Crime

New Delhi, April 06: A 32-year-old women was killed and two men were seriously injured in separate accidents in here, police said today.

In the first mishap, Nandini Jain lost her life while her husband Sanjay (40) is admitted to a hospital after a speeding truck hit their car in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar at around 11:45 pm yesterday.

The couple where rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre where Nandini was declared brought dead. They reside in Punjabi Bagh and were on way to Katwaria Sarai when they met with accident.

The truck driver fled from the spot.

Chandigarh, April 06: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court Tuesday held a Chandigarh policeman guilty of accepting bribe from a drug peddler who is at present lodged in a jail here.

CBI Special Judge Darshan Singh convicted sub-inspector Ved Parkash of accepting a bribe of Rs.15,000 from Harpal Singh alias Raju in 2007 after threatening to slap false cases on him.

The quantum of sentence in the case would be announced Wednesday.

Greater Noida, April 06: A teacher was thrashed by four students when he objected to their cheating inside an examination hall here Tuesday, police said.

Four students – Deepak, Pratap, Imran and Iqbal – appearing for an examination in Drone Degree College in Greater Noida were cheating inside the hall, police said.

When the invigilator on duty, Durgesh Singh objected to their cheating, the students thrashed him. The four students also snatched examination papers and answer sheets and tore them up, police added.

Gandhinagar, April 06: The third of the eight Indian cargo vessels hijacked by Somalian pirates has been freed in a joint American-Omani Navy operation, according to delayed reports reaching here Tuesday.

According to the Kutch-based Vahanvatta Association, the cargo vessel Osmani was rescued in the joint operation Monday. Of the eight member crew, one – Sultan Ahmed – is reported to have lost his life when he panicked and jumped into the sea after the naval operation began.

MV Osmani was hijacked by the pirates March 28 while on its way from Dubai to Mogadishu.

Meerut, April 06: Three drug peddlers have been arrested with heroin worth Rs.12 crore, police said Tuesday.

“The three men in their mid-20s were nabbed Tuesday from the bus stand in the Sadar area,” Nagesh Kumar, a police spokesman, told reporters here.

“All the three are residents of Uttar Pradesh, and worked for a drugs racket operating form Nepal,” he added.

The three have confessed that they were going to New Delhi to hand over the consignment to their clients there, police said.

–Agencies

Mumbai, April 06: The bodies of the nine 26/11 Pakistani terrorists – which nobody, including Pakistan, wanted – have been disposed of in a top secret operation.

Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil Tuesday said the bodies of the nine terrorists, killed by Indian special forces during their three-day bloody siege of landmark areas of the city in November 2008, were quietly buried in January this year.

Kolkata, April 06: An undertrial tried to commit suicide by slitting his vein inside a West Bengal court room Tuesday, police said.

The gory incident took place in front of Third Additional District Judge of Howrah district Shiv Shankar Prasad when Rahim Ali Mondal, 32, broke a window screen and tried to slit his veins with the broken pieces of glass.

According to police, Mondal, a resident of Bongaon in North 24-Parganas district was arrested from Howrah’s Domjur police station area in 2007 with narcotics.

Allahabad, April 06: Congress state leadership today met party workers and held discussions to evolve ways for strengthening the party ahead of the 2012 assembly elections.

A workshop was organised here for the grassroot-level workers. UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Congress legislative party leader Pramod Tiwari and senior party leader Anil Shastri were present.

Later, Joshi told reporters, “this is one of the many training programmes that we will be conducting in the run-up to the ultimate challenge of 2012 assembly elections”.

New Delhi, April 06: A 19-year-old student of Delhi University was kidnapped from the national capital and allegedly raped by five persons in a flat in Gurgaon, police said today.

The victim, who is pursuing a BA correspondence course from Dayal Singh College, was forced into a car by the men at at around 8 am on Sunday from near a bus stop where she was waiting for a bus.

Two of the accused were known to the girl as they are her neighbours. The incident came to light yesterday morning after the girl’s family approached police.

Bankura (WB), April 06: Suspected Maoists today shot dead a local Trinamool Congress leader at Ranibandh in Maoist-hit Bankura district.

“Swapan Singh Sardar (30) was killed on the spot when Maoists shot him. He was called out of a tea stall and shot from close range this morning,” Superintendent of Police Vishal Garg told PTI.

A manhunt was launched to catch the attackers and no one has been arrested, he said.

–Agencies

Ghaziabad, April 06: A student studying law at a private college and his friend were arrested here Tuesday for stealing a motorcycle, police said.

“A second year student of LLB from the Institute of Management and Engineering, Ghaziabad, has been arrested after he was found loading the stolen motorcycle onto a tempo to be transported to his native place,” Superintendent of Police (City) A.K. Vijaita said.

Honey, a resident of Sikandrabad in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh April 2 lifted a pulsar motorcycle which was parked outside the institute where he studies, police said.

Ahmedabad, April 06: Eight Indian sailors on board a dhow, hijacked by Somali pirates last month, have been rescued by US and Oman navies, but one of them died as he jumped into the sea fearful of getting hurt, a shipping association today said.

President of the Kutch Vahanvati Association (KVA) Kasam Ali Bholim said the vessel ‘Faiz-E-Osmani’, hijacked on March 28, was rescued by a joint operation of US and Oman navies.

