Indore, October 01: Expelled Congress leader Mehmood Khan, who was arrested recently on the charge of being involved in illegal liquor trade, has been brought back from Karnataka, police sources said today.
Mehmood had been handed over to Karnataka police on transit remand. He was brought by aircraft from Hyderabad last evening.
However, senior police officials did not confirm the matter.
New Delhi, October 01::A 21-year-old college girl killed in a freak accident Wednesday in Dev Nagar area of Karol Bagh in central Delhi.
According to the police, the victim, Simranjit Kaur, a third year Commerce student of Khalsa College Dev Nagar, was returning home from Tilak Nagar in a Blueline bus when the accident took place.
Ghaziabad, October 01: Angry residents of Loni town in Ghaziabad damaged a police post and blocked traffic on a highway Wednesday after a man died in police custody, officials said. The entire staff of the police post was later suspended.
Police admitted that Din Mohammad, a 45-year-old resident of Loni, was taken into custody for questioning related to a complaint against him for embezzlement of Rs.15,000 in buffalo trading.
Banglore, September 30: A 65-year-old lonely woman was found dead at her residence in Kumaraswamy Layout on Tuesday morning. The neighbours who found a foul smell emanating from her residence informed the police.
Police said that it was initially suspected to be a case of suicide. But preliminary investigations have revealed that the woman died a natural death about three days ago. Leela Prakash, a widow, was staying alone at her residence. Her body was found in a decomposed state by her neighbours. They are on the lookout for her family members.
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Mumbai, September 30: Giving a boost to the prosecution case in the Mumbai terrorist attacks trial, a magistrate told the special court here Wednesday that captured Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab had voluntarily confessed to his crimes in February.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rama V. Sawant-Wagule, in a rare deposition by a top legal functionary, said that Kasab was remorseless when he voluntarily confessed before her Feb 20-21, nearly three months after the Nov 26, 2008 terror attacks.
Jhajjar (Haryana), September 30: A mob pelted stones at outgoing Haryana assembly Speaker Raghubir Singh Kadiyan during an election rally here ahead of next month’s polls, officials said.
Kadiyan, who is contesting the Oct 13 polls on the Congress ticket from Beri constituency, had gone to Dhigal village on Rohtak road.
Thekkady (Kerala), September 30: At least 30 tourists drowned when a boat capsized in a lake in the Periyar wildlife sanctuary of Kerala Wednesday evening, police said. With rescue work continuing, the toll was feared to go up.
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan expressed deep anguish and ordered an inquiry into the accident.
Ghaziabad, September 30: A 17-year-old boy shot dead a 15-year-old girl at her residence here Wednesday and then turned the gun on himself after she had allegedly spurned his advances, police said.
The boy went to the victim’s house in Mahendra Enclave locality, which falls under Kavi Nagar police station, and shot the girl dead with a pistol he stole from his employer. He then shot himself also, a police official said.
New Delhi, September 30: A 21-year-old girl was crushed to death by a Blueline bus in central Delhi Wednesday, police said.
“The accident took place at around 3 p.m. when the victim, Simranjit Kaur, was trying to board the Blueline bus of route number 218 in Dev Nagar area,” said a police officer.
“She fell down from the bus and got crushed under its wheels. She was a resident of Tilak Nagar area of west Delhi. The bus driver has been arrested and further investigations are on,” the police officer added.
Lucknow, September 30: A woman was arrested Wednesday and a search was on for her husband after they allegedly held a six-year-old Dalit girl hostage for the past six months and tortured her, police said.
The matter came to light Sunday when police raided their home on a complaint by the girl’s mother and rescued her.
“We were shocked to see the condition of the girl who had injuries and bruises all over her body. She could hardly walk,” Paresh Pandey, superintendent of police (Trans Gomti), told reporters.
Kerala, September 30: At least 30 tourists drowned when a boat capsized in a lake in the Periyar wildlife sanctuary of Kerala on Wednesday evening, police said. With rescue work continuing, the toll was feared to go up.
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan expressed deep anguish and ordered an inquiry into the accident.
The boat of the state-run Kerala Tourism Development Corporation was carrying at least 76 tourists, mostly from Karnataka and some from abroad. It capsized at around 5.15 p.m. in the artificial lake near Thekkady, about 300 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram.
New Delhi, September 30: Five teenagers, who got stuck midstream in a river in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, had a dramatic rescue after an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter was summoned for help.
Seven children in the age group 10-15 years were caught in a small rivulet midstream in Mehboobnagar while they were trying to cross it as the water level rose suddenly. While two of them swam to safety, the other five did not know how to swim and took refuge on a rock as the water level continued to rise.
Panaji, September 30: Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco was once again arrested and released by the Crime Branch on Wednesday, this time in a case of threatening and criminal intimidation, police said.
Pacheco, a National Congress Party (NCP) legislator, against whom this is the fifth criminal case booked in the last few years, was arrested this morning after he drove to the Crime Branch from the Secretariat, where he had addressed a press conference.
He was released on a personal bond and after he produced a local surety, Superintendent of Police Atmaram Deshpande told reporters.
