Crime and Accident

Bhopal, September 17: Taking serious note of the Dindori police firing incident in which three people were killed, the Madhya Pradesh government has suspended two officials for alleged dereliction of duty, official sources said Thursday.

The incident occurred Tuesday evening in Parsel village of Dindori district, over 350 km from here, when authorities sought to disperse a mob which was blockading a road demanding that an advocate, Narain Padwar, missing for the past two months, be traced.

Katni (MP), September 17: Six persons were killed and 16 others injured when a three-storey house collapsed in Katni, officials said on Thursday.

The dilapidated building at Ishwarpura locality collapsed on Wednesday night, killing the house owner and five others.

The district administration has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5,000 each to next of kin of the deceased and Rs 2,000 each for the injured.

Five of the seriously injured persons have been referred to a Jabalpur Hospital for treatment.

–PTI

Hyderabad, September 17: Two persons, who made a vain bid to rob a nationalised bank at Nagasamudram in the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, were arrested on Tuesday. They were arrested with the help of the images captured by the closed circuit televisions (CCTVs) installed in the bank.

The attempt was made at the Nagasamudram branch of State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) on Sunday night. The thieves made their entry into the bank by removing the AC but could not grab any cash as they were unable to open the lockers or the safe.

New Delhi, September 16:Coming to the rescue of a pregnant minor girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her neighbour here, the Delhi High Court today directed the city government to provide protection to the girl and adequate
medical arrangement for safe delivery of child.

Slamming the Delhi police for delay in tracing her, a Division Bench of Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Manmohan said “due to you negligence the situation happened”.

The 14-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped in October last year and was traced from Jalandhar, Punjab, early this month.

Lucknow, September 16: A domestic help employed with a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer committed suicide by hanging himself in the government bungalow of the official, police said Wednesday.

The incident took place late Tuesday in Amod Kumar’s official residence in Butler Palace colony in the posh Hazratganj locality here. Kumar, special secretary to the government of Uttar Pradesh is in Mussoorie to attend a training programme.

Dehra Dun, September 16:A woman allegedly committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at her residence in Seemadwar area here after her fiance threatened to break the engagement, police today said.

The incident took place yesterday, when Shweta got an SMS from her fiance in which he said that he wanted to break up. After reading the SMS, she got upset and bolted her room from inside.

When she did not come out till evening, family members broke open the door to find her unconscious, police said adding that she was later taken to a hospital, where she died.

Kokrajhar (Assam), September 16:A gun factory, meant for the proscribed NDFB and other insurgent outfits, was busted today in lower Assam’s Chirang district and a huge quantity of gun-making raw material, ammunition and explosives recovered and one man arrested.

On a tip-off, a joint team of the 19 Madras Regiment and police raided Kangrajhara jungle area under Bijni police station limits in the wee hours and apprehended one Kamle Basumatary of Ladangiri along the Indo-Bhutan Border.

Basumatary then led the forces to the place where tools for making countrymade guns were recovered.

Bangalore, September 16: Four people were killed and seven others seriously injured when the arch of a decorated palanquin, in which they were carrying the idol of Lord Ganesha for immersion, came in contact with an overhead high tension wires near Gubbi in Tumkur district, about 100 km from here, today.

Police said several devotees were perched on top of the palanquin which was being pulled by a tractor. The tragedy occurred when the high arch came in contact with the electric wires when the procession was being taken out at dawn today.

Panchkula, September 16: A student was mowed down by a bus following which his colleagues went on a rampage and damaged a state roadways bus here today. Vishal, student of a private engineering college at Barwala, while trying to board the bus fell from it and came under its tyres, police said, adding he died on the spot.

Angry over the accident, students gathered outside a local bus stand and smashing the window panes of the Haryana roadways bus.

—PTI–

Ranchi, September 16: The vigilance department of Jharkhand will seek help from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the assets of a former chief minister as well as other ex-ministers.

The vigilance department has submitted a detailed status report of progress made in investigating the assets of former ministers to the Jharkhand High Court. The report was submitted Tuesday.

The vigilance department has said that some of the accused were not cooperating with the department in the investigation.

Panaji, September 16: The police here are ‘unable’ to trace Goa Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane who has been accused of threatening an activist lawyer.

The police in this state capital, who were asked by a trial court to serve summons to Rane, told the court Tuesday that the health minister “could not be traced at the given address”.

Rane has been accused of threatening to kill lawyer Aires Rodrigues a couple of years ago. He had been directed to present himself at the trial court in Panaji Tuesday.

Ranchi, September 16: A student of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) committed suicide by hanging himself at his college hostel in Jharkhand, police said Wednesday.

Satyendra Kumar Singh, first year MCA student of NIT in Jamshedpur, killed himself Tuesday. His parents reached Jamshedpur early Wednesday. The 22-year-old was a resident of Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.

“His (Satyendra’s) hostel inmates found that the light of his room was on Tuesday night. From the window they saw him hanging from the ceiling fan,” an official of the NIT told IANS.

Ranchi, September 16: A Maoist guerrilla was Wednesday lynched in Jharkhand when he and a colleague went to a village to extort money and threaten the residents, police said.

