Month: June 2013

A girl was allegedly gang raped by four persons in a moving autorickshaw after they abducted her from Hanuman Mandir in Sector 55 of Faridabad district, police said today.

Police has registered a case under various sections of the IPC against four persons including Bobby, a resident of Sector 25 in the district.

According to the FIR filed by the victim, Bobby along with three others abducted the girl in a three-wheeler last night, when she was returning home after purchasing grocery.

A Delhi sessions court reduced the one-year jail term awarded to a man for molesting a mentally challenged girl here eight years ago and sent him to six months’ jail Monday.

The court took a lenient view towards Raj Kumar, who moved court challenging the magisterial order, and reduced the jail term.

Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain said that though Kumar was guilty, “he has been facing the agony of trial for the last eight years and he has no criminal antecedents and deserves some leniency”.

A 30-year-old mentally disturbed man was detained with a licenced pistol meters away from the house of Ahmad Patel, political adviser to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, police said Monday.

Joginder Singh was in his car when he was stopped at a police checkpost in central Delhi, a police officer said.

“He was mentally disturbed and spoke nonsense. A .315 bore pistol and 21 live cartridges were recovered from his possession,” he said.

He could not explain why he was carrying the weapon and what his destination was.

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A married woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house here in the city, said police Monday.

The 27-year-old woman, who was from Kerala, hanged herself in her rented house in east Delhi’s Mandawali Sunday night.

“No suicide note was recovered. We are yet to ascertain the reason behind her step,” said a police official.

She is survived by her husband Rajesh and a four-year-old child.

She got married five years ago and was studying masters in law at a private institute here.

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A 17-year-old Poland-based model was molested by a man who runs a modelling agency here, said police Monday. The accused is absconding.

Accused Imshan allegedly molested the model in south Delhi’s Greater Kailash area Sunday night.

“The girl had come to Delhi two months ago on a modelling assignment when she came in contact with Imshan,” said a police official.

On the pretext of getting her an assignment, Imshan managed to bring her to his Greater Kailash house, where a Brazil-based model also resided, said the official.

Depressed over being HIV positive, a 23-year-old youth committed suicide by hanging himself at his house here Monday, police said.

“His family members spotted him hanging at his house in the Walled City area and informed police. A team was rushed to the spot. He was taken to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” a police officer said.

The officer added that the victim’s family members said that he was depressed for being HIV positive.

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A man was arrested in Bihar’s Siwan district Monday for allegedly raping and killing a minor girl, police said.

The girl was raped and murdered in Sahuli village in Siwan.

“The victim was part of a marriage party. The incident took place when she was sleeping in a vehicle, whose driver raped her and killed her,” a district police official said.

According to a police officer, the accused was caught by villagers and handed over to local police.

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An FIR has been registered against RJD candidate for Maharajganj Lok Sabha bye-election Prabhunath Singh for allegedly threatening a voter during yesterday’s polling, police said today.

On the basis of a written complaint of Rahimuddin Khan, a native of Khawaspur village, Singh and his supporter
Surendra Pandey threatened him with dire consequences when he he was standing in queue outside a booth, if he voted against him.

An FIR has been lodged against Singh and Pandey, Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar said.

CPI(M)-Trinamool Congress activists clashed at Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district this evening leaving eight injured, three of them seriously.

The clash broke out when a CPI(M) procession was passing by the BDO’s office and some local TMC activists
protested to some “objectionable slogans against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, police sources said.

All the injured were taken to local health centre from where three were referred to the rural hospital.

A local court today directed the Garhwa police to give a report on the death of an accused in police remand.

The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate issued the directions after the father of Udesh Paswan petitioned for a judicial probe into his son’s death on the night of Saturday/Sunday.

Transferring the case to the district sessions court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate asked the investigating officer
and the officer-in-charge of Nagarutari police station to submit the report within three days.

Government will hold an all-party meeting this week to finalise a strategy to resolve the Maoist problem decisively as the UPA expressed serious concern over the May 25 audacious attack in Bastar that killed 27 people including three prominent Congress leaders.

A decision in this regard was taken at the meeting of the UPA Coordination Committee at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence, which was attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, NC chief Farooq Abdullah and IUML chief E Ahamed.

Supreme Court-appointed SIT on Monday termed as “instigating” the petition filed by Zakia Jafri, opposing the closure report filed by SIT giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and alleged that it could again create communal disturbances in the state.

SIT made this submission before Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra who was hearing the ‘protest’ petition filed by Jafri opposing the closure report filed by SIT giving clean chit to Modi and others for their role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.