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UP: Man wanted in murder, extortion cases killed in encounter with STF
In a major breakthrough, a person wanted in murder and extortion cases was killed in an encounter carried out by a team of Special Task Force (STF) late night on Thursday.The accused has been identified as Tauqir.Speaking to media persons, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Abhishek Singh, said: "Local police was on a look-out for Tauqir for over a year. They requested STF to take the matters into the hand as, according to their sources, he was conspiring another murder. When our team besieged him on the road last night, he fired at us. He got injured when we fired back."The accused was taken to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead, SSP Singh said.STF also recovered a motorcycle, a mobile phone and two pistols from the spot where the encounter took place.According to police, Tauqir was involved in the murder of security personnel deployed in Pratapgarh jail and had been extorting money from local businessmen for over a year.Further investigation in this regard is ...
Prosecutors insist Pell conviction 'unimpeachable' at appeal hearing
Prosecutors insisted the conviction of Australian Cardinal George Pell for child sexual abuse was "unimpeachable" as his appeal against the guilty verdict went into a second day in Melbourne on Thursday. Lawyers for Pell, 77, had on Wednesday raised 13 objections to his December conviction on five counts of sexual abuse for the assault of two 13-year-old choirboys following Sunday Mass in the 1990s. The main point of their appeal is that the jury verdict was unreasonably dependent on the testimony of a single victim -- the second choirboy died in 2014 -- and that the surviving witness was not credible. The former Vatican number three, who controlled the Holy See's vast finances and was involved in the election of two popes, was sentenced in March to six years in prison. He was accused of sexually abusing the two choirboys in 1996 and 1997 in the sacristy and hallways of St Patrick's Cathedral when he was Archbishop of Melbourne. In his opening remarks on Thursday, Prosecutor ...
Man charged with elder abuse of Stan Lee pleads not guilty
A former business manager to Stan Lee pleaded not guilty to elder abuse charges that allege he stole from the late Marvel Comics legend and held him against his will. Keya Morgan, 43, entered the plea in Los Angeles after authorities transported him from Arizona, where he was arrested last month. Morgan was charged in May with five counts of elder abuse involving the late Marvel Comics mastermind including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder adult. The charges date to June 2018, when Morgan was working closely with Lee. The comics legend, who co-created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Black Panther, died in November at age 95. Alex Kessel, an attorney for Morgan, has said his client has never abused or taken advantage of Lee. Los Angeles County prosecutors say Morgan sought to capitalize on Lee's wealth and exert influence over him even though he had no authority to act on his behalf. Prosecutors say Morgan pocketed more
TMC worker killed in Cooch Behar, party leader blames BJP
A TMC worker identified as Ajijar Rahaman was killed in Cooch Behar on Wednesday, making it the second such incident in the state this week.Following the death of Rahaman, a local TMC leader accused a BJP leader of being complacent to the crime along with his other associates."Azhar Ali, a member of BJP and some other people beat up and killed Ajijar Rahaman," he said.BJP, however, refuted the charges and asserted that the murder took place due to a personal issue.Nisith Pramanik, BJP MP from Cooch Behar, said, "A personal issue was the cause of the incident, TMC is trying to politicise it. The deceased's family itself is saying it was due to personal reasons, no BJP worker has any role in it."This comes two days after TMC leader Nirmal Kundu was shot dead by three bike-borne assailants in North Kolkata's Dum Dum area.Kundu was the TMC president of Ward 6 of North Dum Dum municipality area under Nimta Police station.Two suspects have been arrested in connection with Kundu's death.
