Czech-Vietnamese national, identified as Long N H, was guilty of aiding an abduction and working for a foreign intelligence service. But they handed him a relatively mild sentence of three years and ten months after he confessed to his involvement. Long NH admitted during his trial that he rented the vehicle used in last July's abduction of fugitive Vietnamese state company official Trinh Xuan Thanh, who was spirited back to Hanoi. In a statement, the presiding judge described the kidnapping as "a blatant violation of the sovereignty of Germany, unprecedented in recent history". But judges also agreed that while the accused knew about the kidnapping plans by the Vietnamese secret service, he did not belong to the top level of command. The kidnapped man,
Delhi: 3 sisters die of starvation, magisterial probe ordered
The Delhi government on Thursday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the deaths of three sisters who were found dead in east Delhi's Mandawali area.The initial post-mortem examination report has indicated that the girls, aged two, four and eight died of starvation.Reportedly, the police were initially treating it as the case of natural deaths, but the recovery of pills and medicine bottles prompted them to look into the poisoning angle.The girls were brought to the hospital by a member of the family but were declared dead on arrival.Pankaj Singh deputy commissioner of police (east) said, "A board of doctors conducted a re-examination at the GTB hospital. According to the initial autopsy report, the girls died due to starvation and its complications.""The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial probe into the matter," Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced in a tweet.
9 arrested for impersonating in Tradesman Mate test
Nine men were arrested for allegedly impersonating candidates while appearing for a physical test for the post of Tradesman Mate, police said today. On July 24, nine imposters appeared for the physical test of recruitment for the post of Tradesman Mate at 7 am in ME lines recruitment area of Delhi cantonment, Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) said. The imposters, identified as Kehar Singh, Sheelesh, Avnish Kumar, Ramavtar, Sonu, Deepak, Sandeep Kumar, Naval Kishor and Bantu, were detained at the centre while appearing for a physical test, the DCP said. Subsequently, they were arrested and a case has been registered.