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Amit Shah among main conspirators of Sohrabuddin encounter: Chief investigation officer
BJP chief Amit Shah and three IPS officers were the main conspirators behind the alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, the chief investigation officer (CIO) of the case claimed in a CBI court here Wednesday. CIO Sandeep Tamgade, who deposed during the ongoing trial, however, conceded that that his claim was not supported by any documentary evidence in the charge sheet filed by him. "From the investigation done by us, we found the principal conspirators were Amit Shah, D G Vanzara (former Deputy Inspector-General Gujarat Police), Rajkumar Pandian (SP, Intelligence Bureau) and M N Dinesh (IPS officer, Rajasthan Police)," Tamgade said. All four have been discharged by the trial court in the case. Tamgade claimed he was not naming Shah and others without evidence, but admitted that the claim was not supported by any documentary evidence in the supplementary charge sheet filed in the case, he said. Tamgade, then Superintendent of Police (CBI), had prepared a
Man who targeted Kejriwal broke glass panes at Secretariat months ago: Police
The 40-year-old man, who allegedly flung chilli powder at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, had broken glass panes at the reception area of the Delhi Secretariat one-and-a-half years ago after he failed to get an audience with the CM, police said. The accused, Anil Sharma, was arrested on Tuesday and was interrogated jointly by the local police, Special Cell and Intelligence Bureau. During interrogation, he claimed that he had tried to meet Kejriwal one-and-a-half-years ago but after he could not meet him, he broke the glass panes in the reception area of Delhi Secretariat. Police said they will be verifying his claims and are further probing the matter. He told the investigators he is married and has a daughter. His wife stays with her parents in Haridwar. He graduated from a university in Meerut and was employed as a contractual worker with a company in Gurgaon at a salary of Rs 14,000 per month, he told police. He told sleuths that he was earlier addicted to ganja but had quit .
Man arrested for killing 73-yr-old woman in Delhi
A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing a 73-year-old woman and decamping with her gold ornaments in southeast Delhi's Sarita Vihar, police said. The accused was identified as Mehboob (51), a resident of Madanpur Khadar, who had been working as a driver for the victim's neighbour since five to six months, they said. On November 17, the deceased's husband had gone out and when he returned home at around 6.30 pm, he found his wife Savitri Pandey's body on the sofa with her throat slit, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said. The woman was rushed to the Apollo Hospital, where she was declared brought dead, he said. As part of investigation, CCTV footage of Sarita Vihar as well as adjoining areas were scanned and over 100 people, including family members, maids and drivers, were questioned, the officer said. Hoping that the elderly couple would have a lot of money and ornaments in their house, the accused hatched a conspiracy to rob them, Biswal ...
AAP MLA Somnath Bharti booked for 'hurling abuses' at woman scribe
Delhi MLA Somnath Bharti was booked Wednesday on charges of hurling abuses at a woman journalist, but the Aam Aadmi Party leader claimed the TV news channel was "misusing" its power. The FIR against the AAP MLA was lodged in Noida on the complaint of the woman journalist of a private TV news channel, who accused him of calling her names, a police official said. "During a live TV debate, the Malviya Nagar MLA, Somnath Bharti, hurled abuses at me and told me to become a prostitute," said the journalist, who works as a news anchor with the TV channel, in her complaint to the police. "I am a journalist and understand the responsibility while asking questions but he abused me and called me an agent of the BJP. He threatened to get our channel shut down. The kind of words he used for a woman were simply offensive and demeaning," she alleged. The complaint was lodged by the scribe at the Women Police Station in Noida and a First Information Report was registered against the MLA under ...
Woman thrashes drunk man for masturbating in front of her inside Delhi bus
A 26-year-old woman journalist thrashed a drunk man who allegedly masturbated in front of her inside a cluster bus passing through south Delhi, even though no one came to her assistance, police said. The incident took place on Tuesday evening while the woman was returning home in Sangam Vihar after work, the police said. A case was registered and the accused, identified as Mukesh Ranjan Kumar (39), was arrested, Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said. The man was booked for obscene act of exhibiting private part and using criminal force with an intend to outrage her modesty. The woman said she boarded the bus from Kapashera at around 8.30 pm after work and at around 9.15, a man who boarded from Mahipalpur came and stood beside her. "I was sitting on a seat reserved for women. I noticed a man who boarded the bus from Mahipalpur came and stood by my side. He stared at me and started touching his private part. I stared back. Despite that, he unzipped himself and pulled .
Kejriwal attack: Accused sent to 14-day judicial custody
The man who allegedly attacked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with chili powder on Tuesday has been sent to a judicial custody of 14 days.The accused, Anil Kumar Sharma, was produced in the national capital's Tis Hazari Court on Wednesday for the hearing of the attack.Sharma was detained by police personnel on Tuesday after he allegedly attacked the Chief Minister outside his office in the secretariat building with chilli powder.However, the Delhi Police said, "Sharma had gone to the Chief Minister's office to submit a complaint with a staff member's reference. After handing over the complaint to the minister, he bent down to touch his feet during which Kejriwal's security persons intervened and his spectacles fell down. Subsequently, security personnel moved him aside and found him carrying a pouch in his hand which apparently contained chili powder, which later got torn.".
