Crime and Accident

Rajkot, July 23 (PTI) Courier parcels with silver and gold worth nearly Rs one crore were allegedly looted at gunpoint today by masked robbers in a bus in Mithuna town near here, police said.

Four employees of a courier company were travelling in a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation bus to Madvi town of Kutch district carrying parcels with silver and gold worth about Rs one crore.

The robbers, who had boarded the bus in Rajkot, threatened and thrashed the employees at gun-point and snatched away the parcels, they said.

Kolkata, July 23: An Delhi-based MCA student has been arrested for allegedly replicating the website of Railway Recruitment Board and was sent to police custody till August three by a local court today. Suprakash Singh was arrested yesterday from the national capital and brought to Kolkata on transit remand, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department), Jawed Shamim, said.

The official website was www.rrbkolkata.

org but the accused allegedly created another website with the address www.railwayrecruitmentboard.

Imphal, July 23: Two people, including a militant, were killed and another woman injured in an encounter between militants and police in the state capital on Thursday morning.

The gunfight took place in a shopping complex, barely 200 metres away from Manipur Assembly and run by women in the heart of the city around 10.30 am.

While a militant was shot dead, two women were also caught in the crossfire. One of them later died.

The police cordoned the marketplace and were combing the area in search of more militants.

–PTI

Agartala, July 23: A sleeping woman and her two daughters were killed when a loaded truck rammed into their road-side house in Tripura, police said Thursday.

‘Soma Saha, 35, and her two young daughters died on the spot Wednesday night when a loaded truck rammed into their residence where the victims were sleeping at Amtali, located on the outskirts of Agartala,’ said Deputy Inspector General of Police Nepal Das.

‘The accident took place due to rash and negligent driving of the truck driver, who fled immediately after the accident,’ Das told reporters.

Imphal, July 23: Two persons, including a militant, were killed and another woman was injured on Thursday morning in a gunfight between militants and police commandos in the state capital, official sources said.

Sources said the encounter took place at a market run by women in the heart of the city at 10.30 am.

During the encounter a militant was shot dead. A woman was killed and another injured in the cross firing.

The police cordoned the market and combing operations were going on. Further details were awaited, sources added.

–PTI

Pudukkottai, July 23: Police arrested a 36-year old man and solved a mystery behind the serial murder cases that took place in Pudukkottai, Sivaganga, Dindigul and Tiruchirapalli districts of Tamil Nadu in recent months, in which eight women were murdered.

Talking to newspersons here yesterday, Inspector General of Police(Central Region) Karan Sinha said the modus-operandi of the accused Kupusamy of Konnayampatti in the district, was to visit isolated areas, rape the victims and strangulate them death.

Junagadh, 23: hHamir Vadher (16), a student of class X, died on the spot when the roof-top he had climbed on to witness the procession of the newly elected councillors collapsed on Tuesday evening.

Sources said the roof-top was made of asbestos and a broken asbestos sheet hit the boy’s neck. The boy was rushed to the Junagadh Civil Hospital where he died before the treatment can be started.

Vadher, a resident of Una town, studied in New best School in the city and stayed in a hostel located in Joshipura area.

–Agencies

Kolkata, July 23: The postmortem report of Sambhu Das (23), who was found hanging from the ventilator grille at the Alipore police station lock-up on Sunday, states that the youth had committed suicide. DC (Headquarters) Jawed Shamim said, “His lungs showed he was suffering from tuberculosis and examination of stomach contents showed no presence of harmful substances.”

Kolkata, July 23: Security forces today recovered the bullet-ridden body of a CPM cadre who had gone missing the previous evening from his village in Lalgarh, taking the number of CPM activists killed over the last two weeks to eight.

Villagers found the body of Phagu Baske (46) in Madhupur in Belpahari police station area. Phagu was a local branch committee leader of the CPM. Later, security forces retrieved his body and sent it for postmortem.

Chandigarh, July 23: In an incident of corporal punishment, a teacher at St. John’s High School allegedly slapped a Class III student several times, pulled his hair and made “fun” of him in front of the class. Then she allegedly made the class clap, for the boy was “crying like a girl”.

The incident came to light when the boy, Akshay Singh, refused to go to the school and told his parents that he was slapped by the teacher when he could not recall the “table of seven”.

The parents alleged the teacher, Reema, slapped him “five-six times”.

New Delhi, July 23: A labourer was crushed to death when a steel beam being lifted by a crane fell on him at a Metro construction site in Punjabi Bagh early Wednesday morning.

Blaming the contractor for the mishap, DMRC managing director E Sreedharan said, “Action will be taken against the contractor (IDEB-SUCG JV) for the irresponsibility.”

Today’s mishap comes 10 days after the accident at Zamrudpur that left six workers dead and 15 injured. Five others were injured during debris clearing at the site the following day.

New Delhi, July 23: A 32-year-old woman was today raped at knife-point allegedly by her neighbour in south-west Delhi, police said.

The victim alleged that she was alone at her residence in Dwarka when Laxman, the accused, entered the house and raped her at knife-point, police said.

The victim’s husband was away at work when the incident took place.

Laxman, a contractor, left the house after the incident and threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed about it to anybody.

