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Ghaziabad techie who killed wife, kids arrested
Software engineer Sumit Kumar, who allegedly killed his wife and three children here last week, has been arrested from Karnataka, police said Wednesday. Ghaziabad Police arrested Kumar with the help of Udipi Police on Tuesday night. Three teams were deputed to nab him. On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, Kumar allegedly served sedative-laced drinks to his wife Anshu Bala (32), son Prathimesh (5), daughter Akriti and son Arav (twins aged 4 years) and then slit their throats, police had said. The bodies were found 22 hours after the incident on Sunday, following a video posted by Kumar on his family WhatsApp group in which he admitted to the killings. Kumar had said in the video that he will commit suicide and had purchased poison. After being alerted, police recovered the bodies from Kumar's flat and sent them for post-mortem. Police will produce Kumar before the media later in the day, SP (city) Shlok Kumar said. It was initially suspected that Kumar had purchased ...
Japan apologizes to those forcibly sterilized, vows redress
Japan's government has apologised to tens of thousands of victims forcibly sterilised under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law and promised to pay compensation. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says he is offering "sincere remorse and heartfelt apology" to the victims. Japan's parliament enacted legislation earlier Wednesday to provide redress measures, including 3.2 million yen (USD 28,600) compensation for each victim. An estimated 25,000 people were given unconsented sterilisation while the 1948 Eugenics Protection Law was in place until 1996. The law allowed doctors to sterilise people with disabilities. The apology and the redress law follow a series of lawsuits by victims who came forward recently.
Bobde panel to probe CJI sexual allegations
In the wake of alleged sexual harassment charges against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, a three-member committee of the top court judges led by Justice S.A. Bobde will probe the allegations by a former staffer.
MP: Man dies in police custody after being questioned in theft case
A 22-year-old man died on Tuesday night after he was brought to a police station for questioning in an alleged theft case in Gandhi Nagar area here, said police.Talking to ANI, Superintendent of Police (SP) Indore, Suraj Verma said, "The name of the deceased is Sanjiv. He was brought to Gandhi Nagar police station after which he fell ill during questioning in an alleged theft case.""A doctor was called and he detected that Sanjiv was having low blood pressure. Sanjiv was sent to a hospital but died under treatment and he was declared brought dead by the hospital," the SP informed.Verma further said, "The police station in-charge has been suspended and a judicial inquiry being ordered."Raju Bai, who is the sister of the deceased, alleged that Rajiv and his mother were taken by the police for questioning. Both were beaten by the police after which Rajiv's mother had to be admitted to hospital.
Brazil court reduces ex-president's jail term
Brazil's second-highest court has reduced the sentence of jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by almost three years."The vote of the rapporteur is in favour to reduce the condemnation from 12 years and one month to eight years and 10 months plus a fine of 175 days [an amount of money equivalent to 175 of salaries, to be paid by the former president]," Al Jazeera quoted Reynaldo Soares de Fonseca, judge and president of the Superior Court of Justice, as saying .The Supreme Court of Justice was hearing a request filed by Silva's lawyers seeking to annul the former president's corruption conviction or reduce his sentence.Silva is in jail since April 2018 on corruption and money-laundering conviction for accepting a luxury beachside apartment as a bribe from an engineering company in the "Carwash" graft scandal.Notably, this opens the possibility he could be moved to house arrest later this year.Silva, popular for introducing social programmes to reduce poverty, held the ...
Indian sentenced to five years in US for human smuggling
An Indian national has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment on charges of smuggling foreign nationals into the United States, a overwhelming majority of whom were from India, the Department of Justice has said. The human smuggling carried out by Yadvinder Singh Sandhu, 61, had resulted in at least one death and endangered the lives of many, an official statement said. Singh had pleaded guilty early this year. Sandhu, charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico on March 15, 2017, use multiple names including Yadvinder Singh Bhamba, Bhupinder Kumar, Rajinder Singh, Robert Howard Scott and Atkins Lawson Howard. According to admissions in Sandhu's plea agreement, since 2013, he had a leadership role in a human smuggling conspiracy operating out of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, India and elsewhere. Sandhu admitted he personally assisted around 400 aliens to unlawfully enter the US between 2013 and 2015 as part of the ...
Brazil court reduces ex-president Lula's sentence
A Brazilian appeals court has reduced leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 12-year sentence for bribery and money laundering. In a unanimous decision, the four judges on the Superior Court of Justice panel hearing Lula's appeal agreed to uphold his conviction, but reduced the sentence to eight years and 10 months. The hearing was broadcast live on the court's YouTube channel. The 73-year-old leftist icon, who has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars in two separate corruption cases, marked his first year in jail earlier this month. Lula was handed 12 years and one month on charges that he accepted a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company during his 2003-2010 presidency to get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras. Lula is also appealing the second sentence of almost 13 years handed down in February for accepting renovation work by two construction companies on a farmhouse in exchange for ensuring they won contracts with ...