FIR against 8 MLCs for submitting fake reimbursement bills
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against eight Members of Legislative Councils (MLCs) of Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) in the Vidhana Soudha police station on Wednesday for allegedly submitting fake reimbursement bills in the 2016 Bengaluru Mayor polls.The MLCs allegedly submitted the bills for reimbursement from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).The action was taken following a complaint filed by J.H. Ramanna from Raichur. Subsequently the Vidhana Soudha Special Court on Wednesday initiated action to file FIR against the MLCs. All the eight have been booked under Sections 177, 420, 149 of the Indian Penal Code and also under People Representative Act.BBMP Opposition leader Padmanabha Reddy of the Bharatiya Janata Party said: "I had also filed a complaint against these irregularities of the eight MLCs to the BBMP Commissioner and with the Election Commission because I knew these people were not residents of Bengaluru but were voting and looting public ..
Prisoner commits suicide in Dumka Central jail
A prisoner allegedly committed suicide in the Dumka Central jail Wednesday evening, officials said. The prisoner identified as Gobardhan Pujhar(35), a resident of Jirulia village of the district allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in an under-construction building in the jail premises, they said. Pujhar was sent to jail on November 18 in connection with a scuffle case, Sub-Divisional Officer, Rakesh Kumar said. The Officer-in-charge of Dumka Town police station, Debbrat Poddar said the incident came to light in course of the head counts of jail inmates when the jail authorities found one inmates missing. A search was launched immediately, Poddar said, adding that Pujhar was found hanging from a ceiling of the under-construction building.
Right-wing group to file defamation case against Twitter CEO
A right-wing group said Wednesday it would will file a defamation case against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for allegedly "hurting sentiments" of the Brahmin community. Advocate Hastimal Saraswat will file a case in the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur against Dorsey on Thursday, Sushil Ojha, the founder of Vipra Foundation, said in a statement. Dorsey was trolled for holding a placard that read 'Smash Brahminical Patriarchy', following which the company issued an apology. Ojha alleged that propagating such views by the Twitter CEO had "hurt the sentiments of crores of people" and were highly condemnable. The clarification of Twitter's legal experts was insufficient and objectionable, he claimed.
Man held for obscenity in Delhi bus
A 37-year-old man working with an event management company was arrested for masturbating in front of a woman journalist inside a bus, but no other passenger came to her help, police said on Wednesday.
7-yr-old 'molested' while sleeping in Delhi's Vasant Kunj
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a neighbour while she was asleep at her home in southwest Delhi's Vasant Kunj, police said Wednesday. The incident took place Tuesday night, they said. The accused, a 40-year-old neighbour, entered the victim's shanty and allegedly touched her inappropriately while she was sleeping with her family, a senior police officer said. On realising this, the girl raised an alarm following which her parents tried to catch hold of the accused but he fled the spot, the officer said. A case was registered at Vasant Kunj (South) police station based on a complaint lodged by the victim's parents, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Devender Arya said. Police are on the lookout of the accused, he said.
Man falsely implicated by Gautam Buddh Nagar police, claims family; inquiry on
The family of a Greater Noida man, who was arrested last week for alleged involvement in criminal activities, has alleged that he was falsely implicated in the case by the police in Gautam Buddh Nagar. Top police officials of the district have denied the charge and said any such allegations would be investigated. Aakash Tyagi, 22, was "officially" picked up by officials from Bisrakh police station along with four others while "riding on a stolen motorcycle and carrying firearms, knives". Tyagi, a resident of Roza Yakubpur village, employed with a food and dairy delivery company, was booked under IPC414 (Assisting in concealment of stolen property) 482 (using a false property mark) and the Arms Act, among others. However, his brother Bobby has claimed that Tyagi, who works in night shift, was picked up from the factory around 1 AM on November 15, while he was shown to have been arrested at 6.10 PM during a routine check on the road. "We have procured the CCTV footage from factory in ...
Delhi-based assailants kill woman; later shoot cop at Pune Rly
Two Delhi-based assailants shot dead a woman in the city Wednesday morning and later wounded a police officer at the Pune railway station while trying to escape from the city, police said. While one of the assailants was nabbed on the railway station premises, the other boarded a train but was held at Daund station by Railway Protection Force (RPF), police said. Deputy commissioner of police Shirish Sardeshpande said that Ekta Brijesh Bhati (37), resident of Indrayani Society in Chandannagar area, was shot from close range by two men on the staircase of her building in the morning. "She was rushed to hospital by her husband and neighbours but she succumbed to her injuries," the DCP said. Inspector Gajanan Pawar of Unit III of Crime Branch got information that the assailants were from Delhi and had a monetary dispute with Bhati and husband, he said. "Pawar and other officials got a tip-off that the accused were about to board a Delhi-bound train in the evening. Police team
SIT should call Sonia, Rahul in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Sukhbir
Training its guns on the Congress, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal Wednesday demanded the Special Investigation Team probing the1984 anti-Sikh riots case calls former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and conducts her 'narco test'. He alleged that planning of the attacks on Sikhs, after former prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated, was done at Rajiv Gandhi's residence and so Sonia Gandhi was an "important witness" in the case. He also demanded that Congress president Rahul Gandhi should also be called by the SIT. However, there was no immediate reaction from the Congress, though the party had on Tuesday welcomed the court order saying it was "proud" that the legal process was being allowed to work out its course. Addressing a press conference at his residence here, Badal said, "The1984 anti-Sikh riots was planned at the residence of Rajiv Gandhi, who headed the Congress at the time, and his wife Sonia Gandhi knows everything about it." Badal said due to a fresh probe by the SIT, .
