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Two more held for BJP worker's abduction, killing in Greater Noida
Two gangsters, accused of abducting and killing a local BJP worker, were arrested in Greater Noida following an encounter with the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police, officials said Sunday. The accused, identified as Bhagat Singh (34) and Gaurav Singh (27), were held near Dhoom Manikpur village on Saturday night by the Noida field unit of the STF, the officials said. "The two are active members of the notorious Randeep Bhati gang. Bhagat Singh, a class 8 pass, was carrying a reward on his arrest. Working on a rip-off about his movement in the area, the STF and the local police had trapped the duo and arrested them after a gunfight," an STF official said. On the intervening night of January 4 and 5, Dharmendra alias Dharmi, who had several criminal cases registered against him at the Badalpur police station, was picked up by the members of the Randeep Bhati gang from his house and shot dead, the official said. The assailants had later dumped his body near the Roopvaas
British national dies in bike-truck collision
A British national died after his motorcycle collided head on with a speeding truck in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said. Four tourists, two each on two motorcycles, were riding back to Jaipur after spending a night in Bundi when the accident occurred on national highway 52 near Kishorpura toll plaza in Hindoli area in the evening, the police said. The deceased, Rhys Jhon Jenkins, suffered critical head injuries. Jenkins, in the forties, was rushed to the district government hospital where he was declared brought dead. The woman who was riding pillion escaped unhurt, while the truck driver fled from the spot, the police said. According to the Spanish travel agent who accompanied the tourist group, Jenkins is from a place near London and was a designer by profession. The British embassy has been communicated about the incident the post-mortem will be carried out on Monday morning, district Additional Superintendent of Police Satnaam Singh Choudhary said.
Man missing since Friday found dead in rural part of Nagpur
A man missing from Nagpur since Friday was Sunday found dead in Kondhali in the rural part of the district, about 40 kilometres from here, police said. An official said the body of transporter Bobby Makan did not have any injury marks and it had been sent for post mortem to ascertain the cause of death. Preliminary probe auggests he might have been kidnapped from Pachpaoli area of Nagpur on Friday, the official added. "His wife had filed a missing complaint at Jaripatka police station on Friday. Makan stayed in the Jaripatka area of the city. We are investigating further," he said.
Man gets 3-month SI for foul language against magistrate, aspersions on sessions judge
The Madras High Court bench here has sentenced a man to three months of simple imprisonment for using foul language against a judicial magistrate in a representation and casting aspersions on a sessions judge. Justices P N Prakash and B Pugalendi, on their own, directed that the man be taken into custody and lodged in the nearest central prison for serving the sentence, and disposed of his petition. The judges said the court would not take such assaults on its staff lying down. They opined that using foul language against a judicial officer would not only demoralise him, but indubitably interfere with the due course of justice by instilling fear in his mind. "Once the emotion of fear afflicts a judicial officer, he will not be able to discharge the responsibility of administering justice. "Honour is the bedrock of human life and if that is unjustly annihilated, what remains is only a living corpse," the judges said. If a disgruntled litigant was allowed to go scot-free even after ...
Three held for demanding Rs 20 lakh extortion in Delhi's Tilak Nagar
Three men were arrested for allegedly firing shots outside the house of a person from whom they demanded an extortion of Rs 20 lakh in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar, police said Sunday. The arrested accused were identified as Gurpal (29), Jaspreet (38) and Banny Singh (24), they said. Banny Singh is a close friend of the complainant and he hatched the conspiracy to extort money from him, they added. According to DCP (West) Monika Bharadwaj, the complainant Navdeep Singh, who runs a call centre, alleged that he received an extortion call demanding Rs 20 lakh. The accused further threatened him of dire consequences if he failed to pay them the amount. It surfaced during investigation that the mobile number used to place the extortion call was issued in Odisha, the DCP said. The call was made from near Tihar Jail and the said number was also operated in the Fatehabad region of Haryana, she said. Subsequently, after questioning almost 60 suspects, Gurpal, who had allegedly fired outside ...
Khaira alleges Badals cleared in firing incident, police deny
Punjab Ekta Party President Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Sunday alleged that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had "cheated" the Sikh community by giving clean chit to former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in the Behbal Kalan firing incident on Sikhs protesting against sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib.
