Crime

Azamgarh (UP), March 05: Two persons, including a girl, were killed and as many injured following a clash between two groups in Devpaar village here this evening.

Superintendent of Police Bhawan Swarup Srivasatav said that a member of a warring group opened fire, resulting in the death of a 22-year-old youth and a 10-year-old girl.

The injured were rushed to the district hospital from where they were referred to Varanasi, the SP said adding that a case has been registered and investigations were on.

Old enmity was said to be the reason behind the clash.

–Agencies

Amritsar, March 05: Police today claimed to have seized four kilogram heroin worth Rs 20 crore in the international market with the arrest of four persons here.

Amritsar (Rural) SSP Sukhdev Singh Brar told reporters that police on a tip off arrested four persons from village Ajnala near the Indo-Pak international border when they were carrying the consignment of drug.

The arrested accused were identified as Paramjit Singh, Gurmit Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Santa Singh.

New Delhi, March 05: A Delhi court today granted bail to kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar in three cases relating to obtaining passports on alleged fake identity but he would not be walking free due to pendency of several other cases across the country.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the plea of Kumar who sought bail on the ground that he was not arrested during the investigation in the cases registered by CBI in 2008.

The court rejected the contention of CBI, which opposed his plea contending that the charges against him were grave.

New Delhi, March 05: A Delhi court today issued a notice to CBI on an application of Romesh Sharma, an alleged frontman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, seeking bail in a case relating to robbery of a helicopter.

The Special Judge sought a response on the plea of Sharma who wanted to be freed as he had already undergone more than half of the sentence he may be awarded in case of his conviction.

Sharma, in his application, submitted he has been in judicial custody following his arrest on October 20, 1998.

Raipur, March 05: Two sambars and a deer were found dead at Maitri Bagh zoo in Chhattisgarh, an official said Friday.

The zoo, located about 30 km west of state capital Raipur, is managed by Bhilai Steel Plant, one of the largest public sector unit of the Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).

“One sambar died Thursday night while another sambar and a deer were found dead in their enclosure Friday,” T.S. Chhatri, assistant general manager in Bhilai Steel Plant’s horticulture department told IANS over phone.

Lucknow March 05: The car of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh Yadav was damaged when an unidentified person threw a stone at it in the busy Hazratganj area here today.

According to the driver of Yadav’s Pajero, an unidentified person threw a stone and damaged the windscreen of the vehicle bearing the SP flag at the Hazratganj crossing when he was going to drop Yadav’s children to a playhouse but none was hurt. Yadav was not in the car at that time.

Kolkata, March 05: Two employees of a software company were arrested today for allegedly making extortion demands to a call centre worker, police said.

Robin Karmakar, a resident of Salt Lake and an employee of a call centre in Park Street, received a threatening call demanding Rs 10 lakh or he would be killed.

He lodged a complaint with Bidhannagar Police station and the call was traced to software company employees Sushmit Ghosh, a resident of Beliaghata in East Kolkata, and Y Chang Kui, a resident of Rabindra Nagar in South Kolkata.

Agartala, March 05: At least 19 people died in Tripura due to meningococcal disease in the last one year, state Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty today said.

He told the assembly that the state government had sought 1.83 lakh units of vaccines from the Centre but was yet to receive any response.

Meningococcal disease is caused by bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (also termed meningococcus). It carries a high mortality rate if untreated. Whilst best known as a cause of meningitis, wide spread blood infection (sepsis) is more damaging and dangerous.

Lucknow, March 05: Friday prayers passed off peacefully in the trouble-torn Bareilly town today with police relaxing curfew in the four police station areas which had witnessed clashes over taking out of a religious procession on Tuesday.

Home department sources here said that no fresh incident has been reported from the curfew-bound four police station areas of Prem Nagar, Qila, Kotwali and Baradari since yesterday and the situation was fast returning to normal.

Muzaffarnagar, March 05: In separate cases, two women were allegedly thrown out of their houses by their in-laws after they gave birth to a girl child.

According to the complaint lodged with police in Kawal village of the district, Kavita was beaten up and thrown out of the house by her in-laws after she gave birth to a baby girl. She had three daughters previously.

In the complaint it was stated that Kavita was being harassed for a long time over her ‘inability’ to give birth to a baby boy.

New Delhi, March 05: A Delhi court today allowed the Uttar Pradesh police to interrogate inter-state gangster Munna Bajrangi in connection with an eight-year-old murder case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja granted the plea of the state police to quiz him with regard to the murder case registered with Chetganj police station at Varanasi in 2008.

Midnapore (WB), March 05: A huge cache of explosives was today seized from Maoist-infested West Midnapore district by a team of joint security forces, officials said.

Around 4.5 quintal of explosives were found by the security men during a search operation in Sirsi and Chandiwala villages of Kotwali area, they said.

The cache included 200 kgs of ammonium nitrate, 50 kgs of sulphur, jelly gunpowder and 300 bullets of AK series.

—-PTI

Kathmandu, March 05: Two Indian men have been arrested in western Nepal for allegedly trying to kidnap a schoolgirl, police said.

