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Villarreal's Semedo arrested for assault, illegal confinement

Villarreal defender Ruben Semedo was arrested by the Civil Guard of Valencia on Tuesday for assaulting and illegally detaining a person, sources related to the investigation told Efe.

Police constable succumbs to dengue in Puducherry

A 29-year-old constable succumbed to dengue at a government hospital today. Police sources said that P Saravanan attached to Villianoor police station near here was undergoing treatment n in a private hospital earlier and was diagnosed to be suffering from dengue. He was shifted to the government hospital here a few weeks ago and succumbed to the fever today, police said.

Suspended VC's bail plea posted for February 22

Suspended Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor A Ganapathy, who was arrested on graft charges, today filed a bail plea before the Special Court for Prevention of Corruption Act here. Special Judge John Mino posted the plea for hearing to February 22. This is the second bail plea filed by Ganapathy. The court had earlier denied bail to him. Ganapathy was arrested on February 3 for allegedly accepting Rs 30 lakh as bribe from an aspirant for the post of an assistant professor. He is lodged in the central jail along with chemistry professor Dharmaraj who allegedly brokered the deal. The court had earlier denied bail to Dharmaraj also. It had granted police five day custody of Ganapathy on February 12.

Woman chops off husband's genitals over alleged affair

A woman chopped off her husband's genitals and then disposed them in a toilet for allegedly having an extramarital affair, police said today. In the attack, Azad Singh, a resident of Joginder Nagar here, was seriously injured and was fighting for his life in a local hospital, they further said. The woman, Sukhwant Kaur, took this extreme step last night when Singh was sleeping, Jalandhar Assistant Commissioner of Police, Satinder Kumar, said, adding she doubted that her husband had illicit relations with some other woman. "The woman first hit her husband with a rod when he was sleeping which left him unconscious. Thereafter, she chopped off his private parts with a knife and then disposed them in a toilet," the ACP said. Singh was taken to a hospital as he was bleeding profusely, the police said, adding his condition was serious. On a complaint of Singh's father, a case under relevant section of the IPC has been registered against the woman. The couple have two children from their ...

Woman gored to death by bison

A woman tea estate worker was gored to death by an Indian Gaur (bison) near Kallatti, some 15 km from here, police said Annalakshmi (52) was attacked by the bison, one of a herd while she was on her way to work and was seriously injured, police said. Hearing her screams,fellow workers rushed to the spot and took her to Government hospital here, where she was declared dead, police said.

PNB scam: CBI examines 10 bank officials

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday examined ten Punjab National Bank (PNB) officials in connection with the Nirav Modi fraud case.The officials, including the present Executive Director level officers, were quizzed by the law enforcement agency today.According to sources, eight executives of Nirav Modi's company and ten Gitanjali group officials were also questioned.The CBI, in fact, has found a new farmhouse belonging to Nirav Modi in Alibagh near Mumbai where searches are underway.CBI on Monday questioned 13 officials from PNB. It questioned officials at the General Manager level from that period.Four employees from Nirav Modi's company were also quizzed on Monday.Ravi Gupta, Chief Financial Officer of diamond merchant Nirav Modi's firms, was also questioned by the CBI.For the unversed, the Punjab National Bank detected a 1.77 billion dollar scam, in which jeweller Nirav Modi acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking from one of its branches for overseas credit ...

Netanyahu confidants named as suspects in new corruption probe

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police revealed on Tuesday they had arrested the controlling shareholder and CEO of the country's biggest telecoms company, as well as two former officials with close ties to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a corruption case.

Germany seeks to fine scientists over monkey experiments

German prosecutors said today they have asked judges to fine three scientists at the prestigious Max Planck Institutes for animal cruelty over experiments on monkeys' brains. Investigators in southwestern university town Tuebingen said the three men aged between 49 and 67 were accused of "ending experiments on three monkeys too late and thereby causing the animals' ongoing pain for a longer period." In German law, animal cruelty can be punished with a sentence of up to three years in jail, depending on the seriousness of the crime. This case deals with experiments by the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics that were approved by authorities -- on the condition that the monkeys be killed if signs of suffering became apparent. "Against the specified conditions for ending the experiment, (the accused) delayed in euthanising the animals, thereby causing significant and longer-lasting harm to their well-being," the prosecutors said. "The accused should have recognised their ...