Thousands march in Hong Kong against extradition law
Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday in opposition to changes to an extradition law widely seen as eroding the territory's independent legal system. Many of those taking part carried yellow umbrellas, recalling Hong Kong's massive 2014 pro-democracy protests, the leaders of whom have been sentenced to up to 16 months in prison. Hong Kong police said around 22,800 people took part in Sunday's protest at its peak period. Participants carried placards accusing Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam of "selling out" the territory, and called on her to resign. Revisions to the law would make it easier to send criminal suspects to mainland China, where they could face vague national security charges and unfair trials. "Hong Kong and China have completely different legal systems," said marcher Roland Lo, 49. "Creating a loophole that could mean a Hong Kong person gets extradited to China to face prosecution there, that completely destroys the guarantee of human rights ...
Minor abducted, killed in Ghaziabad
Two men allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy after abducting him from his home in Modinagar area here , police said Sunday. Superintendent of Police (rural) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said the two men late Saturday night reached at Aditya's home and asked the location of his father's shop. Then they forced him to sit on the motorcycle and took him away. When Aditya did not return back home till late night, his father Sanjiv Kumar tried to search him and thereafter he lodged a missing report. During search, the minor was found dead in a field in the Niwari police station area. Police has procured the CCTV footage of the incident in which faces of the kidnappers are not clearly visible. Sanjiv told the police that he did not receive any ransom call. The body was sent for post-mortem, the SP said.
PUCL demands NHRC's intervention over prisoner's death
The People's Union of Civil Liberty (PUCL) has demanded immediate intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding the death of a prisoner in Rajasthan. PUCL state president Kavita Shrivastav has written to the NHRC chairman over the death of Mohammad Ramzan, 60, a resident of Mangrol town in Baran district. Ramzan, who died of multiple organ failure, was allegedly beaten on Friday by police personnel who was guarding him when he was admitted at a hospital in Kota. According to the police, Ramzan, an inmate of the Kota central jail who was serving a sentence for murder, died at the New Medical College Hospital (NMCH) on Friday night after a prolonged illness. Shrivastav said Rizwan, the son of the deceased, had claimed that before death, his father had shown a video of him being beaten by the police. Rizwan alleged that the police personnel demanded Rs 500 to allow the family members to meet his father, she said. Shrivastav said the Kota superintendent of police ..
Women organisations protest in front of retd judge's home,
Members of some women organisations Sunday staged a dharna in front of the residence of a retired judge, against whom a dowry harassment case has been registered on a complaint by his daughter-in-law, and demanded his arrest. Holding placards which read "we want justice" and "hand over the children to your daughter-in-law," they demanded that the retired judge and his kin be arrested. The complainant, who was also took part in the protest, said she wanted to see her children, one of whom was three-and-half-year-old and another 18-month old. A case was registered against the retired high court judge, his wife and son on a complaint by his daughter-in-law of cruelty towards her, police had said. The case has been registered under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and relevant sections of the Dowry Prohibition Act, they had said.
Bangladesh jails three Rohingya extremists for 10 years
A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced three Rohingya extremists of a now defunct militant group to 10 years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials, a prosecutor said. The trio were arrested in 2014 in Dhaka with materials to be used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs), said Salahuddin Howlader, a prosecutor at the Metropolitan Special Tribunal in the capital. They were found guilty and sentenced immediately under the country's explosives laws, the prosecutor said, adding one of them was sentenced in absentia as he was on the run. "They were involved with several international militant outfits including the RSO," he told AFP, referring to the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a small militant group that was active in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state in the 1980s and 1990s. Local media, citing the police charge-sheet on the case, said the three men were suspects in the 2014 Burdwan blast in the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal that killed at least two people and ..
Nepal Police arrests Indian national for possessing contraband drugs
An Indian national has been arrested near Nepal-India border and over one kilo narcotic drugs recovered from his possession, police said on Sunday. The man has been identified as 60-year-old Kalim Thakur. He was arrested from Jirabhawani area in Parsa district near Nepal-India border, police said, adding that 1.5 kg of contraband drugs have been recovered from his possession.
Delhi Police arrest gang of auto lifters
With the arrest of three persons, police Sunday claimed to have busted a gang of auto lifters. The arrested persons are Delhi residents Amit Kumar, Jitender and Haryana resident Annu Kumar, officials said. A car, a pistol and 10 cartridges were recovered from them, they said. While Amit was previously involved in six criminal cases, 26-year old Jitender was involved in two criminal cases and Annu in ten criminal cases in Haryana, police said. During interrogation it was found that the pistol and cartridges had been provided to them by another criminal, police said. The gang was planning to shoot down another notorious criminal, who is currently lodged in Bhondsi Jail and efforts are being made to track down the other criminal, who carries a reward of Rs 50,000 on him, it said.