Delhi Police nabs interstate red sandalwood smuggler, 8 logs recovered
Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested an interstate red sandalwood smuggler, Amit Verma, from Asola village and recovered eight logs of sandalwood from his possession.Police said the recovered wooden logs weighed around 571 kilograms.According to Delhi Police, the recovered material costs around Rs. 50 lakh (approximately) in the Indian Market and about Rs. 2 crores (approximately) in the international or Chinese market.The accused was nabbed based on secret information and identification of the recovered logs were done by a Wildlife Inspector. Forest Act was registered and the accused person was arrested.Following the arrest, Verma disclosed that he, along with his other associate, were smuggling the illegal red sandalwood from Karnataka with the help of one smuggler who is a resident of Karnataka.He also informed that the smuggled product is supplied to two Nepal nationals. Police is attempting to trace and arrest all the involved personnel.
Sikar: Muslim man fakes identity to marry Brahmin girl, detained
Sikar police has detained a couple from Mumbai after it was alleged that the man, a Muslim, pretended to be a Brahmin for marrying a Brahmin girl from the district.The couple, identified as Imran Bhati alias Kabir Sharma and Vijay Lakshmi, was detained from Mumbai's Nalasopara area on Tuesday.A case in this regard was registered at a Sikar police station on May 25.DSP Saurabh Tiwari said, "The arrest is made in connection with a much-discussed issue from Sikar where a Muslim man masqueraded as Brahmin and married a Brahmin girl. A case was registered under IPC section 277/19 and a team was formed to trace and apprehend the man and woman. They were arrested on Tuesday from Mumbai."He also said that further investigation is underway.
Top US cardinal accused of mishandling aide's sex abuse case
When Cardinal Daniel DiNardo first met Laura Pontikes in his wood-paneled conference room in December 2016, the leader of the U.S. Catholic Church's response to its sex abuse scandal said all the right things. He praised her for coming forward to report that his deputy in the Galveston-Houston archdiocese had manipulated her into a sexual relationship and declared her a "victim" of the priest, Pontikes said. Emails and other documents obtained by The Associated Press show the relationship had gone on for years even as the priest heard her confessions, counseled her husband on their marriage and pressed the couple for hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. She said the archdiocese assured her that the priest, Monsignor Frank Rossi, would never be a pastor or counsel women again. Months after that meeting, though, she found out DiNardo had allowed Rossi to take a new job as pastor of a parish two hours away in east Texas. When her husband confronted DiNardo, he said, the ...
Lied to by cop, accident victim lodges complaint after almost 10 months
Almost 10 months after an accident left him bedridden and a police officer allegedly dissuaded him from lodging a complaint against the driver of the car that hit him, 19-year-old Dhawal Sareen has finally managed to get an FIR registered. The accident took place on August 3, 2018, when the motorcycle that Sareen, a resident of Dilshad Garden, and his friend, Paras Sharma, were riding was hit by a car which had allegedly jumped the traffic signal, the police said. Sareen and his friend were headed towards the India Habitat Centre on Lodhi Road. A Delhi police assistant sub-inspector, Zile Singh, who reached the spot after the accident allegedly told the victims that the accused was an embassy official, who enjoyed diplomatic immunity, and the car also belonged to the embassy, the police said. Singh allegedly asked the complainant to settle the matter, otherwise an FIR would be registered against him, they said. However, response to an RTI query filed by Sareen's father in February to .
Kerala man arrested for trying to extort Rs 8 lakh from woman using her morphed photos, videos
A 26-year-old man was arrested from Kerala for allegedly blackmailing and trying to extort Rs 8 lakh from a woman using her morphed pictures and videos, police said Wednesday. The accused, Akhil Ajayan, had sent the woman's morphed pictures and videos to her father and relatives, and threatened to upload them on porn websites, a senior police officer said. According to a complaint lodged by the woman's father, Ajayan had befriended his daughter on Facebook and started blackmailing her after morphing her pictures, the officer said. "Police analysed the location of the accused person and arrested him from Kollam district in Kerala," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime) Anyesh Roy said. During investigation, it was revealed that Ajayan, who used to work as a manager at a petrol pump, had also befriended other women, including a Brazilian national, through social media, the DCP said. He had visited Turkey earlier this year to meet the Brazilian woman and had taken 6,000 USD from ...
