Crime

Merborne, June 12: In yet another racial attack on Indians in Australia, a 22-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide after making “rude” comments about his turban.
Police said the student suffered a broken nose in the assault in Adelaide’s busy market area of Rundle Mall yesterday and that they have arrested a 17-year-old youth in this connection.

They said the attacker has been bailed to appear in the Adelaide Youth Court.

Lucknow, June 12: A 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh has accused her father of raping her for three years and making her pregnant twice, police said on Thursday.

“The class 10 student, a resident of Mahadev Nagar in Aligarh district, alleged that her father forced her into an illicit relationship, threatening her,” police inspector Udaiveer Malik said over telephone from Aligarh.

Nand Kishore, who is absconding, is a lecturer at a college in Sonbhadra district. A case has been registered against him.

Melbourne, June 12: Racial attacks on Indian students spread to South Australia with a 22-year-old being allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide after making “rude” comments about his turban, even as the state premier warned he will not tolerate any form of racism.

Police said the Indian student suffered a broken nose and sore jaw in the incident in Adelaide’s busy market area of Rundle Mall yesterday and that they have arrested a 17-year-old youth in this connection.

The attacker has been bailed to appear in the Adelaide Youth Court.

Greater Noida, June 12: In a startling revelation, a father confessed murder of two daughters alleging his wife to have illicit relationship, here.

A man, resident of Mangrauli area, killed his daughters. The ‘frustrated’ father went to the police station and confessed the crime saying that his wife had illicit relationship. He alleged that the girls were not his children and were born out of his wife’s illegal relationship.

Kolkata, June 12: A middle-aged man marrying a much younger girl may only raise a few eyebrows. But when a 45-year-old married woman is accused of kidnapping a boy, whose father claims he is only 16 years old, it’s enough to create a sensation. And a court case.

Subhas Mondal, the father of the boy, moved a habeas corpus application before Calcutta High Court on Thursday, alleging that Chanchala Mondal of Biswanathpur village in Murshidabad has “kidnapped his minor son Arjun and married him”.

Vadodara, June 12: When this 13-year-old patient walked in the hospital complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting, doctors thought that she was suffering from some routine stomach disorder. Post-diagnosis, the rare ailment left the doctors stumped. Her reports revealed that the patient had a big lump of hair in her stomach measuring 50 cm.

Aurangabad, June 12: Hell indeed hath no fury than a woman scorned. A farmer was set ablaze by his wife barely a month into their marriage because of his incessant comparison of her with a woman friend.

In her confession to the police, the wife, Komal alias Manisha (18), said she killed her husband, Srihari Yadav (25), because of his frequent taunts that she was not as beautiful as his woman friend from Pune. He also allegedly threatened to abandon her as she had not brought a good dowry amount.

New Delhi, June 12: A day after a father was arrested for allegedly raping his daughter, another incident in which a brother allegedly raped his own
sister has come to light. The incident was reported from the Trilokpuri area in east Delhi late on Wednesday night. The 28-year-old accused, a small stall owner, has been arrested by the Mayur Vihar police. The victim, a 12-year-old girl, is undergoing treatment in a local hospital.

Mumbai, June 12: The security guards of a posh nightclub in Belapur tied two teenaged boys to a fire hydrant for over six hours as a punishment for trying to steal some aluminium pipes and metal sheets kept there to renovate the restobar.

Alam Shaikh (13) and Mohammed Asif Idrisi (15) were illegally detained from 6 am to 12.30 pm on Thursday by two guards — Bageecha Singh Bhullar (43) and Ujwal Sharma (21) — of Indulge Restobar. Both the guards were arrested.

Patna, June 11: Eight-year-old Satyam was kidnapped, sodomized and killed by 14-year-old Avinash and 13-year-old Khursheed alias Monu, all neighbours at Ashok Nagar under the Kankerbagh police station.

The gory killing had the residents of Kankerbagh seething in anger. They came out on the streets, set ablaze the kirana shop owned by Avinash’s father and blocked traffic at Ashok Nagar and on the New By-pass Road on Saturday morning.

Ahmedabad, June 11: Three members of a family allegedly committed suicide by consuming some poisonous
substance in Jundagadh district on Thursday, police said. The incident came to light when residents of Meghna society in Keshod town found the bodies of Govind Devecha (57) his wife Ranjan (45) and son Kumar (28), at their residence this morning, they said.Police suspect that financial problems may be one of reasons behind the extreme step.

—Agencies

Mumbai, June 11: The intra-gang war in the Dawood Ibrahim group has intensified so much that one of the faction leaders Chhota Shakeel has fled Pakistan. Apparently, Shakeel fears for his life. The factions, led by Anees Ibrahim, Dawood’s younger brother, and Shakeel have been at loggerheads for several months now.

Chennai, June 11: An American national was on Thursday arrested at the Chennai airport for carrying a loaded revolver, officials said.

Central Industrial and Security Force personnel found the weapon while scanning the baggage of Semilar (58) when he was about to board a Mumbai-bound flight at the domestic airport here.

