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ITANAGAR, 8 Apr: A 42-year-old woman, identified as Yapi Potom, who was working as a junior teacher at Government Secondary School, Chimpu, was murdered by one Daksen Riram here on Tuesday night. The incident occurred when the victim was returning to her house in the ESS Sector. The accused, Riram, who was waiting for her, brutally assaulted her near the gate of her house using a traditional machete. The injuries were so severe that by the time she was rushed to the hospital, doctors at RKM Hospital declared her brought dead. "Based on the FIR filed by the victim's brother, a case vide Itanagar PS Case No. 87/26 under Sections 103(1)/351(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered, and investigation has been initiated. During the investigation, with the assistance of Chimpu Police Station and based on technical inputs, the accused, Daksen Riram, was traced and apprehended. He has been arrested and produced before the competent court. We will try to complete the investigation as soon as possible," said SP Itanagar Jummar Basar. The extreme brutality of the crime has shocked even the police personnel investigating the case. "This appears to be a pre-planned murder. The nature of the crime is extremely brutal and shocking," added SP Basar. The investigation is still at an early stage, and police are yet to draw any conclusion regarding the motive behind the murder. However, it is believed that the victim and the accused knew each other. Her last rites have been conducted by the family members. She is survived by her two children, a 15-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son. Her brutal murder has shocked many of her friends and colleagues. "Her husband passed away last year, and she was the sole caregiver for her two children. She was such a wonderful human being and had no enmity with anyone. Nobody deserves to die in such a way," said one of her colleagues.
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 >
Jind (Haryana) [India], October 16 (ANI): Rohtak ASI Sandeep Lathar, who allegedly ended his life after accusing the late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar and his family of corruption, was cremated in Julana in Haryana Jind on Thursday. Haryana Minister Shruti Chaudhary, who attended the last rites, said that the State government will ensure justice to the ASI. Lathar daughter said that her father sacrificed himself in the fight against corruption. My father has sacrificed himself against corruption. He is a martyr. My whole family and I hope that Haryana Police and the state government will suppo ...Read More >
ITANAGAR, 25 Oct: The Nirjuli police have issued a lookout notice against former Itanagar Capital Region deputy commissioner Talo Potom in connection with Nirjuli Police Station Case No 92/2025, U/S 108/271/272/3(5) of the BNS, 2023, dated 25-10-2025. Potom is reportedly at large after an FIR was registered against him in connection with the suicide of 19-year-old youth Gomchu Yekar. Potom, currently posted as special secretary (PWD) under the Delhi government, remains untraceable. A manhunt is underway. The police have constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the sensational ...Read More >
New Delhi: Protest at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) against a recently announced fee hike, the long-standing suspension of students' union elections and calls for administrative accountability have entered their sixth day, with students boycotting classes and staging sit-ins at the Bab-e-Syed gate (the iconic entrance of the varsity). The fee structure for different courses has witnessed a sharp revision. Students say the hike ranges from 25% to over 60% across various programmes. Many claim they first learned of the revised fees only while trying to pay through the university's online ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): The mortal remains of Navjot Singh, Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, who died in a BMW accident on September 14, were taken for the last rites on Tuesday. Singh had been riding a two-wheeler along with his wife when the vehicle collided with them. The accused, Gaganpreet Kaur, who has been remanded to two days' judicial custody, filed a bail plea claiming the crash was "wholly accidental" and unintentional. Also Read | Narendra Modi Birthday Wishes and Images: Celebrate Indian PM Narendra Modi's 75th Birthday on 17 September. Her counsel hi ...Read More >
Panchkula: A case of murder has been registered against former Punjab DGP Muhammad Mustafa, his wife Razia Sultana, a former minister, their daughter-in-law and daughter following the death of their son Aqil around five days ago.Aqil had alleged in a purported social media video that his father and his wife were in a relationship, and that he faced a threat to his life. Adding a twist to the mystery, another video surfaced on Tuesday in which he purportedly says that he made the allegations due to "mental illness".An SIT has been constituted under the supervision of an ACP-rank officer to cond ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Rohtak police in Haryana have registered an FIR against the wife of the late Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, her brother, Punjab legislator Amit Rattan, and two others on charges of abetment of suicide and criminal conspiracy in connection with the death of Assistant Sub‑Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Lathar. SI Sandeep Lathar was found dead with a gunshot wound at his village home on Tuesday evening. A note discovered at the scene purportedly leveled corruption allegations against the late IPS officer, Y. Puran Kumar -- who, in turn, had died by suicide in his residence in Chandi ...Read More >
Jind (Haryana) [India], October 16 (ANI): Rohtak ASI Sandeep Lathar, who allegedly ended his life after accusing the late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar and his family of corruption, was cremated in Julana in Haryana's Jind on Thursday. Haryana Minister Shruti Chaudhary, who attended the last rites, said that the State government will ensure justice to the ASI. Lathar's daughter said that her father "sacrificed himself" in the fight against corruption. "My father has sacrificed himself against corruption. He is a martyr. My whole family and I hope that Haryana Police and the state government wil ...Read More >