CBI summons IPS officer in Narada sting footage case
The Central Bureu of Investigation on Wednesday summoned IPS officer S.M.H. Mirza, who was named in an FIR lodged by the agency along with a dozen senior leaders of Trinamool Congress, in the Narada sting footage case.
Man held for blackmailing girls after morphing their facebook pics
A Kerala resident was arrested in the capital for allegedly blackmailing girls by stealing their pictures from Facebook and sending them back their morphed and nude pictures and videos, Delhi police said on Wednesday.
Air hostess alleges rape by colleague, his friend in Mumbai, 1 held
A 25-year-old air hostess was allegedly gangraped by her colleague and his friend on Tuesday, police said.The accused 23-year-old Swapnil worked as a technical engineer in the same private airline carrier where the survivor works.The accused was arrested and presented in court today after which he was sent to police remand till June 10. The other accused is absconding.According to the survivor, she was drunk when the crime was committed.Medical report of the rape survivor is yet to come, police said.On the survivor's complaint, a case has been registered under Section 376(D) (gangrape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code at the MIDC police station.Further investigation in the case is underway.
Boy drowns in water-filled pit at construction site
A seven-year-old boy drowned after falling into a pit at a construction site in suburban Kandivali, police said. The incident took place Tuesday evening at Ganesh Nagar. Aditya Ranvijay Chouhan, the boy, fell into a pit at the site of a redevelopment project while walking on the road, a police officer said. The pit was filled with water. Onlookers pulled him out but he was declared dead on arrival at hospital. A case under IPC section 304-A (causing death by negligence) was registered against the firm which is carrying out the construction, the police officer said, adding that no arrest has been made yet.
Guj: Man sets himself, brother-in-law's wife on fire
A man set his brother-in-law's pregnant wife on fire and tried to immolate himself in Rajkot city of Gujarat Wednesday, police said. Unrequited love allegedly led Chetan Palan (40), the accused, to committ the heinous act, police said. Both Palan and the 25-year-old woman, who is pregnant, sustained serious injuries and were admitted to Rajkot Civil Hospital. A case of attempt to murder was registered against Palan, said inspector V V Odedara of Gandhigram police station. The victim woman is married to a cousin of Palan's wife, he said. Palan was allegedly in love with the victim woman and trying to woo her for the past one year, the police officer said. Apparently blinded by rage as the woman did not respond, Palan accosted her Wednesday morning when she was buying vegetables on the street outside her house, allegedly poured petrol on her and set her ablaze, and then set himself on fire too. The woman's neighbours doused the fire and took them to hospital. Both Palan ..
Youth stabbed to death in Telangana in post-local body poll
A man, claimed to be a BJP activist, was allegedly stabbed to death in Mahabubnagar district in stray post local rural body election violence in Telangana, police said Wednesday. Premkumar, a youth, was fatally attacked in Dokur village after a quarrel with the son of a losing TRS candidate and others over him joining the celebrations by supporters of the victorious BJP rival Tuesday night, hours after the results of the poll were declared, they said. TRS has swept the local body polls, winning a majority of the zilla parishad territorial constituency and mandal parishad territorial constituency seats. BJP Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar Wednesday claimed the deceased youth was his party activist and charged the ruling TRS with induling in "murder politics" out of 'fear' of the saffron party's rise as an alternative in the state. However, police said the victim was not a political activist, adding they have detained some persons in connection with the incident. State ...
Delhi: Man held for blackmailing, extorting girls using sexually explicit morphed pictures
The Cyber Crime Unit of Delhi Police arrested 26-year-old man for allegedly blackmailing and extorting girls using morphed pictures and videos.The accused identified as Akhil Ajayan has been arrested from Kollam, Kerala."The Cyber Crime Unit of Delhi Police received a complaint from a distressed father who alleged that one person who was his daughter's Facebook friend, had sent him and his family members morphed, sexually explicit photos and videos of his daughter and threatened that if he didn't pay up Rs 8 Lakh, the accused would share the offensive photos and videos with the complainant's friends and other relatives through WhatsApp and Social Media," a police release said.During the investigation, the police found that the accused started using Social Media to befriend women."Once he had befriended her, he gathered all the information about her relatives and family members from Facebook and then tried to use the information to extort the complainant by creating morphed pictures ...