Rotomac case: IT dept. attaches 14 bank accounts

The Income Tax (IT) department on Tuesday attached 14 bank accounts of Rotomac Group of Companies, after two teams of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided Vikram Kothari's residence in Kanpur.According to IT sources, these accounts belongs to various banks.Further, three of these accounts belong to Rotomac promoter Vikram Kothari and his family.The CBI also said that chief accused Kothari has not been detained, but is being questioned.The law enforcement body also interrogated Kothari's wife.Raids were conducted on Monday as well.CBI has also sealed the residential premises and an office of Rotomac directors in New Delhi.The principal loan amount stands at Rs. 2919 crore, according to the First Information Report (FIR) copy which ANI had access to.

Indian-origin woman found murdered in her UK home

An Indian-origin woman was found murdered in her home in the West Midlands region of England after what is believed to be a burglary gone wrong. Sarbjit Kaur's body was discovered by her family members at their home in the town of Wolverhampton last Friday. West Midlands Police said they are keeping an open mind on the motive of the 38-year-old's murder as it released the victims name yesterday as part of a public appeal for information. Kaur was attacked inside her own home. This is a shocking case, the likes of which are extremely rare, and we have a team of officers working on this murder inquiry to establish what happened and to finding the person or people responsible, said Detective Chief Inspector Chris Mallett, who is leading the West Midlands Police Homicide Teams murder investigation. He confirmed that early inquiries have revealed that some items were taken from the home but added that the motive so far remains unclear as his team continues to investigate several lines of ..

Three businessmen shot at in North 24 Parganas district

Three businessmen were shot at in separate incidents in North 24 Parganas district today, police said. While the first incident occurred in Barrackpore, the other took place in Belghoria. The first incident took place at Sadar Bazar area of Barrackpore when miscreants shot at a businessman who was returning home, shortly after midnight. The businessman who sustained injuries in his hand has been admitted to a hospital. Three persons have been detained in this connection and they are being questioned, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Commissioner of police of Barrackpore commissionerate said. The motive behind the crime is not known, the police said. The other incident took place at Belghoria at 1.30 pm when two businessmen went to collect payment from a builder. Miscreants who had prior information about the payment demanded money from them. When the businessmen refused to pay, they fired at the businessmen, Singh said. The injured businessmen have been admitted to a hospital, he ...

Uzbek attacker wanted to pressure Sweden to end fight against IS

An Uzbek asylum seeker who killed five people last year in a Stockholm truck attack testified today that he wanted to pressure Sweden's government to end its support of a coalition fighting the Islamic State group. On the first day of his trial last week, Rakhmat Akilov, 40, pleaded guilty to stealing a beer truck on April 7, 2017, and mowing down pedestrians on a busy shopping street, swerving wildly to hit as many people as possible. Three Swedes were killed including an 11-year-old girl, as well as a 41-year-old British man and a 31-year-old Belgian woman. Ten other people were injured. The assault mirrored other truck attacks in 2016 that left scores dead, one in Nice in southern France, the other in Berlin. Unlike those attacks, however, the one in Stockholm was never claimed by the jihadist group. Speaking calmly in Russian through an interpreter, Akilov expressed no remorse or regret for his actions. He told the court today he wanted "Sweden to end its participation in the ...

