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UP: Two criminals, policeman injured in police encounter
Two criminals and one sub-inspector of police suffered injuries while exchanging fire in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Saturday.All three of them were sent to a nearby hospital for medical treatment and now are said to be out of danger.The incident happened yesterday night when the bike-borne criminals fired upon a police party after being asked to stop for checking.The goons were identified as Rahees and Javed, who have at least a dozen cases of dacoity and murder registered against them.During the search, police recovered eight cartridges, one motorcycle and .315 bore rifle from their possession.
Jagson case: UK's Atkins says has complete faith in Indian legal system
UK-based Atkins Special Risks said it has complete faith in the Indian legal system that appropriate action would be taken with regard to the complaint against Jagson International, which said it was exploring all remedies in law for managing the brand from wrong allegations. Earlier this month, the Securities Appellate Tribunal asked the IRDAI to pass a fresh order after setting aside a ruling passed by a member of the regulator regarding the complaint. In its order, the tribunal had come down heavily on IRDAI Member (non-life) P J Joseph for making a "false statement" in the order on a plea filed by Atkins Special Risks against Jagson International. In a statement, Jagson International claimed that Atkins along with its Indian associates has now engaged in a smear campaign to damage the name and reputation of Jagson and its chairman with false and completely untruthful statements. While noting that it maintains the highest standards of ethical behaviour and fully complies with the ..
BJP office attack: 3 TPDK members detained under Goondas Act
Three Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhakam (TPDK) activists were arrested today in connection with the petrol bomb attack on BJP office here recently, police said. Gopal alias Balan, Gautham and Jeeva were arrested for hurling a petrol bomb at the BJP office, on March 7 and lodged in the Central Jail here. Coimbatore Police Commissioner, K Periaiah ordered their detention under Goondas Act, they said. Accordingly, the orders were served on the accused in the prison, they added. Meanwhile, a search is on to nab those who had hurled a petrol bomb at the house of BJP District President, C R Nandakumar in the city on March 21.
Pak court acquits 20 accused of lynching Christian couple
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has acquitted 20 people accused of burning alive a Christian man and his pregnant wife for committing blasphemy in the outskirts of Lahore in 2014. The couple, Shahzad Masih and his wife Shama, who were working as labourers at a brick kiln in Kot Radha Kishan area, were lynched and burned alive by a mob of around 1,000 people over accusations that the couple desecrated the Quran in November 2014. A local prayer leader had allegedly provoked the villagers through announcement from area mosques against the couple. The couple was brutally tortured, dragged and thrown into the furnace of the kiln by the mob. The autopsy report submitted to the Supreme Court in December 2014 had stated that the couple was alive when they were thrown into the kiln. Police had arrested scores of villagers and a court in 2016 sentenced five men, including the cleric, to death while 10 others were given varying jail terms. The anti-terrorism court in Lahore yesterday acquitted .
Statements by 'Alpha', 'Charlie', 'Gama' hold key in terror funding case
Confessional statements by 'Charlie', 'Romeo', 'Alpha' and five others are expected to be key evidence in the charge sheet filed in a court by the National Investigation Agency against 12 people, including Lashker-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, for funding anti-national activities in the Kashmir Valley. The NIA, while submitting the charge sheet in the case on January 18 this year, appended the eight confessional statements and code named those who have given the statements as 'Charlie', 'Romeo', 'Alpha', 'Potter', 'Pie', 'Harry', 'Gama' and an unidentified person. The NIA officials feel that the confessional statements will hold the key in nailing the culprits in the case. The probe agency, which registered a case against separatists in the Kashmir Valley on May 30 last year, managed to secure confessional statements on the flow of money, especially from Pakistan, from eight people accused in the case related to the funding of terror activities in Kashmir. A confessional statement is ...
Wanted criminal killed, 2 cops injured in encounters in UP
A wanted criminal, who was carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, was killed while another arrested in separate encounters in Saharanpur and Ghaziabad districts of Uttar Pradesh, in which two policemen were also injured, the police said today. In Saharanpur, a notorious gangster, Salim, was killed in a shootout with the police, in which a sub-inspector of Mandi police station was injured, said Saharanpur Senior Superintendent of Police Bablu Kumar. He said acting on a late night information that a gang has robbed a farmer of Rs 1 lakh and his motorcycle in Manoharpur village under Sarsawa police station area, a Swift Action police team team was deployed to nab the criminals. The SWAT team, comprising personnel of Sarsawa and Mandi police stations, spotted the gangsters coming on bike from Chilkana and flagged them down to stop, but, ignoring the signal, they opened fire on police. The police returned the fire, killing one of the gangsters, while another one managed to flee in ...
