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4 Russian nationals arrested for peddling drugs in Goa
Four Russian nationals have been arrested for alleged possession of drugs in North Goa's Mandrem village, police said Saturday. One of the arrested persons has also confessed during interrogation that he has been involved in thefts at ATMs in the state, a senior official said. Acting on a tip-off, a Pernem police team Friday raided the house of one Ilia Alexsandrovich Shtennikov (30), a Russian national, who was found cultivating cannabis in a rented apartment, said Superintendent of Police (North) Chandan Chaudhury. Shtennikov told police during questioning that an apartment in Mandrem area, in Pernem taluka, was being used as a base for peddling drugs by a group of Russians, she said. A raid on this house led to the arrest of Radik Vafin (35) and MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) and ganja (cannabis), worth Rs 2.09 lakh, was found, the official said. Vafin has said during interrogation that he had used gas-cutters and explosive substances to break open ATMs in the .
CBI men attacked in Noida
A CBI team was on Saturday attacked here in Uttar Pradesh when it tried to accost an accused in a bribery case, officials said.
Mentally deranged man kills 5 members of his family in J'khand
A mentally deranged man allegedly killed five members of his family in Saraikela-Kharswan district on Saturday, police said. The five were axed to death in the early hours of the day, the police said. The accused, identified as Chunu Soren, killed his brother Ravi Soren (45), sister-in-law Kalpana (39), bother-in-law Jitan Soren and two children of the family at Pudusilli village in the district, the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Chandil, D N Banka, said. He has been arrested, the SDPO said. The accused also attacked his mother and younger brother but they managed to escape, the police officer said. They were admitted to a primary hospital as they had suffered injuries, he said, adding, they were out of danger. The accused's wife and children managed to escape unhurt, Banka said.
Four Russians arrested in Goa for growing, selling drugs
Four Russians were arrested in North Goa for cultivating marijuana and selling other psychotropic drugs, police said on Saturday.
Delhi court defers hearing on separatist leader's bail plea till April 2
A Delhi court Saturday deferred the hearing on the bail plea of separatist leader Shabir Shah, arrested in a decade-old money laundering case, till April 2. Shah's bail plea came up for hearing before Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora. The court had on February 18 sought response from the Enforcement Directorate on Shah's bail plea. The application was moved before the court on the ground of parity after the Delhi High Court recently granted bail to co-accused and alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani in the case. The application submitted that the accused was wrongly and falsely implicated in the case, which was registered in 2007 for the alleged offence committed in 2005. Shah was arrested on July 25, 2017 in the case in which the Special Cell of Delhi Police had also arrested Wani. It claimed that Rs 63 lakh was recovered from Wani, out of which Rs 52 lakh was allegedly to be delivered to Shah. Shah is in judicial custody and lodged in Tihar Central Jail.
Man held with 10 kg poppy in J&K
A man has been arrested and 10 kilograms of poppy was seized from him in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said on Saturday. The accused was identified as Ajmeer Singh, a resident of Kathua district's Rajbagh area, they said. During routine checking of vehicles, a police party led by station house officer (SHO), Ramban, Vijay Kotwal intercepted a truck near Shan Palace in Ramban on Friday night, the police said. A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 10 kgs of poppy from the cabin, they said. The truck driver was taken into custody, they said. A case has been registered and investigation is underway to nab others involved in the smuggling of contraband drugs.
Jharkhand man kills 5 family members
A man hacked five of his extended family members to death, including three teenage nephews on Saturday in Jharkhand's Seraikela district, police said.
Gwyneth Paltrow counter-sues man over 2016 skiing accident
Gwyneth Paltrow has counter-sued a retired doctor who is taking legal action against the actor-entrepreneur over a 2016 skiing accident. In documents filed in court last month, Terry Sanderson had claimed that the 46-year-old actor was "skiing out of control" when she hit him from behind, "knocking him down hard, knocking him out" at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah in February 2016. He also alleged that Deer Valley ski instructor Eric Christiansen, who was accompanying Paltrow, did not call for help and later filed a report "falsely" accusing Sanderson of causing the accident. The complainant claimed he suffered a brain injury, short-term memory loss and four broken ribs. Sanderson is seeking in excess of USD 3.1 million in damages from Paltrow, Christiansen and the resort. The actor, however, has filed a countersuit against the man in which she is sharing her side of the story, EOnline reported. In her complaint, the counsel for Paltrow said, "She was enjoying skiing with ..
El Chapo to seek new trial over alleged jury misconduct
Attorneys for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, will seek a new trial after a report that jurors at the Mexican kingpin's drug conspiracy trial engaged in misconduct by following media coverage during the months-long proceedings.
Plea filed in SC seeking status of probe in disproportionate assets case against Mulayam, Akhilesh
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction for the CBI to place before it or jurisdictional magistrate the status report of investigation carried out by the agency into alleged disproportionate assets of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and party president Akhilesh Yadav.The petition filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, an advocate, said that the CBI has utterly failed to intimate either to the apex court or report to the jurisdictional magistrate on the investigation and status of the case as directed by the court in two judgments.Mulayam had allegedly amassed disproportionate assets worth over Rs 100 crore during his tenure as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh between 1999 and 2005.The CBI has taken an unusually long time to complete the preliminary inquiry in the highly sensitive and important matter of a long-pending investigation since 2007, said the plea, adding that even after the loss of 11 years when the verdict had come and six years
Stray dogs maul three-year-old boy to death
A three-year-old boy was mauled to death by stray dogs in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, a civic official said Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday morning when a pack of five dogs attacked Ayush Prajapati when he was playing near his house in Mangalgate area of the city. Prajapati, who was severely injured in the incident, was rescued by his parents and neighbours, and rushed to the civil hospital, the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation (AMC) official said. However, the boy died when he was being shifted to the Sassoon government hospital in Pune, at around 4 PM, he said. The AMC has announced an ex gratia of Rs one lakh to the family of the deceased boy. A probe has been ordered into the growing menace of stray dogs in the city.
