Srinagar, August 02: Testimony before the district and session judge of Gulshan alias Pepsi, a sexual abuse victim: “When I did not hear anything from state authorities about the release of my husband, I contacted Sabeena and sought her help.
Mumbai, August 01: In a major setback to the investigating authorities, a Mumbai special court Friday ordered dropping of charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against Sadhvi Pragnya Singh, Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit and nine other accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.
The state government though has decided to move to High Court against the verdict.
Srinagar, August 01: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was killed and another injured as separatist guerrillas opened fire at the high-security Regal Chowk area here Saturday morning, police said.
The militants fired from a point blank range in the busy market place, half a kilometre from city centre Lal Chowk. As soon as the gunfire was heard, shoppers and passersby ran for cover.
The area has been cordoned off and a search for the militants is on.
— IANS
Ahmedabad, August 01: Four people were charred to death after the car in which they were travelling caught fire following collision with a truck on the outskirts of the city on Friday, police said.
The incident occurred on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway near Ognaj village when the car after dashing into a moving truck from behind caught fire, they said.
“All the four persons, who were employees of the BMW dealer in Ahmedabad were charred to death,” police said.
Their bodies have been sent to civil hospital for post-mortem, they added.
Kerela, August 01: evening. As and when the body comes back from the hospital, it would be buried in the cemetery at St. Sebastian’s Church,” he said.
Mukalel’s naked body was lying at a distance from his motorbike on which he was returning to Kutrupady near Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada after attending the funeral of another parish priest in the adjacent Charmadi village.
The young priest was recently posted at St. Mary’s Church at Kutrupady after a three-year service at Thotthady near Belthangady.
Ranchi, August 01: A special CBI court on Friday convicted former RJD MP R K Rana and thirteen other fodder scam accused for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 28.26 lakh from the government treasury.
Rana was posted as a veterinary doctor with the Animal Husbandry Department when he was made an accused in the case for illegally withdrawing money from the treasury by producing fake invoices in connivance with other officials and fodder suppliers between January 1, 1992 and 30 June 1992.
Rana had resigned from his government post in 1994 and became MP the following year.
Raipur, July 31: Eight people, including four girls, were arrested here Friday for their alleged involvement in a sex racket, police said.
Acting on a tip off, a police team led by Additional Superintendent of Police, Shashimohan Singh, raided a house in Raipur’s posh Devendra Nagar, and arrested eight people, including four girls, on charges of operating a sex racket.
Police said two girls belonged to Mumbai while two belonged to Mana locality on Raipur’s outskirts.
They were operating a sex racket from a rented house. All the accused are in their early twenties, police said.
Bhubaneswar, July 31: A senior official of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs was found dead with four members of his family in Orissa early Friday. Police said the officer may have shot himself after shooting his family members.
Jagadananda Panda, 54, was an Orissa cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, posted as protector general of emigrants in New Delhi. He had come to his ancestral village Deogaon in Bargarh district, about 390 km from here, on leave a few days ago.
London, July 31: A former music teacher has admitted giving his terminally ill father a gun so he could commit suicide in a busy hospital.
Guy Button, 30, smuggled a Second World War Walther PPK handgun and 19 rounds of ammunition into Northampton General Hospital last October, where his father, Ian Button, shot himself in view of other patients on a busy ward. Northampton Crown Court heard the 63-year-old had just been told he had terminal lung disease.
Hyderabad: Two Indian Air Force pilots were killed when a trainee aircraft crashed in Andhra Pradesh’s Medak district.
The mishap took place when the HPT-32 training aircraft belonging to Air Force Academy Dundigal crashed in an open ground at Annaram village of Jinnaram Mandal near the academy, police said.
The aircraft which took off from the Dundigal academy at 9 am crashed while landing at the academy at about 9.45 am.
Two IAF pilots Ritin Jain and Chaturvedi were killed on the spot.
However, the exact cause of the crash is yet to be known.
Bargarh (Orissa), July 31: A senior IAS officer and four of his family members were found dead with bullet wounds and his son was critically injured in their house in the district early today.
The bodies of Jagadananda Panda, 50, an Orissa cadre officer now on Central deputation, and those of his wife, father and two sisters were found with bullet injuries in Deogaon, about six kms from here, Superintendent of Police Ashok Mishra said.
Bhubaneswar, July 31: A senior official of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs was found dead along with four members of his family in Orissa’s Bargarh district early Friday, police said.
Jagadananda Panda, 54, was an Orissa cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, posted as protector general of emigrants in New Delhi. He had come to his village some days ago on holiday.
The bureaucrat was found dead along with his wife, father and two sisters. All of them had suffered bullet injuries, District Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Biswal told IANS.
New Delhi, July 30: The sensational kidnapping and murder of a 16-year-old boy has left several questions about the probe that a top Delhi Police official could not answer.
Investigating officers, for example, were not even aware whether victim Ribhu’s father Sanjay Chawla had paid the ransom amount till the death of the child.
