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Man gets 5 years RI for abetting live-in partner's suicide
A Maharashtra court has sentenced a 27-year-old man to five-year rigorous imprisonment for abetting the suicide of his live-in partner in 2016. In the order passed recently, Additional Sessions Judge in Thane district R V Tamhanekar held Rakesh Baban Kumbhar guilty under IPC 306 and awarded the sentence. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. Kumbhar was married and had a daughter. But a few years ago, he and the victim, Kirti Gaikwad, came in contact and their friendship soon turned into an affair. Till that time, he used to live with his family, while the woman lived with her parents. He promised to marry Gaikwad and they started living together at Diva in Thane district in 2016. However, whenever she asked Kumbhar about their marriage, he started evading her question. He also used to return home drunk, the prosecution told the court. Moreover, he started doubting Gaikwad's character and there used to be heated exchanges between the two over the issue. On November 27, ...
Huawei CFO's US extradition on, Beijing questions Canada's authority
The Canadian government has given its go-ahead to begin the extradition of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou to the US, leading to China's dissatisfaction and Beijing even questioning Ottawa's authority.
10-year-old girl repeatedly raped, boy booked
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly repeatedly raped by a boy at a village in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The boy, 12, was booked following a complaint lodged by the girl's parents, police said. "Both the minors are neighbours. As per the complaint, the boy had been raping the girl since the last four months," an official of Mokhada police station said. A few days back, the girl complained of stomach pain. When her parents took her for a medical checkup, doctors told them that she was pregnant. When her parents asked her, she told them what had happened. Thereafter, they filed a complaint against the boy, the official said. The boy was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), he added. According to police, the boy has not been detained yet and investigation into the case is on.
2 arrests, officer on desk duty after wild NYC highway chase
A police officer has been placed on desk duty after shooting at a car during a wild four-mile chase onto a Manhattan highway. The BMW struck two officers one in the hand, the other in the elbow on Thursday evening after officers tried to pull it over at 96th Street and Second Avenue for a tinted windows violation. At about 15th Street, police stopped the car and were approaching it when the driver reversed and rammed a police vehicle. The driver, a 23-year-old woman, then sped onto the FDR Drive with police firing shots. Under department guidelines, officers can shoot at vehicles only if there's an immediate danger. The vehicle was later found abandoned in the East Village. The officers were treated for minor injuries. The driver, Veronica Jagdeo, was later arrested; charges are pending. Police say they believe her boyfriend was also in the car and suffered minor injuries. He was being held on a parole warrant. The area was shut down for hours overnight while police swarmed the ...
Canada allows US extradition of Huawei CFO to proceed
The Canadian government has authorised the start of a formal process to consider a request from the US to extradite Huawei's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou, who Washington accuses of helping the Chinese tech giant dodge American sanctions on Iran
Canada allows Huawei CFO's extradition hearing
Canada on Friday (local time) allowed the United States to initiate an extradition hearing for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Canada in December last year.CNN quoted Canada's Department of Justice confirming that Meng, who is currently under house arrest and will appear in the court once again on Wednesday (March 6) in Vancouver, will be scheduled the date of hearing that could result in her extradition to New York.Canadian officials said that the justice department's decision on Friday followed a "thorough and diligent review" of the evidence in the case, as the department was "satisfied" that there was "sufficient evidence" for the case to be put before a judge.If Meng is not found guilty and the judge approves her extradition then the country's minister of justice - its highest-ranking judicial official - will have the final decision in the case.In addition to this, if Meng is extradited to the US, she will face trial there.Meng was arrested on December 1 last year ...
Lawyers for former Trump campaign chief argue for leniency
Lawyers for President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort urged a judge on Friday to impose a sentence "substantially below" the potential 19 to 24 years in prison he is facing for tax crimes and bank fraud. Manafort, 69, is to be sentenced on March 7 by Judge T S Ellis of the Eastern District of Virginia after being convicted of five counts of filing false income tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to report a foreign bank account. Manafort's attorneys, in a filing with the judge, said the sentencing guidelines -- which call for a prison term of 235 to 293 months -- are "clearly disproportionate to the offence conduct for which Mr Manafort was convicted." "Mr Manafort acknowledges that he received a fair trial before this court, he accepts the jury's verdict, and is truly remorseful for his conduct," they said. His attorneys suggested a "sentence substantially below the range", arguing that Manafort is a first-time offender and is in poor ...
