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'Suspect arrested after gun attack on foreigners in Italy'
Italian police said they have arrested a man suspected of opening fire on foreigners from a vehicle in central Italy today. Media reported six people were injured, four of them seriously, in the incident in the town of Macerata. Police said "the wounded persons are of foreign nationality".
Standing Committee not convinced with charges against Sharjeel
The head of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports has expressed doubts over involvement of Test batsman Sharjeel Khan in spot-fixing during last year's Pakistan Super League (PSL). Dr. Ashok Kumar while presiding over a hearing in which Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials were in attendance said that the Board must produce evidence on basis of which it says Sharjeel was guilty of corruption. "We have been told time and again that Sharjeel is innocent and he has not been treated justly by you," Kumar told Subhan Ahmed, the PCBs chief operating officer. Subhan insisted that the Board had all the evidence on basis of which the anti-corruption tribunal of the board had banned him and Khalid Latif for five years. He informed the senators that the appeals of both the Pakistani batsmen had also been dismissed by an appellate tribunal. The PCB tribunal banned both the national team players last year in August and September and Sharjeel has now taken his case to the ...
Chinese found guilty of selling fake Apple devices worth $1.1mn in US
A 43-year-old Chinese national who lived in the US has pleaded guilty to taking part in a counterfeiting operation out of China that involved selling fake iPhones and iPads to customers in the country.
Missing Telangana cop traced in Andhra
A police officer of Telangana probing two sensational murder cases and who had gone 'missing' was on Saturday traced in Andhra Pradesh.
4 injured in Italy drive-by shooting
At least four people were injured in a drive-by shooting in a central Italian town on Saturday. One man was arrested.
CDR case: Woman detective sent to police custody till Feb 7
A court here today sent a woman private detective, who was arrested for her alleged involvement in illegal procurement of call detail records (CDR), to police custody till February 7. Rajani Pandit (54), who is said to be the country's first woman private detective, was arrested by the Thane Crime Branch officials yesterday. She was produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class S L Gupta today. The crime branch sought her custody, saying it needed to probe if more people were involved in the racket. According to the police, Pandit's name had cropped up after four private detectives, arrested earlier in connection with the case, revealed her involvement. The four detectives, whom the police identified as Makesh Pandian (42), Prashant Palekar (49), Jigar Makwana (35) and Samresh Jha (32) alias Pratik Mohpal, were arrested on January 24 from the Kalwa township here. According to the police, the case against the four was that they were illegally procuring CDRs from some ...
Kashmiri students assault: Three of six accused arrested
Three people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged assault on two Kashmiri students by a mob in Mahendergarh."Total six people are accused in incident of assault on two Kashmiri youth in Mahendergarh out of which three people have been arrested and three others identified on the basis of a CCTV footage," Kamaldeep, Superintendent of Police (SP), Mahendergarh told media.The investigation into the assault is currently underway, police told.Meanwhile, Mahendragarh District Commissioner Garima Mittal also assured medical help to the victims.Two Kashmiri students, enrolled in Central University of Haryana, were allegedly beaten up by a mob in Mahendergarh on Friday.The students were being followed when they left the mosque after offering Namaz.Earlier in the day, Haryana Police took cognizance of the incident and lodged an FIR after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called for an investigation into the incident and strict action against the perpetrators.
Robbers use social media to lure man into trap; 3 arrested
Police have arrested three persons in connection with a robbery in the city last month where the victim was lured into a trap through a Facebook friend request by a woman. The property cell of Mumbai Crime Branch arrested Jabbar Salim Khan (19), Salman Sheikh (37) and Sheikh Shah Shamsuddin (18) in Shivajinagar in suburban Govandi yesterday, a senior police official said. Hitendra Thakur, the complainant, received a friend request on Facebook from a young woman a month ago. Thakur accepted the request and the two started chatting online. The woman also sent him her pictures. On January 16, she said she wanted to meet him and asked him to come to a spot near the Indian Oil Company plant in Govandi. When Thakur reached there, five-six persons surrounded him and beat him with cricket bat, stumps, sticks and an iron rod. They took the jewellery and other valuables worth Rs Rs 5.92 lakh which he was carrying, and fled. A case of robbery was registered with Deonar police, and .