He was later handed over to the airport authorities, CISF officials said.

Semilar had arrived here last week from New Delhi to undergo treatment at a private hospital.

After preliminary inquiry, officials said he had a valid licence issued in the US.

Puducherry, June 11: Hearing in the Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi mutt seer Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi are the main accused, has been adjourned to July seven.

Special Public Prosecutor N Devadoss told a news agency that the cross examination of prosecution witnesses slated for today has been adjourned to next month as Principal District and Sessions Judge D Krishnaraj before whom the case was being tried, is being transferred as District Judge in Thanjavur.

Hyderabad, June 11: Unidentified miscreants abducted and robbed the salesman of a private company of Rs 16 lakh at Saidabad in broad daylight while an elderly couple were relieved of cash and gold by four unidentified persons at gunpoint at Hayathnagar on Wednesday.

In the filmi style robbery at Saidabad, the salesman of Kothapetbased Sri Jyothi Marketing, a dealer of Hindustan Lever Limited, M Ramchander, and the office assistant, D Satyanarayana, were robbed of Rs 16 lakh at knife-point.

Bhuvneshwar, June 11: A month after a Dalit woman in Orissa was allegedly gang raped by four men, including a former leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the police have arrested only one of the accused. Opposition parties claim that a minister is shielding them and are demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

A 24-year-old woman has accused politician Mahesh Agarwal and three other men of having raped her at Paikmal in Bargarh district, about 350 km from here, May 10.

Pune, June 11: Accuses her lesbian lover of betrayal after forcing her to undergo a partial sex change procedure to conceal the relationship…

A local court has directed police to probe a complaint in which a 34-year-old woman has accused her lesbian lover of betrayal after forcing her to undergo a sex change procedure to camouflage the relationship.

Patna, June 11: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed’s close confidant and Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Md Umer Madni – who was nabbed from Delhi last week – was on Thursday taken to Patna by a special team of Delhi Police for further interrogation.

According to reports, Delhi Police is trying to verify the vital information revealed by the Madni about his organisation’s network in Bihar and adjoining states during interrogation.

Chennai, June 11: Tension prevailed in the Puzhal prison, on the city’s outskirts, on Wednesday after life convict ‘Welding’ Kumar was stabbed to death by another convict.

According to police, Kumar and his friend, Nehru, were walking inside the prison when they spotted another inmate, Anbu, smoking a beedi. Nehru questioned Anbu as to how he dared to smoke in front of Kumar.

Anbu did not respond and continued smoking. This infuriated ‘Welding’ Kumar and he started abusing him. But when Anbu refused to heed him, Kumar drew out a knife and tried to stab him.

Mumbai, June 11: A couple was arrested by the Santa Cruz police recently for cheating an airline staffer by promising him a Mhada flat at Shivaji Park at a cheaper rate. The accused, Lahu Navle (44) and his wife Geeta (42), are residents of Prabhadevi. They had offered a flat worth Rs 30 lakh to the complainant, Gajendra Khedekar, for Rs 26 lakh.

Mumbai, June 11: A 26-year-old housewife from Madh village in Malad committed suicide, allegedly due to dowry harassment. Reshma Shaikh died at KEM Hospital on June 9, three days after she consumed poison at her residence.

Reshma’s husband, Amjad (27), was arrested on Wednesday on charges of dowry harassment and abetment of suicide. The police is also looking for Amjad’s mother, Farida and sisters Sammu and Naseem in the case.

Kanpur, June 11: A rape bid was made on a 25-year-old woman of Canadian origin allegedly by a hawildar of 14 Rajputana Rifles here on Wednesday. The
victim and the accused both were travelling on Guwahati-New Delhi Sampark Kranti Express.

While the victim along with her husband was coming from New Jalpaigudi in West Bengal, the accused was coming from Assam. The incident, occurred at around 10.45 am when the train was passing through Bihar, came to light after it reached the Kanpur Central railway station at around 8 pm.

New Delhi, June 11: A 40-year-old ex-servicemen was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping his teenaged daughter in Sultanpuri area of outer Delhi. Police said the accused had repeatedly raped his 16-year-old daughter over the last two-and-a-half months.

The girl, a class XI student at a government college in the area, narrated the incident to her mother after which her mother took her to the police station and lodged a complaint.

Kolkata, June 11: Two hundred and sixty-eight passengers on board a Singapore Airlines flight had a narrow escape at Kolkata airport late Wednesday night when a tanker caught fire seconds before it was to start refuelling the plane.

Thanks to a quick-thinking Indian Oil driver, who put his life at risk, no one was hurt.

New Delhi, June 10: A 22-year-old nursing student at a government medical college in the capital allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room on Wednesday.

Kaushika, who was studying at Lady Hardinge Medical College, was found hanging in her room, a police officer said.

“We received a call from the hospital that one of the rooms in the hostel is closed from inside. We broke open the door and found the girl hanging,” the officer said.

The reasons for the extreme step were not immediately known. Police have informed her parents in Panipat, Haryana.

—IANS–