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CBSE leak case: Over 60 people questioned; hunt on for leak source
The police has questioned over 60 people in connection with the CBSE leak case, including the administrators of over 10 WhatsApp groups on which the leaked question papers were shared, as the investigators sought to trace the origin of the leak. All those questioned, including tutors and students, have revealed that they got the papers from someone else. There is nothing to indicate that money was charged for sharing these papers, an official privy to the probe said. It appears that if an amount was charged, it was quite minuscule and most of the papers were shared "out of friendship", police said. The police also sent a reminder to Google to share details of the e-mail address from where the Central Board of Secondary Education chairperson was sent a mail on the Class 10 mathematics paper being leaked. Meanwhile, six students were detained in Chatra district of Jharkhand in connection with the leak of Class 10 mathematics and Class 12 economics papers. The Delhi Police Crime Branch ..
Man booked for setting monkey on child during quarrel
A child was bitten by a monkey allegedly set on him by its owner during a quarrel here yesterday night, police said. The owner of the monkey has been booked on the complaint of the minor's father under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, police added. "The accused and his neighbour, Asgarali Khan, are neighbours and have a history of altercations over petty issues. Yesterday night, during one such quarrel, the accused allegedly set his pet monkey on the child. The monkey bit the minor," Kashimira police officials said. The child was discharged after treatment at a local hospital, police said, adding that further investigation into the complainant's allegations were underway.
BJP files complaint with EC against Siddaramaiah
The Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for violating the model code of conduct.According to the Centre ruling party, the Chief Minister "bribed" two women, who welcomed him at Chamundeshwari temple in Mysuru, with Rs 2,000 each.The party further alleged that Siddaramaiah paid Rs 2,000 to a priest of the temple in an attempt to polarise him ahead of the Karnataka Assembly Election.Earlier in the day, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee filed a complaint with the EC against BJP president Amit Shah, citing the violation of model code of conduct. According to the complaint, Shah handed a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to the family of murdered RSS worker Raju with an intention to polarise voters in Mysuru.The election for 224-seat Karnataka Assembly will be held on May 12 and the counting of the votes will take place on May 15.
Two armymen arrested for stabbing colleague to death
Two armymen who allegedly stabbed their colleague to death and burnt his body at the Military campus in Vivek Nagar here were arrested today. Police said Muralikrishna (29) and Dhanaraj (25),both from Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, were arrestedon the charge of murdering their colleague Pankaj (26) from UttarPradesh. They said Muralikrishna, who is facing some disciplinary action, was upsetthat Pankaj was the witness in those cases. Fearing that hemay lose his job, he hatched a conspiracy with Dhanaraj to kill his colleague, police said. Deputy Commissioner of PoliceDr Chandragupta said that on the night of March 23 Pankaj returned to his room after the drill when the duo barged in and bolted the room frominside. An argument ensued following which Muralikrishnaand Dhanraj stabbed Pankaj to death. Later, they dumped his body in a water tanker, took it to Domlur, a few kilometres away and set it ablaze using waste material there in a vain bid to destroy evidence, he .
Brick hurled at Hry minister's car; Vij escapes unhurt
A youth allegedly hurled a brick at Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij's official car in Panipat today, breaking a glass pane of the vehicle, but the senior BJP leader managed to escape unhurt, the police said. The incident took place this afternoon in front of the mini secretariat complex, following which the 24-year-old accused and his accomplice, aged around 25, were taken immediately taken in police custody, a police official said. Vij, who was in Panipat to chair a District Public Relations and Grievance Redressal Committee meeting, said the car's front glass pane was damaged in the attack. "I was about to come out of the secretariat building complex in my car when the stone was hurled at the vehicle which broke its front pane. I and my driver were lucky to escape unhurt," Vij earlier told PTI over phone. The minister, Panipat Rural MLA Mahipal Dhanda and two others were in the car at the time of the incident. Senior civil and police officials and some local BJP leaders were ...
Medical student hit by car on Marine Drive dies at JJ hospital
A 27-year-old medical student, who was knocked down last week by a speeding car on Marine Drive, died today at the state-run JJ Hospital, police said. Dipali Lahamate, a dental student of Nair hospital and Dental College died at around 5:15pm, officials informed. Lahamate, who hails from Aurangabad, was hit by a speeding car around 3:30 pm on March 24 near Taraporewala Aquarium and went into coma due to severe brain injuries, police said. She was on her way to her brother Abhinay's MBBS convocation ceremony when the incident happened, police said. A motorist gave chase and apprehended the car's driver, Shikha Jhaveri, a teacher and a resident of Napean Sea Road in south Mumbai. Jhaveri told police that she drove on after the incident as she had panicked. "Jhaveri was arrested under sections 279 (rash driving) and 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the IPC. Now we have added section 304 A (causing death by negligence) as ...