Cop accused of molesting women police personnel suspended
A police officer attached to the Thane Police Commissionerate has been suspended for allegedly molesting fellow women police personnel, an official said today. The accused, Namdeo Shinde, a Reserve Police Inspector, was suspended following orders given by Thane Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on February 1 in this regard. "There were several complaints against Shinde relating to molestation of women police personnel. An investigation was conducted into the complaints and after a detailed report, an offence was registered against him," Thane police spokesperson Sukhada Narkar said. Shinde was booked by Thane Nagar Police on January 24 under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 (d) (stalking), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), she added. "On February 1, Thane Police Commissioner issued his suspension orders," Narkar said.
Hemant Sharma gets additional charge of I & PR department
Odisha government has given additional charge of Information and Public Relations department to Energy secretary Hemant Sharma. Sharma has been appointed as the I & PR department head after Surendra Kumar become the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, officials said. Besides the new assignment, Sharma also handles additional charge as CMD GRIDCO and CMD OPTCL. Surendra Kumar, a 1993 Batch of IAS, replaced D N Gupta, a 1989 Batch IAS as the CEO of Odisha. Kumar's post as the Principal Secretary in ST and SC & OBC Development Department has been given to 1997 batch IFS officer R Raghu Prasad.
TN university v-c arrested for accepting bribe
Vice-chancellor of Bharathiar University in Coimbatore was arrested on Saturday on the charges of accepting a bribe of Rs 30 lakh from a job-aspirant.A Ganapathi was arrested by a team of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) after he was caught accepting the bribe from one Suresh, who was seeking the post of assistant professor.As per reports, Suresh had earlier complained to police regarding the demand for the bribe.On the basis of the complaint, DVAC had laid out a trap and caught the vice chancellor red-handed with Rs 1 lakh in cash and a cheque of Rs 29 lakh.Ganapathi was appointed the vice-chancellor of Bharathiar University in March 2016.
3 arrested for assault on Kashmiri students in Haryana
The Haryana Police on Saturday arrested three people for allegedly assaulting two Kashmiri students in Mahendergarh town in south Haryana.
Farmer hacked to death in Kota over share of irrigation water
A farmer died after a fight with four people allegedly over irrigation water in Jhadol village of Kota district today, following which the accused were booked, the police said. Ramniwas Gujar (26) was irrigating his agriculture land when four people of the same village, furious over supplying their share of water to his land, hacked him to death, SHO of Etawa police station Sanjay Royal said. The agriculture land of Gujar and the four accused were adjacent to each other, the police official said. The four absconding accused have been booked for murder and efforts are on to nab them, the SHO said, adding the body was handed over to the family members after post-mortem.
J&K govt okays withdrawal of stone-pelting cases against 9,730
Jammu and Kashmir government has approved withdrawal of cases registered against 9,730 people involved in stone-pelting incidents, including first-time offenders, between 2008 and 2017, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today. The government action to withdraw 1,745 cases is subject to "certain conditions" and is based on recommendations of a committee constituted to look into the matter, Mufti said. She said her government has also recommended to give amnesty to more than 4,000 people, who are said to be involved in minor incidents of stone pelting over the past two years. In a written reply to a question in the Assembly, Mufti did not disclose the particulars of first-time offenders due to security considerations for them and their families. However, she said 3,773 cases were registered in 2016 and 2017, leading to the arrest of 11,290 people, of whom 233 remained untraced. Seven cases were not admitted and 1,692 were chargesheeted, while 1,841 cases were under ...
CBI moves application in trial court for further probe in
The CBI has moved an application before a Delhi court seeking a direction to allow it to go for further probe into the Rs 64 crore Bofors payoff case, saying the agency had come across fresh material and evidence. The application was moved before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg on February 1, a day before the CBI filed a petition challenging the May 31, 2005 order of the Delhi High Court discharging all accused persons in the case. The agency had also informed the apex court about the filing of the application in the trial court which has posted it for further deliberations on February 17. "An application under section 173 (8) of the Code has been moved before the trial court which has been directed by the trial court vide order dated February 1 to be taken up for consideration on February 17," the agency had said in its special leave petition (SLP) filed in the Supreme Court. The probe agency had yesterday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High ...
