Crime and Accident

Bhubaneswar, November 04: One person was killed and two others were injured Wednesday when a blast took place inside Orissa’s Chandipur test range campus while ammunition was being loaded, police said.

“The blast happened when some people were loading ammunition. The ammunition blasted, leading to the casualty,” said Superintendent of Police (Balasore) Lekha Lohani.

According to informed sources, the accident occurred around 5 p.m. The injured have been admitted to hospital.

New Delhi, November 04: Three men were arrested Wednesday for the murder of two eunuchs in the capital last month, police said.

Two eunuchs were found murdered last month in their house in Jamia Nagar, south Delhi.

“We have arrested their driver Rajesh and he has confessed to the crime. We have also arrested his two accomplices, Somveer and Khalil,” a police officer said.

On conducting raids at various places in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, police traced Rajesh and Somveer to a town in Madhya Pradesh and Khalil was arrested from Uttar Pradesh.

Mumbai, November 04: A 51-year-old passenger on a Jet Airways flight from Dubai has been arrested on arrival at the Mumbai airport on the charge of molesting an airhostess, police said on Wednesday.

The accused identified as Selvaraj Pillai, a supervisor with an electrical company in Dubai, had boarded the Mumbai- bound flight last evening and allegedly misbehaved with the hostess.

Bhopal, November 04; Four men suspected to be terrorists and believed to have links with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) have been arrested from a Madhya Pradesh town, police said Wednesday.

“The four men were arrested in a joint operation by the Madhya Pradesh Anti Terror Squad (ATS) and the state police from the Char Khambha area of Jabalpur,” state ATS chief Pawan Srivastava said.

“Of the arrested men, while Afroze and Azad are residents of Jabalpur, Anamul Rehman and Amjad belong to Khandwa,” he said.

New Delhi, November 04: Six youths were arrested for their alleged involvement in robbing people on the pretext of giving them lift in their vehicle and recovered several stolen articles, including 30 mobile phones, police said today.

The arrested, in the age group of 18 to 21 years, were caught from near Alakananda in south-east Delhi and Jahapanah forest area yesterday, they said.

Police recovered 30 mobile phones, six fake number plates, two credit cards, two kirpans, a country-made pistol, and a car from their possession.

New Delhi, November 04: At least eight children drowned Wednesday when a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India, police said.

Rescue workers were searching for the other children and their fate was not immediately known, said Vasudev, a local police official who uses only one name.

The cause of the accident was not known, he said.

The accident occurred on the Chaliyar river in the Malappuram district of Kerala state, more than 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) south of New Delhi. Kerala is a popular tourist destination for both Indians and foreigners.

Lucknow, November 04: Five students of a government-run polytechnic in Uttar Pradesh have been booked for ragging and torturing a junior, leading to his hospitalization, police said Wednesday.

Pawan Kumar, pursuing his first year civil engineering diploma from Rajkiya Polytechnic in Gorakhpur district, about 300 km from Lucknow, was assaulted by his seniors on the campus Tuesday.

A group of students directed Kumar to polish their shoes. They also told him to smoke a cigarette. Irked by his refusal, they assaulted him. Kumar suffered head and ear injuries, a police officer said.

Lucknow, November 04: Growing resentment against the sugarcane price policy of the central government has prompted farmers to burn their produce in parts of Uttar Pradesh.

At least 20-25 incidents of farmers setting ablaze their own produce have been reported from Meerut and Muzaffarnagar districts over the past two days.

New Delhi, November 04: A homeopathic doctor has been arrested here for killing his 55-year-old domestic help as she was allegedly blackmailing him after she saw him with a prostitute, police said Wednesday.

“The body of Gulabo (the domestic help) was discovered from a house in Bhagwan Nagar in southeast Delhi in a highly decomposed state on Oct 26. On investigation we discovered that the place where the body was found was taken on rent only 15 days back by N.K. Sharma, a homeopathic doctor,” a police officer said.

Lucknow, November 04: About 50,000 pirated DVDs of Microsoft Windows 7 are estimated to have been sold here since the official launch on Oct 22, generating unaccounted business of around Rs.50 lakh (nearly $100,000).

The reason for the allure of the pirated versions: These cost Rs.40-Rs.250 in Naza Market in Hazratganj here, drawing buyers from not only the rest of Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states like Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand but also Nepal and Bangladesh.

Mumbai, November 04: A 51-year-old passenger on a Jet Airways flight from Dubai has been arrested on arrival at the Mumbai airport on the charge of molesting an airhostess, police said today.

The accused identified as Selvaraj Pillai, a supervisor with an electrical company in Dubai, had boarded the Mumbai- bound flight last evening and allegedly misbehaved with the hostess.

Patna, November 04: Ten persons were injured here as police resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to disperse agitating employees of fair price dealers’ shops today.

Hundreds of employees of the fair price dealers from across the state, brought out a procession on Bailey Road, led by their association leader Srikant Labh and later blocked the busy Dak Bungalow Road, official sources said.

As the agitators refused to budge despite requests by the security men, baton-wielding policemen swung into action.

Lucknow, November 04: A teacher of a private school in an Uttar Pradesh village has been accused of forcibly stripping a 10-year-old girl student and photographing her on his mobile phone, police said Wednesday.

