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KOLKATA: Police on Tuesday sought CCTV footage from July 11 covering the entire campus of IIM-Calcutta as part of their investigation into the alleged rape of a woman by a student inside the hostel, an officer said. Discrepancies have allegedly been found in the survivor's account, prompting the police to ascertain the exact locations she had visited during her stay on the campus that day. "We have sought the CCTV footage of July 11 of the entire campus. We need to see which places the survivor had gone inside the campus," the officer said. According to police sources, the woman had spent nearly two and a half hours on the IIM-Calcutta campus. "There are certain discrepancies in her claims about the duration of her stay at the campus of IIM-Calcutta. That is the reason we need the CCTV footage to cross-check the time when she entered the campus, which place she visited, and what time she left," the officer of Haridevpur Police Station said.
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) YouTuber Samay Raina appeared before the National Commission for Women (NCW) in Delhi on Tuesday, months after he was summoned in connection with allegedly offensive and sexist content aired during his show "India's Got Latent", officials said. Raina was also among the five social media influencers who appeared before the Supreme Court in a case seeking action against them for ridiculing persons suffering from disabilities. Raina submitted his statement in response to the allegations to NCW officials. Officials said further steps will be considered after reviewing his ...Read More >
Pune, Jul 4 (PTI) Police on Friday said the suspect detained in connection with the alleged rape of a Pune IT professional at her home was her friend, casting doubts on the woman's claim that he was a stranger and had gained entry by posing as a courier delivery agent. Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said neither was there any sign of forced entry nor any spray that could be used on the victim. Moreover, the selfie in question was taken with the consent of both, and it was the victim who edited the photo and typed a threatening message on her phone after he left her place around 8.30 pm on ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 5 (PTI) Prominent Bihar-based businessman Gopal Khemka was shot dead near his residence in Patna by a bike-borne assailant, police said on Saturday. The incident took place around 11.40 pm on Friday in the Gandhi Maidan locality. Also Read | Mona Bugaliya or Mooli Devi? Woman Poses As Fake Sub-Inspector, Trains 2 Years at Rajasthan Police Academy; Arrested. "Officers of the local police station and personnel in patrolling vehicles immediately reached the spot and secured the crime scene. Forensic experts are collecting evidence. Investigation is underway," SP (Patna Central) Diks ...Read More >
Rohtak: The 35-year-old woman who was allegedly gang-raped on a stationary train in Panipat recently has spoken publicly for the first time, describing the stark details how a domestic dispute spiralled into a night of violence and left her fighting for her life.According to the victim, the ordeal began on the night of June 24 when her husband allegedly beat her after she refused to have sex. "My three-year-old son died a month ago," she told the media. "I was traumatised and fearful of intimacy, but my husband kept pressuring me. When I resisted, he assaulted me and warned, 'if not with me, s ...Read More >
Haridwar: A woman politician has been arrested for allegedly letting her boyfriend and others repeatedly rape her 13-year-old daughter in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The horrifying crime, which occurred between January and March, was exposed when the minor bravely confided in her father, prompting a police investigation that led to the arrest of the accused. The accused was arrested with her boyfriend and one more. According to police reports, the minor was gang-raped multiple times, often in the presence of her mother. The minor, who had been living with her father following her parents' separat ...Read More >
New Delhi: Three Indian citizens vanished mysteriously in Tehran. Darkness closed in as hope seemed lost. A ruthless Pakistani gang with potential links to ISI snatched them away, casting a shadow of fear. But relentless Indian diplomats refused to back down. Against all odds, a daring rescue mission ignited. Now, the captives are free, and a chilling game of espionage comes to light. The Punjab-based trio - Amritpal Singh from Hoshiarpur, Jaspal Singh from SBS Nagar and Hushnapreet Singh from Sangrur - had landed in Iran on May 1. Promised a clandestine route to Australia via Dubai and Tehra ...Read More >
ALSO READ: Lucknow Shocker: 3-Year-Old Girl, Sleeping Under Metro Station, Raped In Alambagh Area; Her Condition Critical Ashish Srivastav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Central Lucknow, who visited the crime scene on Wednesday night itself, identified the accused as Deepak Verma. While talking to the news agency ANI, DCP Srivastava said, " On the morning of June 5, at 10 am, a complaint was registered that a 2.5 year old girl had been raped... A case was registered and five teams were formed... As per the CCTV footage of the scooter, the accused was identified as Deepak Verma... ...Read More >
Lucknow: A man accused of raping a three-year-old girl died in an encounter with Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow on Friday, a day after a complaint was registered against him. The accused was identified as Deepak Verma. After receiving the complaint, the police formed five teams and launched a manhunt operation to nab Kumar. Kumar was initially injured in the gunfight. However, he succumbed to injuries during treatment. "Accused Deepak Verma, who was injured in an encounter with the Police, has died during treatment," DCP Central Lucknow Ashish Srivastava told news agency ANI. The girl was a ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 28 (PTI) The police on Saturday arrested a security guard of the Kolkata law college where a first-year student was raped allegedly by three men including an alumnus earlier this week, an officer said. With this, the total number of arrests reached four in the crime that took place inside the guard's room on the college premises. The guard, who was detained by the police for questioning, was arrested later, the officer said. "The security guard was arrested this morning after we found that his replies were incoherent. His presence at the college has been captured in the CCTV in ...Read More >
