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Haryana: Priest arrested for rape
A 60-year-old priest from Tohana town in Fatehabad district was arrested on Friday after videos of him allegedly raping women surfaced online.Speaking to ANI, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jogind Sharma said that initially they got a tip-off about the Baba Balaknath Temple priest and his alleged acts. As investigations were underway, it was found that several videos of his alleged raping of women were already doing the rounds in the town.The police raided the temple premise and seized some suspicious articles belonging to the accused.The investigation into the case is in progress and the accused has been sent to police remand for five days. The police are also trying to find out if there are more people involved in it.Sharma said that many videos have been recovered and a thorough investigation is underway into the case. He has appealed people not to circulate such videos since it is a criminal act.
Over 20 Indian-origin persons sentenced in massive call center scam in US
Over 20 Indian-origin persons have been sentenced up to 20 years in prison in the US for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar India-based call center scam which defrauded thousands of American citizens of hundreds of millions of dollars. The prison sentences for the 21 people convicted this week ranges from 4 to 20 years. "The stiff sentences imposed represent the culmination of the first-ever large scale, multi-jurisdiction prosecution targeting the India call center scam industry," US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. Several of the convicted will be deported to India after the completion of their sentence. "This case represents one of the most significant victories to date in our continuing efforts to combat elder fraud and the victimisation of the most vulnerable members of the US public. "The transnational criminal ring of fraudsters and money launderers who conspired to bilk older Americans, legal immigrants and many others out of their life savings through their lies, .
Man beaten to death in Alwar on suspicion of smuggling cows
A man was allegedly lynched by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows in Alwar district of Rajasthan, a police official said today. Akbar Khan, 28, and another man were taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forest area near Lalawandi in Alwar district last night, when a group of people severely thrashed Khan, Ramgarh police station SHO Subhash Sharma said. The people suspected that Khan was smuggling cows but the allegation is yet to be verified, Sharma said. The other man accompanying Khan managed to escape. Khan was rushed to a government hospital in Ramgarh, where doctors declared him brought dead. The body has been kept at a mortuary and the postmortem is expected to be conducted after Khan's family members reach the hospital. A case has been registered against unidentified people under IPC Section 302, the police officer said. The incident happened a little more than a year after Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer, was lynched by cow vigilantes in the ..
Fugitive DHL heir arrested, jailed in Palau
The fugitive DHL heir Larry Hillbroom Jr has been arrested and jailed in Palau after two days on the run, the Pacific island nation's attorney general said today. Hillbroom was found at his girlfriend's house after fleeing arrest when he failed a mandatory drugs test imposed as part of a trafficking sentence. The multi-millionaire, who holds US and Palau passports, is a son of Larry Hillblom, co-founder of the shipping company, although their surnames are spelled differently. Hillbroom was sentenced to 10 years' probation, fined USD 50,000 and ordered to undergo a drugs rehabilitation programme last month after admitting trafficking methamphetamine. Authorities had warned him he would serve a five-year jail term if he failed the drugs test. "Yes, Hillbroom went to jail right away," Attorney General Ernestine Rengiil told AFP when asked if the full sentence had been invoked following his arrest. Hillbroom had faced a jail term of up to 50 years before pleading guilty at the last minute
Woman raped in UP's Shamli district; act filmed
A 30-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a man in a forest area in a village in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said today. The crime in Goharpur village on Thursday was filmed by two of his friends, Adarsh Mandi police station SHO Rajkumar Sharma said. The three persons have been absconding, Sharma said. The woman was found unconscious and brought to the district hospital by a police team, he said. According to the case filed by the woman after she regained consciousness, she was forcibly taken to the forest area and raped by the man. His two friends beat her and filmed the crime.
After 15 years, thieves behind French heist surface in Serbia
They believed they were safe but a few blood drops betrayed them: 15 years after a daring robbery at a French jewellery store, the four alleged perpetrators have been found -- in Serbia. The Belfort job had all the hallmarks of a "Pink Panther" operation, the modus operandi used by an international jewel thief network of Serbs and Montenegrins responsible for some of the most audacious robberies of the past two decades. Between 1999 and 2015, these criminals are thought to have carried out at least 380 armed robberies, targeting high-end jewellery stores and snatching 334 million euros (USD 391 million) worth of loot, Interpol says. One morning in September 2003, a group of masked men burst into a jewellery shop in Belfort, a town in eastern France just 25 km from the Swiss border. One pulled a handgun, while the others smashed open the glass cases, snatching 350,000 euros worth of jewellery and watches before fleeing -- all within the space of a minute. Police later managed to arrest
Toddler dies in accidental shooting in US
A two-year-old girl has died after being accidentally shot by her four-year-old cousin who got hold of a gun at a home in the US state of California, said police.