Entered politics so that no woman should be tortured: Sadhvi Pragya Singh
BJP candidate from Bhopal, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Tuesday said that she entered the political arena to put an end to the numerous atrocities being committed on women.She also said she is the "the living example of the numerous atrocities committed on women" and that she does not want any woman to go through the same pain that she did.The BJP leader was addressing a public rally in Bhopal on Tuesday in which former Chief Minister and BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan was also present."Women are being tortured and numerous atrocities were committed upon them. They are being exploited and raped. I am a living example of the pain inflicted on women. I have gone through that pain," said Pragya Singh"Now I have come because I want that no woman should be tortured by these criminals," she said.On Tuesday, Thakur filed her nomination papers from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. She was accompanied by three supporters and her advocate.Thakur is among the seven accused facing trial in the ..
Nepal Police seize 7 kg gold smuggled from China
Nepal Police on Tuesday seized seven kilograms of gold from an apple-laden container that arrived from China via the Kerung Port.The district police also have arrested the container driver identified as Sher Guwabo Ghale aged 30."We have arrested the driver Sher Guwabo Ghale a resident of Naukunda Village Council from Timiure, Ghatter Khola late on Tuesday evening. Seven kilograms of illegal gold is also seized from him. Investigation is underway," Inspector for Rasuwa District Police, Ishwori Prasad Bhandari told ANI over the phone.The gold was impounded from the cabin of the container in which a false button was created to resemble light, police said.The market value of the requisite gold stands at about Rs 3.5 Crore Nepali rupees.The Kerung Port, the only functioning trade port between Nepal and China usually sees illegal smuggling of the precious metal.
US teen claims Apple's face recognition led to his false arrest, sues for $1bn
A teenager based in New York is suing Apple for USD 1 billion, over a false arrest he says took place because of what he believes to be Apple's facial recognition system.The 18-year-old Ousmane Bah, who was arrested at his home in November last year, alleges that the warrant he was served included someone else's photo, the Washington Post reported.The lawsuit also claims that a detective with the New York Police Department concluded that the thief caught by a store surveillance camera "looked nothing like" Bah. It further cites the detective to say that Apple uses facial recognition software to identify shoplifters.Apple declined to comment on the lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but said that it does not use such technology in its stores.Bah was arrested after he was falsely linked to a series of Apple Store thefts in Boston, New Jersey, Delaware and Manhattan.The lawsuit seeks damages of USD 1 billion, a declaration that Apple
3 teams formed to nab engineer who killed wife, kids
Three police teams have been constituted to nab the unemployed software engineer who allegedly killed his wife and three children here, police said Tuesday. On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, Sumit Kumar served sedative-laced drinks to his wife Anshu Bala (32), son Prathimesh (5), daughter Akriti and son Arav (twins aged 4 years) and then slit their throats, Superintendent of Police (city) Shlok Kumar said. After killing them, he left the house at around 3 am and is untraceable since then, he said. Sumit Kumar was a drug addict and was under severe financial crisis. He was working with UST Global at Bengaluru but had to resign after the company upgraded its software and he was unable to work with it, the SP said. He said medical store owner Mukesh, who was arrested Monday, has denied selling potassium cyanide to Sumit Kumar. The bodies were found 22 hours after the incident, following a message from Kumar in his family WhatsApp group in which he admitted to the killings,
Delhi Police arrest man for posing as bank employee to rob customers
Delhi Police has arrested one person, a habitual cheat who used to impersonate bank employee and robbing bank customers on the pretext of helping them.The accused Deepak, 32, a resident of Panipat, was nabbed by a team led by Sub Inspector Amit Kumar, police said.Deepak was involved in two cases of cheating in the area of Connaught Place police station and was involved in 10 criminal cases in Delhi, police said.According to the police the accused used to impersonate himself as an employee of the bank. On the pretext of helping bank customers who came to the bank for deposit or withdrawal of cash, he used to divert their attention and run away with their cash..
Two held for providing fake visas to 17 fliers
The Delhi Police has arrested two persons for allegedly running a syndicate of supplying fake visas to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), police said Tuesday. The accused have been identified as Javed Ali, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district, and Manoj Kumar Sharma from Delhi, they said. Police received 17 complaints filed by immigration officials wherein it was alleged that on April 8, 2017, total 17 passengers were deported from Dubai Airport (UAE) as all were found using fake UAE employment visas, Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) Sanjay Bhatia said. The immigration officials got verified the alleged employment visas from the UAE Embassy in India and found all visas fake, the DCP said. During investigation, all passengers were interrogated when they disclosed that the visas were provided to them by one Javed Ali who took Rs 1 lakh from each passenger, he said. Later, it was disclosed that Ali was advertising for easy UAE employment visa in Kaptanganj city in ...