SI held for accepting Rs 20K bribe
A police sub-inspector was arrested for allegedly accepting Rs 20,000 bribe from the proprietor of a company for registering an FIR in a theft case, vigilance officials said. Sub-Inspector Benudhara Ray, in-charge of Kausalyaganga police outpost near Pipili in Puri district, was caught red-handed by vigilance officers while demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs 20,000 from Bijaya Kumar Sadangi yesterday, vigilance sources said. Sadangi, whose agency had engaged security staff at a private engineering collage at Uttara, had on February 16 given a report to Ray relating to theft of electrical angle and wires from the engineering college campus, they said. Though Ray had received the report, he did not take any initiative to register a case and demanded Rs 20,000 for registration of the FIR. Finding no other option, the complainant reported the matter to the SP, Vigilance, Bhubaneswar. Accordingly, a trap was laid yesterday and Ray was caught by the vigilance
Eight members of gang held
Eight members of a gang, including three former students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) allegedly involved in crimes in and around the campus have been arrested here, police said today. The arrests were made yesterday. Among those arrested three were former students of the AMU who were responsible for nearly a dozen cases of heinous crime in and around the AMU campus during the past six months, they said. This includes cases of attempt to murder and loot, they said. Members of this gang also allegedly threatened a top AMU official earlier this year and some leaders of the AMU Students Union. The same group was responsible for an incident of violence last Wednesday in which an AMU student was injured in firing. Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajesh Pandey said gang members allegedly used to terrorise students and also some members of the staff. "The same gang was responsible for an attack on the office of a former president of the AMU Students Union on November 16 last," ..
British editor in UAE gets 10 years for wife's slaying
A British newspaper editor in Dubai was found guilty today of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Francis Matthew was not present in the Dubai Court of the First Instance for the verdict read by Judge Fahad al-Shamsi, which is common in courts in the United Arab Emirates. The former editor of the English-language Gulf News had faced the possibility of the death penalty in the July 2017 killing. A brother of Matthew's wife, the late 62-year-old Jane Matthew, was in court for the verdict, but declined to immediately talk to journalists. Matthew's lawyer could not be immediately reached. Matthew can appeal his sentence. On July 4, Dubai police say they were called to Matthew's three-bedroom villa in Dubai's Jumeirah neighborhood. There, they say they found his wife of over 30 years dead, and the editor told them robbers had broken into the home and killed her. During a later interrogation, however, police say Matthew told them his wife had
Academy President John Bailey denies sexual harassment allegations
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President John Bailey has denied allegations of sexual misconduct against him in a memo sent to the organisation's staff. In the memo, obtained by Variety, Bailey called recent media reports "false" and said they "have only served to tarnish my 50 year career." Bailey said one named complaint was presented to the Academy regarding an alleged incident dating back more than 10 years. Variety reported on March 16 that the organisation had received three complaints. "I am alleged to have attempted to touch a woman inappropriately while we were both riding in a transport van on a movie set. That did not happen," Bailey wrote in the memo. His memo also states that he has refrained from commenting thus far because he "wanted to allow the Academy process to play out". The allegations are currently under review by an Academy subcommittee led by casting director David Rubin. Bailey won the presidency over Rubin in a surprise victory at last August's ..
Uttar Pradesh: Gangster with Rs 1 lakh bounty killed in encounter
Uttar Pradesh Police here on Sunday gunned down a criminal with a bounty of Rs 1 lakh on his head.The criminal, Shravan Chaudhry, was injured in an encounter with the police and later succumbed to his injuries in hospital, informed the Director General of Police (DGP) headquarter.An AK-47 and a smooth-bore breech loading (SBBL) gun were also confiscated from the spot.The criminal was wanted in murder cases in Noida and Delhi.
UP: Wanted criminal killed in encounter, another absconding
A wanted criminal, carrying a bounty of Rs 25,000 on his head, was killed in an encounter with police here on Saturday night.During the encounter, however, another criminal managed to escape, according to the police.A motorcycle, Rs. 1 lakh and a pistol were recovered from the wanted criminal.A policeman also sustained injuries. He was later admitted to a hospital for treatment.Meanwhile, a manhunt has been launched for the absconding criminal.
