Crime

New Delhi, June 14: The body of India’s senior atomic scientist was recovered from a river near a nuclear plant in India’s southern Karnataka state after six days of search operations following his disappearance, news reports said Sunday. Divers found the body of Loknath Mahalingam, 47, in the Kali river on Saturday night, after he went missing from the Kaiga Atomic Power Station, about 500 kilometres north of state capital Bangalore, Mahalingam’s family identified the victim, the report said.

Ahmedabad, June 14: Cracking the whip, Gujarat government transferred Surat Commissioner of Police Deepak Swaroop as the protests against the the gang rape case became shriller and widespread and several outfits including VHP calling for a bandh on Monday. It is believed that a statement of Swaroop has cost him dear.

He had said that the victim girl was in compromising position and the three youth took undue advantage of this. They posed themselves as police and made both sit in the car and gang raped the 17 year old girl. This was stated by the girl in her complaint of gang rape.

Panaji, June 14: When police in Goa first arrested Mahanand Naik, little did they know that he would soon send shockwaves through the Indian resort state popular with tourists from all over the world.

Detectives picked up the auto-rickshaw driver on suspicion of rape and blackmail in April but after weeks of questioning found themselves faced with a serial killer who admitted to snuffing out the lives of 16 young local women.

Kolkata, June 14: A 25-year-old employee of a jewellery shop committed suicide after the owner allegedly confined him in the shop for the past two days, accusing him of stealing cash. Two days ago, Abhijit Das, the victim went to Burrabazar with his employer’s money and was robbed by a gang. Rabindranath Ghosh, the owner of the shop, did not believe the incident had taken place and put pressure on him to refund the money.

Probe revealed that Das, a resident of Rishra in Hooghly, worked at Ghosh’s shop on Jadu Pandit Lane in north Kolkata for the past few years.

Chennai, June 14:A 27-year-old MBA graduate hanged herself at her residence in Virugambakkam on Friday afternoon, allegedly due to dowry harassment. The body of Geetha Arthi, a resident of Mahalingapuram, Nungambakkam, was sent to the government hospital in Royapettah for autopsy.

Lucknow, June 14: Another self-proclaimed godman was nabbed here by the crime branch of Lucknow police for duping a man by faking his identity and selling a 20 beegha plot in Jalalpur village of Kakori for Rs 10 lakh. The plot belonged to a spiritual guru.

Kolkata, June 14: Mohammad Rehan Ali, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, was electrocuted when he touched a water tap at a south Kolkata school on Saturday morning. Probe revealed that the metal outlet of the water tank had been touching a live wire hanging from the meter box.

Rehan’s father Mohammad Siraj is one of the security guards of the school Ballygunge Park Day School on Syed Amir Ali Avenue. The family stays on the school campus.

Chennai, June 14: A 27-year-old MBA graduate hanged herself at her residence in Virugambakkam on Friday afternoon, allegedly due to dowry harassment. The
body of Geetha Arthi, a resident of Mahalingapuram, Nungambakkam, was sent to the government hospital in Royapettah for autopsy.

New Delhi, June 13: A 25-year-old final-year B.Sc. student allegedly killed his two daughters (one four years old and the other 18 months) and hacked their bodies into several parts with a sharp-edged object at Jever village in neighbouring Greater Noida on Thursday evening. Though he initially tried to dispose of the bodies, the accused apparently had a change of heart and walked up to the police station and confessed.

Mumbai, June 13: A 21-year-old woman working as a singer in a bar was allegedly raped by the driver of an autorickshaw in which she was returning home in the wee hours of Friday. The driver was arrested when he was taking her home after the incident, the police said.

The alleged victim (name withheld to protect her identity) is a native of Delhi. She has been living with her sister at Four Bungalows in Mhada Colony in Andheri (W) for three years.

The driver, Pramod Amarnath Shukla, is a resident of Vaishali Nagar in Dahisar (E).

Surat, June 13: An enraged mob severely beat up three men accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl here as a police team brought them for medical examination to a hospital in this Gujarat city today.

The accused – Shahid Saiyad, Tariq Qutubuddhin Saiyad and Abu Bakr Sheikh – allegedly raped the girl in a moving car on Friday. They also recorded the act on a video, according to police.

The three were brought for medical examination at the civil hospital here in the morning when patients and other visitors, on learning about the gang rape, beat them up severely, according to police.

Surat, June 13: An enraged mob severely beat up three men accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl here as a police team brought them for medical examination to a hospital in this Gujarat city Saturday.

The accused – Shahid Saiyad, Tariq Qutubuddhin Saiyad and Abu Bakr Sheikh – allegedly raped the girl in a moving car Friday. They also recorded the act on a video, according to police.

The three were brought for medical examination at the civil hospital here in the morning when patients and other visitors, on learning about the gang rape, beat them up severely, according to police.

