
Mumbai: A police officer has termed as "media speculation" that late actress Jiah Khan's six-page letter does not match her handwriting, saying that no such statement had been released and the letter would be sent for forensic examination.
"There is no new development as such. All these reports in the media which say that the handwriting does not match are media speculation. We have not released any such statement. The letter will now be sent to forensic experts," Vishwas Nangre Patil, Additional Commissioner of Police (West), told IANS.
Jiah Khan committed suicide on June 3 and before her death she reportedly wrote the letter in which she talked about her doomed relationship with alleged boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi, the son of actors Zarina Wahab and Aditya Pancholi.
It is being speculated that Jiah's handwriting does not match that of the letter. ...
more

04:50 PM, Jun 18, 2013

Ghaziabad: Eight police personnel who were suspended on Saturday after a suspected auto thief died in their custody in Ghaziabad are yet to be arrested, a police official said on Sunday. "The autopsy on Shakeel's body found ante-mortem injuries on him. He also had tuberculosis," said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Inspector General of Police K Satyanarayan in Ghazia bad. A departmental inquiry has been ordered against all eight policemen following the...

05:55 AM, Jun 17, 2013

Lord give me strength to rise and resist, Let my will be iron, yet my heart gentle, Let my malice fuel my goodwill, Unshackle me ...

01:25 AM, Jun 16, 2013

The Mumbai Police on Tuesday claimed to have found five letters written by Bollywood actress Jiah Khan at the residence of her boyfriend, son of actor Aditya Pancholi, Suraj Pancholi. The content of the five letters is not known yet. ...

11:58 PM, Jun 11, 2013

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Tuesday claimed to have found five letters written by Bollywood actress Jiah Khan at the residence of her boyfriend, son of actor Aditya Pancholi, Suraj Pancholi. The content of the five letters is not known yet. Earlier on Tuesday, a court sent Suraj to police custody till June 13. He was arrested on Monday on charges of abetment to suicide. In a handwritten note found...

08:25 PM, Jun 11, 2013

Purulia: Thirteen babies have been reported dead over the past 36 hours in the Purulia district in West Bengal. The children, suffering from meningitis were admitted to the Purulia Sadar Hospital in a critical condition. The babies aged between one and seven years were mostly underweight and malnourished. The district administration, in a knee-jerk reaction, has said that they will increase the number of beds in sick neonatal care unit...

11:40 AM, Jun 10, 2013

New Delhi: A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death by four of his friends because he married a woman who had been in a relationship with one of them, police said on Friday. Three of the accused have been arrested. Karim, 24, was arrested from Bihar's Madhubani while Bahadur, 27, and Pappu, 20, were arrested in Delhi June 4 for murdering Raja alias Arif at Niamunddin area in south Delhi....

05:48 AM, Jun 08, 2013

Thane: In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was on Friday sentenced to death by a court here for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in January 2013. Thane Additional Sessions Judge PH Mali while pronouncing the verdict observed that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category as the girl had been done to death in the most cruel manner and a young life was snuffed out. Prosecutor...

05:36 PM, Jun 07, 2013

Watch Bollywood stars react to actress Jiah Khan's suicide at her Mumbai apartment. ...

11:26 PM, Jun 05, 2013

Jaipur: A twelve-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling hook in Sriganganagar city with family members claiming he was apparently upset over actress Jiah Khan's death. Babu, a fifth class student of Gurunanak Basti in Sriganganagar district, on Tuesday committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling hook in his home, investigating officer (IO) Ramesh Kumar told PTI on phone. Deceased's family members told the...

07:27 PM, Jun 05, 2013

The untimely death of Jiah Khan, like many others before her, once again brings to fore the dark underbelly of Bollywood behind all the glitz and glamour where failure leads to depression and depression to extreme measures. Actor Rahul Roy joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. Dear Rahul! When there is so much stress being a movie actor... why cant the film industry also have a...

07:03 PM, Jun 05, 2013

New Delhi: A criminal case was registered on Tuesday against unknown people who tried to fraudulently claim compensation for 41 people by getting their names added to the list of the dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a police source said. The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police registered the case almost 10 days after the fraud came to light in a screening committee meeting of the police anti-riot cell...

04:20 AM, Jun 05, 2013

Ahmedabad: An IIT-Gandhinagar dropout, who had left the institute in 2010 after failing to clear the exams, allegedly committed suicide in Ahmedabad on Tuesday by hanging himself. "Rohit Jagenia, a native of Kota in Rajasthan, committed suicide by hanging himself from the hook of ceiling fan in the kitchen," Chandkheda police inspector AG Gohil said. Rohit, who was an electrical engineering student in IIT-Gandhinagar, had come to Ahmedabad on May...

02:36 AM, Jun 05, 2013

Mumbai: The preliminary post-mortem report of Bollywood actress Jiah Khan on Tuesday said that she died due to hanging. The Mumbai Police has questioned the 25-year-old actor's friends and will record the statements of her two sisters. The actress was found dead by her mother in her apartment in Juhu, Mumbai on late Monday night. The police suspected it to be a case of suicide but no suicide note was...

07:10 PM, Jun 04, 2013

Mumbai: The police are questioning the son of an actor and other people in the Jiah Khan death case, according to sources. The 25-year-old Bollywoood actress was found dead in her Juhu flat in Mumbai late on Monday night. Her post-mortem is being conducted at the JJ Hospital. "Prima facie, last call was of an actor's son. So, definitely we will question him," ACP Vishwas Nagre Patil said. The police...

01:58 PM, Jun 04, 2013

Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they loved: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms like the one in Oklahoma that ended their final pursuit. Tim Samaras, his son Paul and colleague Carl Young, who through the years had shared dramatic videos with television viewers and weather researchers, died on Friday night when an EF3 tornado with winds up to 165 mph turned on them near El...

06:34 AM, Jun 03, 2013

New Delhi: A 35-year-old businessman was on Sunday stabbed to death in Delhi by his jobless younger brother over a property dispute, police said. Mukhtyar Ali, who used to run an air-conditioner repairing shop, was stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors by Dilshad, 30, at his house in central Delhi's Chandni Mahal area around 10.45 am, police said. Police said Dilshad is absconding. The two brother had...

05:12 AM, Jun 03, 2013

Ara: In a suspected case of dowry, a man burnt to death his wife and an infant son in Bhojpur district, police said on Sunday. Angry over not getting a buffalo in dowry, Upendra Mahto poured kerosene on his wife Rina Devi (25) and 14-month-old son at their house in Nashrathpur village, police said, adding the mother-son duo were charred to death. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, they...

12:24 AM, Jun 03, 2013