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Police exhumes body of Pak-Italian woman over suspected 'honor killing'
Pakistani police today exhumed the body of a 26-year-old Pakistani-Italian woman who was killed allegedly by her father and brother in the name of so-called honour in Pakistan's Punjab province. Ghulam Mustafa along with his brother Mazhar Iqbal and son Adnan Mustafa allegedly killed Sana Cheema after they failed to persuade her not to marry an Italian man. The incident took place in Kunja, Gujrat, some 150-km from Lahore, on April 18. "The body of Cheema was exhumed in the presence of a woman judge and samples have been sent for forensic text in Lahore," Kunja police station official Waqar Ahmad told PTI. He said the "real cause" of her death will be known after her autopsy. Police initiated the probe after reports published in Italian media that Cheema was killed by her family members over the marriage issue, Ahmad said. Cheema's family declared her death "accidental" and buried her in a graveyard far from their residence, raising suspicion. On police's application a sessions judge .
Customs arrests woman for smuggling gold at Delhi airport
A woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold valued at Rs 41 lakh at the Delhi airport. The accused was intercepted on Monday after her arrival from Dubai. "A detailed personal search of the passenger resulted in the recovery of 2 kg of Brownish-coloured substance concealed inside the layers of clothes of undergarments worn by the passenger; extraction from which resulted in the recovery of 1.3 kg of gold valued at Rs 41.59 lakh," a press release issued by the customs said today. Further, in a follow-up investigation, a man was intercepted outside the airport who was to receive the gold from the woman passenger, it said, adding that both of them have been arrested.
10 arrested for betting on IPL matches
Ten people were arrested from Bijnor district's Nagian area for allegedly betting on IPL matches, police said today. Acting on a tip off, the police raided a house in the Vishnoi Sarai locality yesterday and arrested 10 persons on charges of betting on IPL matches, an official release issued here said. The release said a LED TV, 13 mobile phones and Rs 1.94 lakh in cash were recovered from their possession. Police are probing the matter.
No need of revealing identity of rape victims for public sympathy: HC
The names or photographs of a sexual abuse victim should not be revealed as such actions have long term "detrimental consequences", the Delhi High Court said today. The observation by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar was directed at a media house, which apologised for revealing the identity of the eight-year-old girl who was raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. The bench made the remark when the media house expressed reservation in paying the Rs 10 lakh compensation as ordered by the court, claiming it had revealed the identity of the victim to "arouse public sentiments and sympathy". Strongly disagreeing with the stand of the media house, the bench said,"The long term consequences of revealing a victim's identity are drastic and detrimental to the victim and her family. We do not need photographs of the victim for people to be sympathetic. As a result of revealing the identity of the victim, her whole family is ostracised and
Cops crack murder of Shiv Sena leader; his wife among 2 held
Police probing the murder of a Shiv Sena leader from Shahapur, whose half-burnt body was found at a village in Ganeshpuri in the district five days back, today claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of his wife and a 'contract killer'. Police had recovered the body of Shailesh Nimse (43), who was Sena's former office-bearer of Shahapur tehsil, on April 20 near Devchole village in Bhiwandi tehsil in the district. Addressing a press conference here this afternoon, Thane Rural Additional Superintendent of Police Prashant Kadam said the two accused- Pramod Lute (32) and the victim's wife Sakshi alias Vaishali Nimse (34)- were arrested today. He said Sakshi had hatched the conspiracy to kill her husband over his illicit relationship with another woman, and gave the 'supari' to Lute. "Police had earlier detained Lute as part of the probe. During his interrogation, he admitted that he killed Nimse with the help of his friends and disposed of the body at Ganeshpuri," .
Cases against seers like Asaram not in interest of India and
On a day a court in Rajasthan convicted Asaram for raping a teenager girl in his ashram in 2013, former Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanzara, who calls himself a disciple of the self-styled godman, said the victim was "never raped" and the entire case was of "inappropriate touching" at the most. Vanzara also said that attempts are on to sully the image of "saints" like Asaram through such cases, which he said is "not in the interest of the country, Hindus or Sanatan religion". A Jodhpur court today sentenced the self-styled godman to life in prison after finding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram in Manai area near Jodhpur five years ago. While talking to reporters outside Asaram's ashram in Motera area in Ahmedabad, Vanzara said the entire case was aimed at tarnishing the image of seers like Asaram. "If you see the FIR as well as the chargesheet (of the case), you will not find any mention of rape. Even during the trial, the victim never alleged that she was ..