Molazim Mian, 38, and Mohammad Mahim, 30, both residents of Motihari district in eastern India’s Bihar state, were arrested in Syangja district Thursday, police said.

The two men, who were running a small business in Syangja’s Putalibazar area, tried to abduct Manisha Kunwar, a 10-year-old schoolgirl while she was on her way to school, police said.

Kathmandu, March 05: Two Indian men have been arrested in western Nepal for allegedly trying to kidnap a schoolgirl, police said.

Molazim Mian, 38, and Mohammad Mahim, 30, both residents of Motihari district in eastern India’s Bihar state, were arrested in Syangja district Thursday, police said.

The two men, who were running a small business in Syangja’s Putalibazar area, tried to abduct Manisha Kunwar, a 10-year-old schoolgirl while she was on her way to school, police said.

Jammu, March 05: Servant of a Congress leader was today arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle of a Personal Security Officer (PSO) in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

PSO Zuber Ahmed filed a complaint that his Insas rifle has been stolen from the house of Congress leader Sohail Malik in Bhaderwah belt of Doda district last night, they said.

During investigations, servant Shakeel revealed that he had stolen the gun. Shakeel was arrested and a case registered against him, they said, adding that the rifle has been recovered and handed over to the PSO..

—–PTI

Phagwara, March 05: A former BJP youth wing leader was allegedly shot dead today by armed assailants in Hargobind Nagar area here, police said. Former block president of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha”s Phagwara unit, Sudarshan Dhillon was travelling alone in his Maruti Alto when four armed men, who were in a Scorpio jeep, intercepted his car and attacked him with sharp edged weapons.

Kolkata, March 05: A major fire broke out in a tannery and spread swiftly to an adjacent slum close to a five star hotel and Science City, an educational park, on the eastern fringes of the metropolis on Friday.

Eighteen fire engines were fighting the blaze which had the possibility of spreading to Science City where water was being sprayed, fire brigade officials said.

The fire resulted in a massive traffic jam on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass which passes through Tangra area.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

—-PTI

Hanoi, March 05: Twenty-five people have been hospitalised in southern Vietnam after a shopkeeper accidentally sold a woman rat poison instead of curry for a family feast, a doctor said Friday.

Pham Thi Hanh, director of the Hoa Thanh District Hospital in Tay Ninh province, said the victims’ conditions were improving but they were not out of danger.

‘They still have vomiting, headaches and dizziness,’ Hanh said. ‘I am not sure about their prognosis yet because people who eat rat poison often die after three days.’

Pratapgarh, March 05: A day after 63 women and children were killed in a stampede in an ashram, a criminal case has been registered against its management for allegedly causing death due to negligence.

“A case has been registered under Section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) against Kripaluji Parishad, under the banner of which yesterday”s function was organised”, Pratapgarh Superintendent of Police Mahesh Kumar Mishra told.

Srinagar, March 05: An army captain was killed and five security personnel, including four Rashtriya Rifles soldiers and a policeman, injured in a firefight with militants in Pulwama district on Thursday.

The forces said four Hizb-ul Mujahideen militants were also killed in the exchange of fire. Capt Deepak Kumar of 42 Rashtriya Rifles is the second army officer to be killed in a gunbattle with militants in less than a fortnight in the Valley.

New Delhi, March 05: A 15-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by setting himself on fire in RK Puram area in South Delhi. The incident took place around 10 am when the boy was alone at home, police said.

The boy, T. Sumit, was under depression and was apparently lagging behind in his studies. “He was a native of Andhra Pradesh lived in RK Puram with his parents.

He was suffering from depression and was being treated at AIIMS,” said a senior police office. On Thursday, Sumit allegedly poured kerosene and set him himself on fire.

—-Agencies

Ranchi, March 05: A father and daughter were killed in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district as the girl allegedly stole an egg from a neighbour’s house, media reports said Friday.

Mugai Sirka and his seven-year-old daughter Neetu were killed Wednesday at Pertoll village in West Singhbhunm district, around 230 km from here.

Lucknow, March 05: A stampede that broke out as thousands of people jostled for free food outside a Hindu temple yesterday left scores dead and many more wounded. Most of the victims were women and children.

The chaos started at the temple located in the north Indian town of Kunda, around 100 miles south of Lucknow, as people gathered to collect meals and clothes that were being distributed to mark the anniversary of the death of the wife of the temple’s founder, a popular local religious leader.

New Delhi, March 05: The inimitable Don was chased by the police from eleven countries. Swami Bhimanand, arrested for running a huge sex racket in the guise of a religious ashram, seems to foil the Bollywood icon’s record.

After it was revealed that the pseudo godman’s tentacles were spread across the country with conduits in Kolkata and Hyderabad, apart from Delhi, it has come to notice that he is also wanted by the Rajasthan police.

Chhattarpur, March 05: A 17-year-old girl here was today set on fire four youths after she resisted their attempts to molest her.

City Superintendent of Police Sameer Yadav told PTI that the girl was alone in her house when the youths identified as Ramakant, Heerlal, Ashok Rawat and Deepak Nayak tried to enter her place.

When they could not get into the house through the door, the youths jumped in from the roof of the neighbour’s house and tried to molest her.