Chennai, June 13: A mysterious death eventually turned out to be murder. Basing their investigation on the postmortem report, suburban police arrested six persons for the killing of P Sakthivel (29), whose body was found on the roadside near Kudrathur on December 24 last year. Sakthivel was murdered for eloping with the daughter of his employer. Police arrested the girl’s uncle Thyagarajan (30), his friend Poyyamozhi (40), and Senthi (22), Murugan (28), Velu (30) and Ramesh (22) who were hired for the deed.

Bangalore, June 13 : A 74-year-old retired defence officer murdered his wife by assaulting her with a crow bar, even as she was playing with their 10-month-old grandchild and their seven-year-old granddaughter was crying.

Soon after assaulting Rosylin, 58, K V Benny drank phenyl and tried to commit suicide. He is now recovering in hospital.

New Delhi, June 13: Intra-gang rivalry in the Dawood Ibrahim group reportedly intensified so much that there are reports of one of the faction leaders Chhota Shakeel fleeing Pakistan.

Reports said he feared for his life and thus fled Pakistan. The factions, led by Anees Ibrahim, Dawood’s younger brother, and Shakeel have been at loggerheads for several months now. Sources indicate that Dawood has silently been backing his brothers over Shakeel, who is an outsider for the number 2 position in the D-company.

Surat, June 13: A 17-Year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped from the Majura Gate area and gangraped by three youths in a moving car in broad daylight on Friday.

The police arrested all the accused later in the day and seized the Opel Corsa car used in the crime. Two of the accused are sons of policemen.

Chandigarh, June 13: Eighty-year-old Balbir Kaur, a chronic heart patient, returned home from hospital to an unpleasant surprise on Friday evening—she had been booked by the UT Police for disobeying the orders of the Deputy Commissioner by not informing the police regarding her tenants. Kaur has been living alone at her Sector-16 house after her husband passed away a year ago.

Mexico City, June 13:A nine-month-old baby suffocated to death inside a car in the Mexican city of Saltillo, after his father forgot him there for seven hours, the Mexican daily La Vanguardia reported Friday.

The incident happened Thursday in Saltillo, about 850 km north of Mexico City.

The man realised what had happened when – at the end of his working day – he went to the day care centre to pick up his son and was told that he had never got there in the morning.

“I had him in my car, I forgot to bring him!” the man reportedly said.

Bangalore, June 13: A 74-year-old retired defence officer murdered his wife by assaulting her with a crow bar, even as she was playing with their
10-month-old grandchild and their seven-year-old granddaughter was crying.

Soon after assaulting Rosylin, 58, K V Benny drank phenyl and tried to commit suicide. He is now recovering in hospital.

New Delhi, June 13: Two people from Ghittorni village on the Gurgaon-Mehrauli border were arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl. A case of rape has been lodged against accused Pramod (20) and Irfan (21). Both the accused are tailors and worked in a nearby shop.

Pune, June 13: The Cantonment police on Thursday traced a 17-year-old girl from the city, who had gone missing, to Nashik. Her 23-year-old boyfriend, who went with her, after promising to marry her, has been arrested on charges of abduction.

Ahmedabad, June 13: The diamond city, considered one of the safest for women, woke up to a rude shock on Friday when a teenaged girl belonging to a well-known family was gangraped around daybreak. Two of the alleged rapists are sons of policemen.

The 17-year-old class XII student was going to tuition classes along with a friend when three people tricked her into a car near Civil Hospital crossroads at 5.30 am.

Worse, the entire crime was captured by the culprits on a cell phone, with the idea of blackmailing the victim.

New Delhi, June 12: A married woman and her paramour allegedly killed her alcoholic husband after he caught them together in their north Delhi shanty four days ago, police said Friday, adding the duo have been arrested.
Kashmira and her paramour Amit allegedly stabbed an inebriated Mohinder Singh to death in their hut in Kishan Ganj area June 8. They hid the body in the house for over 30 hours and then threw it near a drain.

Bangalore, June 12: Sleuths of Karnataka Police in Bangalore, who had arrested nine persons and seized from their possession stolen gold ornaments worth 60 million rupees, have managed to solve one of the sensational robberies in the recent past.

The Bangalore City’s Commissioner of Police S M Bidari disclosed this on Thursday.

A gang of burglars looted the ornaments on June 2 when they waylaid the manager of Muthoot Finance Company, a private non-banking company.

New Delhi, June 12: Apparently fed up with strained relations with his wife, a 25-year-old man allegedly axed his two minor daughters to death at a
village here, on Friday police said.

Yogesh Sharma murdered his two daughters – Aarti (4) and one-and-half-year-old Priyanshi – with a sharp edged weapon on Thursday when his wife Rinki was not present in the house at Jever village in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, Superintendent of Police (Rural) S K Verma said.