Crime

Jaipur, March 25: In a shocking incident, a man after allegedly killing his two kids at home jumped before a moving train along with his wife and three other children near here, police said.

“Five bodies, including those of three girls and their mother, were recovered from the railway track near Harmara area this morning.

Two more bodies of a boy and a girl were found in their house in Jairampura village,” they said. “Prima facie, the man first administered poison to his children, and later left his home along with his wife and three children and jumped before the train,” they said.

Kolkata, March 25: Eight more bodies were recovered from the 150-year-old heritage building in upscale Park Street, raising the toll in the devastating fire that swept the building on Tuesday to 24.

Firefighters who began search operations last night from the top floor of the Stephen Court, housing restaurants, offices and residences, said the bodies were mainly recovered from the fifth and sixth floors of the seven-storeyed building.

Mumbai, March 25: The officers of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Crime Branch have arrested two directors of a car rental company, unearthing a Rs28-crore fraud. The company was running a Ponzi scheme similar to that of the tainted City Limouzine group.

The arrested — Pramod Gangaram Raut, 39, and Sajid Ibrahim Warekar, 33 — are directors of M Limouzine India Ltd, with offices at NC Kelkar Marg in Dadar and one at Ram Maruti Road in Thane.

Mumbai, March 25: Fearing that the 12-year-old rape victim and her aunt could be attacked by the absconding accused, police have, at present, kept them at an undisclosed location.

Police also plan to recover the mobile phone that the child’s cousin Dhawal Bapat and his friend Raju Sharma had used to film their act at a Kurla lodge. The girl says the video was used to blackmail and rape her on several occasions. Police plan to send the mobile phone to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) where it would be checked. If the accused have deleted the video, the lab will recover it.

New Delhi, March 25: Twenty-seven-year-old Priya, a devotee of Paramahamsa Nityananda Swami, can’t believe a video footage where the Karnataka-based spiritual guru is allegedly shown in a compromising position with a Tamil actress.

“I still doubt whether it is swamiji or it is a graphic gimmick,” a shocked Priya told IANS.

Nityananda Swami’s is not the first reported case of a person in religious garb being caught in a scandal. Of late, a number of swamis have been in the news for the wrong reasons.

New Delhi, March 25: The Delhi High Court has ordered the army to pay the ‘widow’ of an armyman a compensation of Rs 10.5 lakh. Naib G.N. Sharma had joined the Army in 1982 as the religious teacher of the Armed Regiment at Pathankot.

But according to his wife’s statement in court, Commander Col. Bikramjit Singh made him work at his house as his servant. When Sharma protested, he was threatened. Even other officers did not come to his aid. In February 1992 Sharma was “discharged” on the basis of a resignation letter forged in his name. Within months he disappeared and never returned.

Faridkot, March 25: In a major accident involving an oil-tanker, at least two people died, several suffered serious injuries and 14 vehicles were burnt in this Punjab district Wednesday evening, police said.

According to police, an oil-tanker suddenly overturned and immediately caught fire on Faridkot road in Dhilwa Kurdh village near Sadak town.

Though, the driver and cleaner of the tanker jumped out of the vehicle in time and even tried to alert other approaching vehicles but they were unable avert the tragedy.

New Delhi, March 25: In compliance with a court order, the police lodged an FIR against a BSP legislator, his associates and three policemen on Wednesday in connection with a case involving land grabbing, threat to life, loot and damaging the private property of a villager.

Jagran, March 25: In an accident on Wednesday, a father-son duo died after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding truck.

The accident took place after midnight, when the victims were crossing the Garcha Turn at Daria village, the police said.

Attar Singh (45) and Pawan Kumar (23), who lived in Vikas Nagar Colony, Mauli Jagran, were going home from Sector 22, when the incident took place.

After hitting the motorcycle from behind, the truck dragged the victims to some distance, the police said.

Chapra (Bihar), March 25: Heavily-armed Maoists blasted an under-construction police building at Bhelbi in Bihar’s Saran district, police said on Thursday.

Over 50 ultras surrounded the building at around 11.45 pm last night and fired indiscriminately besides triggering dynamite blast that razed the building to the ground, they said.

Bhelbi police station, which was to shift in the under-construction building, is around 2.5 kms away.

No casualty was reported in the incident, the police said.

Faridkot, March 24: In a major accident involving an oil-tanker, at least two people died, several suffered serious injuries and 14 vehicles were burnt in this Punjab district Wednesday evening, police said.

According to police, an oil-tanker suddenly overturned and immediately caught fire on Faridkot road in Dhilwa Kurdh village near Sadak town.

Though, the driver and cleaner of the tanker jumped out of the vehicle in time and even tried to alert other approaching vehicles but they were unable avert the tragedy.

Faridkot, March 24: Three people were killed and seven injured when an oil tanker overturned and burst into flames which engulfed five vehicles on Mukatsar-Ferozepur road here today.

The tanker, on way to Ferozpur, overturned near Sadiq Nagar and caught fire, police said.

The fire also engulfed five vehicles — two motorcycles, a truck, a jeep and a car — gutting them completely, they said.

