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Police: Boy, 7, killed self with gun found in box with toy
Police say a 7-year-old boy fatally shot himself in his suburban Minneapolis home after a loaded handgun was found in a box containing a toy. Police were called to a townhome apartment complex in Plymouth around 3 pm (local time) yesterday on a report of a child bleeding from the head. When officers arrived they discovered Keyaris Samuels with a gunshot wound. Police said today that the boy and three other children were without adult supervision when the gun was discovered in a box containing a hoverboard. The other children were outside when Keyaris accidentally shot himself. The boy's mother came home shortly afterward. Plymouth Police Chief Michael Goldstein says the boy's mother told police she doesn't know the source of the gun. Police are investigating and want to hold the gun owner responsible.
Rapper Mac Miller arrested in hit-and-run case
Singer Mac Miller, who split from singer Ariana Grande earlier this week, was arrested for drunk driving.The 26-year-old was taken into custody for Driving under the influence (DUI) and hit and run on Thursday morning after he struck a power pole in the San Fernando Valley with his Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon and fled the scene, reported the People magazine.After law enforcement officers matched the vehicle's license plates to Miller's address, they arrested Miller from his house, a Los Angeles Police Department public information officer said.Miller was held on $15,000 bail prior to his release on Thursday morning and is set to appear in court on June 7.
Pakistan delays compensation to Quetta church attack victims
Pakistan has delayed in reimbursing compensation worth Rs 7.2 million to the victims of 2017 Quetta church attack.As reported by the Dawn, a suicide attack targeting Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in December 2017 left at least nine people dead and 30 others injured.Following the attack, the government had announced compensation for the victims.The apex court took a suo moto notice after months the government failed to distribute compensation.A representative of Christian community told the court that the amount of compensation provided to victims is Rs7.2 million short of what was promised to them.A bench comprising of two judges Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan inquired about the reason behind not disbursing funds.The deputy commissioner of Quetta told the court said, "There was a delay in the provision of the medico-legal reports.
Dalit man, witness in father's murder case, shot dead
A 40-year-old Dalit man was shot dead today allegedly by five bike-borne assailants at Naifal village here in a suspected caste enmity case, police said. The incident took place under Masuri town police station area and family members of the deceased have identified the assailants, thepolice said. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna said Mahendra, a Dalit, was returning to his home this evening after parking the vehicle on a private school premises. When he was just a few yards away from his home, the five bike-borne assailants opened fire at him, leving him dead on the spot, and fled, the SSP said. Anil, the brother of Mahendra, told police that on February 12, 2009 their father Sahib Ram, a labourer, was shot dead during the wedding procession of his brother. The "higher caste" people of the village were opposing the procession, the official said, adding that the murder case of the father is still under trial in a district court. In a bid to prevent Mahendra, who ..
Constable among 2 held for robbing man in east Delhi
Two men, including a policeman, were arrested for allegedly robbing a 22-year-old man in east Delhi's Ghazipur, police said today. The victim, Tasleem, works as a delivery boy in Noida and had come to Ghazipur to take money from his father who has a business there on May 15. While he was walking on a footpath, two men on a motorcycle stopped him and said that they are police personnel, the police said. They accused him of harassing women and told him that they would be taking him to a police station. However, they took him to public toilet in Kalyanpuri where they thrashed him and took the money his father had given him, the police said. They later dropped him at Kondli Pul from where he informed the police. Police identified the accused as Idrish and Jai Prakash. They were identified with the help of a watchman of the public toilet where the accused had taken the victim. Idrish was posted as a constable in Shahdara district while Prakash is associated with the police's citizen ...
2 arrested for harassing women boxer in Delhi
A woman boxer was allegedly harassed by a group of bike-borne men in outer Delhi's Nihal Vihar, the police said today. Two persons, Vinod and Bobby, have been arrested in this connection, they said, adding the duo worked with a hospital. The incident took place yesterday when the boxer was out with her uncle. The bike-borne men misbehaved with her, the police said. Efforts are on to trace the others, they added.
CPI(M) demonstrate demanding bodies of its worker and his wife
The CPI(M) today blockaded a busy road here during office hours, demanding that the police hand over bodies of a couple who were burnt to death in South 24 Parganas district, hours before panchayat election in West Bengal on Monday, police said. The CPI(M) blocked the crossing of Chittaranjan Avenue which connects north Kolkata with the heart of the city and Mahatma Gandhi Road that leads to Howrah railway station. The blockade led to a clash between CPI(M) activists and policemen who tried to disperse the agitators and clear the roads for normal vehicular movement, police said. Altogether 111 demonstrators, including 31 women, were arrested and all of them were released later on personal bonds, an official at the Kolkata Police Headquarter said. CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty, who was leading the demonstration, alleged that the goons of the ruling TMC had assaulted party worker Debaprasad Das and his wife Usha and then set their house afire at Kachharabari locality of .
