Crime

Tirunelveli, June 27: A young woman from Thanjavur district has been struggling for the past five months to get back the body of her husband who reportedly died in Kuwait.

Sameer Sherif (31) of Subramaniapuram in Tiruchy district had married Fathima Beevi (25) of Thirunagar in Thanjavur in August last year.

After spending two months with his wife, Sherif went to Kuwait to work as a driver.

Within four-and-a-half months, she was informed that her husband had died. All attempts by Fathima to get back Sherif ’s body and to find out the real story behind the death have been in vain.

New Delhi, June 26: A woman who had accused five police officials of raping her in a police station here Monday, admitted before a court Thursday that her allegation was false.
A 35-year-old woman had alleged a station-house officer (SHO) and four constables gangraped her inside the Inderpuri police station three days ago. On Thursday in a statement before a city magistrate she said that she leveled false allegations against the policemen as the SHO had tightened the screws against illegal activities in the area.

Surat, June 26: Shahid Saiyad, who has been accused of raping a teenager with two other men here, was slapped by a youth while he was on his way to a local court Friday, police said.

“The youth who slapped Saiyad has been detained and is being questioned,” a police officer with the Surat Crime Branch said.

“It was only one person who slapped one of the accused. There was no mob involved,” the officer added.

Hyderabad, June 26: Kalidindi Mandal Deputy Tahsildar Shaik Latheef Pasha was trapped by the ACB officials at his office today when he accepted Rs 5,000 as bribe from a complainant for doing an official favour.

The amount and connected file was seized from the accused, who was arrested.

The accused will be produced before the Special Judge for SPE and ACB cases Vijayawada, a press release here said.

Chhatarpur, June 26: In a bloodcurdling incident, four miscreants set a young woman on fire at her house after being annoyed by her protest for eve-teasing at Kotwali thana area here this morning, police said.

City Police Superintendent of Police Sameer Yadav said that Rakesh Kori, Brajesh Kori, Siaram and Nisar Mohammad stormed into the house of Ruksana (18) when she was alone, poured kerosene over her and set her ablaze.

The miscreants soon fled from the spot.

On getting information, police admitted the victim, who sustained 80 per cent burn injuries, to the district hospital.

Lalgarh, June 26: Maoist rebels fired at security personnel and triggered landmines in jungles as troopers advanced to reclaim new areas and flush out far-left radicals from West Midnapore district in West Bengal, officials said today.

A joint team of central paramilitary troopers and state armed policemen set out from their camp in Goaltore bordering Bankura district today morning to retake some strategic pockets still held by the ultras but met with resistance at a forested stretch in Pingboni after a 1 km march, an official said.

Lucknow, June 26: Some residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Naini town Friday turned violent and tried to set fire to two police jeeps after three members of a family were found dead, police said.

Bablu, Mangesh and Pappu, all in their 30s, were found dead with injury marks all over their bodies Friday in the Naini town of Allahabad district, 200 km from state capital Lucknow.

“They have been killed by a sharp-edged weapon,” district police chief Chandra Prakash told reporters.

New Delhi, June 26: Cashing in on the water woes of residents, particularly students, in and around the Delhi University campus, shopkeepers here have started selling low quality bottled water that they themselves admit is not fit for drinking.

Ragini Sharma, a resident of Indira Vihar in north Delhi, for instance, said because of the water shortage, she had been using distilled water – not just for drinking purposes but also for cooking, cleaning, bathing and even filling the air cooler!

Noida, June 26: A senior citizen and his wife thwarted attempts by two armed assailants to rob them in Noida’s Sector 11 on Wednesday night.

According to S L Sharma and his wife Suprabah’s complaint to the police, two men on a motorcycle attempted to rob them while they were on an after-dinner walk near their house around 11.30 on Wednesday night. The assailants, however, fled after the couple put up a fight and Sharma, in fact, managed to snatch their pistol.

Lucknow, June 25: A 35-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his in-laws over a petty dispute in Thakurganj area of the city, police said on Thursday.

Vishwanath (35), an employee of a gas agency, was brutally beaten up by his in-laws on Wednesday; police said adding that he later died at a city hospital.

The attackers have been identified as Santosh, Amar, Guddu and Manish, police said.

Santosh, father-in-law of Vishwanath, also worked in the same agency.

Five persons have been detained by police in this connection.

—Agencies

New Delhi, June 25: A city court Thursday sent all the five accused in the murder of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan to judicial custody.
Duty Magistrate Vina Rani sent Ajay Sethi, Ravi Kapoor, Amit Kumar Shukla, Baljit Malik and Ajay Kumar to jail. She also ordered for providing them with a copy of the charge sheet and posted the matter for July 8, the next date of hearing.

Delhi Police Monday had filed the 620-page charge sheet and said there was strong evidence against the five accused in the sensational killing that shocked the national capital last September.

Mandya, June 25: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials have arrested two persons, members of a five-member gang which had allegedly robbed two women passengers of their jewellery.

Lucknow, June 25: A 35-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his in-laws over a petty dispute in Thakurganj area of the city, police said here today.

Vishwanath (35), an employee of a gas agency, was brutally beaten up by his in-laws yesterday, police said adding that he later died at a city hospital.

The attackers have been identified as Santosh, Amar, Guddu and Manish, police said.

