Crime and Accident

Jhajjar (Haryana), August 09:Another suspected ‘honour killing’ was reported in Haryana’s Jhajjar district Sunday, with the bodies of a man and a minor girl who went missing from their homes some days ago found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of their village.

“At this point of time we cannot conclude whether it was suicide or murder. But after studying the background of the case and seeing the circumstances, we cannot rule out the possibility of ‘honour killing’,” district police chief Saurabh Singh told IANS.

New Delhi, August 09: Veteran journalist and former editor of The Statesman D.P. Kumar died of a massive cardiac arrest in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, at 5 p.m. Sunday, his family members said.
“Debu” to his friends, Kumar was 79 and is survived by his wife Bindi, two daughters Shalini and Himani and son Siddharth, who is also a journalist working with the German news agency DPA.

The venue for the last rights was being decided.

–IANS

New York, August 09: Nine people were feared killed Saturday after a helicopter carrying Italian tourists collided with a light plane over New York’s Hudson River.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said two deaths were confirmed and that there was almost no hope of finding survivors after the accident, which took place in full view of horrified residents.

The helicopter was carrying five Italian tourists and a pilot. Two passengers, including one child, and a pilot were aboard the single-propeller plane, the mayor said.

Srinagar, August 09: Two persons, including a CRPF jawan, were injured in a grenade attack by militants on a security picket in an old city of Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said today. CRPF constable Anu Kumar and selection grade constable of Fire services Fayaz Ahmad were hit by splinters when a grenade exploded at Habba Kadal locality last night, he said.

Bhuvneshwar, August 09: A man was arrested in Cuttack district of Orissa for branding his two children with a hot electric iron as punishment for not studying, police said Sunday.

Pratap Das, 35, resident of Gopinathpur village in Cuttack, about 45 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly took the iron and burnt his children – Dipali, 9, and Jagannath, 8,- Saturday after he found them playing outside the house.

The children have burn injuries on their back.

Uttarakhand, August 09: At least forty-six people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.

Three villages in the hilly Pithoragarh district were swept away in the landslide after a cloudburst on Saturday, local police official M.S. Sathnam said.

Seventeen bodies have so far been recovered, he said, with rescue efforts on Saturday by local emergency personnel and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police hampered by bad weather.

“It has stopped raining now, and rescue work is underway in full swing,” he said.

—-Agencies

Melbourne, August 09: An Indian student was killed and six Indians were injured Sunday when a mini bus in which they were travelling veered off a road on the way to the Australian resort town of Mount Buller.

The man who died at the scene was a 22-year-old who was in Australia on an Indian student visa, The Herald Sun quoted investigators as saying. Mount Buller is over 230 km from here.

There were 10 people in the Toyota Hi-Ace when it slid down a steep embankment after a sweeping right turn. The van slammed into a tree.

Mumbai, August 09: Ateeq Ahmed is on the wanted list of both the Shivaji Nagar, as well as the Govandi Police Station, yet both these precincts have been unable to arrest the man despite him moving around freely in their jurisdiction.

Interestingly, Ahmed – who nurses strong political ambitions – was allegedly present at a Samajwadi Party (SP) function on August 6, which was presided by leader Abu Asim Azmi in Govandi.

Srinagar, August 08: Suspected guerrillas hurled a grenade at a paramilitary picket here Saturday evening, injuring two troopers and two civilians, police said.

The grenade was tossed at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bunker in Habba Kadal area.

‘The grenade exploded near the bunker injuring two CRPF troopers and two civilians. The injured were taken to a hospital,’ a police officer said.

The area was searched but no one was arrested. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.

Chhattisgarh, August 09: The incident took place in Manpur area of western Rajnandgaon district, some 175 km from state capital Raipur.

Maoists killed a local contractor named Deepak and a civilian, Ramswaroop, on suspicion that they were police informers, F.J. Tigga, a police official from Manpur, told IANS.

Rebels killed 29 policemen, including a district superintendent of police, in meticulously planned attacks in Manpur area July 12.

—-Agencies

Bhubaneswar, August 08: Orissa’s Deputy Director of Mines (Safety) K.K. Sharma was Saturday found dead in the guest house of the Mahanadi Coalfields in the state’s Brajrajnagar district. Police suspect he committed suicide.
Sharma’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of the IB Valley guest house of the Mahanadi Coalfields, where he had come Friday for an inspection.

“We suspect he committed suicide,” Brajrajnagar superintendent of police Kabita Jalan said.

—IANS

Kolkata, August 08: Police baton charged violent Trinamool Youth Congress supporters at Burdwan district’s troubled Mongolkote area Saturday, prompting party chief Mamata Banerjee’s to announce a rally at the same spot Tuesday.
The Trinamool workers hurled stones and bricks at police and later set afire a police vehicle.

Trouble began after a Trinamool Youth Congress meeting when party supporters tried to move towards Dhanyarukhi village, where the government had clamped prohibitory orders banning the assembly of more than four people.

Shimla, August 08: The Himachal Pradesh Police have identified the industrialists referred to in a CD on the basis of which corruption cases have been registered against Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh, an official said Saturday.
“We have identified the industrialists. They will be questioned soon,” Director General of Police (Vigilance) D.S. Manhas told IANS.

