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Vietnamese woman in Kim Jong Nam murder case arrives home
A Vietnamese woman who stood trial for the assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother arrived home Friday, bringing down the curtain on a dramatic and often bizarre two-year murder mystery. Kim Jong Nam, the estranged relative of Kim Jong Un who was once seen as heir apparent to the North's leadership, died in agony after having his face smeared with a banned nerve agent as he waited at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017. The sensational killing made headlines around the world and sparked a furious diplomatic row as Seoul accused Pyongyang of an elaborate plot to murder a figure who had spent years in exile and been critical of his family's rule. Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Indonesian national Siti Aisyah were arrested after being spotted on CCTV approaching Kim, but they always denied murder. The women instead insisted they were tricked into carrying out the hit by North Korean agents, who told them it was a reality TV show prank and fled Malaysia after the ...
Delhi: Man and his girlfriend arrested for killing former's wife
Police on Wednesday arrested a man and his girlfriend for allegedly killing the former's wife in Delhi's Kishangarh area. The husband and his school-time girlfriend allegedly killed the woman in a bid to reunite."On March 16, the victim, identified as Pooja Rai, was found dead in her house in Kishangarh area. The victim was later taken to hospital by her husband Rahul Mishra. The duo also had planted a fake suicide letter to cover up the crime," said DCP South-West district Delhi Devender Arya."Homicide was found to be the cause of death in the post-mortem report pointing the needle of suspicion at the husband and his girlfriend. On April 1, after sustained interrogation both the accused confessed to their crime leading to their subsequent arrest," added the police official.The accused identified as Rahul Mishra and Padma Tiwari, have been arrested and further investigation in the case is on, added the official.Having failed in convincing his family members to marry his girlfriend, ...
Doctor held for killing woman flatmate in central Delhi
A doctor has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 25-year-old woman by slitting her throat in his flat in Ranjeet Nagar on Wednesday, Delhi police said Friday.The accused, Dr Chander Prakash Verma, was arrested by the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch from Roorkee in Uttarakhand on Friday while trying to commit suicide, the police said.The woman, also a doctor and the 27-year-old accused, a doctor at a private hospital in Karol Bagh, were living in separate rooms in a third-floor flat in Ranjit Nagar.According to police, the woman identified as Garima Mishra and the accused were colleagues at the hospital and her had provided her with accommodation in a room of his flat after guessing that the woman was attracted to him.However after the deceased left her hospital job to prepare for her MD, Verma said he felt that she had started avoiding him."The accused felt that the woman was avoiding him. On the day of the incident, Verma entered her room and had a scuffle with her during ...
Fatal attraction: Spurned doctor kills flatmate
The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a junior resident doctor who had strangulated his flatmate and later slit her throat open, the police said.
Sharp shooter arrested in connection with attempt to murder case
A sharp shooter wanted in more than 11 criminal cases was arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with an attempt to murder case, a police official said Friday. Arvind Kumar, 32, was arrested on April 29 from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, he said. Kumar, who was carrying a reward of Rs 50,000, was a sharp shooter of the Anil Dujana-Randeep Bhati gang, the official said. He was arrested for allegedly opening fire at a witness of a sensational murder, the police official said, adding that a case in the matter was registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station. Kumar along with his two associates had allegedly opened fire at Sandeep Nagar on July 30 last year in East Delhi and the victim had received bullet injuries to his abdomen, police said. The motive of the accused was to deter Nagar from deposing against members of their gang in a murder case, they said. Police said Chaman Bhati was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar in 2013 by the members of the gang and Nagar, who was ..
NLSIU alumni express disappointment over 'informal' procedure in probe against CJI
The alumni of the National Law School of India University has expressed "disappointment" over the "informal" procedure being followed by the in-house inquiry committee probing the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. A statement signed by the alumni said the committee was not following the practices set out under the POSH Act and Vishakha guidelines. "We express our disappointment that, in establishing an ad-hoc in-house committee that is said to be following an unstated 'informal' set of procedures, the Supreme Court appears to have fallen well below these best practices," it said. It was signed by 165 alumnus, including lawyers Maneka Guruswamy, Sonal Mattoo and Maanav Kumar, and it endorsed the articles written by Women In Criminal Law Association, calling for best practices to be followed in the issue. "It is our view that the Supreme Court must hold itself to the highest standards in cases involving allegations of sexual harassment. We do not ...
