Month: January 2015

Delayed trains coupled with the long pending demand for Diva-CST local service led to a violent rail-roko agitation at Diva railway station near Thane this morning, Government Railway Police (GRP) said.

Those injured in the resultant violence included 15 policemen and two motormen.

Thane and Dombivali GRP stations have registered FIRs against unidentified miscreants under IPC sections including 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 353 (assault on public servant) and sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act.

An encounter today took place between NDFB-Songbijit militants and 12 Assam Rifles personnel in Itakhola area of Assam’s Sonitpur district along Arunachal Pradesh, a police officer said.

Heavy firing was reported, but there was no report of any injury or casualty so far, district Superintendent of Police Sanjukta Parashar said.

A group of 12 NDFB-S militants came to the Assam side and when the security forces encountered them, they fired upon the personnel leading to an exchange of bullets, police sources added.

A few days after a newly-born baby went missing from a hospital here, police today claimed to have arrested the two women kidnappers in connection with the case.

The duo, identified as Sarita and Sonia, were apprehended by police after the investigators received a tip-off that one of the accused who had no child from her wedlock for last 15 years, incidentally claimed she has been blessed with a baby boy.

A senior police officer said that they verified the information and reached the house of the accused.

A boy, about 11-years-old, who was part of a victory procession taken out by JMM legislator of Baharagora Kunal Sarangi, was crushed to death under the wheels of a tractor in Basadiha village in Ghatsila of East Singhbhum district today, the police said.

The victim was sitting on the tractor, which was part of the victory procession, when he fell down and came under the wheels, Superintendent of Police (city) Shailendra Kumar Sinha said.

The boy was killed instantly, Sinha said adding the body was recovered by the officers of Chakulia police station.

An 18-year-old youth was shot dead allegedly by his two friends in Dhama Enclave colony area of the districts.

Abhishek, an auto driver from Etah, was shot dead last evening allegedly by Radhey and Bunty at his home, said RP Sharma, SHO of Loni Border area.

The duo called Abhishek out of his home at fired at him, police said, adding that he was rushed to GTB hospital in East Delhi, where doctors declared him brought dead.

The SHO said that Abhishek and the two accused were picked up by the police in connection with a case some day ago.

A 19-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling at her residence in Kasna area today, police said.

Sapna, wife of a construction worker, hanged herself from the ceiling angle of the labour room she was residing in with her husband, they said.

The body has been sent for postmortem and cause of suicide is being probed, they said.

A group of miscreants stole cash and coupons from the Diva suburban railway station booking office here today, when an irate mob was busy pelting stones and blockading railway lines to protest against erratic local train services, souces said.

Miscreants stole cash and coupons worth Rs 1.18 lakh, the police said, adding that this included Rs 54,906 in cash.

Ticketing clerks ran for their lives after the mob began pelting stones at the booking office, after which miscreants cleaned took over the office and stole cash and coupons.

The body of a teacher attached to a private coaching centre was fished out today from the water of Bay of Bengal in Bakkhali in South 24 Parganas district, while three students are still missing after they went for a bath in the sea, the police said.

A group of 35 people, mostly students from a coaching centre in the city’s Ekbalpur area, had gone to the popular sea resort for an outing, the police said.

A 25-year-old woman has gone missing under mysterious circumstances from Malakpur village, police said today.

The incident came to light today when Karuna’s brother lodged a report at Surajpur police station. She has been missing since last evening, they said.

Karuna, who has a daughter, had come to her brother’s house in Surajpur from Deoria for treatment at AIIMS hospital.

Six Somali soldiers and one civilian were killed today in an attack by Shebab militants on a military checkpoint in Baidoa and in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, officials said.

A Somali military official, Colonel Mohamed Hassan, said six soldiers died when the Shebab, Al-Qaeda’s main African affiliate, carried out a pre-dawn raid against their post near Baidoa, some 250 kilometres northwest of Mogadishu.

“The Shebab fighters attacked three locations including the checkpoint outside Baidoa. Three of their fighters were killed,” said Suleyman Abdulahi, another local official.