HATHRAS / UP: Before dawn and in inexplicable haste, the 19-year-old Dalit girl, who had died in Delhi Safdarjung Hospital On Tuesday 15 days after being tortured and allegedly gang-raped by four upper caste men in her village, she was cremated by policeman at 2.40 am on Wednesday. Her relatives …
Read More »Senior police officer caught beating wife on camera, MP Govt relieves him of duty
Mumbai: After a video of the Director General of Police in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Purushottam Sharma, beating his wife appeared on social media, the Madhya Pradesh government decided to relieve him of his duties. An order, signed by the Department of the Interior, said that the 1986 …
Read More »Dalit lawyer killed for ‘anti-Brahmin messages’: Police
Written by Srinath Rao, Sohini Ghosh | Mumbai / ahmedabad | Updated: September 27, 2020 10:57:56 am Mumbai police said that Raval, who, like the victim, hails from Rapar, had clashed with Maheshwari over his views on Brahminism. An employee of a stationery store in Malad West, Mumbai, was arrested …
Read More »Bicycle killers shoot head of school in broad daylight in Gorakhpur
A school principal was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gorakhpur on Sunday and her teenage daughter was injured when two motorcycle assailants shot them, police said. Forty-three-year-old Nivedita Major, principal of Ahirauli Elementary School in Kushinagar District, was taken dead to BRD Medical College while her daughter’s condition …
Read More »BSF kills 2 smugglers in Sriganganagar, Rajasthan
Border Security Force (BSF) troops thwarted an infiltration attempt along the border with Pakistan and shot dead two armed smugglers near Sriganganagar in Rajasthan on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday. BSF soldiers confiscated weapons and ammunition, drugs and Pakistani currency from the dead intruders who tried to cross the border …
Read More »2 accused of rape and gang murder escape police custody in Madhya Pradesh
Two accused of gang rape and murder, who were among the three men arrested by police in Ratlam on Monday, escaped from custody overnight, police said Tuesday. The defendants, Deepak Singh and Ravi Singh, are residents of Gurjarpada village in Ratlam district. According to the police, Kalu Singh, Deepak Singh …
Read More »A 17-year-old boy in Kolkata kills a 14-year-old friend in a fight
A 17-year-old boy killed his 14-year-old friend in a poor neighborhood near Dover Terrace, a posh residential area in southern Kolkata on Monday after an altercation, police said. The police who captured the defendant have registered him for wrongful death that does not amount to murder. Authorities said the 14-year-old …
Read More »Pakistani journalist in Baluchistan allegedly shot dead by her husband
A journalist was shot dead at her home in the Turbat area of Balochistan’s Kech district on Saturday night allegedly by her husband, police said. This is the latest incident in a series of gruesome examples of domestic violence in Pakistan. The victim, Shaheena Shaheen, was a local PTV anchor …
Read More »Kannada film producer among dozens named in FIR in sandalwood drug trade
The Bengaluru police have registered an FIR against 12 people following investigations into the Sandalwood drug trafficking. On Friday, police raided the residence and subsequently arrested Kannada actor Ragini Dwivedi. Shivaprakash, who allegedly produced some films, in which Ragini had acted as the heroine, has been named as the main …
Read More »Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi’s home is searched by the central branch of crime in a drug case
Central Crime Branch (CCB) has raided the home of actress Ragini Dwivedi in connection with drug trafficking. CCB police, armed with a search warrant from the court, went to Ragini’s residence in court design, Yalahanka, Bengaluru, with a female police inspector and raided the house. Ragini was at home during …
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