HC reserves orders on plea in law college students clash case
The Madras High Court has reserved its orders on an appeal filed in the decade-old Law College students clash case, in which both groups have expressed a desire to reach a compromise. Two groups of students of Dr Ambedkar Government Law College, located near the high court campus, had clashed in 2008. Police had named 43 persons as accused in the case. A sessions court had, in 2016, sentenced 21 persons to three years imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on each. The trial court also temporarily suspended their sentence as they preferred to go on appeal. They approached the high court seeking permission to strike a compromise. The request was made in the appeal moved by them challenging the trial court order. Most of them, who are now lawyers, have been temporarily barred from practising by the Bar council in view of the conviction. Directing them to file individual 'affidavits of compromise,' Justice R Suresh Kumar recently reserved orders on the appeal.
Rising Senegal politician Khalifa Sall gets 5 years for fraud
Leading Senegalese politician Khalifa Sall was handed a five-year jail term for fraud today, a sentence that will rule him out of presidential elections due next February. Sall, 62, who is mayor of Dakar, had denied the charges against him as politically motivated. He had been accused of fraudulent use of public funds, for which he was also fined five million CFA francs (7,625 euros). He was found not guilty on charges of criminal conspiracy, money laundering and misappropriating public funds. Prosecutors had sought a seven-year prison term and a fine worth nearly USD 10 million (more than eight million euros). Sall was tried along with his financial director, Mbaye Toure, who was given the same sentences. "We are going to file an appeal, obviously," one of Sall's lawyers, Cheikh Khouraissi Ba, told AFP. The trial had been avidly followed in Senegal since the start of the year, throwing a spotlight on Sall's high popularity and stirring debate over next year's elections if he were to
Guj Dalit youth killed 'for owning, riding horse', 3 detained
A Dalit youth was allegedly killed in Bhavnagar district by upper caste men for owning and riding a horse, police said. Pradip Rathod (21) was killed yesterday evening at Timbi village of Umrala taluka in Bhavnagar district and three suspects have been detained for questioning, A M Saiyad, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Bhavnagar SC/ST Cell said. "We have detained three persons for questioning. We have also acquired some CCTV footage showing Pradip on his horse before his dead body was found. We are probing this case from different angles, including an old rivalry or a love affair" said Saiyad. In his complaint to Umrala police, Pradip's father, Kalubhai Rathod, claimed that some upper caste Rajput men held a grudge against his son after he bought a horse recently. He claimed that these men had threatened to kill Pradip if he didn't sell off the horse. His complaint stated that Pradip was killed using sharp weapons by some Rajput men when he was returning home ..
Patiala court suspends Daler Mehndi's jail term
A Patiala sessions court on Friday suspended the two-year jail sentence awarded by a trial court to famous Bhangra-pop singer Daler Mehndi after his conviction in a human trafficking case.
HC directs UPPSC to re-evaluate pre-exam upper subordinate service
The Allahabad High court today directed the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) to re-evaluate the answer scripts of preliminary examination conducted for recruitment in upper subordinate services for which advertisement was issued on February 22, 2017. The court denied to direct hold fresh preliminary examinations. The judgement was passed by a two-judge bench comprising Justices Pankaj Mithal and Saral Srivastava after hearing a dozen of petitions filed by more than hundreds of candidates who have alleged that answers to several of the questions were incorrect. The bench observed, "We do not find it proper to direct the Commission to hold fresh Preliminary Examination rather we deem it proper that for the ends of the justice, the writ petitions should be disposed of with some directions". The court directed the Commission that it shall re-evaluate the answer scripts of the preliminary examination of all the candidates by deleting question numbers 67/140/44/106 of series .
Exiled Azerbaijani journalist shot, wife murdered in France
An Azerbaijani journalist forced into exile in France was seriously wounded and his wife was killed today in a gun attack near the southern city of Toulouse, police said. Rahim Namazov, a father of three, fled his oil-rich homeland in Central Asia for France in 2010 after suffering death threats and being imprisoned. The 39-year-old is fighting for his life in hospital after suffering serious back injuries while his wife died after being hit in the head during the shooting in front of their home this morning in the town of Colomiers near Toulouse. One of their children, a 15-year-old boy, was in their apartment at the time and heard the gunfire, local authorities told AFP, adding that he was being looked after by a local trauma group. Police said that seven bullets were fired in total. Azerbaijan has been ruled by the repressive family of a strongman president Ilham Aliyev since 1993.
