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Kerala sexual abuse case: Priest surrenders
One of the three Malankara Syrian Orthodox priests, accused of sexually abusing a woman, today surrendered before the police here. Father Job Mathew, the second accused in the case, surrendered before the Crime Branch office here and is being questioned, police sources said. The surrender comes a day after the Kerala High Court dismissed anticipatory bail pleas of three priests, observing they acted as "predators" and took "undue advantage" of the woman. The priests-- Abraham Varghese alias Sony, Job Mathew and Jaise K George had approached the court soon after the Crime Branch of Kerala Police slapped rape charges against four of the five church priests. The crime branch has registered an FIR against the priests after recording the victim's statement. Last month, the woman's husband had accused the five priests of using his wife's confession to 'blackmail' and 'sexually abuse' her. The incident had come to light after an audio clip containing the man's purported ...
Pak to file counter-memorial on Jadhav's case in ICJ on Jul 17: Report
Pakistan will file its second written reply to India on July 17 in the ICJ on the conviction of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism, a media report said today. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 23 gave a timeline to both Pakistan and India for filing another round of memorials in the case. Pakistan's counter-memorial will be in response to pleadings filed by India in the Hague-based ICJ on April 17. Top attorney Khawar Qureshi, who pleaded Pakistan's case at the initial stage, briefed Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk regarding the case last week, the Express Tribune reported. Attorney General for Pakistan Khalid Javed Khan and other senior officials also attended the meeting. According to the daily, the counter-memorial has been drafted by Qureshi. After the submission of the second counter-memorial, the ICJ will fix the matter for hearing, which is likely to take place next ...
Stormy Daniels arrested at strip club
American porn star Stormy Daniels was arrested at a strip club for allegedly allowing a patron to touch her while on stage in a "nonsexual manner", her lawyer, Michael Avenatti said Thursday morning.
Lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels says she was arrested
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, locked in a court battle with President Donald Trump over their alleged affair, has been arrested while performing at a strip club in what her lawyer described as a "politically motivated" setup. Daniels was arrested at a club in Columbus, Ohio yesterday while performing an act she has done at nearly 100 strip clubs across America, Michael Avenatti wrote on Twitter. He said Daniels was arrested for allegedly allowing a customer to touch her in a non-sexual way while on stage. "This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges," Avenatti wrote. "They are devoting law enforcement resources to sting operations for this? There has to be higher priorities!!!," he added. Avenatti said in a later tweet that he expects Daniels to be released on bail "shortly" and charged with a misdemeanor for "touching." "We will vehemently contest all charges," he wrote. Daniels - real name Stephanie Clifford - is suing ...
Anti-gay law: Activists hopeful, SC to resume hearing
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, will resume hearing a batch of petitions against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalises homosexual activities.Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists have expressed faith in the Supreme Court and hope for a favourable ruling, shortly ahead of the commencement of the hearing.Speaking to ANI, LGBT activist Ranjitha Sinha welcomed the Centre's decision to leave the matter of the constitutionality of Section 377 to the Supreme Court."The good thing is that the Centre has sidelined itself from the matter which means no political parties will get a chance to interfere in the matter. Those political leaders who are saying that Article 377 is a threat to national security should read the mythology and history as well because of this exit since past. We have full faith on the Supreme Court," she said.Echoing similar sentiments, another LGBT activist, Bappa Aditya Mukherjee said, "It's an extremely hopeful step the way it's
Demi Moore's credit card stolen, accused goes on shopping spree
Actress Demi Moore was the subject of a credit card theft after a man took her card on a shopping spree, spending as much as $169,000, according to federal prosecutors.
Bank manager booked over fake notes in UP
Police have booked an Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) branch manager here for allegedly depositing fake demonetised currency notes to the RBI, officials said today. The case was registered yesterday based on a complaint filed by a manager of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) branch in Kanpur, circle officer Harish Bhadoria said. According to the complaint, 117 demonetised currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 deposited by the OBC branch, where the accused is the manager, were found to be fake.
Police arrest 3 more in Nirana harassment case
Three more people were arrested in Nirana village in Muzaffarnagar district today after a few families from a particular community alleged that they were being harassed by a group of local people, police said. The families had threatened to leave the village if the people behind their alleged harassment were not booked and arrested. They had put up "house on sale" boards outside their homes. With the arrests, the total number of people taken into police custody in the case has gone up to seven. A police official said they have arrested the three people - Abid, Mohsin and Adnan - for attacking two members of a particular community. District authorities have transferred two police officials for dereliction of duty following the incident. According to police, two persons from a particular community were threatened by the accused during a wedding in the village on June 29. The senior superintendent of police and district magistrate have visited the village and assured the families of ...