EOW files 37,000-page chargesheet against Pune builder DSK and
Pune police's economic offences wing (EOW) today filed a 37,000-page chargesheet against city-based builder D S Kulkarni and his wife Hemanti on charges of committing a Rs 2043.18 crore fraud by collecting funds from investors on promise of good premium and duping them. The total scam is worth Rs 2043.18 crore wherein the accused floated nine different firms tosiphonoff the funds collected from 33,000 investors and fixed-deposit holders who were promised good returns on their FDs, it said. The chargesheet was filed in the court of special judge J T Utpat. Of the total scam amount, the deposit and loan fraud is to the tune of Rs 1083.7 crore, banking and non-financial institutions-related fraud of Rs 711.36 crore, debentures fraud of Rs 111.35 crore and fraud related to Phursungi land purchase of Rs 136.77 crore, EOW officials said. A senior police official said the role of some nationalised banks has also come under the scanner for sanctioning loans to the builder ...
Mentally challenged minor girl raped in Odisha
A mentally challenged minor girl was allegedly raped in Odisha's Balasore district today, police said. The incident happened at Sahara village under the jurisdiction of Baliapal police station, the police said. The 10-year-old victim's mother has lodged a complaint with the Baliapal police station, a police officer said. The accused is a resident of the same village, he said. The officer also said that the accused has been absconding.
Member of gang that stole 30 ATMs held, say cops
The Gurgaon police today claimed to have arrested a man who allegedly was a member of notorious gang that uprooted and stole ATM kiosks and then extracted cash stored in these machines. The gang was accused of stolen as many as 30 ATMs, crime branch officials said. The accused, Istakh, disclosed that members of his gang would tie ATM kiosks with a belt and then uproot them with the help of an SUV, they said. They would then flee towards Aravalli hills in Mewat district and cut the kiosks to extract cash, they added. We have arrested the accused from Pachgaon crossing situated on NH 48 and he has confessed about uprooting or cutting 30 kiosks in the last few months, said DCP Sumit Kuhar said. The latest ATM theft case was reported on May 7 from sector 53 area here. Istakh told interrogators that the kingpin of gang, Shahid, was a native of Mewat's Tauru area, police said. The gang carried firearms and slaughtering knives to attack in case police reached at the spot, they added. The ...
Municipal corporation's eviction drive turns violent in Ludhiana
Tension gripped Giaspura locality here today after a drive launched by the Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana (MCL) to remove illegal occupants from the area turned violent. A team of the corporation led by Executive Engineer (XEN) Karamjit Singh reached the site to get the flats with illegal occupants vacated. A mob gathered at the area and one among them started climbing a pole near a power transformer in Block C and threatened to commit suicide if the drive was not stopped, the police said. Sunny (19) threatened the corporation officials that he would jump from the pole if the drive was not halted immediately, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Sandeep Sharma said. The boy, however, lost his balance and fell on the high tension wires underneath, he said. The victim was rushed to the DMC hospital, where he is stated to be out of danger, the police said. Angry locals gheraoed the corporation officials and attacked them with sticks and other objects, they said. Karamjit Singh ...
Karnataka crisis: Bench headed by judge 6th in seniority heard politically-sensitive case
The bench which heard the politically- sensitive case on the Karnataka crisis was headed by a judge, who is number six in seniority in the apex court. Justice A K Sikri headed the three-member bench, which also comprised justices S A Bobde and Ashok Bhushan. In the bench, which held the historic pre-dawn hearing, Justice Bobde, who will become the Chief Justice of India after Justice Ranjan Gogoi, was most vocal in grilling the lawyers appearing for both the sides on the question of law. Justice Gogoi would succeed CJI Dipak Misra after he retires on October 2. No sooner the news started spreading that Justice Sikri will be heading the bench, it became clear that none of the four senior-most judges of the apex court -- J Chelameswar, Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, who had held the controversial January 12 presser against the CJI -- were going to hear the matter. The three judges -- Sikri, Bobde and Bhushan -- are considered to be non-controversial. While Justice Sikri, before ...
Will Justice Chelameswar share dias with CJI on his last day in SC?
Will Justice J Chelameswar share the dias with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra tomorrow? Though the cause list of the apex court for tomorrow mentions his name in the bench headed by the CJI, attempts to reach Justice Chelameswar's office for confirmation did not fructify. It is a custom in the Supreme Court that any retiring judge on his last working day, shares the dias with the CJI in court number 1. The question has created lot of speculation in the legal circles whether Justice Chelameswar, the senior-most judge in the apex court who led a virtual revolt against the CJI by holding the January 12 presser, will sit with him on the last day of normal working of the Supreme Court which adjourns for summer vacation from May 19. The judge will retire on June 22 when the court will be on vacation. However, it is a bitter truth that the senior most judge has been on the other side of the CJI on issues like allocation of cases or collegium-related matters, which became apparent after ..