Red sandalwood smuggler arrested, timber worth Rs 2 cr seized: cops
A West Bengal native was arrested here on charges of smuggling red sandalwood and being found in possession of over 570 kg of fine quality fragrant timber worth Rs 2 crore, police said Wednesday. A resident of Darjeeling in West Bengal, 41-year-old Amit Verma was arrested from Asola village in South Delhi, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ram Naik. He was arrested after a raid at a godown in the village that the accused had hired to store the contraband, said the DCP, adding a total of 571.4 kg of sandalwood was seized from there. The police raided the godown on a tip off that a man had hired it and stored huge quantity of the contraband in it, he said. "A police team laid a trap near Asola village and arrested the accused on Monday at around 7 pm and eight logs of red sandalwood were recovered from the godown," said Naik. The DCP added that a wildlife inspector too later identified the seized timber logs as that of superior quality Red Sanders (Pterocarpus ...
Air hostess alleges rape by friend and his room-mates, 1 held
A 25-year-old air hostess working with a private airline was allegedly raped by her friend and his room-mates in suburban Andheri, police said Wednesday. The incident took place Tuesday night at a flat in Goni Nagar where Swapnil Badodia (25), the woman's friend, lived as a paying guest, a police official said. Badodia, who too works for an airline, and the woman went out for dinner Tuesday evening and later had drinks at his flat, she told police. As per the woman, when she woke up next morning, she realized that when she was drunk, Badodia and his friend forced themselves on her during the night. She lodged a complaint of gang rape at MIDC police station. "We registered a case of gang rape under IPC section 376 D and arrested the accused person (Badodia)," said Nitin Alaknure, senior police inspector, MIDC police station. Badodia confessed to the crime but denied the involvement of his room-mates, another police officer claimed. He was produced before a court which sent .
CISF nabs one person; recovers live rounds of 8mm
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) apprehended one person at Seelampur metro station and recovered live rounds of 8mm, the paramilitary force said on Wednesday.The arrested accused was identified as Shahid Ali who is a resident of Farukhabad area of Uttar Pradesh.During sustained interrogation, he disclosed that he brought these rounds from his native place and now he was going to Nizamuddin Railway Station to visit his home on the occasion of Eid."At about 3:05 pm on Tuesday, during baggage screening at Seelampur metro station, we noticed an image of live rounds inside a bag of a passenger. Immediately, he stopped the conveyor belt as well as the passenger. On physical checking of the bag, two (02) live rounds of 8mm were recovered from the bag," CISF said in a statement.The arrested accused was later handed over to the Delhi Metro Railway Police (DMRP) along with the seized material for further legal action in the matter.A case has been registered under section 25, 54 and
Juvenile apprehended for threatening man, firing at his house
A juvenile was apprehended from Uttam Nagar after he threatened a person and fired at his house, a video of which was shared widely on social media, police said Wednesday. The accused was apprehended on Tuesday and a country-made pistol along with a bullet was seized from him, they said. In the video, which was made this month, the accused is seen allegedly threatening a person after firing at his house in Uttam Nagar area, according to a senior police officer. "During investigation, police got a tip-off and apprehended the juvenile from Kali Basti Road near Uttam Nagar Bus Terminal," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Anto Alphonse said. Sources said he was once apprehended in November 2018 for firing outside a house and released in December. On January 1, he had allegedly shot dead a woman member of a Dwarka-based family after his extortion demands were not responded to, the sources said. He again had made another extortion call to the family on January 4, they said. He was ...