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New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) Police are planning to retrace the entire route taken by the man accused of breaching the Delhi Assembly security, to reconstruct his movements before he rammed his SUV through a VIP gate and entered the premises, sources said on Wednesday. Sarabjeet Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit, who was arrested hours after the incident on Monday, allegedly wished to seek attention of the police officers over the matter of his missing nephew. According to sources, inves ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The BJP approached the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, demanding an FIR against the Congress and a show-cause notice to its president, Mallikarjun Kharge, for his alleged "inflammatory" remarks in Assam and "illiterate" jibe at the people of Gujarat and some other states. Citing violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also urged the poll panel to restrain Kharge from addressing any election rally, public meeting, or ma ...Read More >
The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed the death sentences awarded to two men, including the victim's cousin, in the 2019 rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Ludhiana, and ordered a retrial. In March 2023, a fast-track special court under the POCSO Act had awarded capital punishment to the convicts 28-year-old cousin of the victim and a 26-year-old youth. Allegations were that convicts, both residents of Doraha and hailing from district Damriya in Uttar Pradesh, took the victim ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the death sentences awarded to two men in a 2019 rape and murder case of a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl in Ludhiana's Doraha. The HC also remanded the case back to the trial court, asking it to begin the trial from the stage of recording the statement of the accused and a fresh judgement be passed. "It is not a case where the trial court had put all the incriminating circumstances to the accused," observed the bench of J ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has upheld a 2022 CBI court order directing a murder trial against eight police personnel from the Wadala Government Railway Police (GRP) in connection with the 2014 custodial death of Agnelo Valdaris. A division bench comprising Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata dismissed the plea filed by the accused officers, thereby clearing the way for their prosecution under serious criminal charges. The court endorsed the findings of the Central Bureau of Investig ...Read More >
Cuttack: Police in Odisha's Cuttack district have arrested two retired police personnel and four home guards, nearly a decade after an alleged custodial death of 44-year-old resident of Malisahi village under Narasinghpur police limits. Those arrested have been identified as retired assistant sub-inspector Bhagan Sahoo, retired havildar Pramod Kumar Patra, and home guards Joginath Nayak, Bhikari Nayak and Maheswar Debata, and Dharmaraj Rana. Debata and Rana are still in service. They were produ ...Read More >
Hitting back at Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif for his alleged comments related to striking Kolkata, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday curtly remarked that only God would know how many parts Pakistan would be divided into "they cast an eye on Bengal". Asif reportedly said Saturday that Pakistan would respond to any "future misadventures" by India with a strike on Kolkata. While addressing a massive public rally in Barrackpore, Singh warned Pakistan of a repeat of 1971 if it continued i ...Read More >
Eyewitnesses reported a masked man driving an SUV at high speed into the Delhi Assembly premises on Monday, striking an e-rickshaw outside Gate No. 2 and crashing into an iron gate. The driver then placed a flower bouquet in the Speaker's vehicle on the porch and fled. The e-rickshaw suffered damage, the driver said. A masked driver breached security at the Delhi Assembly on Monday. Eyewitnesses said an SUV sped through Gate No. 2 at about 2 pm. The vehicle struck an e-rickshaw outside and smas ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A court on Tuesday sent the SUV driver, accused of driving into the Delhi Assembly premises, to eight days of police custody after cops said they were probing a potential terror angle. The police remand application had urged 10-day custody of the accused, Sarabjeet Singh. The prosecution told the court that the charge of attempt to murder has been invoked in the case as Singh tried to "run over the security personnel on duty twice" when they tried to stop him. The police told the cou ...Read More >
NAVI MUMBAI: An unidentified assailant opened fire at two individuals in Airoli late Monday night, leaving RTI activist Amit Maurya critically injured, police said. The attacker remains at large, and police have yet to establish a motive. The incident occurred around 11:45 pm at Chhatrapati Rahivasi Sangh, where Maurya was meeting his friend, contractor Sandeep Gawas, who was overseeing construction work in the area. According to Rabale police, the attacker arrived on a motorcycle and fired fo ...Read More >