Revelations of US cardinal sex abuse will force pope's hand
Revelations that one of the most respected US cardinals allegedly sexually abused both boys and adult seminarians have raised questions about who in the Catholic Church hierarchy knew and what Pope Francis is going to do about it. If the accusations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick bear out including a new case reported today involving an 11-year-old boy will Francis revoke his title as cardinal? Sanction him to a lifetime of penance and prayer? Or even defrock him, the expected sanction if McCarrick were a mere priest? And will Francis, who has already denounced a "culture of cover-up" in the church, take the investigation all the way to the top, where it will inevitably lead? McCarrick's alleged sexual misdeeds with adults were reportedly brought to the Vatican's attention years ago. The matter is now on the desk of the pope, who has already spent the better part of 2018 dealing with a spiralling child sex abuse, adult gay sex and cover-up scandal in Chile that was so vast the
MP: Minor girl allegedly commits suicide after gang-rape
A 16-year-old girl has allegedly committed suicide on Friday after she was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar.A case has been registered and all the three accused have been arrested by the police. Further investigation is underway in the matter.Superintendent of Police, Satendra Singh said, "A case has been registered. All accused have been arrested. Further investigation is underway."Taking note of the increasing number of rapes in the state, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had earlier requested Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra to look into the issue of expediting the hearing of rape cases by setting up of fast-track Higher Courts.Singh had said that an arrangement should be made in the current system to accord high priority to such cases.On a related note, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly had unanimously passed a Bill in December last year awarding death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 and below.
2 crore seized at Mughalsarai railway station
Police authorities on Saturday seized Rs. 2 crore from Mughalsarai railway station and arrested two people."Two people have been arrested and Rs. 2 crore has been seized from Mughalsarai railway station," RK Singh, GRP Inspector, Mughalsarai said.Income tax officials were also present on the spot.Further investigation in the case is underway.
Man stabbed to death for passing lewd comments on woman
A 35-year-old e-rickshaw driver was stabbed to death in southeast Delhi's Jaipur area today by two men after he allegedly passed lewd comments about the sister of one of the accused, the police said. The deceased was identified as Jagdish. The accused, Aamir (24) and Zakir (19), were on their way to Dakshinpuri after meeting the former's sister, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said. On their way, they met Jagdish, who was in an inebriated state. Jagdish allegedly passed lewd comments about Aamir's sister, following which a quarrel broke out and he was stabbed by the duo, the DCP said. Jagdish was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead, he added. Aamir and Zakir were arrested following a tip off, he said. The weapon used in commission of crime is yet to be recovered, the DCP said.
Man with knife attacks bus passengers in Germany, 10 hurt
A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked passengers today on a crowded city bus in northern Germany before being overpowered and arrested, authorities said. Ten people were injured, three of them seriously. Authorities had no immediate information on the assailant's motive for the afternoon attack on a city bus in Luebeck, near the Baltic coast northeast of Hamburg, but said they had no indication that he was politically radicalized or had any terrorist background. Investigators found a flammable substance in a backpack aboard the bus, but no explosives. The incident started when the assailant set fire to the backpack, prosecutor Ulla Hingst said at a Friday evening news conference in Luebeck. The driver told investigators that he stopped the bus and opened all the doors to let passengers out after noticing the fire in his rear-view mirror. He then walked back to find out what was going on and was hit by the assailant, Hingst said. As the suspect left the bus, he stabbed people ...
We must hang our heads in shame: Rahul on Haryana rape case
Congress President Rahul Gandhi today expressed "shock" and "disgust" at the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman in Haryana by 40 men, saying it is a shame that the nation was unable to protect "this daughter of India". A 22-year-old married woman from Chandigarh alleged that she was raped by 40 men for four consecutive days after being held captive at a guest house in the Morni area of Haryana's Panchkula district, following which three people were arrested. In a complaint lodged with the Chandigarh Police at the Manimajra police station yesterday, the woman alleged that she was held captive for four days when the accused took turns to rape her. "The rape of a young woman in Haryana, by 40 men, has shocked and disgusted me. Ironically, today in Parliament, I had drawn attention to the issue of growing violence against woman. "As a nation, we must hang our heads in shame, for our inability to protect this daughter of India," Gandhi said on Twitter.