‘The family only revealed only some information to us,’ Joint Commissioner of Police Ajai Kashyap told reporters here Thursday when asked about ransom.
Lucknow, July 30: The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT – A) administration Thursday said it will soon withdraw the fine and punishment on 19 senior girl students after they apologized for ragging junior girls.
On Tuesday, 19 B. Tech final year girl students were fined for ragging newly admitted girls at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Allahabad.
Besides a fine of Rs.50,000 each, the institute also withdrew the scholarship of the girls expelled from the hostel after the matter came to light.
Chandigarh, July 30: Parents of six students of a government school here Thursday accused teachers of the school of allowing adult education students forcibly cut the hair of their wards.
Taking a serious note of the issue, officials of the Chandigarh education department said they would look into the case and take action against the guilty.
New Delhi, July 30: A 24-year-old woman was Thursday found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented house in south Delhi, police said.
Veerpal Kaur alias Nikki was found dead in her rented fourth floor accommodation in Kalkaji area after police broke open the doors, locked from outside.
The body, reportedly found semi-nude, has been sent for an autopsy.
Police said Kaur hailed from Moga in Punjab and worked as assistant project manager in an IT company in Okhla.
Hyderabad, July 30: Everytime Saroja talked to her UK-based son G Arvind Kumar, she would recall the string of attacks on Indians, particularly Hyderabadis, in Australia, and plead with him to return home.
Arvind would evade an answer wondering what would he do in Hyderabad. His reluctance proved fatal. The 28-year-old died in a road accident in the UK. Arvind, a manager at a leading super market in Reading, was driving to his place of work when another car rammed into his vehicle killing him on the spot.
Columbia, July 30: A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday.
But this wasn’t the first time Rodell Vereen has been charged with buggery. He pleaded guilty last year to having sex with the same horse after owner Barbara Kenley found him in the same stable and was sentenced to probation and placed on the state’s sex offender list.
New Delhi, July 30: At least four persons were arrested by the Delhi Police in the kidnapping and murder of a student.
The police has also recovered the car which was allegedly used for abduction.
The arrested youths were identified as Rishi, Manish, Gaurav and Rocky. They were friends of Ribhu. They were friends of Ribhu, police said.
Ribhu Chawla, a class XIth student of KR Mangalam World School in Vikaspuri, was abducted on July 28.
The body of 16-year-old boy was found on a plot in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Wednesday.
Mumbai, July 30: Place unauthorised cable wires across high-voltage overhead cable structures, which can disrupt train service and harm commuters
Apart from keeping a check on troublesome commuters who cross tracks or travel atop boggies, Central Railway authorities have a high-tension job at hand to stop Internet service providers and cable operators who put unauthorised wires across overhead cable (OHE) structures.
Ahmedabad, July 30: The Vadodara rural police have suspended eight of its officials from the Kwant police station, where a jawan of the Border Security Force (BSF), Noora Rathwa, was allegedly killed on July 17.
The eight have been identified as R S Chauhan (sub-inspector), Amrut Rathwa, Ranchhod Govindbhai, Vegji Chakubhai, Arvind Dhanka, Arjun Sanghada, Ambalal Dholabhai and Suresh Mathurbhai (all constables).
According to the police, all of them have gone underground.
Kolkata, July 30: Two Trinamool Congress leaders, Mantu Master and Shaikh Zafarulla, and a CPM supporter Shaikh Qutubuddin were killed and four others injured in a clash at Notungram in Burdwan district on Wednesday.
The area has been witnessing a bloody turf war between the parties especially after the ruling Left’s debacle in Lok Sabha elections.
The incident took place on Wednesday when a group of 40-50 people, allegedly CPM supporters, attacked Mantu — headmaster of a primary school — and Zafarullah, who was going to Mantu’s school.
New Delhi, July 30: The Nehru Nagar police on Wednesday arrested two youths from a slum in Kurla for stealing cables worth Rs 72,000 from a construction site. The police have registered a case of robbery against the duo.
“On Tuesday night, the accused Nitin Dhumal (21) and Sohail Kaneriwala (19), both residents of Chembur were passing the site where the construction of a telephone tower was in progress at Vatsalabai Naik Nagar in Kurla.
New Delhi, July 30: A teenage student was found murdered in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Wednesday morning, a day after he was reported kidnapped for ransom from near his West Delhi house. The police said Ribbu Chawla was killed even though his father paid Rs 20 lakh — a third of their Rs 60-lakh demand — as ransom, as demanded by the abductors, late Tuesday night.
Ghaziabad, July 29: A criminal was gunned down here Wednesday in a shootout in which six police officers were injured, police said.
When police teams were checking vehicles along the National Highway 24, three men refused to stop their motor-cycles and opened fire at police, circle officer R.K. Gautam said.
Station officer D.C. Tiwari and two constable sustained bullet injuries in the firing, which prompted retaliatory firing from police, he said.