Rajesh Shukla Tuesday allegedly molested the Class 5 student of Swamy Harihar School in Mahmoodpur village of Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district, some 250 km from Lucknow. He was absconding.

“We are carrying out raids to nab Shukla. We have detained the managerial staff of the school to know the whereabouts of the teacher,” police Inspector F. A. Pundir told reporters in Kannauj.

Hyderabad, November 04: Unidentified persons stole a sum of over Rs 14 lakh from an ATM machine of ICICI Bank in Peddapuram town in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, police said today.

The amount stocked in the machine seems to have been stolen between October 31 and November 1, but the Bank authorities filed a complaint on the incident this morning, they said.

Mumbai, November 04: At least 12 passengers sustained minor injuries when 11 coaches of the Gandhidham-Bengaluru Express derailed near Dombivili here early Wednesday, a railway official said.

“The incident occurred around 2 a.m. near Dombivli on the single-line Vasai-Diva section which links the Western Raiwlay and Central Railway,” said an official of the railway control room.

Of the 11 coaches that derailed, at least two overturned and got badly damaged in the incident.

All the passengers, most of whom were sleeping at the time of the accident, had a miraculous escape.

Lucknow, November 03: A police constable and a Home Guard were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district Tuesday on charges of extorting money from three-wheeler drivers, police said.

Constable Dharmendra Dubey and Home Guard A.K. Rai were arrested after a three-wheeler driver lodged a complaint with the Kotwali police station.

Bangalore, November 03: Jammu and Kashmir cricket player Pervez Rasool, who was detained by the police after explosives detecting gadget picked up signals from his bag, has been given a clean chit by the Forensic Science Laboratory, which said the luggage did not contain any residual of explosive substance including RDX.

New Delhi, November 03: Two aides of Munna Bajrangi who are allegedly involved in cases of extortion and dacoity were arrested by Delhi Police today from Benares and Thane respectively.

Miraj Hussain and Iftikhar were arrested by two separate teams of the Special Cell of the Delhi police, official sources said.

The duo, both in their forties, have worked with Bajrangi earlier, they claimed. They are being brought to Delhi for interrogation.

DCP (Special Cell) Alok Kumar confirmed the arrest to PTI.

Jammu, November 03: Twelve pilgrims, including 10 members of a family, returning to the city after paying obeisance at a famous temple in Himachal Pradesh, were killed when their tempo collided with a bus on Jammu-Pathankot National Highway early today.

Seven people, also occupants of the tempo, were injured in the accident which took place at Baghial Morh, 80 kms from here, at around 0200 hours, police said.

The family, which included five women, was returning to their home in Jammu after offering prayers at the Jawala Ji temple when the collision occurred.

Kolkata, November 03: At least 17 people were injured in a clash between armed activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal’s Birbhum district Tuesday, police said.
The clash broke out as the rival groups opened fire and also hurled crude bombs at each other, according to police sources.

Bhubaneswar, November 03: Bodies of two pilgrims who drowned when an overloaded boat capsized Monday in the Mahanadi river in Orissa’s Cuttack district Monday, were recovered Tuesday. Five passengers are still missing.

“We have recovered two dead bodies so far from the spot. We will continue the search operation for a few hours more, then we will see,” said Arbind Agrawal, the sub-collector of Athagarh in Cuttack district, about 25 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

According to the officials, the chances of survival of the missing pilgrims are grim.

Kolkata, November 03: Bengal police officer Atindranath Dutta, who was released unharmed after being kidnapped by Maoists last month, faces disciplinary action for not joining work.

“Two days after he returned home on October 24 we served him a notice asking him to resume work after three days, but he didn’t respond,” West Midnapore Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Verma told PTI over phone.

Dutta, the Officer-in-Charge of Sankrail Police Station in West Midnapore district, was given another notice on October 31 to resume duty within three days, but no answer was received, he said.

Mumbai, November 03: In one of the biggest hauls of marijuana (Ganja) in recent times, city police seized 12.40 quintals of the drug worth over Rs 24.80 lakh after busting an alleged inter-state racket and arresting six persons, including an former government employee and woman in this connection.

The alleged kingpin of the racket, Ravi, who is operating from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and supplying the drug from there, is still at large, police said, adding some more are likely to be arrested in this case.

Gurdaspur, November 03: Police claimed to have arrested a Bangladeshi national, while he was crossing over to Pakistan from Bamial sector on Saturday, BSF said today.

The Bangladeshi was produced in a local court in Pathankot on Monday and remanded to police custody for four days and later handed over police at Amritsar for further interrogation.

The arrested Bangladeshi national was identified as Mohammed Rahizul, alias Mian, resident of Jalsuha falling in Habibganj district of Bangladesh.

Bhopal, November 03: A notorious dacoit was killed in a gunbattle in Madhya Pradesh’s Morens district, police said on Tuesday.

Rajendra Singh Gurjar, for whose capture the state police had announced a reward of Rs.25,000, was hiding with his accomplices in Gopiapura village, police said.

The police raided the village and asked the dacoit to surrender but he started firing, Morena Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Singh told.

“Gurjar was killed after a two-hour gunbattle on the banks of Kwari river,” Singh said.