Ghazipur: A groom, Rakesh Ram (25), was thrashed by a group of youths in a dispute over DJ song in Jagdishpur village under Dildarnagar police station in Ghazipur on Thursday night. He was taken to the Trauma Centre of BHU in Varanasi where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday night. Videos of the incident went viral on social media. Angered over his killing, Ram's family members blocked the Tadi Ghat-Bara road on Saturday and staged a massive protest.Ghazipur CO Jamania, Ramkrishna Tiwari, said on Saturday that so far, three accused, including one who was brandishing a country-made revolver ...Read More >
Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Gayatri Prajapati was attacked by a fellow inmate inside Lucknow Jail on Tuesday. The scuffle took place within the jail premises, after which prison authorities launched an internal inquiry. According to a statement issued by Dr Ramdhani, DIG Prisons, Lucknow Range, the incident occurred after Prajapati allegedly used abusive language towards another inmate, Vishwas Rajput. In response, Vishwas attacked Prajapati using a sharp object inside the cell. DIG Prisons clarified that the incident was not premeditated and dismissed any spec ...Read More >
Gurugram, Jul 11 (PTI) Former state-level tennis player Radhika Yadav was cremated on Friday evening, a day after her father allegedly shot her dead at point blank range, bringing the curtains down on a life cut short cruelly and leaving behind questions aplenty. Deepak Yadav, 49, who confessed to the crime and told police he was taunted for living off her income from a tennis academy, was produced in court on Friday and remanded to one-day police custody. The 25-year-old received four bullets, three in the back and one in the shoulder, according to the postmortem report by a board of three ...Read More >
Morena (Madhya Pradesh): An on-duty forest guard was run over and killed after a tractor-trolley driver, allegedly transporting sand illegally, hit him and fled the scene in Morena. The incident took place at 6 am on Wednesday near the Ranpur village intersection under Dimni police station limits. A six-member Forest Department team was on routine patrol when they spotted a sand-laden tractor-trolley approaching from the opposite direction. When the team signalled the driver to stop, he attempted to escape. As forest guard Harkesh Gurjar stepped forward to block the vehicle, driver named Vino ...Read More >
Julana/Jind: ASI Sandeep Kumar Lather, who died by suicide on Tuesday, was cremated in his native Julana town in Jind on Thursday after autopsy in Rohtak.His family had refused to allow postmortem or cremation until an FIR was registered against all those he had named in his final video. After the FIR, his family consented to the autopsy, which was carried out in Rohtak on Thursday afternoon.The family then took the body to Julana, around 35km away, for cremation.Hry khaps strategise to avert rep ...Read More >
Leh: The last rites of two of the four youths killed in the September 24 violence were performed in curfew-bound Leh town on Sunday amid tight security, with no relaxation in restrictions, officials said. "The situation remained by and large normal with no untoward incident reported from anywhere," an official said, adding mobile internet services in the town remained suspended. Prohibitory orders banning assembly of five or more persons also remained in force in other major parts of the Union Territory, including Kargil. The chorus of opposition leaders criticising the Centre's handling of ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) With Ankur Bhattacharjee, Quadri Aruna, and Adriana Diaz all winning their singles rubbers, Kolkata ThunderBlades beat reigning champions Dempo Goa Challengers 9-6 in the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 on Sunday. Kolkata's victory saw them move into the playoff spots, occupying fourth with 29 points. Goa, with six more game wins on the board, moved level on points with leaders Jaipur Patriots and U Mumba TT. The tie opened with a gripping clash between two of the league's best: Goa captain Harmeet Desai took the opening game 11-10 after a stunning com ...Read More >
Chandigarh [India], October 17 (ANI): Following the post-mortem of late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, Chandigarh Police has revealed that the post-mortem examination findings are consistent with the circumstances indicated in the preliminary inquest and final note. Chandigarh Police said, "The post-mortem examination findings are consistent with the circumstances indicated in the preliminary inquest and final note." In a heartfelt tribute, both daughters of Haryana-cadre IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar performed the 'mukhagni' to his mortal remains during his last rites at the Sector 25 crematorium ...Read More >
Itanagar: IAS officer and former deputy commissioner of Itanagar Capital Region (ICR), Talo Potom, who was wanted after a 19-year-old youth was found dead in his rented room last Friday, surrendered before police on Monday morning.ICR Naharlagun SP Nyelam Nega said Potom surrendered at 7.30am on Monday but withheld details. Later in the day, the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) court in Yupia remanded Potom to 14 days of judicial custody.Potom, currently serving as PWD special secretary with the Delhi govt, was wanted in connection with the death of Gomchu Yekar. The suicide notes recove ...Read More >
Hisar, Jul 18 (PTI) The last rites of the Dalit boy, who died in a suspicious manner here on July 7, were held on Friday in Haryana's Hisar after the government accepted the demands of the family. The last rites of Ganesh were performed in the afternoon after family claimed the body. Haryana Minister Krishan Kumar Bedi and MLA Randhir Panihar were among those present at the funeral. Ganesh (16) died on July 7 in a suspicious manner when police went to a residential area to stop the "loud music" being played late at night by a family during a birthday party. The family had earlier demanded a ...Read More >
The family has not yet held the last rites, despite 10 days having passed, as they had been demanding action against the erring policemen, alleging it was murder. Former Punjab chief minister and Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi, who reached Hisar on Thursday, demanded a CBI probe into the death of the youth. Sources said the government has agreed to the family's demand to register an FIR on their complaint, while a job would be given to one member of the deceased's family. The last rites are ...Read More >