Singapore wont cane suspected bank robber sought from UK

Singapore has agreed not to cane a man accused of carrying out a rare bank robbery in the city-state if Britain extradites him to face charges, officials said today. David Roach, a Canadian citizen, is wanted in Singapore for allegedly stealing Sg$30,000 ($22,700) from a Standard Chartered bank branch in 2016 after strolling in and presenting a threatening note. He fled to Bangkok, where he was jailed on charges related to bringing the stolen cash into Thailand but authorities refused to send him to Singapore as the countries do not have an extradition treaty. After his release, he was detained in January at Londons Heathrow Airport while in transit en route to Canada and Singapore has requested that he be deported to the city-state. Singapore and Britain have an extradition treaty. Flogging with a heavy rattan cane is a common punishment in Singapore and is a legacy of British colonial rule, with convicted bank robbers facing a minimum penalty of six strokes, as well as at least two .

Enforcement Directorate probing 100 shell companies for links to Indian bank fraud case

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's financial crime fighting agency is investigating more than 100 "shell companies" that are suspected to be involved in the Punjab National Bank's near $1.8 billion fraud, a government source said on Tuesday.

Pak serial killer appeals to HC against death sentence

A serial killer in Pakistan, who was sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, today challenged his conviction in the Lahore High Court alleging that his trial was conducted in "haste" without fulfilling legal requirements. In the first ever trial in the country's history that concluded in shortest period of four days, an anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced to death 23-year-old Imran Ali on four grounds -- murdering a child, kidnapping a child, rape of a minor, and committing an unnatural act with a minor. In his appeal, he declared that he is "not guilty". He said the trial was conducted in "haste and legal requirements were not fulfilled" during the trial. He appealed to the high court to overturn the ATC's verdict. Besides death penalty, Imran was also sentenced to seven years in jail with a fine of Rs 1 million for desecrating the body of a minor. He was arrested in January, two weeks after he raped and killed the 7-year-old girl and threw .

CPI-M shielding real culprits in Kannur murder: Congress

Even though the Kerala Police have arrested two people in connection with last week's killing of Shoaib, a young Congress worker, the party on Tuesday said the real culprits in the murder were being shielded.

Rotomac fraud: After ED & CBI, I-T steps up action, attaches 11 bank a/cs

The Kanpur-based group is being probed by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an alleged bank loan fraud of Rs 36.95 billion

German man fined $258,000 for cheating at self-service till

A German man has been fined 208,000 euros (USD 258,000) for cheating at a supermarket self-service till. Munich's district court convicted the 58-year-old businessman of theft for trying to pass off 47 euros-worth of veal liver as cheaper fruit. The man, who wasn't identified, had done the same thing three times before and also had past convictions for theft and tax evasion. The court based the high fine on the mans monthly income of 24,000 euros. He was released from jail, where he had been held since the theft in December. Munich court spokesman Klaus-Peter Juengst said Tuesday that the defendant didnt appeal the verdict, which was issued last month.

Man gets life term for murdering milk vendor in UP

A local court here convicted a man of murdering a milk vendor and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Additional District Sessions Judge Gaurav Shrivastava also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on accused Munendra after holding him guilty under Section 302 of IPC here last evening. The court directed the accused to pay half the amount of the fine to the family of the deceased. According to prosecution lawyer Jitender Tyagi, milk vendor Anwer was shot dead by the accused during an argument that followed his refusal to supply milk to a shop in Dang Rol village in Shamli district on October 4, 2009.

Malaysian artist jailed for clown caricature of PM

A Malaysian artist was jailed for a month today for publishing a caricature of scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak looking like a clown, the latest government critic to be imprisoned. Fahmi Reza's picture of the premier wearing powder-white clown make-up, with evilly arched eyebrows and blood-red lips, went viral and the image was widely used in demonstrations against Najib. His lawyer Syahredzan Johan said Fahmi, 40, was jailed and fined 30,000 ringgit (USD 7,700) by a court in the northern city of Ipoh after being found guilty of breaching laws that ban the spreading online of content that is deemed offensive. "We are certainly appealing and are disappointed by the decision," Syahredzan told AFP. Fahmi was arrested and charged in June 2016 after his drawing went viral. Najib, who must call elections by August, has been cracking down hard on dissent since allegations emerged that billions of dollars were looted from a sovereign wealth fund that he founded. Najib and the fund, .