Cong, BJP saved themselves from prosecution by amending FCRA:
Having amended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), the Congress and the BJP had saved themselves from prosecution as both the parties had received huge contributions from foreign companies, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged today. Yechury and his party have challenged the Centre's decision in the Supreme Court on issuing electoral bonds to cleanup corporate fundings to the political parties. The apex court has sought the Centre's response on the petition. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud has issued notice on the plea and said it would be tagged along with another pending petition. "Both the Congress and the BJP have received huge amounts of money from foreign companies. Had these parties not amended the FCRA respectively, they could have been prosecuted. They saved themselves," Yechury told reporters here. He added that the current BJP-led central government, through the Finance Act 2017, had .
2 brothers given 10 yrs' RI for attempting to murder kin
Two brothers were today sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a district court here for attempting to murder a relative over two years ago. Additional District Judge Amar Pal Singh awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years with fine of Rs 10,000 on Ramveer and Bhupendra, Assistant District Government Counsel Nand Kumar Tiwari said. Narrating the prosecution, he said, Pushpa, from Indrawali, was married to Ramveer, from Adda Karab, in 2010. The wife was, however, thrown out of the house by the husband and his brother, who accused her of being incapable of bearing a child. Later, Bacchu Singh, Pushpa's father, lodged an FIR against Ramveer and Bhupendra under sections 307/34, 504, 506 of the IPC at the Baldeo police station, Tiwari said. On June 20, 2015, as Pushpa was returning from court with her father on a motorcycle, they were attacked by the accused. They lost control and fall down, following which Bhupendra fired a shot at Pushpa and injured her, Tiwari ...
Man finds brother in compromising position with wife,kills him
A 38-year-old man allegedly killed his brother with an iron rod after he found him in a compromising position with his wife at their home in Talera area in Bundi district, police said today. The woman also suffered injuries and was undergoing treatment at Maharao Bhim Singh Hospital in Kota. The accused, in a fit of rage, attacked his wife and his 35-year-old brother with an iron rod after he found them in compromising position last night, additional superintendent of police (ASP) of Bundi Dashrath Singh said, adding that while his brother died, his wife suffered serious injuries. The accused has been nabbed, police said.
BJP to raise Santosh's murder in Parliament
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar on Saturday averred that the party will raise the issue of the killing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from J.C. Nagar named Santosh in both the houses of the Parliament.Ananth and BJP leader Muralidhar Rao also visited the residence of Santosh to offer condolences to the bereaved family."The issue of brutal murder of the BJP activist Santosh, who was fighting against Ganja mafia and was involved in many positive activities, will be taken up in both houses of Parliament this budget session," Ananth told the media.Earlier, the Bengaluru crime branch began an investigation into the matter at Bengaluru's Chinnappa Garden, J.C. Nagar.According to reports, four men were arrested and the case was handed over to the Central Crime Branch (CCB), following demands for an independent probe.The 28-year-old BJP worker was returning from a birthday party when four men allegedly attacked him and stabbed him with a screwdriver. He was taken to a .
Man kills woman, sister after marriage proposal is rejected
An engineering graduate killed a woman and her cousin at their residence in Bulandshahr district after the woman spurned his marriage proposal, a senior police official said today. Ankit, a resident of Dhakoli village, also burnt the bodies of Sheelu, 23, and her cousin Shivani at their home in neighbouring Bahpur village on Thursday, SSP Muniraj G said. According to the SSP, Ankit visited Sheelu's residence on Thursday and proposed her for marriage, but she rejected the proposal. Ankit then strangulated her to death. Since Shivani witnessed the incident, he also killed her with a motorcycle clutch wire. Ankit then took out petrol from his motorbike and set the bodies on fire, Muniraj G said. The police worked out the case in less than 24 hours, the SSP said. He said the police put the mobile phones of Ankit and a few other suspects on surveillance. The investigation revealed that Ankit was at Sheelu's residence on the day the killings happened. Ankit later admitted to ..