Woman killed by brother-in-laws, nephews over property dispute
A 55-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat and iron rods allegedly by her brother-in-laws and nephews over a property dispute in east Delhi's Jagatpuri area, police said today. Farida was attacked when she intervened in a quarrel between her husband Haider, his two brothers and nephews, the police said, adding she was injured in the incident. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brought dead. Her elder brother-in-law, Musa, was arrested, they said, adding others were absconding.
Chelameswar gets compliments from top lawyers
Justice J Chelameswar today received glowing compliments from top lawyers for his judicial approach, with former law minister Shanti Bhushan even equating with Justice H R Khanna, the lone dissenting voice in a verdict that had upheld suspension of fundamental rights during the Emergency. The remarks by Shanti Bhushan and Dushyant Dave came a day before the court adjourns for summer vacation which could also be the second last day of his judicial work. Justice Chelameswar, the senior most judge after Chief Justice (CJI) Dipak Misra, has been at loggerheads with the CJI after he had led three judges -- Justices Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- to an unprecedented press conference on January 12 for alleging arbitrary allocation of cases. The judge, who demits office on June 22 during the vacation, has refused to accept the invitation of the Supreme Court Bar Association to attend a farewell ceremony in his honour. Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan hailed Justice Chelameswar for
Unnao case: Special court hands over arrested policemen to CBI for interrogation
A special CBI court today handed over the two policemen arrested in connection with the Unnao rape case to the CBI for interrogation for three days after taking them into judicial custody. Station House Officer Ashok Singh Bhadauriya and Sub-Inspector Kamta Prasad Singh of Makhi police station were arrested yesterday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The duo is accused of criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence over the death of the father of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger at Unnao, reportedly in judicial custody. Passing the order, CBI's special judicial magistrate Vineeta Singh fixed May 21 as the date for hearing on the application moved seeking their bail. The two were booked for falsely implicating the rape survivor's father under the Arms Act. The CBI had arrested them for the offences of sections 193 (false evidence), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), ...
Gujarat bitcoin case: Arrest warrant against ex-BJP MLA
A sessions court here today issued an arrest warrant against former Gujarat BJP MLA Nalin Kotadiya in a bitcoin extortion case, in which several police officials have been taken into custody so far. The case pertains to alleged extortion of the virtual currency worth crores from a Surat-based builder. Additional sessions judge P J Tamakuwala allowed the state CID-Crime's plea for issuance of an arrest warrant under Section 70 of the CrPC. The CID-Crime had issued two summonses against the ex-MLA directing him to appear before it under section 160 of CrPC, but the latter didn't oblige. The CID-Crime plea had said that Kotadiya has been evading arrest. In its application, moved on May 14, the CID told the court that the former Dhari MLA need to be arrested as he allegedly played a significant role in the crime. Several police officials, including Amreli district superintendent of police Jagdish Patel and an inspector of the local crime branch, were arrested in the case. "Investigations .
Punjab jail superintendent arrested for corruption
The Punjab State Vigilance Bureau on Thursday arrested the Mansa district Jail Superintendent Davinder Singh Bajwa in a corruption case from the jail premises.
Sohrabuddin case: 61 witnesses turn hostile so far
Two more prosecution witnesses in the alleged Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases turned hostile before a special CBI court here today, taking the number of such witnesses to 61. Hazari Lal Meena, a former sub-inspector with Udaipur police, deposed before the CBI judge S J Sharma. According to the agency, Meena, now retired, had said in his statement that on the evening of December 24, 2006, Superintendent of Police Dinesh M N (a former accused in the case) asked him not to provide escort police party for prisoners--Prajapati and Azam Khan--who were to be taken to an Ahmedabad court from the Udaipur jail the next day. Meena was part of the reserve police who provided escort parties for prisoners. As per Meena's statement, the police had information that Prajapati might try to flee, so Dinesh told him that a special team would escort them. However, in the court today, Meena denied receiving any such order. He said he did not know who escorted Prajapati ..
PNB case: ED seizes Rs 85-cr worth jewellery of Choksi's firm brought from Dubai
The Enforcement Directorate today said it has seized over 34,000 pieces of jewellery worth Rs 85 crore from the Gitanjali Group, owned by diamantaire Mehul Choksi, in connection with the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case. The jewellery was kept at the premises of the Gitanjali group firm, Ms Gitanjali Ventures DMCC in Dubai, and was seized under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) when it was "brought" to Mumbai, the agency said in a statement. It said the seizure of gold and silver jewellery was made on May 10 after the ED raided a strong-room belonging to Bharat Diamond Bourse. "The ED seized over 34,000 pieces of jewellery worth Rs 85 crore under the PMLA of Mehul Choksi-controlled Gitanjali Group brought from Dubai," it said. Choksi, along with his nephew and millionaire designer jeweller Nirav Modi, is being investigated by the ED for allegedly defrauding PNB, the country's second largest lender. Both Modi and Choski are said to have left the ...