Srinagar- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said foreign countries were told clearly during the post-Operation Sindoor diplomatic outreach that in case of a fresh provocation, India would repeat its action. Speaking at a discussion at the Ahmedabad Management Association, Tharoor said Indian delegations which visited foreign countries in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor managed to convey that India acted with restraint and responsibility. "In other places, we actually were able to get some very high-placed people to say not only that they respected and supported India's right of self- ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maharashtra's Minister of State for Home Affairs, Yogesh Kadam, on Thursday described the Pune rape case as "deeply unfortunate" and assured the public that the accused will be brought to justice. The crime shocked the city when a 22-year-old techie was raped in her home in a posh residential society in Pune's Kondhwa area. The incident took place around 7.30 pm on Wednesday. According to police, the attacker posed as a courier delivery agent, claiming he was delivering a bank document. When the woman turned to get a pen, he forced his way inside, latched the d ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 5 (PTI) Prominent Bihar-based businessman Gopal Khemka was shot dead near his residence in Patna by a bike-borne assailant, police said on Saturday. The incident took place around 11.40 pm on Friday in the Gandhi Maidan locality. "Officers of the local police station and personnel in patrolling vehicles immediately reached the spot and secured the crime scene. Forensic experts are collecting evidence. Investigation is underway," SP (Patna Central) Diksha told reporters. "A bullet and a cartridge have been recovered from the spot. CCTV footage is also being examined. Preliminary i ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 12 (PTI) A woman studying at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta was allegedly raped by a student inside a hostel of the business school, police said on Saturday. The accused has been arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the woman at Haridevpur Police Station, they said. The alleged incident inside the boys' hostel of IIM-Calcutta took place on Friday, a police officer said. "The woman stated in the FIR that she was called to the hostel for a counselling session. She then became unconscious after consuming a drink laced with drugs at the hostel. The woman realised ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 13 (PTI) Police have constituted a nine-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe into the alleged rape of a woman by a student at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, officials said on Saturday. The team is led by an assistant commissioner from the South West Division, they said. The alleged incident took place inside the boys' hostel of IIM-Calcutta on Friday, a police officer had said. The accused student was arrested on Saturday on the basis of an FIR lodged by the woman, he said. A court here has remanded the student to police custody till July 19. Key focu ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: Hours after the abduction and rape of a three-year-old girl sleeping with her mother under a bridge near Alambagh metro station, the accused was killed in an encounter with Lucknow police early Friday.The accused, identified as Deepak Verma, a habitual offender with multiple criminal cases lodged across city police stations, was traced through CCTV footage that captured him fleeing with the child on a white scooter around 3.30 am on Thursday.Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Zone) Ashish Srivastava said multiple police teams were formed immediately after the incident, and a rewar ...Read More >
New Delhi: Alleging "blatant misuse" of agencies to defame its leaders, AAP on Thursday questioned why the first information report filed against former Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain was being kept under wraps and "selective" press notes were being leaked to the media.Bharadwaj, who is Delhi AAP convener, alleged that only two former ministers were named in the case without any reasonable cause while all the officers of the health and public works departments, who were actually responsible for executing the hospital projects, were spared. "Is the FIR so baseless that BJP ...Read More >
Pune: City police commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Friday said investigation into the alleged rape of a 22-year-old data scientist by a "delivery agent" in a Kondhwa flat on Wednesday revealed that there was "no forced entry into the woman's flat, no chemical was sprayed to render her unconscious and the selfie on her cellphone was taken with her consent before she herself cropped the image". Kumar told TOI, "We have detained her 27-year-old friend, an IT professional with a software company in Baner, after evidence like his cellphone location showed that he was around the flat at the time of the ...Read More >
Kolkata: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising nine members has been formed by the Kolkata Police to investigate the alleged rape of a woman inside the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) campus hostel in Joka. The accused is a 26-year-old second-year MBA student, identified as Parmanand Mahaveer Toppannavar, also known as Parmanand Jain. Police officials stated that the SIT's first priority is to resolve contradictions between the statements given by the alleged victim and her father. According to the woman's complaint, she was invited by the accused to the boys' hostel ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A physics lecturer from a private college in Dakshina Kannada and two of his friends have been arrested by Bengaluru police for allegedly blackmailing and raping a student.When the mental torture by the trio became intolerable, the girl narrated to her parents how she was being exploited. Subsequently, she went to Marathahalli police station along with her parents on July 5 and lodged a complaint seeking action against the perpetrators. Acting swiftly, the cops arrested the trio the following day. The accused are Narendra, a physics lecturer, Sandeep, a biology lecturer -- both work ...Read More >