Indian-origin man in US charged with USD 250,000 fraud
An Indian-origin man in the US has been charged with stealing more than USD 250,000 in a Ponzi scheme in which his friends and coworkers invested. Niket Shah of New Jersey was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which also ordered a preliminary injunction and asset freeze against him. According to the SEC's complaint, unsealed on March 22 in federal court in Brooklyn, Shah used Spark Trading Group to defraud more than 15 investors into contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to two funds that he marketed. He obtained investments for the funds by lying about his success as a trader, Spark Trading's returns, and how he intended to use investors' money, including altering financial statements to make the funds appear profitable when they were actually losing money. The complaint alleges that Shah promised investors monthly returns, and guaranteed against losses but misused investors' money for his own benefit and suffered substantial losses on the amounts ...
Peru takes ex-president's passport amid corruption probe
A Peruvian judge today barred recently resigned President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from leaving the South American nation for 18 months while he is investigated for possible money laundering. The ruling came a day after congress accepted Kuczynski's resignation and swore in Vice President Martin Vizcarra as his successor. Kuczynski, 79, is being probed for some USD 782,000 in payments his consulting firm received a decade ago from Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant at the heart of Latin America's mammoth bribery scandal. Some of the payments took place when Kuczynski was a government minister, raising questions about whether they were made in return for political favors. The former Wall Street investor has denied any wrongdoing. He said that the consulting firm, Westfield Capital, was then being managed by his business partner and that he paid taxes on all earnings from that era. Odebrecht has admitted to paying USD 800 million in bribes to officials across Latin America ...
Stalked by neighbour, girl commits suicide in Delhi
A Class 12 student allegedly committed suicide in Rohini on being stalked and harassed by a neighbour, police said today. The incident was reported to the police yesterday from the Bakhtawarpur area. The girl hanged herself, they said In a suicide note, the girl claimed that she was taking the extreme step owing to harassment by a neighbour, police said. Her family has alleged that she was being stalked by a neighbour who wanted to marry her, but she had been resisting his advances. In the note, the girl said that she had not committed any mistake, but there were some men who were not allowing her to live peacefully, police said. She said that she loved her mother and father but had no will to live, they said. The girl also mentioned in the note that there were some people who had been bothering her, police said. Police said they have registered a case and efforts are being made to arrest a 20-year-old man, who was allegedly stalked her.
HP: Ex MLA alleges son, daughter-in-law threatened to kill him
A former Himachal Pradesh MLA has alleged that his son and daughter-in-law have threatened to kill him over a property dispute, police said today. Ram Singh, 86, a former MLA from Chauntra in Mandi district, has lodged a complaint, they said. The police have lodged a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against his son and daughter-in-law, police said. The complainant has alleged that on March 23 his son and daughter-in-law and some other persons barged into his shop. Singh said that they threatened to kill him if they did not get their share in the shop. The matter is being probed, they said.
Suspected criminal arrested in Ghaziabad
A suspected criminal carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 was arrested after an encounter with police in Vijay Nagar area here, a senior police official said. Sunder, 35 and from Pilkhuwa town, was wanted in five cases of attempt to murder, killing and robbery, they said. Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna said the encounter happened at around 8:15 pm near Akbarpur Bahrampur on NH-24. The man was on a bike, and when the police signalled him to stop, he opened fired on the police team. The police officials there returned the fire in which Sunder was shot in his right leg, Krishna said, adding that Vijay Nagar SHO Naresh Kumar was also injured in the fire-fight. Both Kumar and Sunder were being treated at a hospital. A country-made pistol, knife and a few live cartridges were seized from Sunder, the official added.
Former VCs of two TN varsities booked for corruption
Tamil Nadu's anti-corruption bureau, the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Saturday said it has filed corruption cases against two former Vice Chancellors of two major universities in the state.
Duo arrested at Kolkata airport for attempting to smuggle out euros
Euros, worth Rs 58 lakh, were seized from two Bangkok-bound passengers, who had concealed the money in their rectum, as they were about to board a flight at the NSCBI International Airport here, a DRI release said here on Saturday.
Wanted criminal injured in Ghaziabad gunfight, arrested
A wanted criminal, carrying a Rs 25,000 reward on his head, was arrested after a brief gunfight here on Friday, which left him as well as a police officer injured, police said.