Crime

Thiruvananthapuram, April 09: Sunil Lawrence, the man arrested by the police in connection with the crude bomb found on a Kingfisher flight last month, has committed suicide, claimed reports on Friday.

As per report, the suicide note left by Lawrence, who worked as a cleaner at the Thiruvananthapuram airport, said that he decided to end his life since he could not prove his innocence.

Lawrence was disappointed over losing a job opportunity in the Middle East because of his interrogation and detention in connection with the case.

Pune, April 09: Two Army jawans were on Friday arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old girl in Sangvi area near here, police said.

The two jawans allegedly raped the girl on Wednesday night at Swaraj garden after beating up her lover.

The couple had gone for a ride on a motorcycle but had to dismount when they ran out of petrol. The two accused then scared away the youth and took the girl to the adjacent open ground where they allegedly committed the crime, they said.

Lucknow, April 09: Harassed mentally and physically by her in-laws after she gave birth to a third daughter, a 35-year-old woman in an Uttar Pradesh village killed her three children by throwing them into well before attempting suicide, police said today.

Ballia (UP), April 09 A Block Development Officer (BDO) was today arrested by a vigilance department team for allegedly accepting a bribe from a contractor here.

On a complaint of contractor Santosh, the vigilance team raided the house of B N Misra, BDO of Belhari Kshetra panchayat, and arrested him for accepting the bribe of Rs 15,000, officials said.

District Magistrate Sainthal Pandiyan said that the arrested BDO would be suspended soon.

—–PTI

Muzaffarnagar, April 09: A case has been registered against a school teacher, who had eloped with a class 12 girl student in Bhorakhurd village of the district, police said today.

Pradeep Kumar eloped with the student a week ago following which the girl’s family lodged a complaint against him and his accomplice Vinod for abducting the victim.

The case was registered yesterday in which Kumar was charged with abducting the victim, police said.

—Agencies

New Delhi, April 09: Three private buses parked in north Delhi’s Timarpur area caught fire early Friday, a fire official said. No one was injured in the incident.

A Delhi fire service official said a call was received at 6.40 a.m. Three fire tenders rushed to the spot immediately and the fire was doused about an hour later, he said.

“We are investigating the cause of the fire,” the official added.

—Agencies

Bhubaneswar, April 09: Four people, including two women, were killed and 15 injured when a mini truck carrying a marriage party met with an accident in Orissa’s Sundergarh district Friday, police said.

The mishap occurred when the mini truck, carrying a marriage party from Banai area of the district, collided with an oncoming speeding truck at the by-pass road in Sundergarh.

‘Three people of the marriage party were killed on the spot and one died while being taken to hospital,’ Deepak Kumar, district superintendent of police of Sundergarh, told IANS.

Guwahati, April 09: One person was killed and at least 16 wounded, three of them critically, when a cooking gas cylinder exploded Friday during a wedding celebration in Assam.

A police spokesperson said the cylinder exploded at Rupnagar area in Assam’s main city of Guwahati.

‘The house where the cylinder exploded was crammed with people as there was a wedding ritual that was to take place later in the day,’ a police officer said.

A woman college teacher, a relative of the groom, was killed in the explosion.

Muzaffarnagar, April 09: A case has been registered against a school teacher, who had eloped with a class 12 girl student in Bhorakhurd village of the district, police said today.

Pradeep Kumar eloped with the student a week ago following which the girl”s family lodged a complaint against him and his accomplice Vinod for abducting the victim.

The case was registered yesterday in which Kumar was charged with abducting the victim, police said.

—–PTI

New Delhi, April 09: A 62- YEAR- OLD man survived a high- speed car crash but not the insensitive Delhi Police, who let him bleed to death in east Delhi on Thursday.

Om Dutt Chauhan, who was taking his morning walk, was hit by a BMW car near the Akshardham temple.

Within minutes, a PCR ( police control room) vehicle reached the spot.

But instead of rushing Chauhan to the hospital, the police left the spot with the man driving the car and two other men travelling with him.

The old man was left on the road for more than an hour and died because of excessive bleeding.

Pune, April 09: Eight persons have been killed and 12 others injured in two separate road accidents near Pune, police said on Wednesday.

Four persons died and eight were injured when their car rammed into a sand-laden truck near Yavat on Pune-Solapur highway last night.

The victims, who hailed from the city, were on their way to the temple town of Tuljapur when the mishap occurred, they said.

In another accident, a car collided with a truck at Wakad near here on the Mumbai-Bangalore Highway killing four of its occupants and injuring four others, police said.

—Agencies

Haflong (Assam), April 09: At least five students were injured when police fired on demonstrators demanding bifurcation of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous council here today.

The demonstrators, under the banner of N C Hills Indigenous Students” Forum, were demonstrating at the bus stand demanding bifurcation of the council into two districts for the Dimasa and non-Dimasa tribes of Jemi, Hmar and Kuki.

As the students refused to vacate the area, police first used batons and then opened fire at 8.45 am. The injured students have been admitted to Haflong civil hospital.