Colombia: 3 judicial officials slain in holdout rebel ambush
Three Colombian judicial investigators were killed when their vehicle was ambushed along the country's southern border with Ecuador by a dissident rebel group, authorities said. Officials said two of the men were incinerated to death when their car was torched by holdout guerrillas from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia yesterday. The same group has been behind a wave of drug-related violence, including the March kidnapping of three Ecuadorean newspaper workers who were later found slain. It is led by a former FARC mid-level commander, Walter Arizala, better known by his alias Guacho, who is the target of an intense military manhunt backed by the US. It's not clear what the judicial workers were investigating. The three worked for the chief prosecutor's office in Colombia's volatile Narino state, which is home to Colombia's largest harvest of illegal coca crops. Land dedicated to production of the raw ingredient used to make cocaine skyrocketed last year to ...
3 police killed in Mexican region plagued by oil theft
Armed assailants killed three police officers in a region of eastern Mexico plagued by thefts of fuel from oil pipelines, authorities said. Police in the municipality of Tezonapa in Veracruz state said the local officers were hit by gunfire while riding in a patrol vehicle yesterday. They were in an area where three days earlier authorities mounted an operation targeting "huachicoleros," or thieves who steal fuel by drilling into pipelines run by state oil company Pemex. Local authorities say the latest Pemex report indicates there are 551 clandestine fuel theft perforations detected in Veracruz, 70 percent of them in the Tezonapa region. In Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, four people were killed when gunmen fired on their vehicle on a rural road in the township of Coyuca de Benitez, state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said yesterday. Alvarez said three victims, including a 17-year-old boy, died at the scene and an 11-year-old boy died later at a hospital Tuesday night. The .
Tunisia bank robbed at gunpoint by hooded guy
A bank branch in Grand Tunis area in Tunisia was robbed at gunpoint by a hooded individual, officials said on Wednesday.
Glencore faces lawsuits over U.S. subpoena, stock drop
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glencore Plc faces at least two lawsuits by U.S. shareholders accusing the big Anglo-Swiss mining company of having made false and misleading disclosures before it received a subpoena in a corruption probe, and its stock tumbled.
Abducted Delhi girl rescued from Rajasthan: Police
A four-year-old girl, who was kidnapped by a childless couple from northwest Delhi, was rescued from Rajasthan, police said here today. Aslam Khan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) tweeted, "Team from Distt #NorthWest of @DelhiPolice rescued a 4-year-old girl from Rajasthan & apprehended the kidnappers- a childless couple. Acting on an information a team from PS Bharat Nagar did exemplary investigation & cracked the case within 4 days. Both accused ve been sent to JC." On July 3, the girl child was kidnapped by a 30-year-old woman from the JJ Colony when she was playing. The child's mother works as a labourer, police said. When her mother returned from work and searched for her daughter in the area, she could not find her, following which the police were informed and a case was registered. The police had no clues about the identity of the accused and spoke to locals, following which they got to know about a woman, who was last seen with the child. The woman used to ...
Prime accused in ATM fraud case arrested
The prime accused in the ATM fraud case, who had been absconding ever since the case was busted in March this year, was arrested at Chennai today, police said. Chandruji was nabbed at Chennai airport after police received a tip off, Senior Superintendent of Police Rahul Alwal told reporters here. The SSP said Chandruji had been moving around in several cities in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and also in Delhi ever since the case was busted. He said Chandruji was acting as a middleman and three others, who were among a total of 15 arrested, cloned the ATM cardsusing the CVV data of credit and debit cards. A total of 140 people, mostly from the U.S.A, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Sweden and Italy, were conned by the gang, he said The amount siphoned off from the accounts of the victims, running to several crores of Rupees,was invested in movable and immovable properties including luxury cars, the SSP said. Chandruji would be produced before the court here and remanded to custody ...