Kolkata: Probing the murder and rape of the class VIII student in New Town, cops have found that accused Soumitra Roy (22) is an undertrial accused in a four-year-old dowry death case at his hometown in Nadia's Dhantala. He was accused of torturing and killing his former wife for dowry. Cops said in a case dated Aug 2, 2021, Roy was arrested by officers of Dhantala PS. "He got bail in 2022 and then left Nadia with his family and remarried 13 months ago. He still has to appear in a Nadia court in connection with the case on a regular basis," an officer said. TOI on Monday quoted his wife Mous ...Read More >
Lucknow, June 6: A man accused of abduction and rape of a three-year-old girl in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, was killed in an encounter with police on Friday. The accused was identified as Deepak Verma by the police after scanning CCTV footage that showed him with the child. The officials said he was a habitual offender with criminal cases lodged across the city police stations. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Zone) Ashish Srivastava said five police teams were formed immediately after the incident was reported, and a reward of Rs one lakh was announced for his arrest. Police, after identi ...Read More >
Lucknow: The accused in the Alambagh two and a half year old girl rape case was killed in an encounter with the police on Thursday night. The police first caught the accused during a check near the ACP Cantt office, but he allegedly started running and opened fire on the police. In the retaliatory firing opened by the police, the accused got injured and succumbed after some time. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Ashish Srivastava said that the name of the deceased accused is Deepak Verma, who hails from Aishbagh. He used to take out tableaux during Mata Rani's Jagran and supply water t ...Read More >
Lucknow: On the night of the crime, Deepak visited the Alambagh Metro Station two to three times, observing the surroundings.The crime occurred in an area surrounded by three police outposts, including a pink booth designated for women's safety, located just 300 metres from the crime scene where the girl was sleeping with her mother. Despite the police presence around, the accused, Deepak, managed to carry out the horrific assault and escape."Once he was certain that the girl's parents were in deep sleep, he kidnapped the girl, committed the rape, and fled towards the service road. Showing no ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 8: A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped, killed and her body stuffed in a suitcase at a neighbour's house in northeast Delhi's Dayalpur area, triggering protests by her family members and locals. The girl's body was found on Saturday evening. Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed in the area on Sunday to maintain law and order. Police said the perpetrator of the heinous crime seems to have fled after stuffing the body in the suitcase. Senior police officers said all angles are being probed, including sexual assault. Delhi: Doctors Reveal 9-Year-Old Girl Found Dea ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a belligerent, brilliant, and breathtaking performance from the Chennai Bulls, who were crowned the first ever champions of the Rugby Premier League, here in Mumbai, at the Shahaji Raje Bhosale Sports Complex. The Chennai Bulls thrashed the Delhi Redz by a scoreline of 41-0 in the final, to clinch the title. In fact, the margin of victory is the biggest across Season 1 of the GMR RPL. Meanwhile, the Hyderabad Heroes, who had finished top of the table in the league stage, came away with a third-place finish, after they won 17-12 against the Bengaluru Bra ...Read More >
No chemical spray had been used to make her unconscious (as suspected earlier), Kumar said. A suspect detained in connection with the alleged rape of a Pune IT professional at her home was her friend and not a stranger who gained entry by posing as a courier delivery agent, police said on Friday, casting doubt on her version of the events. It was the woman herself who took a selfie with him and typed a threatening message in her phone, police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said. "They know each oth ...Read More >
Next hearing scheduled for March 2025 with scope for earlier date The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the trial in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital is expected to conclude within a month. The case, being heard at the Special CBI Court in Sealdah, has progressed significantly, with 43 out of 81 prosecution witnesses already deposed. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justi ...Read More >
Patna, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The brutal rape, followed by tragic demise of nine-year-old Dalit girl from Muzaffarpur, has left the local population incensed and outraged, with many demanding capital punishment for the accused. The political landscape, though remains divided over state's apathy and insensitivity towards the teenage victim, the issue has turned into major political row with the ruling party and the Opposition taking potshots at each other. The minor rape victim succumbed to injuries due to systematic apathy and medical negligence. The girl was made to wait for hours at the Pa ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jun 5 (PTI) A three year old girl was allegedly raped and is said to be in a critical condition, police here said on Thursday. According to police, the incident occurred on late Wednesday night when the girl, daughter of daily wage labourers, was sleeping under a metro station. The accused took the girl away while her parents were sleeping and raped her at a secluded place, police said. Following the report, senior officials, including the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Ashish Kumar Srivastav inspected the crime scene on Wednesday night itself. The girl was rushed to a hos ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: In a major crackdown, the Lucknow police tracked a rape accused, Deepak Verma, 24, and neutralised him in an encounter near the Sugarcane Institute in the Devi Kheda area on the outskirts of the state capital early Friday morning. Deepak, who had allegedly raped a two-and-a-half-year-old girl under the Alambagh metro station just hours earlier, was gunned down after he opened fire on a police team that had zeroed in on him. He sustained two bullet injuries in the chest and later died during treatment. The heinous crime occurred in the early hours of Friday when the accused allegedly ...Read More >