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 37,000 each. (Representational) A court in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district has sentenced five members of a family to life imprisonment in a nearly two-year-old murder case. Special Sessions Judge Jainuddin Ansari, after completing the trial in the murder of a man named Pankaj, convicted Guddu Bharti, Nikhil Bharti, Jang Bahadur, Vansh Bahadur and Gulabi, wife of Jang Bahadur, and awarded them life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 37,000 each. The pros ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 22-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing his father and uncle following a drunken altercation at their rented accommodation in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar, police said. Deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka) Kushal Pal Singh said that the accused, identified as Ishwar, was held from the Mohan Garden area after remaining absconding for three days, adding that he had confessed to the crime during interrogation. The incident came to light on April 4, when informatio ...Read More >
The Bombay High Court has ordered a murder trial for eight police officers in the 2014 custodial death of Agnello Valdaris, citing evidence of torture and inconsistencies in the police's account of events. Photograph: ANI on XKey PointsBombay High Court upholds murder charges against eight police personnel in the 2014 custodial death of Agnello Valdaris.The court cited inconsistencies in police records, including missing CCTV footage and failure to follow medical advice, as reasons for upholdin ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 8: The Bombay High Court has upheld a trial court's decision to frame murder charges against eight police personnel in the alleged custodial death of Agnello Valdaris in 2014, observing that the circumstances surrounding his death warranted a full trial. The court also remarked that there is a "serious controversy" over whether Agnello's death was homicidal or accidental. Court dismisses petitions by accused officers A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chadak, in an order ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): Actor Rajeev Khandelwal has come on board as a host for 'Tum Ho Naa', a reality game show. Excited about his hosting stint, Rajeev, in a press note, said, " Over the years, I've been offered so many kinds of roles, some experimental, some quite unconventional. But I've always chosen to follow my heart and be part of something that genuinely feels meaningful to me. With the show Tum Ho Naa, I am happy to return on television" Also Read | Kim Min Hee, ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) The man who was behind the Delhi Assembly security breach was upset that he was told about his nephew's disappearance three days after he went missing, his family said. Delhi Police is looking into the circumstances leading up to the assembly security breach. Sarabjeet Singh, who was arrested for driving an SUV into the complex at high speed on Monday, found out about his missing nephew a day before, they said. A police probe has found that Singh wanted to draw the atten ...Read More >
Amit Jogi was acquitted by the trial court in 2007. The high court order comes a month after the bench reopened the case following directions of the Supreme Court, which decided to condone the delay by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in filing an appeal. "We are of the considered opinion that the judgment passed by the learned trial judge acquitting the accused Amit Jogi is palpably illegal, wrong, perverse, contrary to the evidence available on record and without any concrete basis," ...Read More >
Madurai: Nine Police personnel convicted in the 2020 custodial deaths case, in which trader P. Jayaraj (58) and his son J. Benicks (31) died after being severely assaulted and tortured in Police custody in the southern Tamil Nadu town of Sattankulam, were sentenced to death by a Court in Madurai yesterday. Judge G. Muthukumaran imposed the death penalty on all nine convicted Policemen, the then Inspector S. Sridhar, Sub-Inspectors K. Balakrishnan and P. Raghu Ganesh, Head Constables S. Murugan ...Read More >
Nine police officers have been sentenced to death in India over the deaths in custody of a father and son in 2020. P Jeyaraj, 58, and his son Benicks, 38, both died in jail in the southern state of Tamil Nadu - days after they were detained for allegedly keeping their mobile phone shop open in breach of lockdown rules during the Covid-19 pandemic. The two men were stripped and ruthlessly assaulted in front of each other, the sentencing judge said on Monday - describing the case as a clear abus ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Monday busted a notorious gang operating in South-East Delhi and arrested its kingpin, Saurav alias Lefty, along with his key associate, Abhishek alias Bhola. According to police, Saurav Lefty had been absconding for the past six months in connection with multiple serious criminal cases. Proceedings under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) were also underway against him. A reward of Rs 1 lakh had been proposed on his ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Monday busted a notorious gang operating in South-East Delhi and arrested its kingpin, Saurav alias Lefty, along with his key associate, Abhishek alias Bhola. According to police, Saurav Lefty had been absconding for the past six months in connection with multiple serious criminal cases. Proceedings under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) were also underway against him. A reward of Rs 1 lakh had been proposed on his ...Read More >