One arrested for abetment of suicide, cheating
Two persons have been booked by the city police for allegedly abetting the suicide of a businessman. One of them has been arrested. Vijay Mishra (47) and Santosh Tiwari are accused of abetting the suicide of Rajiv Charuvila (60). While Mishra was arrested Thursday, Tiwari was still at large, said assistant commissioner of police N A Padavi. According to the police, Mishra, resident of Bhaskar Colony here, ran an investment business. Charuvila, who owned a tyre shop, invested Rs 11 lakh -- five lakh of his own and Rs six lakh borrowed from Tiwari -- with Mishra in 2016. But two years later, when the investment was supposed to mature, Mishra allegedly did not pay him even the principal amount, let alone the interest thereon, police said. On the other hand, Tiwari was allegedly asking Charuvila again and again for the promised interest of Rs 90,000 per month on the money lent by him while the latter was in no position to pay him, police said. On April 16, 2019, Charuvila ...
Wanted criminal arrested after gunfight in Ghaziabad
A wanted criminal was arrested Friday after he was shot in the leg during a police encounter here, officials said. The arrested accused was identified as Irfaan of Saroorpur in Meerut district and a cash reward of Rs 25,000 for information leading to his arrest was announced this February, police said. A team of Loni police signalled a motorcycle, not bearing the number plate, to stop. The rider, in stead, opened fire at the team and sped away, they said. The police team flashed the message on wireless set to all the police posts of the area and cornered the accused after a while. In retaliatory firing by the police team, the suspect riding the bike was shot in the leg, while the person riding pillion managed to flee the scene, police said. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, Superintendent of police rural area Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said.
SC to hear on May 10 PIL seeking consecutive jail terms for convicts in graft, terror cases
The Supreme Court Friday said it will hear on May 10 a plea which has sought that various jail terms awarded to a convict under special laws on corruption and terrorism to run consecutively, as in countries like the US, and not concurrently. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta agreed to hear next week the plea filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, who sought urgent listing of the petition. Upadhyay told the bench that though the apex court had issued notice on his plea in March, the Union ministries of Law and Finance have not yet filed their replies. The apex court had on March 25 issued notice to the Centre and sought response from the Law Commission and the ministries of Law and Finance on the PIL, which said that the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) provision, which provides that a convict can serve varying jail terms simultaneously for several offences, should not be made applicable to the convicts in heinous cases. "Section 31 of ...
2 workers dead while laying sewer line in Noida
Two contractual workers died early on Friday after they apparently got stuck underground while laying a sewer line here, officials said. The workers, both in their twenties, were laying the pipes late on Thursday night at Salarpur area, about 12 feet down from the ground level, when water from a nearby drain started entering their pit through a crack, an official said. The two workers, engaged by the Noida Authority via a contractor, had got stuck and could not come up while the polluted water kept filling the pit, the official said. Police and the fire department were alerted, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was also called in, the officials said. The bodies of the deceased, Amit and Salman, were retrieved after a nearly four-hour rescue operation by the deep-diving team of the NDRF, an official said. "We reached the spot at 3.15 am and began the operation at 3.20 am. The first body was recovered at 6.25 am and the second at 7.20 am," Jeetender Yadav, who led the ...
Man gets life imprisonment for murdering woman in Maharashtra
A local court Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a woman in 2015. The convict, Kumar Walmik Patil (31), a resident of Kasheli in Kalher of Bhiwandi, was also fined Rs 10,000 by District Judge S P Gondhalekar. Additional Public Prosecutor Ujjwala Moholkar said Patil's marriage was fixed to Meenal Dubele but he doubted her character. They fought frequently and Patil, on December 5, 2015 took Dubele to a lodge in Akloli area of Ganeshpuri and strangled her to death, Moholkar said. Thirteen witnesses were examined in the case, the additional public prosecutor said.
Malayalam superstar Dileep gets relief in assault case
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed trial against Malayalam actor Dileep, an accused in the assault on an actress, till his plea in the top court about access to visuals of the assault captured by the key accused Pulsar Suni is decided.
Justice Kumar administers oath to 40 newly enrolled advocates
Justice Sanjeev Kumar Friday administered oath and distributed absolute licences to 40 newly enrolled advocates hailing from different districts of Jammu province. The Jammu and Kashmir Judicial Academy had organised an oath-taking ceremony for the advocates. They took oath to uphold the constitutional values and rule of law, and to work for welfare of needy sections of society, officials said. Justice Kumar stressed upon the advocates to work hard and develop a constant urge for updating knowledge of law to achieve higher levels in the legal professions.