Congress will build Ram temple in Ayodhya after SC verdict: C P Joshi
Senior Congress leader C P Joshi said on Wednesday that the Congress will build a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya after the Supreme Court's verdict on the matter. The BJP is misleading people by raking up the Ram temple issue in the election season, even though the matter is pending before the Supreme Court. The Congress will build a grand temple after the apex court's verdict on the matter, Joshi told reporters in Nathdwara. "It is a civil suit and a decision will be given by the Supreme Court," he said. Joshi also questioned the idea of building a temple based on an ordinance when the issue of "land title is not clear". He said the people in the BJP understands the law and the Constitution, and it's unfortunate that the party is misleading the people of the country for votes. Earlier in the day, BJP chief Amit Shah said in Jaipur that his party is committed to building a Ram temple in Ayodhya and will not "step back an inch from it". Addressing a gathering in the state capital, Shah ...
Meghalaya woman arrested in connection with murder attempt on activists
The Meghalaya police on Wednesday arrested a woman, who is one of the accused in the murder attempt on women's rights activist Agnes Kharshiing and her aide in a coal-belt area in East Jaintia Hills district.
Lawyer files petition in HC seeking probe into judge Loya's death
A lawyer has petitioned the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court seeking police probe into the "suspicious and untimely" death of CBI judge B H Loya. Judge Loya, who was presiding over the trial in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case against senior IPS officials from Gujarat and Rajasthan police, died of a heart attack in Nagpur in 2014. Advocate Satish Uke filed the petition on Monday, seeking a direction to police authorities concerned to probe Loya's death and to safeguard documents from the guest house in Nagpur where Loya was staying when he died. The petition is yet to be taken up for hearing by the high court.
3 arrested for duping man of over Rs 1 lakh
Three men were arrested for allegedly duping a person of over Rs 1 lakh on the pretext of providing a loan at zero interest rate, police said Wednesday. The accused were identified as Manoj Kumar (29), a resident of New Moti Nagar, Rahul Sharma (27), a resident of Sant Nagar in Burari and Tarun Rastogi, a resident of Krishna Nagar, they said. "On November 14, one Raghav Ram, resident of west Patel Nagar, filed a complaint that he had received a call in July where the caller stated that he was calling from a private bank and it was offering loan at zero per cent interest rate," Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) A K Singla said. Ram agreed to take the loan and the caller asked his Pan Card and Aadhaar Card number which the complainant provided, he said. Thereafter, the caller asked for Rs 10,000 as security money for sanctioning a loan of Rs 5 lakh on which the complainant transferred the amount in the account provided by him. The caller duped the complainant of Rs 1,44,866 in ..
Man held for brutal killing of his rival in love affair
A 20-year-old man was arrested on November 20 from Satara in western Maharashtra for allegedly beheading a 19-year-old waiter from Mumbai in Nallasopara in Palghar district, the police said Wednesday. According to police, the accused Vikas Varak allegedly killed Vikas Bhavdhane whom he perceived as his rival in his love affair with a girl. Tulinj police in Palghar had found the head of the victim wrapped in a plastic and his body in a nullah on November 19. A senior police official said Varak allegedly called Bhavdhane to an isolated spot near Valaipada on the night of November 18 under some pretext and attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon. Police have registered a case of murder under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Question petition will be filed against FIR: Alok Nath's lawyer
In the wake of an FIR filed against Alok Nath for allegedly raping writer-producer Vinta Nanda, the former's lawyer Ashoke Saraogi said that a question petition would be filed in the high court."I heard about the FIR filed against Alok Nath, and it is pretty weak. I am preparing a list of questions, as a question petition will be filed against this FIR in the high court," Saraogi told ANI, adding that a copy of the FIR will be obtained soon.Earlier today, Nanda's lawyer Dhruti Kapadia confirmed that the police have registered an FIR against the actor, over a month after she lodged a complaint against Nath for allegedly raping and sexually harassing her in the 1990s.The FIR against Nath has been booked under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)."Vinta Nanda had registered a case against Nath after the latter filed a civil defamation suit against her. Pursuing that, she was called for investigations, queries, etc. She gave her final statement yesterday, and by the virtue of which .