Lanka to hang 19 drug convicts
Sri Lanka will carry out the death sentence for 19 convicts over serious drug offences, the government said today, a day after the country decided to reinstate capital punishment for drug-related crimes. Cabinet approval had been obtained to implement the death penalty on repeat offenders related to large scale drug offenses," said Cabinet spokesman and minister Rajitha Senaratne. He said President Maithripala Sirisena will sign the documents to implement the death penalty. This was following yesterday's unanimous Cabinet decision to reinstate capital punishment for drug-related crimes. The Cabinet decision came despite Sri Lanka voting in favour of a UN moratorium on the death penalty. Although capital punishment is in the statute of Sri Lanka, the country had stopped hangings since 1976 and death row prisoners spend life terms in jail. Executions have not been carried out as successive presidents since 1978 have refused to issue death warrants.
Woman found dead in goods compartment of train in Assam
A day after a young girl was murdered in a running train in Assam, the Railway police in Assam's Jorhat district recovered the body of a woman from the goods compartment of the Awadh Assam Express on Wednesday.
Pickpocket arrested from Delhi bus terminal
An alleged pickpocket was arrested with the help of a traffic constable from east Delhi's Anand Vihar inter-state bus terminal (ISBT), the police said today. Mohammad Ali, a resident of Ghaziabad, was arrested yesterday and a stolen mobile phone was recovered from him, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Pankaj Kumar Singh said. The mobile phone of a Ghazipur resident, Mahesh Singh, was stolen while he was purchasing a ticket to Gurgaon at Anand Vihar ISBT, the DCP said. Mahesh chased the pickpocket but could not catch him, he added. A traffic constable, Devendra, who was on duty at the terminal's exit gate got suspicious about Mohammad's movements and immediately apprehended him, the DCP said. During interrogation, Mohammad confessed to pocket picking at the Anand Vihar bus terminal, the officer added. The accused was handed over to the local police and a case has been registered, he said. With the arrest of Mohammad, the police claim to have solved six cases.
HC raps film director for not complying with bail conditions
The Madras High Court today pulled up noted film director Bharathiraja for not complying with bail conditions. "There were umpteen number of reports saying that Bharathiraja was participating in various programmes. Why can't he approach the lower court and seek advance bail, as stipulated by the court earlier?" Justice S Rajamanickam asked. The judge, however, issued notice to the complainant, Narayanan, and posted the matter for further hearing on July 17. Narayanan had lodged a complaint with police alleging that Bharathiraja had made derogatory remarks against Lord Vinayaka at a meeting here on January 18. Apprehending arrest, Bharathiraja had moved the high court for advance bail, which was granted on May 23. One of the bail conditions directed him to appear before police daily for three weeks and thereafter, surrender before the magistrate court for advance bail. However, Bharathiraja did not approach the magistrate court. As the stipulated period ended, he moved the high court .
Damaging Sandpiper eggs: Minor rescued from falling prey to community superstition
A five-year-girl was rescued from becoming the victim of superstition by the authorities in the neighbouring Bundi district, an official said. The child had accidentally destroyed the eggs of the sand piper bird in her school premises on July 2. According to the local beliefs, the bird is believed to be the messenger of rain and harming it or its eggs entails punishment. The child's accidental damaging of the eggs led to the gathering of village elders who concluded that declaring her an outcast and disallowing her from entering her home for three days would be punishment commensurate to the sin. The class one student was, however, allowed to stay in the front yard of her house. The girl's father could not tolerate the diktat and protested, an official said. The ruckus created by him led to a result contrary to his expectations as the community 'panches' extended the girl's punishment duration to eleven days. The matter came to the notice of local authorities and Hindoli Tehsildar ...
Being harassed by accused to withdraw murder case, alleges family of Muslim man who was thrashed to death
The family of a Muslim man, who was killed allegedly by members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini last year, claimed that the accused were putting pressure on them to withdraw the case of murder. The family members of Ghulam Ahmad claimed that they had decided to leave their Soni village due to the harassment by the five accused who were recently granted bail by a local court recently. He was beaten to death on May 2 last year after a Muslim youth allegedly kidnapped a Hindu girl. The accused had dragged Ahmad, who was related to the youth, from a mango orchard to a secluded spot where they beat him to death. His son, Shakil, claimed that the accused, after returning to the village, were putting pressure on them to withdraw the case of murder. Shakil's wife, Sitara, claimed that they were being harassed and so the family of 13 had decided to move out of the village today. Superintendent of Police Rais Akhtar said that they were aware of the matter and required action would be taken.