Robbers' gang busted, looted costly wires recovered
Six members of a gang of robbers have been arrested, Delhi Police said on Friday.
Two arrested for cheating and motor vehicle theft in Delhi
Two brothers have been arrested for their involvement in several cases of cheating and motor vehicles theft, police said today. With their arrest, police claimed to have solved nine cases of cheating and theft. The duo, identified as Kurram and Akram, are residents of the Ashram area here, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Devender Arya said. Two stolen vehicles, a scooter used in the commission of crime and five mobile phones were recovered from them, he said. Acting on a tip off, police arrested the accused while they were trying to cheat an individual by handing him a mobile-shaped piece of glass wrapped in a black cover instead of an iPhone which they had earlier shown him, the officer said. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they cheated their targets by posing as police officers or by borrowing mobile phones on the pretext of making an urgent call and even visited several banks where they tricked people on the pretext of helping them deposit money, the DCP .
MP journalist death: Woman scribe booked for abetting suicide
An FIR was filed today against a woman scribe for allegedly abetting the suicide of senior journalist Kalpesh Yagnik, group editor of Dainik Bhaskar, the police said. The woman, was miffed with Yagnik (55) after being sacked from the newspaper and had allegedly threatened to implicate him in false cases if she was not reinstated, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shailendra Singh told PTI. He said a first information report had been filed at the MIG police station here against the 40-year-old woman scribe on the basis of initial investigation and statements of Yagnik's relatives. She has been booked under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) and other relevant sections, he added. "The woman journalist has not been arrested yet and a detailed investigation is underway," the ASP said. The police suspect that on the night of July 12 Yagnik jumped off the roof of the three-storey building on A B Road here that houses the office of the newspaper. Shortly before his death, Yagnik ..
Rape of young woman in Haryana shocked and disgusted me: Rahul
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday condemned the rape of a young woman in Haryana by 40 men, saying it has "shocked and disgusted" him and must make everyone must hang their heads in shame.
Bitcoin case: charge sheet filed against jailed SP
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Patel, the suspended Amreli district Superintendent of Police, in the Bitcoin extortion case. The charge sheet was filed yesterday in the court of Additional Sessions Judge P J Tamakuwala. The 2,400-page charge sheet names Patel as the key accused, who allegedly extorted Rs 1.4 crore from Surat-based builder Shailesh Bhatt by abducting him with the help of junior policemen. Patel was suspended from the service after his arrest in the case in April. He is still behind bars. The crime came to light when Bhhatt lodged a complaint with the state CID-Crime alleging, that inspector Anant Patel and some other policemen attached to Amreli police abducted him and his business partner Kirit Paladia from Gandhinagar, and forced them to transfer Bitcoins worth Rs 9 crore. Patel had allegedly hatced the entire conspiracy with the help of his Surat-based friend who had tipped Patel about Bhatt and his
Woman killed after being hit by local train at Bandra
A 25-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a local train at suburban Bandra station while her two children sustained injuries, Government Railway Police today said. Pritti Gupta and her children were standing on platform number 5 when Gupta was knocked down by a train last evening, a senior GRP official said. CCTV footage of the incident was not clear, and exactly how the accident took place was being ascertained, he said. The incident took place around 8:30 PM yesterday. Railway police rushed the woman and the two children to hospital, where the woman was declared brought dead. The children, aged about four and two, sustained minor injuries in the incident. They were under observation at the hospital. Initially, police could not ascertain the woman's identity. One of her children -- her elder son -- mentioned 'Borivali' many times when police asked him where they lived. A police team today went to Borivali in the northern suburbs, and found that a missing person ..
Two ex-ministers among 27 facing ACB probe in Goa
A total of 27 cases involving government officers and public functionaries in Goa were pending with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) since 2015, the assembly was informed today. These cases include one involving former Public Works Department Minister and sitting NCP legislator Churchill Alemao, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said. He was responding to a question tabled by Digambar Kamat (Congress). A total of 27 cases are pending before the vigilance department of the Anti-Corruption Bureau since 2015, Parrikar said. The department is investigating allegations against Alemao and then officials of his department for criminal misconduct in procuring a water storage tank. The procurement allegedly caused loss to the government exchequer. The case was filed in 2016 after then BJP legislator Damodar Naik raised the issue in the House. Former Information Technology Minister Dayanand Narvekar is being investigated for alleged irregularities in respect of expenditure incurred .