Santosh, father-in-law of Vishwanath, also worked in the same agency.

Five persons have been detained by police in this connection.
–PTI

Paris, June 25: Authorities have identified the body of the chief pilot of the Air France aircraft that plunged into the Atlantic June 1 with 228 people aboard, the airline said on its web site Thursday.

“Among the victims found in the sea search, two members of the Air France crew have been identified: the flight captain and a steward,” Air France said.

The carrier’s CEO, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, extended his condolences to their families on behalf of the company.

Kochi, June 25: A Kerala court Thursday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to get within 10 days the unedited video footage of the narco-analysis done on three accused in the sensational 1992 murder of a nun, Sister Abhaya.
The chief judicial magistrate’s direction came after the nun’s father C.Thomas alleged that the video tapes produced before the court had been edited raising suspicion of manipulation.

CBI counsel sought a month to locate the master tape. But the court turned down the request.

Surat, June 25: Shocking disclosures in the Surat gangrape case continues to be made almost every day, the latest being that the three accused were running a veritable cellphone porn industry, using girls whom they befriended at Garba classes.

New Delhi, June 25: The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed that the Inderpuri rape case involving the SHO and four constables of the police station was fabricated by the alleged victim.

Police sources said that the woman fabricated the case of gang rape to protect her husband, who was wanted because of his alleged involvement in satta dealing.

In some of the clinching evidences establishing the police claim, the SHO was not present at the spot at the time of the reported crime, sources said.

Lucknow, June 25: Four members of a Dalit family were found dead in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district taking the toll in murders there to 24 in the past 24 days. Police Thursday said all the four victims have been strangled to death.

‘The tenant, Vijay Pratap Singh was arrested Wednesday night,’ Superintendent of Police Navneet Rana told IANS on telephone Thursday.

The victims, a widow, her mother-in-law and her two minor children, were found dead Wednesday inside their house in Sandi town of Hardoi, 110 km from the state capital Lucknow.

Hyderabad, June 25: The Hyderabad Police on Thursday arrested two software engineers for attempting to rape a 25-year-old woman who was looking for a job.

The two techies, identified as 32-year-old Madhu Babu alias Teja and 26-year-old Praveen, took the woman out for drinks to a restaurant and allegedly spiked her soft drink.

Police said the incident took place on June 20, on the victim’s birthday. The accused took her, an MCA graduate, to their flat instead of dropping her off at her hostel and tried to rape her.

Lucknow, June 25: Five people allegedly thrashed a 40-year-old Dalit woman, chopped her hair and then paraded her half-naked through an Uttar Pradesh village alleging that her husband was involved in a theft, police said Thursday.
“The incident took place Wednesday in Sirsia village of Kushinagar district where a group of locals ill-treated Barfi Devi alleging that her husband was involved in a theft,” police Inspector Om Prakash Chauhan told IANS by phone.

Abu Dhabi, June 25: An Indian woman dancer, who declined to perform at a Dubai bar, was allegedly locked up in a flat here for four days by another Indian and a Bangladeshi, a local court was told.

The Indian supervisor, 32, and the Bangladeshi cleaner, 30, however, pleaded not guilty in the Criminal Court of First Instance to the charge of holding the woman in captivity.

The Dubai Police on a tip-off raided the apartment on April 29 and found the woman locked in a two-bedroom flat.

Hong Kong, June 25: A Hong Kong language tutor was Thursday facing jail after being convicted of using threats to force a 14-year-old girl pupil into having sex with him.

Gary Siu Cheuk-ming, 27, lured the girl who attended his private Japanese lessons to a meeting in a hostel after claiming he could get modelling work for her and filmed her naked.

He then had sex with her at least 10 times over a three-month period after threatening to distribute the video if she did not sleep with him, the South China Morning Post reported.

New Delhi, June 25: A mother of two was allegedly gangraped by three men at her East Delhi residence on Tuesday night. The police said all three accused are distant relatives of the victim’s husband.

The incident was reported from Bholanath Nagar area in Farsh Bazar. A case of rape and criminal intimidation has been registered and the police is looking for the accused.

The 22-year-old victim identified the three to the police as Rakesh, Mukesh and Subhash . Rakesh even stayed with the victim and her husband about two years ago.

New Delhi, June 25: At least one person died and 15 others were injured when a chartered bus carrying over 40 passengers fell off a flyover near Mother Dairy on NH-24 on Wednesday evening.

While the police said only the bus driver had died, Deputy Medical Superintendent of Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital Dr Amita Saxena said two persons were declared dead on arrival at the hospital. Three of the victims, admitted in another private hospital in Patparganj, are said to be critical.

The police officers suspect a brake failure caused the 15-foot plunge.

London, June 25: A non-resident Indian litigant threw acid at three lawyers after a High Court ruling went against him in a racial discrimination case, a jury heard today.

Ashok Mahajan, 54, went berserk inside the Royal Courts of Justice here as justice Underhill delivered the ruling against him.

Mahajan threw a bottle of corrosive liquid at barrister Richard Liddell, solicitor Claire White and trainee lawyer Lucy Colter, the Southwark Crown Court heard.

Colter screamed in pain when she was hit in the eyes and acid that landed on her leg burned her thighs, the court heard.