CBI files three more FIRs in four staged shootout deaths in Manipur
The CBI has registered three cases in connection with four alleged staged shootout deaths in Manipur in which personnel of the state police, Assam Rifles and CRPF are accused, an official said on Friday.
Prague extradites Russian hacker to US for alleged cyberattacks
The Czech Republic today said it had extradited a Russian hacker to the United States where he is wanted for alleged cyberattacks on social networks. Yevgeni Nikulin, who is also sought by his native Russsia on fraud charges, had been in a Prague prison since he was arrested in the Czech capital in 2016 in a joint operation with the FBI. The case comes amid accusations by Washington that Russia tried to "interfere" through hacking in the 2016 US election won by Donald Trump, charges the Kremlin has dismissed. The Czech justice ministry "confirms the extradition of Russian citizen Y. Nikulin to the United States," ministry spokeswoman Tereza Schejbalova said on Twitter. The extradition "took place overnight," she added. A US government plane left Prague soon after midnight Thursday and landed nine hours later near Washington, according to the website flightaware.com Following Nikulin's arrest, Moscow accused Washington of harassing its citizens and vowed to fight Nikulin's ...
4 members of family killed in road accident in Punjab
Four members of a family, including two minors, were today killed when their motorcycle was hit by a vehicle near the Shambhu border in this district, police said. Devinder Sharma (30) along with his wife Shivani Sharma, eight-month-old son Sumit and daughter Diksha (8) were on their way to pay obeisance at Mansa Devi Temple in Manimajra, Panchkula when the accident took place on the Shambhu Tepla road, they said. According to the police, Devinder, Shivani and Sumit died on the spot, while Diksha succumbed to her injuries when she was being taken to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh.
Engineer among two shot dead in Jharkhand
Two persons, including an engineer, were shot dead in Ranchi district of Jharkhand on Friday by some criminals, who also injured one person, police said.
Garage owner, man arrested for trading in stolen motorcycles
Two people were arrested for trading in stolen motorcycles after embossing their engines, chassis and other equipment with identification numbers of older two-wheelers, police said today. Acting on a tip-off, Unit IX of the Crime Branch arrested motorcycle mechanic Sahil Ganja (31) and Arif Chand Khan (28) from Dharavi in central Mumbai and Malvani respectively and a hunt was on for a third person, police informed. Police have recovered 32 motorcycles, which include models like Enfield Bullet, Pulsar, Unicorn, Yamaha, Suzuki and the number of such stolen motorcycles could touch 150, officials said. Explaining the modus operandi, an official said, "Ganja, who runs a garage, used to lure motorcycle owners by promising to overhaul their old two-wheelers by fitting new original spares at a mutually agreed price." "Ganja would then intimate Khan who would scout for new vehicles of the same make and steal them when he got an opportunity. The engine, chassis etc of the new ...
Gang of Bangladeshi 'flying robbers' busted in Maharashtra
In a major swoop with deep ramifications, the Maharastra Police's Crime Branch here has busted a five-member gang of international robbers - some of whom used to fly down from Dhaka - to carry out armed robberies, officials said here on Friday.
Villagers tonsure heads of three men accused of killing cow
Police in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh have arrested three men for allegedly killing a cow. Angry locals tonsured the accused's heads before handing them over to police yesterday, said a senior police officer here. District Superintendent of Police Vipul Khare said that Imran (21), Indu Bhuria (21) and Mangu Bhuria (20) were arrested for allegedly killing a cow at Nehtada village under Jobat police station limits, 38 km from here. They were arrested under IPC section 379 (theft) and provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Cow Slaughter Prohibition Act. Imran allegedly slaughtered the animal, belonging to one Nihal Singh, after stealing it, and kept the meat in the houses of Mangu and Indu. After the alleged theft and slaughter came to light, angry villagers tonsured the three men's heads before handing them over to police, the SP said. "Police have seized the meat and sent samples for testing (to check if it's beef)," said Khare.
Disclose beneficiaries of anti-Sikh riots compensation: CIC
The Central Information Commission has directed the Home Ministry to disclose the list of victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots who have received the compensation. On a complaint filed by one Navdeep Gupta, Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad issued the orders to disclose details sought by him. Gupta had sought to know from the Ministry complete list of beneficiaries including their names, address, loss in genocide, compensation availed and compensation details. When he could not get any response from the ministry, Gupta filed a complaint with the commission where the ministry refuted allegations of any malafide intention in not responding to his RTI plea. The official said it was due to a technical glitch that the information could not be received by him and responded in time. "The Commission directs the PIO to furnish a reply to the Appellant in accordance with law within 2 weeks. The Complainant shall be at liberty to approach the Commission if aggrieved with the reply of PIO. The