—-PTI

Sasaram, April 09: Armed Maoists shot dead a farmer, his son and blasted their house at Konarkhurd in Bihar’s Rohtas district, the police said on Friday.

“More than a hundred armed Maoists raided the house of Dadan Singh, pulled the family members out and triggered dynamite blasts to blow up the house at Konarkhurd in Chenari police station late last night,” Deputy Superintendent of Police R. K. Mal said.

They gunned down Singh and his son Bishambhar Singh, he said.

A combing operation has been launched to catch the Maoist guerrillas, he said.

Vadodara (Guj), April 09: Three crude bombs exploded in an under-construction building in Manjalpur area here today triggering panic in the locality, police said.

The explosions took place around 0330 hours this morning in the building located in Darbar Chokdi, Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana told PTI.

There were no casualties in the incident, police said.

Another crude bomb recovered from the site has been defused and Forensic Science Lab (FSL) experts are examining it, Asthana said, adding further investigations are on.

Lucknow, April 09: In a bid to get a job, a youth gave ‘supari’ (contract killing) to two hardened criminals for eliminating his father in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli district.

New delhi,April 09 :THE Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to have a relook at its decision to direct a CBI probe into the killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat.

A bench comprising Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Cyriac Joseph also dismissed a petition by IPS officer Geeta Johri — the leader of the Gujarat Police team conducting the probe — who wanted the court to expunge certain adverse remarks made against her in the judgment.

Chandigarh, April 08: Police have booked cases against unknown assailants who attacked a student leader and his family members outside their house here Wednesday night, said an official here Thursday.

According to police, some miscreants who had come in four luxury cars, including Innova, Swift and Optra, fired at least a dozen rounds at Uday Singh Wirrang, his father Bhupinder Singh and his cousin Gurbaz Singh outside their house in Sector 11.

Uday is president of the Panjab University Students’ Union (PUSU) of Panjab University (PU) here.

Mumbai, April 08: Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil Thursday denied that the 2008 Malegaon blast accused had hatched a conspiracy to eliminate the then Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh general secretary Mohan Bhagwat, who now heads the organisation.

However, Patil said that the accused of the Malegaon blast, during some conversations – tapes of which the police have procured – had spoken about “a chemical powder” which could kill a person in two-three days if applied to his footwear.

New Delhi, April 08: A trader and two of his friends were arrested in connection with a robbery at an exporter’s house in the national capital, police said today.

Trader Mohmaad Shakir (30) had allegedly planned the robbery to get back at Vijay Gupta, who had cancelled an order of handicrafts to be supplied by Shakir and defaulted in paying his dues, a senior police official said.

Lucknow, April 08: The Uttar Pradesh government today ordered a judicial probe into clash between lawyers and police at Kanpur court, which left many injured, an official spokesman said here.

“The state government has decided to order a judicial probe into yesterday’s incident in which lawyers clashed with police inside court premises in Kanpur,” he said.

The decision came after lawyers boycotted work at the court demanding a judicial inquiry into the incident.

Earlier a magisterial probe into the clash was ordered by the government.

Midnapore, April 08: In the biggest haul since anti- Maoist operations began last June, the joint forces have seized a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives in West Midnapore district and police said the exercise will continue till the entire area is sanitised.

The arms and explosives were seized from Mathurapur under Salboni police station, and Paluibani and Jharnadiha under Binpur police station, West Midnapore Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma said.

Lucknow, April 08: Three girls, kidnapped from south district region of Sikkim, were rescued from Maharajganj district in a joint operation by Sikkim and Uttar Pradesh police, a senior officer said today.

Ama Lam Sherpa, Doma Lepcha and Kajal Gupta were recovered from the house of a dance party operator in Bari village in Maharajganj in a joint operation by Sikkim and Gorakhpur police, Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal told reporters here.

He said the operator of the dance party Rajendra Gupta was absconding.

Amethi, April 08: A house owner was killed, 15 persons were injured and five others trapped in a building collapse following a cylinder explosion in Pidari village of the district today, police said. The cylinder was kept on the first floor of the house when it exploded, Gauriganj police Inspector Deshraj Singh said.

While the house owner was killed on the spot, 15 injured were rushed to Sanjay Gandhi hospital here, Singh said. Five people are still trapped in the debris and machines have been deployed to track them.

—PTI–

Allahabad, April 08: Advocates of the district court abstained from work here today in protest against yesterday’s alleged lathicharge on lawyers in Kanpur.

The advocates squatted on the gate of the kutchery building, blocking entry inside the premises and traffic on the adjoining road where they raised slogans against Kanpur police and Uttar Pradesh government for yesterday’s incident in which lawyers were allegedly beaten up by police personnel.

New Delhi, April 08: A 40-year-old Manipuri woman was arrested in the national capital for allegedly possessing 400 grams of heroin worth around Rs 40 lakh in the international market, police said today.

The arrested woman has been identified a Kasung Angmphy, a resident of Ukhrul district in Manipur and she was allegedly part of a gang which was supplying heroin from India to South Africa, America, England and France.

Police said 400 gm heroin worth Rs 40 lakh in the international market has been recovered.