Kolkata, April 06: Hours after the deadly Naxal attack left 73 CRPF personnel dead in Chhattisgarh, Maoists today claimed for the first time that their top leader Kishenji was alive and well.

“Not a single state committee, central committee or polit bureau member were killed or injured in the encounter with joint forces in Lalgarh on March 24,” the Maoists said in a fax to PTI here.

Jalandhar (Punjab), April 06: An unidentified motorcyclist threw acid on a middle-aged woman, seriously injuring her, at Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar locality here today, police said.

The attack happened when 35-year-old Shashi Bala of Makhdoom Pura locality was proceeding towards her workplace in Avtar Nagar, they said.

The victim, who is a divorcee, is out of danger. She suffered burn injuries on her face, right arm and her feet, police said.

Lucknow, April 06: Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) Tuesday nabbed three people with counterfeit notes with face value of Rs.1 lakh in Kanshiram Nagar district, police said.

The three men were nabbed from the Ganjdunwara railway station in the district, some 300 km from Lucknow, while they were going to hand over the fake notes to some clients.

‘The three have admitted that they used to work for an inter-state fake currency racket that operates from Nepal,’ police inspector J.M. Tripathi told reporters in Kanshiram Nagar.

Kochi, April 06: A local court today remanded suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative T Nazir to seven days police custody in connection with the murder attempt on a Muslim spiritual leader at nearby Kakkanad in January 2008.

Judicial First Class Magistrate (Aluva) V S Vidhyadharan, remanded Nazir, first accused in the case, to custody when he was produced in court this morning.

About 15 accused had brutally attacked Rahim Pukkadassery alias K M R Guru, who heads a spiritual organisation in Kottayam, and fled thinking he had died.

Chennai, April 06: The Madras High Court dismissed on Tuesday a plea of Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking premature release under the general amnesty scheme.

Rejecting her petition, a division bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Raj and K.K. Sasidharan observed that 44-year-old Nalini had committed the crime in a cunning and meticulous manner which killed the former Prime Minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991.

Tura(Meghalaya), Apr 06: An ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with a joint police and army team in West Garo Hills district, police said today. A group of around three to four militants fired at a joint security team who were conducting a search operation at Rogalgiri near Tikrikila in West Garo Hills district last night, Superintendent of Police Dalton P Marak told.

The security forces retaliated, killing one of the militants on the spot, while others managed to flee.

Raipur, April 06: At least 20 CRPF personnel were killed in an attack by Maoists in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh early Tuesday.

The attack took place when a CRPF patrol party was returning from a road-opening duty in the Maoist—infested Mukrana forest in the district between 6 and 7 am.

“We have rushed helicopters to evacuate the casualties,” Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Viswa Ranjan told.

The death toll in the attack may rise as many of the personnel have been seriously injured.

Patna, April 06: A businessman was robbed and shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar’s capital Patna, police said Tuesday.

Radheyshyam Agarawal, who owns a wholesale medicine business, was shot dead late Monday at Govind Mitra Road when he was returning home.

According to police, the criminals snatched a bag full of money from Agarawal after shooting him and fled.

The incident has sent shockwaves among businessmen and traders here.

‘It was shocking for us, the incident has created panic among businessmen,’ Suresh Sharma, who also owns a whole sale medicine business, said.

Patna, April 06: A businessman was robbed and shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar’s capital Patna, police said Tuesday.

Radheyshyam Agarawal, who owns a wholesale medicine business, was shot dead late Monday at Govind Mitra Road when he was returning home.

According to police, the criminals snatched a bag full of money from Agarawal after shooting him and fled.

The incident has sent shockwaves among businessmen and traders here.

“It was shocking for us, the incident has created panic among businessmen,” Suresh Sharma, who also owns a whole sale medicine business, said.

Mumbai, April 06: Three constables of Kherwadi police station were injured after a truck collided with their Qualis on Monday at Nagpada. A police officer from the Nagpada police station said, “The officers had come to Nagpada police hospital for the check-up of an accused.

They were on their way back when the incident took place.” Brijesh Kumar Yadav (30), the truck driver, was arrested.

He was charged with rash and negligent driving.

—-Agencies

Mumbai, April 06: The security force at the city airport caught a 50-year-old man allegedly stealing a co-passenger’s laptop, the closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) footage. This is the second case in less than three weeks.

A businessman Shashank Gang, who was to board an Air India flight to Jodhpur, forgot his laptop at the security hold. The CCTV footage caught Jayant Chandra Rai (50), who was travelling to Ranchi, loitering in the area for 15 minutes before picking up the laptop, said a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official.

New Delhi, April 06: Heena had little hope of survival after her spurned lover shot at her in a fit of rage. Three bullets pierce her in the brain, heart and hand. But today, a week later, the 24- year- old is recovering from the trauma thanks to doctors.

The young woman is an arts graduate from Delhi University and a resident of Daryaganj.

The police said she was attacked when she rejected a marriage offer.

One of the three bullets entered her left middle ear and broke her ear bone before getting embedded in the brain. The other two cut into her right arm and heart.

Kancheepuram, April 06: One person was killed and 24 others were injured in two different road accidents that took place in Kancheepuram district on Monday.

According to police, the first accident took place at 5.30 a.m. on East Coast Road near Koovathur. An omnibus proceeding from Kumbakonam to Chennai fell into a roadside ditch, after the driver lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a sharp curve near Paramankeni on ECR.