Lucknow, September 30: The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police Wednesday recovered fake Indian currency notes of more than Rs.20 lakh (two million) from a hideout in the Mainpuri district, police informed.
The recovery was made following the interrogation of one Girijesh Yadav, who was arrested with fake currency worth Rs.5 lakh from Manaknagar locality of Lucknow Tuesday.
Yadav was arrested on a tip-off by one of his accomplices, Arif, arrested earlier last week. The intelligence about Arif was provided by the Mumbai police.
Mumbai, September 30: It’s a story that will send a chill down your spine, a story of a 60-year-old father, who locked, beat and starved his wife and daughters for 7 years.
Francis Gomes, a 60-year-old unemployed man, living in Mumbai along with his wife and 3 daughters had confined his family in the house since 2002.
The father allegedly kept them locked up as he was convinced that his girls would be raped if they even stepped out of home.
New Delhi, September 30: A 23-year-old hotel management student has claimed that she was abducted, gangraped and filmed the act by four men after taking her to three states in about a month, police said on Wednesday.
The girl, a resident of west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, alleged that she was forcibly taken by a man whom she knew for about one-and-half years in his car from Pragati Maidan on August 31. She was in the custody of her alleged kidnappers till September 26.
Midnapore(WB), September 30: Maoists killed three local CPI-M leaders by thrusting rifle barrels in their mouth and pressing the trigger at a village near Lalgarh in West Midnapore district, officials said today.
District Magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam said the Maoists last night abducted local party leaders Anadi Mahato, Radhanath Mahato and Bhakti Mahato from Ranjia village in Salboni and killed them.
Soon after the incident, residents left the village in panic even as police went there to recover the bodies lying on the side of the road.
Patna, September 30: The death toll in Bihar’s twin tragedies, when two boats carrying Durga Puja revellers capsized in the Kosi and Bagmati rivers, has gone up to 41 with 11 more bodies being recovered, officials said Wednesday.
‘Eleven more bodies have been recovered,’ Khagaria District Superintendent of Police Indranand Mishra said. Till Tuesday evening, 21 bodies were recovered from the Bagmati river in Khagaria, about 200 km from here.
Varanasi, September 30: Nearly a decade after four persons were killed in an alleged fake encounter in adjoining Bhadohi district, nine policemen wanted in the case surrendered before the local court which remanded them to judicial custody.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhadohi, Intakhab Alam yesterday rejected the bail application of the nine policemen and sent them to judicial custody for 14 days.
Twenty-one other policemen involved in the fake encounter in Bhadohi on October 17, 1999 are still on the run and the court directed the police to arrest them.
Shimla, September 30: A Himachal Pradesh court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his three children two years ago.
Kangra Additional District and Sessions Judge B.L. Soni Tuesday sentenced Bidhi Chand to rigorous life imprisonment on charges of killing his three children, including his two sons.
According to the prosecution, Chand suspected his children were illegitimate and murdered them in a fit of rage.
A case was registered against him in August 2007. The accused is a resident of Kangra district, 250 km from here, said state counsel B.K. Marwah.
Shimla, September 30: A Himachal Pradesh court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his three children two years ago.
Kangra Additional District and Sessions Judge B.L. Soni Tuesday sentenced Bidhi Chand to rigorous life imprisonment on charges of killing his three children, including his two sons.
According to the prosecution, Chand suspected his children were illegitimate and murdered them in a fit of rage.
A case was registered against him in August 2007. The accused is a resident of Kangra district, 250 km from here, said state counsel B.K. Marwah.
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Tiruchirapalli, September 30: Twenty seven rare bronze statutes of the 16th and 17th centuries were found missing from the government museum here today, police said.
The theft took place at the building, about 20 metres away from a police station. The museum is housed at the historic Darbar Hall belonging to Rani Mangamma of the period.
The rear side door and its lock were found smashed while the iron rods in the window were removed, police said.
Govindaraj, curator of museums, said value of the stolen articles were yet to be ascertained.
Lucknow, September 30: Nearly 125 activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were Tuesday booked for violating prohibitory orders and firing in the air during Dussehra celebrations in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district, police said.
“An FIR has been registered against about 125 RSS activists, who despite the prohibitory orders, Monday assembled in large numbers and fired in the air during ’shastra poojan’ (as part of Dussehra festivities),” additional superintendent of police Jagdeesh Singh told IANS over telephone.
Chandigarh, September 29: An argument over a petty issue led to the murder of a youth followed by incidents of violence in a suburban area of the city Tuesday, police said.
According to the police, Tej Bahadur, who worked in a milk dairy in Indira Colony in Manimajra suburb, was stabbed by Babloo, a resident of the same area, after an argument late Monday night. He was admitted at the government hospital in Sector 16, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Mumbai, September 29: Actor Shiney Ahuja may not be a saint, but he is not a rapist either, his lawyer said in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday pleading for bail.
Arguing before the High Court, after sessions court rejected Shiney’s bail plea in the rape case, his lawyer said that evidence indicated a consensual sexual intercourse between the actor and the complainant girl.
“I (Shiney) am not a saint in a sense, but not a rapist,” said advocate Shirish Gupte, representing Shiney.