2 elderly women killed in Bihar; 5 held
Five persons have been arrested here for allegedly killing two elderly women suspected of practising witchcraft, police said Friday. The women were beaten to death, the police said. Pramila Devi (65) and Kapurva Devi (70), both of them widows, were killed in Gopali Chak village under the jurisdiction of Ladaiya police station of the district on February 24, the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Munger, Gaurav Mangla, said. The police, after receiving information about the killings, exhumed the bodies of the deceased from a nearby forest, the SP said. The police, based on the statements of the relatives of the deceased, lodged a suo motu FIR against nine persons, Mangla said. "Five of the nine accused - Sadhu Manjhi, Muktar Manjhi, Ram Vilas Manjhi, Jivan Manjhi and Dharmesh Manjhi - have been arrested," the SP said. "We are looking for the other accused persons," the SP added.
MNREGA officer in Bihar held for accepting Rs 1-lakh bribe
Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested a MNREGA program officer while accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh in Saran district of Bihar. According to a release issued by the Vigilance Investigation Bureau, the officer posted in Masrakh block and holding the additional charge of Hasuapur block, was held by a team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Gopal Paswan. He was arrested while accepting the money from the block president of Hasuapur, who had approached the vigilance department with the complaint that he demanded a bribe of Rs four lakh for releasing payments of workers engaged in development projects under MNREGA, the release said. A trap was subsequently laid as part of which the officer was asked to accept a sum of Rs one lakh, and caught while taking the money in Hasuapur Bazar locality, it added. After interrogation, he will be produced before a designated vigilance court in Muzaffarpur, it said.
Trump accuses ex-lawyer Cohen of perjury, citing unpublished book
President Donald Trump accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of perjury Friday, saying a manuscript Cohen wrote last year that complemented Trump contradicted his scathing testimony to Congress this week. "Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a 'love letter to Trump' manuscript for a new book that he was pushing," Trump tweeted Friday. "Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!" "Michael Cohen's book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before." Cohen, who worked for the president for a decade as his top "fixer" at the Trump Organization, assailed his ex-boss as "a racist... a conman... a cheat" in testimony Wednesday to the House Oversight Committee. But in a book proposal Cohen sent to publishers in early 2018 -- before he was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes related to his work for Trump -- the attorney promised a glowing picture of the real estate billionaire. The manuscript was titled "Trump Revolution: From .
Property dealer gunned down in Delhi
A 52-year-old property dealer was gunned down on Friday by an unidentified bike-borne man in his office in the national capital, police said.
Honey-trap: Woman booked for blackmailing retired bank employee
An FIR was registered against a woman for reportedly blackmailing a retired bank employee here in a suspected honey-trap case, police said Friday. According to the police, the accused woman was mounting pressure on the former bank manager to register his house in her name. She threatened to make public a video purportedly showing him in a compromising position if he did not heed to her demands. Investigations revealed that the woman had extorted nearly Rs 40 lakh from the man in this regard, Assistant Superintendent of Police Aparna Gautam said, adding the woman also manhandled the victim when he refused to budge. A complaint was submitted by the victim's wife to DIG Upendra Agarwal when she came to know about the matter following which the FIR was registered at Sihani Gate police station on Thursday, the officer said. The matter is being probed, police added.
German woman detained for entering into prohibited area near Indo-Pak border
A 21-year-old German woman and her friend were detained for allegedly entering into a prohibited area near the India-Pakistan international border in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district on Friday, police said. The woman, Juliane Wloch, and her friend, Rupesh Kumar, were detained for entering into the Tanot temple area, which is prohibited for foreign citizens, said Ramgarh police station incharge Kanta Singh. The woman and her friend live in Germany and had come to visit Jaisalmer with Kumar's parents, the officer said. The driver of the car had requested them to not enter the prohibited area, but Kumar's father, who was a Border Security Force (BSF) official, ignored the advice, the officer said. The duo was carrying valid documents and were interrogated by the joint intelligence agencies, the officer added.
