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Saudi officials planned Khashoggi's murder: UN investigator
The death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside his country's consulate in Istanbul was the consequence of a plan hatched by officials of the kingdom, a UN rapporteur said here on Thursday.
Exclusive: U.S. opens probe into Brazilian oil bribery scheme - sources
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a former U.S.-based oil trader for Brazil's Petrobras already charged in his home country with taking part in a corruption scheme involving commodity companies Vitol SA, Glencore PLC and Trafigura AG, according to people familiar with the matter.
Day 2: ED confronts Vadra with mails exchanged with arms dealer's kin (Roundup)
Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was grilled for over nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate as he appeared for the second round of questioning on Thursday, and also confronted him with his mails exchanged with a relative of absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, sources said.
No pre-arrest bail for Raman Singh's son-in-law in bypoll case
A court in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of former chief minister Raman Singh's son-in-law Dr Puneet Gupta and BJP leader Maturam Pawar in a case related to the alleged fixing of the 2014 Antagarh bypoll. Gupta and Pawar had filed pre-arrest bail applications after the Raipur police lodged a case against them on February 3 based on a complaint by Congress leader Kiranmayee Nayak, their lawyer Hitendra Tiwari told PTI. The bail pleas were rejected by Additional District and Session Judge Vivek Kumar Verma, he added. Tiwari and another lawyer, Kamlesh Pandey, who appeared for Gupta and Pawar, said they contended in the court that the FIR was lodged under pressure from the newly elected Congress government. Additional Advocate General and Special Public Prosecutor in the case, Satish Chandra Verma told the court that the crime was very serious as a huge amount of money had exchanged hands and contended that anticipatory bail should not be ...
Copper plant: SC reserves verdict on TN's plea against NGT order
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board's plea against December 15, 2018, National Green Tribunal's (NGT) order asking it to give its consent to Vedanta for restarting operations at its copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi.
Day 2: ED confronts Vadra with mails exchanged with arms dealer's kin
Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was grilled for over nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate as he appeared for the second round of questioning on Thursday, and also confronted with his mails exchanged with a relative of absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, sources said.
Two members of Jitender Gogi gang held in Gurgaon
The Gurgaon Police has arrested two dreaded criminals who were wanted in murder, attempt to murder and other heinous cases here, a police officer said Thursday. "Following a tip off, Deepak Singh and Mohit, residents of Haryana's Sonepat, were arrested Wednesday night from Dwarka Expressway intersection on Gurgaon Pataudi road," Gurgaon police PRO Subhash Bokan said. "Both the accused persons are gang members of notorious Delhi-based gangster Jitender alias Gogi, Bokan added. Three country-made pistols, 11 live cartridges and an SUV were recovered from their possession, the police PRO said. He said he accused persons were planning to execute a crime in Gurgaon but were nabbed by a police team. Four cases of loot and murder have been solved with their arrest, the officer said. On interrogation, the accused admitted that they were involved in escaping operation of gang's kingpin Jitender alias Gogi while he was in custody of the Delhi Police. They had fired indiscriminately on a police .
Cash agent shot, injured in Delhi's Mundka
A cash collection agent in his 30's was injured after being shot at allegedly by two men who fled the spot after robbing him of cash worth around Rs 70,000 in outer Delhi's Mundka, police said Thursday. The victim, identified as Brijpal Singh, works as a collection agent with a private firm. He used to stay in a godown of his office, they said. The incident took place on Wednesday evening when the victim was returning to Mundka on his bike after collecting cash from Samaypur Badli. When Singh reached Rani Kheda underpass, he was intercepted by two men who opened fire and fled with his bag that contained around Rs 70,000, a senior police officer said. Singh told police that out of the total robbed amount, Rs 50,000 belonged to the firm he works for while the rest was his own, he said. The victim informed the PCR officials who then rushed him to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital where he is being treated for his injuries, he added. Singh suffered a gunshot injury near his collarbone, he ...
Nath orders flat allotment after rape victim's family is asked
After the Indore Development Authority (IDA) allegedly asked the family of a rape victim to vacate a flat given to them by the previous government, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath ordered that the house be alloted formally to the family. "We were given a 200 sq ft flat five months ago. On Wednesday, four or five IDA officials came and directed us to vacate it as it had not been formally allotted to us," the victim's father told PTI Thursday. An official source said that when Chief Minister Nath learnt about the issue, he directed officials to take appropriate steps to help the family. Following which, an estate official of IDA issued an order allotting the flat in the name of the victim's father, the source said. The flat had been given to the eight-year-old victim and her family by the then BJP government. The girl was raped by two men at Mandsaur on June 26, 2018. The accused also tried to kill her. The two accused, Irfan alias Bhaiyu (20) and Asif (24), were .
25-year-old arrested for killing auto-rickshaw driver
A day after the killing of an auto-rickshaw driver in Shahdara's Krishna Nagar area, a 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with the case, police said. The accused was identified as Nikhil Chaudhary, a native of Bulandshahr and resident of Sagarpur, they said, adding that the weapon and the motorcycle used in the crime have been recovered. According to police, 28-year-old auto driver Rohit was shot dead on Tuesday night by two bike-borne men. The incident happened when Rohit was returning home. The killing was captured by a CCTV camera installed in the area, a senior police officer said. Chaudhary and Rohit's wife were apparently having an affair and the former suspected that Rohit used to torture her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Meghna Yadav said, adding that the accused was previously involved in a number of criminal cases, including murder. An investigation is underway to determine if Rohit's wife was involved in the killing and raids are being conducted
Two burnt to death as car catches fire in Mathura
Two persons were charred to death when the car they were travelling in caught fire near a village here in the early hours Thursday, police said. The incident took place near Ajnok village when the two were travelling from Barsana towards Chhata on the Barsana-Chata road, they said. Police said the deceased could not be identified and the bodies have been sent for post-mortem. The cause of fire was not immediately known, they said.