Karimnagar: Driven by an aversion to having daughters and fear of passing on his property to them, led to the father killing his four-year-old twin girls in Jubilee Nagar in the district. Karimnagar Police Commissioner Gaush Alam revealed details of the case at a press conference held on Monday. He said that the accused, under the influence of his parents and with the involvement of his brother, Kachi Srisaila, carried out the murder. The victims, twins Geethamshi and Geethanvika, were alleged ...Read More >
Pimpri-Chinchwad: A video showing a group of students confronting a police officer from the Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissionerate (PCPC) has gone viral, following the death of a student at Tolani Maritime Institute in Talegaon Dabhade. Watch Video: The incident comes in the backdrop of the tragic death of 20-year-old Vishal Verma, a second-year Marine Engineering student, who died after an iron basketball pole collapsed on him during practice on Sunday evening. In the viral video, several c ...Read More >
Sreerampur (West Bengal) [India], April 7 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging corruption, poor governance, and failure to implement central welfare schemes, while asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the next government in the state under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a roadshow here in Hooghly district in support of BJP candidates, Saini cl ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu's Sathankulam case: 9 cops get death sentence for custodial death of P Jayaraj and his son, Bennix, over violation of Covid norms. News18 explains the law, what next Sathankulam Case: In a landmark judgment, a Madurai court on Monday handed the death penalty to nine police personnel in the sensational 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case. The father-son duo, P Jayaraj and J Bennix, died after they were assaulted by the convicted policemen in Sathankulam in Thoothukudi district of Ta ...Read More >
Addressing the media on Monday, Rampur superintendent of police (SP) Somendra Meena said the woman constable's husband, his younger brother and three associates conspired to kill her to allegedly claim insurance and compensation money, while also seeking to remove an obstacle to the husband's alleged relationship with another woman. Police on Monday arrested Daan Singh, 34, the victim's husband, along with Noor Hasan, 27, and Salman, 26. Daan Singh's brother Ravi Singh, 31, and another accused ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, April 7 -- An Indian court has sentenced nine policemen to death for the torture and killing of a father and son in 2020 who were detained for allegedly breaching Covid lockdown rules. The additional district judge in Madurai, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, found the officers guilty in the custodial deaths of trader Jeyaraj, 59, and his son Benniks, 31, according to a statement by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today. "The court upheld that the case is a clear insta ...Read More >
Rampur (UP), Apr 7 (PTI) A man and two of his associates here were arrested for allegedly killing his constable wife and their three-year-old son to claim Rs 2 crore worth of insurance money and other benefits, and trying to pass off the crime as a road accident, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on February 25 on the Swar-Bajpur road in Kashipur area under Ganj police station limits in Rampur. When a burnt car was recovered from the spot, it was initially believed to have been a ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai awarded the death penalty to nine police personnel accused of custodial torture and causing the deaths of father and son Jeyaraj and Benniks in the Sathankulam custodial death case. According to a press release by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the quantum of sentence was pronounced on Monday. The First Additional District Judge (ADJ), Madurai, on Monday, upheld that the case is a clear in ...Read More >
Panaji: A 23-year-old woman working at a five-star hotel was killed and her male colleague left critically injured after a speeding luxury car allegedly rammed into their motorcycle in North Goa's Dona Paula area, police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as 22-year-old Darius Dias, was arrested on Monday, a day after the late-night accident that has sparked outrage over reckless driving in the coastal state. According to police, Dias was allegedly behind the wheel of a Mini Cooper when ...Read More >
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