SC panel of judges to probe charges against CJI
In the wake of alleged sexual harassment charges against the Chief Justice of India, a three-member committee of the top court judges, led by Justice S.A. Bobde, was constituted on Tuesday to probe the allegations by a former staffer, sources said.
Shekhar murder: Police await FSL report to nail suspects
A Crime Branch team probing the mysterious murder of Rohit Shekhar is awaiting FSL report to establish the role of three suspects, including his wife, who were seen in a CCTV footage going to the first floor of house where the deceased stayed, an officer said on Tuesday.
WB: 3 arrested in connection with man's death during Congress-TMC clashes
West Bengal's Chief electoral officer (CEO) Ariz Aftab on Tuesday informed that three persons have been arrested in connection with the death of a man during clashes between Congress and TMC workers.The deceased, identified as Tiyarul Kalam, died during clashes between Congress and TMC workers in Baligram, Murshidabad earlier today.Sharing details of the action initiated in this regard, Aftab said, "Family members of the victim have registered a complaint against six persons. The police have arrested three persons so far and further investigation is underway."Earlier in the day, Congress had asked the Election Commission to order the immediate arrest of those involved in the killing of Kalam, who was standing in the queue to cast his vote.The state police said that Kalam, who was waiting for his turn to vote, got injured. He was immediately rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead.Violence broke out after TMC workers accused Congress supporters of indulging in proxy ...
Delhi Police recover 39 boxes of illicit liquor, 1 held
Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested one bootlegger and seized 39 cartons containing 1,872 quarters of illicit liquor.Police have also seized one Maruti Ritz car which was being used for transporting the illicit liquor.Sharing details of the arrest, police informed that a patrolling team noticed Maruti Ritz car, having a defective number plate moving towards foot over bridge, near the ISBT."The vehicle was signalled to stop, but the driver accelerated his car. As there was a traffic jam, he could not flee and was successfully chased by the patrolling team," said the police.When the driver was asked to produce the documents of the vehicle, he neither could produce the documents nor replied satisfactorily.During the search of the vehicle, 39 boxes of illicit liquor containing 1,872 quarters, for sale in Haryana only, were found inside the car, informed the police.A case under Section 33/38 of Excise Act was registered at Kashmiri Gate police station. Further investigation is
Don't want to comment on Rahul's legal knowledge: Shah on Cong chief's 'murder accused' remark
Hitting back at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for calling him a 'murder accused', BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday asserted that the court has already delivered its judgement in the "politically-motivated" case.In December 2014, a special CBI Court had discharged Shah from both Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases citing lack of evidence."I was framed in a false case. The judgement of the court has been delivered. It was a politically motivated case. I do not want to comment on Rahul's legal knowledge," Shah said in a press conference here.Addressing a poll rally in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur earlier today, Rahul had said: "Murder accused BJP President Amit Shah....waah! kya shaan hai (wow! what a pride)....Have you heard Jay Shah's name? He is a magician, he made Rs 50,000 into Rs 80 crore in three months.".
SC exempts Rahul from appearing personally in contempt case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday exempted Congress president Rahul Gandhi from personally appearing in court in connection with a contempt case filed against him for his 'Chowkidar Chor Hai' remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi."On the basis of the statements made by Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, learned senior counsel appearing for the alleged contemnor, we deem it proper to issue notice in the matter. Personal presence of the alleged contemnor is dispensed with, for the present," the court order read.BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi had filed the petition alleging that Rahul made contemptuous remarks in connection with the court's order on the admissibility of a certain document in the Rafale deal.The contempt petition accused Gandhi of misquoting the order when he said the apex court had accepted that 'chowkidar' (a reference to Prime Minister Modi), is a "chor' (thief).The apex court also ruled that it will hear this petition filed by Lekhi along with the pending review petition against the ...
Leader of 'deviant' Iran sect freed after years in prison
The leader of a "deviant" spiritual movement whose repeated death sentences drew international condemnation has been freed after almost eight years in prison, Iran's Judiciary said Tuesday. Mohammad Ali Taheri faced "numerous cases and verdicts" but has been released due to time served, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told the Judiciary's official Mizan Online news agency. "The cases were recently debated in an appeals court and he was sentenced to two seven-and-a-half-year terms of prison... of which he would only serve one," he added. Taheri was also fined and is subject to restrictions "which are still in place", Esmaili said. The spokesman did not specify when exactly Taheri was released and did not elaborate on the restrictions. Taheri, in his early sixties, founded the spiritual movement "Erfan-e Kayhani" ("Cosmic Mysticism" in Farsi) in the early 2000s, and quickly became a well-known spiritual leader, appearing on state television and giving classes at Tehran University. He ..