Unholy rap sheets of some of India's self-styled godmen
Influential self-styled godman Asaram was today sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a teenaged minor girl, putting the issue of sexual offences and other crimes by spiritual leaders under the scanner once again. Rape, murder and money laundering, crimes that could well be part of a hardened offender's rap sheet, are some of the charges against a bunch of India's powerful 'gurus' who have political clout, wealth and a following of many thousands. Hailing from across the country, some of them are more high profile than others while some come into the national limelight when their alleged crimes are exposed. Asaram, the latest in the list, is accused in another rape case in Gujarat along with son Narayan Sai, who is also in jail. Three of the witnesses in the case, being tried in a Gandhinagar court, have wound up dead. In 2008, two pre-teenagers -- cousins Dipesh and Abhishek Vaghela who lived in Asaram's gurukul in Motera -- were found dead on the riverbed near his ashram. The ...
Taliban's former spokesman Ehsan to remain in jail: Pak court
A Pakistani court today ordered that former Jamaat-ul Ahrar (JuA) and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan remain imprisoned while he is undergoing trial. A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court comprising justices Qaisar Rashid and Ikramullah Khan said that if Ehsan had taken responsibility for the TTP-claimed attack on an army run school, "the parents of the victims - and not the state - hold the right to pardon him". The court was hearing a petition filed by the father of an Army Public School (APS) attack victim. In the petition, the victim's father had asked the court to ensure that Ehsan is not pardoned as he had claimed responsibility for the 2014 attack on Peshawar's APS in which at least 144 people, mostly children, were killed. Ehsan, a TTP spokesperson until 2014, joined the splinter group JuA following a split in the TTP. The army in April 2017 announced his surrender to security forces and released a 'confession video' of Ehsan. During the ...
Govt supervisor held for sexually harassing minor girl
A 23 year-old government hospital supervisor was arrested here today for allegedly sexually harassing a minor girl, police said. Identifying the accused as Sheikh Habib, police said he had allegedly misbehaved with the class IX student when she was at home. The 15-year-old girl informed her mother about the incident following which a police complaint was lodged. A case under Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) was filed at Sembium All Woman Police Station before Habib was arrested, a police release said. He was later remanded to judicial custody.
Ex-HP CM Virbhadra Singh seeks exemption from appearance in money-laundering case
A court here today sought the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) response on a plea filed by former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife, seeking a permanent exemption from personal appearances in a Rs 7-crore money laundering case against them. Hearing the applications filed by the Congress leader and his wife, Pratibha Singh, Special Judge Arvind Kumar sought the ED's response by May 17, when it will hear the matter again. The court also directed the special prosecutors of the agency, N K Matta and Nitesh Rana, to ensure that two of the co-accused in the case -- Prem Raj and Lawan Kumar Roach -- were given the copies of certain documents that were filed along with the chargesheet. The court had earlier granted bail to Singh, his wife and certain other accused, including Prem Raj, Lawan Kumar Roach and the owner of Universal Apple Associate, Chunni Lal Chauhan. The court had, on February 12, issued summonses against the accused, stating that there was "prima ...
Asaram: Other rape victims awaiting justice in Gujarat court
The verdict of a lifetime in jail slapped on self-styled godman Asaram for raping a 16-year-old girl has turned the spotlight on two other women who have charged the 77-year-old preacher with sexual assault and are awaiting justice. A Jodhpur court today convicted and sentenced Asaram to a life in jail for the assault on the teenager, but another matter relating to the alleged sexual exploitation of two sisters is still pending before a court in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The sisters, based in Surat, had alleged they were raped and illegally confined by Asaram and his son Narayan Sai. While Asaram was arrested in September 2013 in connection with the Jodhpur rape case, his son Sai was arrested in December 2013 over the complaint lodged by the sisters. While the elder sister had accused Asaram of repeated sexual assaults in 19972006 at the Motera ashram in Gujarat, the younger sister had alleged that Sai sexually assaulted her from 2002 to 2005 at an ashram in Surat. One of the sisters also
Ex-MLA dead
Senior politician and former MLA, Anam Vivekananda Reddy, died today at a private hospital here after prolonged illness, family sources said. The 67-year-old Reddy, who was Congress MLA in undivided Andhra Pradesh, had joined the Telugu Desam party after the 2014 assembly elections which he did not contest. A three-time legislator, Reddy is survived by wife and two sons. He was elder brother of Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, former Finance miinister of undivided Andhra Pradesh. The body is being shifted to his native place Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and cremation would be held tomorrow, a senior TDP leader said. Several leaders cutting across parties have expressed grief over the death.