Narwana (Haryana), July 23: In a case of so-called honour killing in a village in Haryana, a 21-year-old man who had married against the wishes of the community has been beaten to death by residents of his wife’s village, police said here Thursday.

Ravinder was beaten to death by residents of Singhwal village near this town of Haryana’s Jind district, 160 km from Chandigarh, when he had gone to the village to bring back his wife Sonia Wednesday.

New Delhi, July 22: Four labourers were burnt to death Wednesday when the footwear factory they worked in was gutted in west Delhi, police said.

Two men were working and five were sleeping in the factory in Sultanpur area at 4.30 a.m. when the building caught fire. At least 12 fire tenders reached the spot and the flames were doused within two hours, an official said.

Barcelona, July 22:Twenty-nine people were injured in a triple collision involving a bus, a taxi and a private car Wednesday in Spain’s second-largest city Barcelona, officials said.

Nineteen of the victims were taken to hospital. The accident forced police to close traffic to a part of the city centre. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

—Agencies

New Delhi, July 22: Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday said that 11 cases of sexual harassment have been reported in the armed forces in last five years.

“During the last five years, 11 cases relating to sexual harassment have been reported in the armed forces,” Antony said while replying to a query in Rajya Sabha.

He said that necessary investigations have been instituted in all these cases and punishments have been awarded wherever charges have been proved.

New Delhi, July 22: A 22-year-old labourer was crushed to death under a falling steel beam at a Delhi Metro construction site in west Delhi Wednesday, after six people were killed and 21 were injured in two accidents at Metro sites within last 10 days.
The accident took place at the under-construction Ashok Park Metro station in west Delhi at about 5.45 a.m. The station is part of the upcoming Inderlok-Mundka line.

According to Delhi Metro officials, Vicky Singh, a construction worker, was guiding a crane when he was hit by the steel beam that was being lifted by the crane.

New Delhi, July 22: A 22-year-old labourer was crushed to death under a falling steel beam at a Delhi Metro construction site in west Delhi Wednesday, after six people were killed and 21 were injured in two accidents at Metro sites within last 10 days.
The accident took place at the under-construction Ashok Park Metro station in west Delhi at about 5.45 a.m. The station is part of the upcoming Inderlok-Mundka line.

According to Delhi Metro officials, Vicky Singh, a construction worker, was guiding a crane when he was hit by the steel beam that was being lifted by the crane.

Ghaziabad, July 22: In near identical incidents, a lawyer and a physio-therapist were shot at by motorcycle borne assailants here Wednesday, police said. Both victims are reported to be in critical condition.
Lawyer Jagdish Chauhan, 36, resident of Rajendra Nagar was shot at by three motorcycle riding assailants while he was driving in his car to the court Wednesday morning, police said.

New Delhi, July 22: The crash of an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30 combat jet in Rajasthan this April, the first accident involving the plane since it was inducted 12 years ago, was caused by the failure of its sophisticated fly-by-wire system, parliament was informed Wednesday.
“The preliminary investigation into the accident reveal that the reason for the crash… is likely failure of the fly-by-wire system,” Defence Minister A.K. Antony said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

Srinagar, July 22: Timely action by firemen today prevented fire from spreading in Central Jail here, which broke out early this morning engulfing a two storied building and a tin-shed housing a diesel generator.

Around 10 a.m., fire was noticed in the building in the heavily guarded jail due to eletric short circuit. Firemen doused the flames and prevented it from spreading to adjacent buildings, a fire and emergency service spokesman told.

He said the tin shed housing the 125 KV diesel generator was gutted.

Chandigarh, July 22: Forced to leave their village in Haryana for marrying their son Ravinder Singh Gehlout to a girl from the same clan, his family Wednesday approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court to seek police protection, a lawyer said.
“We have filed a writ in the high court seeking police protection for the Gehlout family and immediate action against the accused. It is a simple case of police laxity as, despite filing three FIRs, no arrest has been made so far,” Ravinder Singh Malik, counsel of the family, told IANS Wednesday.

Wuerzburg, July 22: An HIV-positive German man previously jailed for having unprotected sex with seven women had his prison term extended on Wednesday in a new case involving three further women, one of them a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

The man, 41, had neither told the women of his HIV infection nor did he use a condom, the court was told. None of the women were infected by him.

The man had previously been convicted and sentenced to five and one-half years in early 2007, but a new trial was called when three further cases came to light.

London, July 22: A pregnant mother killed two of her children and tried to murder her six-month-old baby while suffering from severe post-natal depression, a court heard.

Sasikala Navaneethan, 37, gave them alcohol and lay them side by side in age order before slitting their throats.

She dialled 999 after also trying to kill herself by slashing her wrists and drinking rat poison.

The Sri Lankan-born housewife told police she was often beaten by her husband Navarajah, 39, and believed he was having affairs with two other women.

Amritsar, July 22: Two air-conditioned coaches of the Golden Temple express train were badly damaged Wednesday after they caught fire, railway officials said here.

The coaches, which did not have any passengers, were at the Amritsar railway station when the incident took place. There was no human casualty.

Railway police officials said the cause of the fire was still unknown and they were investigating the matter.

The train runs between Amritsar and Mumbai.
–IANS