Month: May 2010

Lahore, May 30: Suspected militants opened fire at a police picket killing three policemen in this eastern Pakistani city, officials said today.

A sub-inspector and two constables were killed instantly when two armed men riding motorcycles sprayed a volley of bullets at the picket in Samanabad area at around midnight.

The attack occurred a day after heavily-armed terrorists stormed two mosques of the minority Ahmedi sect, killing 95 people and injuring over 100.

Etah, May 30: Human skulls and bones were found on the dry bed of a pond here, police said today.

Following this recovery on Saturday, an inquiry by police indicated that the bones were “very old” and could have been disposed into the pond by someone from a nearby mortuary which was set up in 1880, Senior Superintendent of Police R K Chaturvedi said.

About 8-10 human skulls and some bones were found lying on the bed of a dry pond.

Police said, the bones have been lying in the pond for a long time but were discovered only after the water body dried up this summer.

Darbhanga (Bihar), May 30 (PTI) Two policemen were injured in a clash with mob after the men in uniform refused to hand over to them six people of a nomadic community who, according to the locals, were man-eaters.

The mob threw stones at the Mabubi police station where the six nomadic people were kept after being rescued by the police from a section of the people of Kothia and Makhnai villages, Sub-Divisional Officer Sanjay Singh said.

Two policemen were injured in the brick-batting following which the force used batons to disperse the mob, the SDO said.

New Delhi, May 30: Claiming to have solved a blind murder case, police have arrested a person who had lodged a complaint in a murder case for allegedly sodomising and killing the victim.

Mukesh, a resident of Inderpuri in south-west Delhi, was arrested for the offence after he confessed his complicity during sustained interrogation, police alleged.

The accused allegedly had consensual sex with victim Ajay, a resident of same area, on the night of May 27 and it was agreed between them that the former would pay Rs 20 for the act, they said.

New Delhi, May 30: Unidentified persons burgled the house of a senior court official in north-west Delhi and set a room on fire, a modus operandi similar to that of the ‘burgle and burn’ gang led by a teenager operating in the south Delhi.

The incident took place in the Bharat Nagar residence of Apa Toppo, the head of video conferencing in Teez Hazari courts complex, late last night. Topo and her husband Ashit were not at home when the burglary took place, a senior police official said.

It came to light when the couple returned home, found the door broke open and the house ransacked.

New Delhi, May 30: Two men riding a motorbike today died in an accident here after being hit allegedly by a driven bus belonging to the Haryana Roadways.

Nitin, 26, who was riding the motorcycle and an unidentified pillion were declared dead at a hospital, police said.

The victims, who were going towards Ghaziabad, were hit from behind at Sarita Vihar around 1 pm today in south Delhi by the bus that was being driven in a rash manner, they said, adding its driver fled from the spot.

Sangrur, May 30: Four activists of the Unemployed Elementary Trained Teachers’ Union agitating for appointment today kept the authorities here on tenterhooks as they climbed a water tank to press for their demand and refused to get down despite much pesuasion.

The protesting trained teachers climbed the water tank in the middle of a sit-in being staged by the union near the court complex here.