Policeman gets 4 years jail for assaulting, abusing Dalit
A court here in Gujarat's Kheda district has sentenced a police sub-inspector to four years of rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a Dalit man and hurling casteist abuse at him. Sessions judge V D Parmar also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on Ajaysinh Zala, posted in Kutch district now, after convicting him under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act) and under section 323 of the IPC (assault). The order was passed yesterday. Manu Vaghela had alleged that Zala, who was posted at Kheda town police station then, made casteist remarks against him and beat him up when he approached him with a request to register an FIR for vehicle theft on September 10, 2015. Vaghela said in his complaint that Zala asked him his caste, and then passed some casteist remarks and assaulted him and his relative Ashok Baraiya.
HC orders Apollo hospitals to inform it of Jaya's biological samples
The Madras High Court today directed the Apollo Hospitals here to inform it by tomorrow whether it had preserved the biological samples of J Jayalalithaa collected during her hospitalisation in 2016. Justice S Vaidyanathan gave the direction on a petition by a woman, who claimed herself to be the biological daughter of Jayalalithaa. On February 23, the judge had issued notice to Apollo Hospitals on a sub-application by the woman, who sought a direction for a DNA test to establish her parentage. The woman had claimed she had been given in adoption to Jayalalithaa's sister and her husband decades ago and she came to know about it from her foster father in March last year before he died. The judge directed the hospitals to file the reply tomorrow and posted the matter for further hearing to June 4. Jayalalithaa was admitted to the hospital on September 22, 2016 following complaints of fever and dehydration, but developed complications later. She died on December 5 that year. During the ..
Three drug peddlers including woman arrested in Punjab
The Punjab Police today claimed to have busted a gang of drug peddlers with the arrest of three persons, including a woman, near Sirhind. They used to supply heroin to people in the rural areas and to youngsters, police said. On a secret information that a group of peddlers, along with a woman, was active in the area and they supplied drugs to peddlers, police set up a checkpost at Madhopur Chowk on the GT road near Sirhind and intercepted a vehicle and took three occupants in custody, they said. During search, police seized 110 gram of heroin and those arrested were identified as Princedeep Singh alias Prince resident of Badali Ala Singh, Gurinder Singh alias Dara resident of Railon and a woman, police said. Police said all the three have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and during further interrogation more information is likely to come out.
Cyber-crime website behind 4 million attacks taken down
A British and Dutch-led operation today brought down a website linked to more than four million cyber-attacks around the world, with banking giants among the victims, Britain's National Crime Agency said. "Authorities in five countries including the Netherlands, Serbia, Croatia and Canada, with support from Police Scotland and Europol, targeted six members of the crime group behind webstresser.org," the NCA said in a statement. Cyber-criminals used the website's services, which could be rented for as little as USD 14.99, to launch so-called distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, which swamp targets with traffic and disable their IT systems. British police searched an address in Bradford, northern England, and seized a number of items, while Dutch police, with assistance from Germany and the United States, seized servers and took down the website. Police believe an individual linked to the address used the site, the world's largest illegal DDOS seller, to hit seven of Britain's .
Murder case accused allegedly commits suicide in custody
A 60-year-old man, who was arrested in connection with a murder case, today allegedly committed suicide at the Atchutapuram police station in the district. The deceased Ramunaidu was suspected to be the prime accused in the murder of a 30-year-old man on April 3. " Ramunaidu, a daily wage worker, was arrested along with two others last evening, police said. Sub-Inspector B Deena Bandhu said Ramunaidu went to the bathroom around 5.30 am and didn't return. Constable G Harikrishna, who went to check, found him hanging from the hook of the bathroom door by a coir rope. Though Ramunaidu was rushed to a private hospital, he was declared brought dead. """ Suspecting that he may not secure bail, Ramunaidu might have taken his life, the SI said. The police officer said there was no angle of police torture in the case, adding, all the accused had confessed to the crime.
Life term to Asaram in minor's rape case, two others get 20-year jail (Roundup)
A Special Court in Jodhpur on Wednesday convicted self-styled godman Asaram for raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013 and sentenced him to a prison term for life till his natural death.
Body found flaoting Chambal river
The body of a 22-year-old youth from Jaipur was found this morning floating in the Chambal River here, police said. It seems the body is two to three days old. It was spotted by locals floating in the river in the Adhershella area, Sub-Inspector, Kishorepura police station, Manoj Kumar said. The deceased was identified as Riyajjuddin. His identity was ascertained from his driving license, he said The body was handed over to his family members after post mortem and a case was registered. The matter is being probed, the officer said.
CPI-M demands justice for witnesses killed in Asaram case
As a Jodhpur court sentenced self-styled godman Asaram to a life term for raping a minor girl in 2013, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday also demanded justice for the three witnesses killed.