New Delhi, August 08: A 25-year-old man was killed and five others were injured when a speeding cab of a call-centre overturned in south Delhi in the wee hours today.

The victim is identified as Satish Kumar who was working as a security guard with the call centre.

The incident took place near Moti Bagh flyover around4 am Saturday when Kumar was on way to Ghaziabad to escort the employees.

The deceased was sitting in the front and died on the spot.

The employees in the cab told police that the driverwas over speeding and did not stop despite repeated warnings.

Dehradun, August 08: At least 15 people were killed and 50 missing Saturday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Uttarakhand, an official said.

The landslide occurred in Pithoragarh district, about 450 km from here.

“So far we have taken out 15 bodies from Bala village,” an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) official told IANS.

The hilly region was lashed by downpour since Friday evening.

Rescue workers were searching 50 people missing in the landslide.

At least 46 families were affected by the tragedy, the official said.IANS

Bhubaneswar, August 08: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team Saturday arrested two officers of the Indian Bureau of Mines on bribery charges in Orissa’s Angul district, officials said.

A CBI team from Bhubaneswar raided the guest house of Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd (MCL) at Talcher in Angul district and arrested two officers of the joint coal stock measurement team. The CBI team also seized Rs.4.23 lakh from the room.

“On specific information we raided the room in the guest house of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd,” Deputy Superintendent of Police (CBI) P.K. Panigrahi said.

Dhaka, August 08: Over 6,041 die from snake bites every year in Bangladesh against a global statistics of some 150,000 deaths, a report said in Dhaka on Saturday quoting a nationwide survey carried out by the directorate general of health.

At least 623 people in every 100,000 population or nearly six lakh people in the country are bitten by snakes every year, while the previous reports suggested that only 2,000 died every year while some 10,000 were exposed to snakebites, Prothom Alo newspaper said citing the report.

Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand), August 08: At least eight people were killed and 24 others trapped in debris after a cloud burst washed away eight houses in Mushiyari block in the district early on Saturday.

The cloud burst followed heavy rains in Lar and Jhegla villages situated on the hill tops, official sources said.

While eight bodies have been recovered, chances of survival of the 24 people trapped in the debris were remote as they have been under the rubble for more than six hours, they said.

Pithoragarh, August 08: At least eight people were killed and 24 others trapped in debris after a cloud burst washed away eight houses in Mushiyari block in the district early on Saturday.

The cloud burst followed heavy rains in Lar and Jhegla villages situated on the hill tops, official sources said.

While eight bodies have been recovered, chances of survival of the 24 people trapped in the debris were remote as they have been under the rubble for more than six hours, they said.

Pune, August 08: With the arrest of five persons, the Crime Branch of Pune police on Friday claimed to have busted a milk adulteration racket in the city operating from five small rooms in Kondhwa.

Police said the five persons were selling about 5,000 litres of adulterated milk daily for last six months in 15 residential colonies of Kondhwa. Of this, about 700 litres of the milk was supplied to the Corinthian club everyday.

Noida, August 07: Three people died and one was injured when a tractor trolley ran over a cycle rickshaw here Friday, police said.
The accident occurred Friday evening on the Noida-Dadri road under Phase II police station of Noida.

“The tractor trolley was being driven by the helper of the vehicle, who lost control over the tractor trolley and rammed into a cycle rickshaw. Three people in the rickshaw were killed and one was injured,” Superintendent of Police A.K. Tripathi said.

Hyderabad, August 07: A final year student of an engineering college was arrested and remanded to 14-days judicial custody by a local court here for harassing a married woman lecturer of the college today.

On a complaint by the lecturer, the police arrested the accused Nitish Kumar and produced him in the court, police said.

Police registered a case against the accused student about six months back. The lecturer subsequently withdrew the case with the intention of not spoiling the student’s future.

Bhubaneswar, August 07:A criminal case has been registered against a state cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer for allegedly torturing his wife for dowry in Nayagarh district of Orissa, police said Friday.

Meenal Agarwal, 24, in her complaint at a police station in Nayagarh, 87 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, alleged that her husband Jai Narayan Pankaj tortured her physically and mentally for dowry.

The mother of a one-year-old child also alleged in her complaint filed on Thursday that her parents gave Rs.40 lakh cash as dowry during their marriage about two years ago.

Ludhiana, August 07: Two youths waylaid and assaulted a motorcycle-borne man and allegedly molested the female pillion rider on the busy Mohali-Kharar stretch on Wednesday evening when the two were on their way to Chandigarh.

In his complaint to the police, Sandeep Singh, in his mid-20s, said around 6 pm on Wednesday when he was riding to Chandigarh with Prabhjot Kaur, a resident of Ludhiana, the youths parked motorcycles and blocked their way.

Raipur, August 07: Nearly 40 students of a Chhattisgarh government school fell ill on Thursday after they ate a mid-day meal into which a lizard had fallen, an official said.

The incident took place at Abhanpur block in Raipur district, some 30 km from here.

The official said some 38 of the 156 students up to Class 5 of the Singarbhata village government primary school started vomiting after eating the lunch.