The incident in Segaisai village in West Singhbhum district, about 300 km from here, took place in the early hours of the morning when two members of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) went there to collect money and threaten the villagers against helping the police, officials said.

London, September 16: A skeleton found at one of the most important but least understood Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts.

University of Nottingham archaeologist Will Bowden who is leading excavations at the buried town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk described the burial as highly unusual.

Washington, September 16: US police have arrested a laboratory technician thought to be the prime suspect in the murder of a female graduate student at Yale university.

Neighbours hung over their railings and cheered as Raymond Clark, 24, dressed in a tight fitting white shirt, was led, handcuffed, from his apartment building Middletown, Connecticut.

As he was driven away police re-entered the apartment to search it for DNA and other physical evidence that would connect him to the murder of Annie Le, who disappeared on September 8.

New Delhi, September 16: The three persons arrested in connection with the recovery of the cell phone of Aarushi Talwar, on their release on Wednesday pleaded innocence and accused the CBI of torturing them and threatening them.

Speaking to Zeenews, the three – Rambhool, his sister Kusum and brother-in-law Vyas – claimed that they have nothing to do with the murder.

Rambhool, from whose possession the phone was found, claimed that he was absolutely innocent. He said the police tortured him and threatened to strip his sister naked if he doesn’t reveal the truth.

Hyderabad, September 16: Suspected Maoists today looted a branch of State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) in Khammam district in broad daylight and decamped with about Rs 10 lakh, police said.

About 40 people stormed into the SBH’s Satyanarayanpuram branch in Cherla mandal of the district at about
-PTI 2.30 pm and took away Rs 10 lakh in cash by threatening the cashier at gun point, Khammam District Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar told PTI over phone.

We suspect that the robbers were Maoists who came from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, he said.

Lucknow, September 15: As many as 42 policemen were suspended here Tuesday for dereliction of duty, officials said.

According to an official spokesman, these included two inspectors, two senior sub-inspectors, four sub-inspectors, eight head constables, and 26 constables.

“Besides gross neglect of their duties during the current Islamic fasting month of Ramzan, some of these policemen were caught indulging in unlawful activities too,” the spokesman told reporters.

–Agencies

Lucknow, September 15: A first-year engineering student committed suicide Sunday by jumping from the fourth floor of her college building here, police said.

Poonam Mishra, was a first-year student of Azad Institute of Engineering and Technology. No suicide note has been recovered, police added.

“The incident took place late Sunday afternoon. Mishra, after attending a couple of classes, went to the fourth floor and jumped from there. We are investigating the matter,” inspector Abhishek Sirohi of Sarojini Nagar police station told IANS.

New Delhi/Srinagar, September 15: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will take over investigations into the Shopian killings in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year, official said Tuesday.

The bodies of two women – Nilofar and Asiya – were found by the side of a local stream near Shopian town in Jammu and Kashmir May 30. The incident had triggered protests across the valley.

Rohtak, September 15: Seven members of a retired teacher’s family were found murdered in their house in Kabulpura village near this Haryana town. Police have registered a case against three people, including two family members.

“We have registered a case against three people (two family members and one family friend), and started our investigation. We have not arrested anyone yet, but are expecting a breakthrough very soon,” Anil Kumar Rao, superintendent of police, Rohtak, told IANS.

Jammu, September 15:An eight-year-old girl was killed, when a tree fell on her during illegal tree cutting in forest belt of Rajouri district today, Police officials said.

The girl, a student of class two, Naziya was returning home from her school, when a tree fell on her during illegal cutting of forest trees in Dhara village of Thanamandi belt of the district today.

Timber smugglers later threw the body of the girl in a gorge to hide her, they said adding that parents and villagers launched a search in the forest belt after girl did not returned home from school.

Srinagar, September 15: Fourteen students were injured today when a school bus, in which they were travelling, skidded off the road and fell into a stream in Anantnag district of South Kashmir, a police spokesman said. The accident took place at Ashmuqam, 80 kms from here, he said, adding the children were rushed to a Public Health Centre.

While 12 students were discharged after first aid, two children have been referred to Anantnag District Hospital for treatment, the spokesman added.

—PTI–

Jaisalmer, September 15: A bomb exploded near Mohangarh town in the district, police said here today.

However, no loss of human life or property was reported in the explosion, they said, adding senior police and administration officials are on the spot, about 60-kms from here.

The incident occurred late last night in a vacant land near Indira Gandhi canal, but police came to know about it this morning.

Meanwhile, Defence officials are investigating the matter.

“We have no idea about such incident and details are being checked out,” Defence PRO Lt Col N N Joshi told PTI.
–PTI

Balasore, September 15: At least six pilgrims, including three women, were killed and three others injured when a truck ran over them in Mirgimundi area, about 15 km from here, police said today. The mishap occurred when around 50 pilgrims had stopped at a roadside eatery around midnight last night for food.

Of them, ten were having their dinner when the driver of the speeding truck lost control and crashed into the eatery killing three persons on the spot. Three others died on their way to hospital.