4 held for robbery & snatching
Four men were arrested from east Delhi in connection with several cases of robbery and snatching, police said Friday. The four were apprehended when they came to a CNG station near Gazipur. They were allegedly involved in more than 25 cases of robbery and snatching. Twenty mobile phones and two motorcycles have been recovered, the police said. The accused have been identified as Izhar Khan, Mohd Khalid, Mohd Riaz and Hari Om. During investigation, it was found that the four were habitual gamblers and would commit robbery and snatching whenever they lost money in gambling.
LeT militant held in Srinagar
A suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant, who was allegedly involved in a weapon-snatching case, was arrested here on Friday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a special team of the Srinagar police apprehended a person near Bone and Joint Hospital at Barzulla, a police spokesperson said. The accused has been identified as Showket Ahmed Khan alias Aumer Bhai, a resident of central Kashmir's Budgam district. He is associated with the LeT outfit, the spokesperson said. Khan is involved in a weapon-snatching case, the spokesperson said, adding that further investigation was on.
NRI arrested for raping woman he met on matrimonial site
A non-resident Indian was arrested from the IGI airport here for allegedly raping a woman he had met on a matrimonial site in 2017, police said Friday. The accused has been identified as Ravinder Singh, a native of Jalandhar district in Punjab, they said. According to police, the woman filed a case on March 27, 2018 stating that she came in contact with Singh through the matrimonial website. On December 12, 2017, Singh reportedly intoxicated the victim and raped her. He later convinced her that he would marry her soon, but instead left Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said. Thereafter, the victim got to know that Singh was already married and was living in the United Kingdom, where he used to work as a security guard, the DCP said. As part of the investigation, raids were conducted in the accused's village in Punjab, but he did not join the probe, police said, adding a lookout circular was also issued against him. On Thursday, Singh was apprehended from .
Man arrested for cheating people online
A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating persons online after taking their bank account details on the pretext of resolving their issues, police said Friday. The accused has been identified as Daud Ansari, a resident of Deoghar district in Jharkhand, they said. On November 15 last year, police received a complaint from a woman who stated that she called a customer care number of a shopping website as she was facing problem in the payment process. When the woman called the number, the accused received the call and pretended to be from the customer care department of the shopping website, a senior police officer said. He then asked her bank account details and a total six unauthorised UPI transactions of Rs 85,896 were made, the officer said. During investigation, police received the details of her account from the bank. However, it was revealed that the cheated amount was transferred into different virtual wallets and accounts. The accused withdrew the cheated amount from .
Customs official held for 'aiding' gold smuggling, suspended
A customs official was arrested Friday at the Cochin international airport here for allegedly aiding a passenger in his bid to smuggle gold worth nearly Rs one crore, official sources said here. C X Francis, in the cadre of havildar in the customs, was suspended by Customs Commissioner Sumit Kumar following his arrest. Francis, not on duty, was caught after he attempted to leave the airport allegedly with three gold bars weighing one kg each which he had received from a passenger who arrived from a Gulf country, Kumar said in a release. The passenger, Adnan Khalid, had also been held. Francis was put under the scanner of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence after being found around the airport on his day-off, Kumar said.
3 held with 621 kg cannabis in Telangana's Siddipet district
Three persons have been arrested with 621.3 kg cannabis from Telangana's Siddipet district, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Friday.DRI officials said that they had some specific information about the narcotic drugs being transported illegally by the accused.Accordingly, a team of DRI officers from Hyderabad zone launched a search operation and intercepted a lorry in Siddipet town and a Sedan car, which was escorting the lorry on Thursday.The cannabis was in the polythene bags, cleverly concealed under the coal in the lorry. The contraband, which was being taken to Tandur in Vikarabad district, was seized under the provisions of NDPS Act, 1985.DRI has also seized Sedan car and the lorry. The market value of the seized cannabis has been estimated to be Rs 93,19,500.
Notorious criminal held in North Delhi
A notorious criminal and member of an interstate bootlegger gang accused of killing his rival group member in Haryana was arrested in North Delhi, the police said on Friday.