Two arrested for stabbing barber in J-K's Reasi
Two suspected criminals were arrested Friday for stabbing a barber after a brawl over some issue in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, police said. The arrested duo -- Deepak Kumar alias Kali (an auto driver) and Varun Kumar alias Kaka -- stabbed the barber Balbir Singh in his shop with a sharp-edged weapon at around 10:30 am on Friday, they said. Based on a complaint, a case was registered under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC). The accused were arrested after being identified with the help of the CCTV footage, police said. The arrest was made from Vijaypur and the weapons used in the crime were also recovered from them, police said. The injured was admitted to the district hospital in Reasi, they said.
AgustaWestland: Court pulls up ED over charge sheet leak to media
A Delhi Court Friday pulled up the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged leak of a supplementary charge sheet in AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case to the media, saying the denial given by the agency did not inspire any confidence and was not worthy of reliance. Special Judge Arvind Kumar further directed ED's Director to ensure that no such incident like the leak of the documents is repeated in future in any matter. The court was hearing a plea by Christian Michel, alleged middleman arrested in the case, seeking an enquiry into the leak in the money laundering case. Michel had accused ED of politicising the case by passing the documents to the media. The ED had refuted the allegations of handing over the documents to the journalists and had filed a status report claiming there was no leakage of the charge sheet on its part and "most likely" the leak to the media was caused from an extra copy that was left with the court staff. The court staff had denied receiving any extra copy from
Drug peddling gang busted
An inter-state drug peddling gang was busted with the arrest of five people here Friday and 28 gms of heroin seized from them, police said. The gang was supplying the narcotic to customers in Hyderabad. They were arrested by the Commissioners Task Force, South Zone Team with the assistance of Kamatipura police, an official release said.. Police are on the lookout for three more accused in the case.
Over 4 kg gold seized at airport, two held
Over four kg gold, worth more than 1 crore, was seized in separate cases at Kempegowda InternationalAirport here and two persons arrested in this connection, the Customs department said Friday. A passenger, who arrived from Dubai by an Emirates Airline flight on Sunday, was found carrying 3.67 kg worth Rs 1.19 crore. He had concealed it in his check-in baggage. The gold was seized and the passenger arrested, the department said. In the other case, a passenger who arrived by an Air India flight was found in possesssion of 359 grams gold worth Rs 11.60 lakh. He had hidden the gold inside a trolley bag handle. The passenger has been arrested, they added.
Only 9 of 14k selected for civil judge interview; SC appoints ex-judge to look at evaluation
With only nine candidates making it to the interview level out of the 14,000 aspirants who gave the preliminary examination for post of Civil Judge in Haryana, the Supreme Court Friday appointed its former judge Justice A K Sikri to assess the evaluation of the main written exam. The top court directed the Punjab and Haryana High Court to place the answer scripts of all the candidates who appeared in the main written examination before Justice (retd) Sikri. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta did not fix any time-frame but requested Justice Sikri to communicate his views and findings at the earliest. The bench said: "We request a former Judge of this Court, Justice A K Sikri to look into some of the answer scripts of the main written examination at his discretion to make an assessment whether the evaluation undertaken should be accepted by the Court. "The High Court will place before Justice A K Sikri, the answer scripts of all the candidates, who have ...
Assange UK bail sentence 'disproportionate': UN experts
The 50-week jail sentence given to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for breaching a British court's bail conditions seven years ago is "disproportionate," the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Friday. Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 after a British judge ordered his extradition to face Swedish allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he strongly denied. He was arrested last month after Ecuador gave him up. He will now serve the nearly one-year jail sentence while fighting a separate attempt to extradite him to the United States. The UN working group noted that the Swedish allegations -- the initial offence that triggered his British arrest -- had been withdrawn and that the original bail terms should therefore have been nullified. It noted too that he had been given near the maximum 12-month sentence available in the UK for breaching bail conditions. The group is "deeply concerned about... the disproportionate sentence imposed on Mr Assange," ..
Four peddlers held in Jammu region
Over 45 kg poppy and other narcotic drugs were seized from four suspected drug peddlers arrested in three separate incidents in Jammu on Friday, police said. Truck driver Lokesh Singh was arrested at Chenani area of Udhampur district after 45 kg poppy was found in his vehicle, they said. Suspected drug peddlers Mohmmad Saleem and Asim were arrested from the Bhaderwah belt of Doda district, while Mohmmad Dilawar was arrested from the Sidhra belt of Jammu district, officials said. Three separate cases have been registered in this connection, they said.