Delhi court settles 22-year case
A Delhi court has settled over 22 years old case allowing the Canadian government to recover over Rs 90 lakh from one of its former accountants, accused of defrauding money. The order was issued on Thursday.
Drunken brawl: Man stabbed to death in front of wife by his friends in outer Delhi
A 34-year-old man was stabbed to death in front of his wife allegedly by his two friends during a drunken brawl between them over a petty issue in outer Delhi's Nangloi area in the early hours of Thursday, police said. The deceased was identified as Deepak, they said, adding the accused and the victim had previous criminal records. The officials of Nangloi police station were alerted at 3.28 am about the incident, a senior police officer said. In her complaint, the victim's wife told police that Deepak returned home from Haridwar after a trip on Wednesday night. Two of his friends visited him at his residence. They dinned and consumed liquor together and were having a conversation. Suddenly, a heated drunken brawl broke out between them over a third person and the accused stabbed Deepak in front of his wife and fled away from the spot, the officer added. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead, the officer said. The accused have been identified ...
CBI to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on February 9 in Shillong
The CBI will question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on February 9 in Shillong in connection with Saradha scam, officials said Thursday, in the backdrop of Sunday's dramatic raid on Kumar's residence by the agency that triggered a slugfest between the Centre and the state government. The agency has also called former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh to Shillong on February 10. The CBI wants to question Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, as he was heading the SIT formed by West Bengal government to probe Saradha and other ponzi scheme cases, they said. The CBI is relying on a 91-page letter from Ghosh, who was expelled by TMC, to the Enforcement Directorate, detailing the role of Kumar in handling the ponzi scam probe after the main accused Sudipta Sen and Debjani Mukherjee, both promoters of Saradha group of companies, had fled to Kashmir, officials said in Kolkata. Sen and Mukherjee were arrested in 2013 from Kashmir. "State police was first to enter the premises
CBI summons Kolkata Commissioner for questioning on Feb 9
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before it on February 9 in connection with its probe into Sharada chit fund case, officials said.
Rajasthan police's NOC in cryptocurrency CEO's death raises doubts
Rajasthan police's NOC (no-objection certificate) to Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson, wife of Gerald Cotten, the CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga CX, on December 10, 2018, raised several doubts on Thursday in the chain of events in Cotten's death reported on December 9 in Jaipur.
5-year-old girl abducted, raped and murdered in central Mumbai
A five-year-old girl, abducted by an unidentified person, was found dead at Mahim in Central Mumbai Thursday morning, with the police stating that she was sexually assaulted. The girl was abducted around 3.00 am from L J Road in Mahim when she was asleep alongwith her family members in their roadside shanty, a police official said. Her father, a labourer, noticed that she was missing when he woke up, and lodged a police complaint. The girl was found dead in a deserted place on the same road around 10.00 am, the police official said. Autopsy at the state-run J J Hospital revealed that she had been raped. "We have registered an offence of rape with murder and also added sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act," said Vikram Deshmane, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone -V). Police have formed multiple teams to investigate the crime, he said.
Cal HC orders CBI probe into death of bizman's wife
The Calcutta High Court Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the "unnatural death" of a Raniganj-based businessman's wife, observing that there were differences between the post-mortem report and the state CID's conclusion on the reason behind her demise. Justice Debangsu Basak directed the state CID to hand over investigation in the case to the central agency. The victim, 39-year-old Pushpa Bhalotia, was found with burn injuries and was taken to a private hospital in Durgapur where she succumbed to her injuries on October 5, 2017. Her husband Manoj Bhalotia was then arrested in this connection. Prima facie it is a case of suicide, according to the CID. The port-mortem report had said she could have died of a bullet injury, apart from the burn injuries. A single bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha had on August 21 last year ordered a CBI probe into the case, but on an appeal by the woman's husband, the order was overturned by a division bench a week later. The division bench had directed .
Abu Dhabi ISIS module: NIA files chargesheet against two accused
The NIA filed a fresh chargesheet against two accused on Thursday in connection with its probe in the Abu Dhabi ISIS module case, the agency said. The chargesheet was filed before a special court here against Mohammad Abdullah Basith and Mohammad Abdul Qhadeer, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson said. Both the accused are in jail at present. The supplementary chargesheet was filed under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the spokesperson said. Basith, a resident of Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad, was continuously making efforts to propagate the ideology of the ISIS in India, for which he had entered into a conspiracy with the handlers of the global terror group and his associates, he added. "He and his associates were involved in identifying, motivating, radicalising gullible Muslim youngsters to join hands with him in the conspiracy," the spokesperson said. Qhadeer, also a resident of the same area in ...
Digvijaya questions slapping NSA on suspected cow killers
Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh on Thursday raised questions over imposition of the National Security Act (NSA) on three persons suspected of killing a cow in Khandwa district of the state.