Three people, including a woman, were killed and seven injured, two of them seriously, in the accident, police said.

–Agencies

New Delhi, March 24: A Home Ministry official has gone missing from the national capital this afternoon after he left home for withdrawing money from an ATM in west Delhi.

K V Singh, who works as Under Secretary with the relief and rehabilitation section of the Ministry, went missing after he left his Vikaspuri residence to withdraw money from an ATM at around 12 noon.

Singh, who is slated to retire on March 31, was supposed to leave for Kerala this evening along with his family for a holiday.

Shillong, March 24: The BSF today apprehended six Bangladeshi infiltrators at Bholaganj in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya.

The intruders, all from Sunamganj, were apprehended along the international border, BSF sources said.

Taka 600, Indian currency of Rs 215, sharp-edged weapons and two mobile phones were seized from them, the sources added.

–Agencies

Kolkata, March 24: The bodies of 20 of the 24 victims of the fire at the heritage building on Park Street were handed over tonight to their family members while a dispute arose over the rest, charred beyond recognition.

The badly charred bodies were handed over to their families by the police at the state-run SSKM Hospital after the completion of the post-mortem examination.

There were claims and counter claims over four bodies.

Experts of Forensic Science Laboratory would conduct DNA tests tomorrow on the four disputed bodies for their identification, a doctor at the morgue told.

Noida, March 24: On the orders of a court here, a team of city police and Haryana Police raided a Sonepat factory allegedly manufacturing zippers without a licence and violating the Patent Act.

The raid on PICCO Tech located at Shafiabad, Industrial Area in the Haryana town was conducted on the orders of Gautam Buddha Nagar Chief Judicial Magistrate.

The factory allegedy manufactured spurious slider zipper assembly with diaphragm flexible packaging and improved zipper slider with diaphragm for flexible packaging and pouches without any licence.

New Delhi, March 24: A crane at a Delhi Metro construction site toppled and fell on an autorickshaw in south-east Delhi, injuring the auto-driver, police said today.

The incident was reported from Alimore in Sarita Vihar this afternoon.

The auto-driver was injured in the incident and has been rushed to a nearby hospital.

—Agencies

Chennai, March 24: Tamil actress Yuvarani, whose name has been dragged into the Swami Nithyananda scandal, has denied any involvement with the godman.

On Tuesday, she met City Commissioner of Police T Rajendran and submitted a complaint alleging that a website had associated her name with the swami. She said the website had used an old photograph of hers and demanded that the police take steps to have it removed.

Ghaziabad, March 24: Relying on a tantrik to ‘ward off evil’ has seemingly proved costly for the family of a Sahibabad doctor. The 45-year-old doctor was allegedly murdered by the tantrik when he stopped him from making advances towards his wife and 17-year-old daughter. Dr Mukesh Sharma (name changed), a general physician who ran run a clinic in the Farukh Nagar area of Ghaziabad, was murdered by Jaipal Sharma and his two sons on March 10, police said on Tuesday.

Mumbai, March 24: A Mira Road couple has been booked for allegedly assaulting a traffic constable . But Riyaz and Mumtaz Khan, who have been admitted to VN Desai hospital, claimed it was Constable Tohar Gomze who had assaulted them, without any provocation. “At 2.30 pm, the couple were riding on a bike from Bandra to Mira Road.

Mumbai, March 24: Home Minister R.R. Patil at the Legislative Council on Tuesday announced the state’s intention to handover the murder case of Right to Information (RTI) activist Satish Shetty’s case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Shetty, who exposed many land scams in Maharashtra, was killed by unidentified men while taking a morning walk at Talegaon, on the outskirts of Pune, on January 13. “The state police have already arrested six people who were involved in the crime.

Mumbai, March 24: Police are probing the role of the victim’s aunt in the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by nine people over a period of two years. “The aunt is being questioned much as the others in the case are being questioned,” said senior police inspector Samadhan Dhanedar of the Sakinaka police station.

Lucknow, March 24: Mobs set vehicles on fire and fought pitched battles with the police as violent protests erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district Wednesday after a man was mowed down by a speeding car, police said.

The protests broke out in Manikpur area, some 300 km from Lucknow, after Yogendra Kumar was killed when he was hit by a speeding car in the morning.

Mumbai, March 24: A 19-year-old MBBS student died after he crashed his speeding motorcycle on the divider of JJ flyover at 2.30 pm on Tuesday. Shashank Kumar, the victim was a first-year MBBS student of JJ Hospital. Kumar, who is from Uttar Pradesh, was driving with his friend Nishant Gupta (19). “Kumar was riding the motorcycle in speed.

Beijing, March 24: A teacher in a kindergarten school in China was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for pricking more than 60 children with a hypodermic needle.

A county court in Yunnan province announced its verdict after Sun Qiqi, a teacher at Xihu Kindergarten in Jianshui county, pleaded guilty to pricking 63 children, aged from three to five, with a needle attached to an empty syringe as a punishment in October last year, Xinhua news agency reported.

The assault by the teacher caused panic among children and parents in the county, the court said.