Muzaffarnagar: Woman alleges rape by five men
A 23-year-old woman has alleged that she was abducted and raped by five youths in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Muzaffarnagar's Ghasipura village under Mansurpur police station on Friday, they said. According to a complaint lodged by the woman, she was abducted and confined to a room, where the accused raped her. Later, the accused fled, leaving her at the room, Station House Officer Sanjive Singh said. A case has been registered and the victim has been sent for medical examination, he said.
R. Kelly indicted on 10 counts of criminal sexual assault
Singer R. Kelly has turned himself, hours after he was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a class 2 felony, involving four alleged victims.
Telangana man detained in Yemen, wife seeks Swaraj's assistance
The wife of an Indian man who is allegedly lodged in a detention centre in Yemen has sought assistance from External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to bring her husband back home. Speaking to ANI, the woman -Fareeda Asra Tabassum- said her husband and his friend, both of whom were working in Saudi Arabia, were arrested by officers at Yemen's Aden airport on January 24 when they were returning to India."They had been working at a mattress company in Saudi Arabia for 8 years and weren't being paid since 2 years. They went to Sana, Yemen from Saudi Arabia to take visa for returning to India. Later when went to Yemen airport to return home but were arrested. I request Sushma Ji to help them return home", she said.Tabassum also revealed that she had a conversation with her husband after he was detained, but officers have not disclosed the reason behind the arrest.
UN judges to rule on Karadzic appeal of war crimes conviction next month
UN judges will rule next month on the appeal of convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to 40 years in jail for his role in Bosnia's 1990s war. "The Appeals Chamber... has scheduled pronouncement of the appeals judgement in the case of Radovan Karadzic for Wednesday, 20 March," the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said in The Hague. Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail in March 2016 for his role in the bloodshed during the Bosnian war which left 100,000 people dead and 2.2 million others homeless, amid the ethnic conflict that erupted with the break-up of Yugoslavia. He was found guilty of 10 charges, including genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre -- Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated from their families, shot and killed, their bodies dumped in mass graves. Karadzic, 73, was also convicted of orchestrating the 44-month siege of Sarajevo in which some 10,000 people died under
Medellin razes Pablo Escobar's home in symbol of rebirth
A six-floor apartment building in Medellin that Pablo Escobar once called home was demolished Friday in an emotional ceremony that officials hope will dampen some of the fervour for the notorious drug lord's criminal life and instead showcase the city's rebirth. Rogelio Gomez, the engineer in charge of the demolition, said that 180 detonators were used to topple the Monaco building and a 100 meter (328 feet) security zone was designated around the area. "1,500 people who live nearby were evacuated for security," he also said. The explosion took place at 11:53 local time and sent a cloud of dust 10 meters (33 feet) into the air. Colombian President Ivan Duque, who was still a teenager when Escobar was killed in 1993 in a rooftop shootout with police, said the explosion "means that history is not going to be written in terms of the perpetrators but by recognising the victims." The white concrete building in Medellin's leafy Poblado neighbourhood was gutted by a car bomb in 1988 and has .
California parents of 13 plead guilty to torture
A California couple who shackled some of their 13 children to beds and starved them have pleaded guilty to torture and other abuse. David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty Friday in Riverside County Superior Court in the case dubbed a "house of horrors." The couple was arrested in January 2018 when their 17-year-old daughter called 911 after escaping from the family's home in the city of Perris, southeast of Los Angeles. The children, who ranged in age from 2 to 29 at the time, were severely underweight and hadn't bathed for months and the house reeked of human waste. Investigators said some of the children had stunted growth and wasted muscles and described being beaten, starved and put in cages. A Southern California district attorney will address the case of a couple charged with the torture and abuse of most of their 13 children.
Teen girls, ages 14 and 15, charged with robbing bank
Police in Massachusetts have charged teenage girls ages 14 and 15 with robbing a bank. Fall River police say the 14-year-old girl walked into a BayCoast Bank branch in the city on Wednesday afternoon and told a teller she would "blow everything up and kill everybody" if the teller did not hand over cash. A bank employee handed the girl an "undetermined" amount of money and she left. The girl was seen on surveillance video getting into a black Toyota Camry outside the bank allegedly driven by the older girl. Police got a look at the license plate and traced the car to a home in the city where they found the girls. Both are charged with armed robbery. Their names were not released because of their ages.
Trump says could include Huawei and ZTE in trade deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald trump said on Friday he may or may not include Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp in the trade deal being negotiated between the United States and China.
CRPF jawan goes missing while travelling from J-K to Telangana
A CRPF jawan who was transferred to Telangana from Jammu and Kashmir has gone missing from the train before arriving here to join duty.A complaint in this regard has been filed by CRPF ASI Arjun Dubey, who was heading the team of personnel travelling to Telangana.Ashok, the Superintendent of Police (SP)- Government Railway Police (GRP), Secunderabad District told ANI, "We have received the complaint. The 14 member team was transferred from Jammu and Kashmir to Telangana. On 19 February they took Telangana Express from Delhi and reached Secunderabad Railway Station on 20 February. 13 CRPF personnel got down but one Jawan by the name Saldeep Kumar a native of Jammu and Kashmir wasn't found, all others waited for him for some time and left to Hakimpet CRPF quarters to report"As per the police official, the missing CRPF official is not reachable over the phone and is yet to report for duty. GRP has registered a missing case and has also issued a lookout notice for the missing ...