Two held for distributing cash to voters in Maval constituency
Navi Mumbai police Sunday arrested two persons for allegedly distributing cash to voters in separate incidents in Maval Lok Sabha constituency, an official said. In the first incident, police arrested one Pratap Arekar after he was found distributing cash of Rs 5,600 to the voters in Sukapur near Panvel, an official said. "He was allegedly luring voters to vote for Congress-NCP candidate Parth Pawar, son of NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar," he said. In another incident, police arrested Sanjay Hiraman Patil, a businessman, at Devat village in Raigad district. "Patil was found distributing Rs 26,100 and asking voters to vote in favour of Shiv Sena-BJP alliance candidate Shrirang Barne," he said. Ashok Dudhe, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-II), said, "Non-cognisable offences under section 171 (B) and 171 (E) were registered against both the accused was at Khandeshwar police station and they were arrested." On Saturday, two persons had been ...
Maha: Woman killed by parents in suspected honour killing case
In a suspected case of honour killing, a woman was allegedly killed by her parents at Kautha village in in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra for marrying against their wishes, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on April 23, and police have booked the woman's parents following a complaint lodged by her husband on Saturday, an official said. The accused have been identified as Bramhadev Ramaji Markad and his wife Asha, police said. In his complaint, Devendra Kothavale (26) said that Pratibha (24) and he fell in love in 2018. While she worked as a pharmacist, he is a medical representative in a pharmaceutical company. Sub-inspector Vilas Chawali of Sonai police station said, "They wanted to get married. But Pratibha's parents were against their marriage as Devendra belonged to the Brahmin community, while they were Maratha." Although both Pratibha and Devendra tried to convince her parents, they remained firm on their stand. After months of wait, they finally ..
Headmaster held for molesting teenaged student
A headmaster was arrested for allegedly molesting a teenage student of his school in Cahcar district of Assam, police said on Sunday. The head master was picked up from his home on Saturday night after receiving a complaint from the parents of the girl, Cachar Superintendent of Police Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta said. In the FIR lodged with the Dwarbond Police Station, her parents said the headmaster called the student to his chamber in the school located in Barjalanga area on Saturday and tried to force himself on her. The girl managed to run away from his office and narrated the incident to her parents, Mahanta said. "The headmaster was arrested on the basis of the FIR lodged by the family. He will be produced in court on Monday," the SP said.
332 candidates have criminal cases against them: Report
As many as 332 candidates for the ongoing Odisha Assembly elections have criminal cases against them, while 257 aspirants are facing cases of serious offences, a report by Odisha Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Sunday. While seven candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves, nine aspirants have declared cases related to murder, 63 attempt to murder, 17 kidnapping and 63 crimes against women, it said. Similarly, 17 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping against them, while two have declared cases related to rape. The report was prepared after analysis of the self-sworn affidavits of 1,121 out of 1,137 candidates contesting the Assembly elections being held in four phases in the state. Sixteen candidates have not been analysed due to unclear affidavit available on the ECI website at the time of making this report, it said. The report said that the number of candidates who declared criminal cases against ...
EC orders probe into bribery charge against Congress candidate
The Election Commission on Sunday ordered an enquiry into allegations that Congress candidate for the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, offered money to an AAP activist.
Atishi for 72-hour ban on Gambhir for code breaches
Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) East Delhi candidate Atishi on Sunday wrote to the Returning Officer of the constituency to bar her rival, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Gautam Gambhir, from campaigning for 72 hours and also register an FIR against him for repeated violation of the model code of conduct.
Six-year-old girl killed, corpse raped by security guard in U'khand
In a shocking incident, a security guard of a poultry farm allegedly killed a six-year-old girl and then raped her corpse in Shyampur area, police said on Sunday. SSP Office PRO Anurodh Kumar said the girl had gone missing on Friday when she was playing with other children at her hutment. Police investigation revealed that she was lured to the forest adjoining Chidiyapur village by the security guard, Sonu, who worked at the poultry farm nearby, the official said. Her parents, who were daily wage labourers from Bijnore, were working in a field when the incident took place. Sonu strangulated the girl when she started to scream. After she died, he raped her barely 600 metres from the spot where her parents were, the official said. He was arrested soon after the girl's body was recovered from the forest on Saturday morning, Kumar said, adding he has confessed to the crime. The accused has been taken on 14 days' police remand.