Jodhpur: DNA test confirms new-born girl's parentage

Jodhpur: DNA test confirms new-born girl's parentage Jodhpur: The mystery over the parentage of a new-born girl, who lay abandoned in a hospital in Jodhpur as two couples staked claim over a boy born on the same day, was solved on Thursday with a DNA test confirming Poonam Kanwar as her biological mother. The DNA report was produced by police in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate which was read by the Magistrate in the presence of...
04:39 PM, Apr 05, 2012

AP, Jodhpur: Gender bias still a reality in India?

AP, Jodhpur: Gender bias still a reality in India? New Delhi: Just a few days after a couple from Jodhpur in Rajasthan abandoned their baby girl, a father allegedly blinded by superstition, assaulted his six-month pregnant wife with an iron rod that resulted in a miscarriage. The 30-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh lived to tell the tale of horror unleashed by her husband and his family. Six months into her pregnancy, she was brutalised by her husband with an...
09:36 AM, Apr 04, 2012

Bhanwari case: Maderna to be shifted outside Jodhpur

Bhanwari case: Maderna to be shifted outside Jodhpur Jaipur: Congress MLAs Mahipal Maderna and Malkhan Singh, both accused in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case, will soon be shifted outside the Jodhpur jail following government orders, officials said on Tuesday. While Maderna will be sent to the Jaipur Central Jail, Malkhan will be shifted to the Ajmer Central Jail as per the orders, officials said on Tuesday. The Home Department had issued orders in this regard a...
04:37 PM, Apr 03, 2012

Baby girl lies abandoned, couples fight for boy

Baby girl lies abandoned, couples fight for boy Jodhpur: A seven-day-old girl in Jodhpur lies abandoned and unclaimed at Jodhpur's Umaid Hospital nursery while two couples have been fighting to claim a baby boy born at the same time. The unwanted newborn girl has been rudely denied crucial attention from her mother. A DNA test will now determine as to which of the two sets of couples are her biological parents. However, the result is slated to take...
03:11 PM, Apr 02, 2012

No action after rats nibble patient in Jodhpur

No action after rats nibble patient in Jodhpur Jodhpur: Two days after rats were found to be nibbling on a 70-year-old patient on life support in Jodhpur, the Rajasthan government is yet to fix responsibility. This is the same hospital where more than 20 women died during child birth in 2011. Muhammad Iqbal who is a paralytic stroke patient in Mathura Das Mathur Hospital was bitten by rodents on Tuesday night. The families of patients at the hospital...
06:54 AM, Jan 13, 2012

Bhanwari case: Bishnoi refuses to record statement

Bhanwari case: Bishnoi refuses to record statement Jodhpur: One of the main accused in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case, Om Prakash Bishnoi, on day refused to record his statement before the magistrate and was remanded to judicial custody. The CBI had moved an application in the court on Tuesday for recording Bishnoi's statements, and brought him to the court on Wednesday. However, he refused to record the statement and came out, sources said. The CBI court...
11:19 PM, Jan 11, 2012

Rats nibble on patient in Jodhpur hospital

Rats nibble on patient in Jodhpur hospital Jodhpur: A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Jodhpur was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept, hospital sources said. The authorities at the government hospital have launched an investigation into the incident. The man, whose identity was withheld, was unable to move due to paralysis when the incident took...
03:46 PM, Jan 11, 2012

Bhanwari's son identifies her watch, ear ring

Bhanwari's son identifies her watch, ear ring Jodhpur: A day after the CBI recovered body remains and valuables allegedly belonging to missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, her son on Sunday identified wrist watch and an ear ring. The CBI had on Saturday recovered key evidences including watch, jewellery parts and body remains allegedly belonging to Bhanwari from Rajiv Gandhi canal near Jodhpur. Sources in the agency had claimed that the items could prove crucial in cracking the mysterious...
10:58 PM, Jan 08, 2012

Bhanwari case: CBI investigation almost complete

Bhanwari case: CBI investigation almost complete Jalora: The CBI's investigation in the Bhanwari Devi case is almost complete. After finding what it calls clinching evidence following a 3-day long search operation in Jodhpur, the central investigation agency is now on the lookout for two people - Ashok and Indira Bishnoi. While Ashok is a member of the Bishna Ram gang that allegedly killed the nurse, Indra is the sister of Congress leader Malkhan Singh. The CBI...
11:42 AM, Jan 08, 2012

CBI unearths more evidence in Bhanwari Devi case

CBI unearths more evidence in Bhanwari Devi case Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday claimed to have finally found a trail of evidence, in the Bhanwari Devi case. A watch, a mobile phone, pieces of jewellery and charred bones found in a canal near Jodhpur have been sent for forensic examination. In a massive combing operation some fifty divers fished out mounting body of evidence from the canal in Jaloda the spot where Bhanwari Devi's...
09:29 PM, Jan 07, 2012

Bhanwari case to come up in Jodhpur HC today

Bhanwari case to come up in Jodhpur HC today New Delhi: The Bhanwari Devi case comes up in the Jodhpur High Court on Friday. The judicial custody accused former minister Mahipal Maderna and Parasram Bishnoi also ends on Friday. The CBI is expected to file its final chargesheet any day now. The two accused, Bishnaram Bishnoi and Kailash Jakhar are remanded in CBI custody till January 16. Bhanwari Devi had gone missing from Jodhpur's Bilara area on September 1....
06:58 AM, Jan 06, 2012

CBI steps up efforts to trace Bhanwari's body

CBI steps up efforts to trace Bhanwari's body Jodhpur: Intensifying efforts to trace the body of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, the CBI has zeroed in on places in Jaloda village where she could have been buried and are scouting the area using sophisticated devices. On the basis of the interrogation of Om Prakash Bishnoi, brother and gang member of Bishna Ram Bishnoi, who is said to have a hand in disposing of the body of Bhanwari devi, a...
06:31 PM, Jan 02, 2012

Bhanwari case: CBI custody of Bishnoi ends today

Bhanwari case: CBI custody of Bishnoi ends today New Delhi: The CBI's custody of key suspect Sahiram Bishnoi ends on Monday. The CBI in its chargesheet claimed that Sahiram had hatched the conspiracy to kill the Dalit nurse at sacked minister, Mahipal Maderna's behest. Bhanwari has been missing for 121 days now. The CBI on Sunday grilled Maderna's wife Leela Maderna and a Congress legislator's son in connection with the disappearance of Devi, sources said. Mahipal was arrested...
11:14 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Bhanwari Devi case: CBI arrests Maderna

Bhanwari Devi case: CBI arrests Maderna

Former Rajasthan minister and suspend Congress leader Mahipal Maderna was arrested in Jodhpur on Friday in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi. ...
08:30 AM, Dec 03, 2011

Bhanwari case: CBI grills husband

Bhanwari case: CBI grills husband Jodhpur: The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi missing case, on Tuesday grilled several persons, including her husband Amarchand, officials said. They said the investigating agency have obtained some evidences and are in the process of verifying them. Bhanwari, an auxiliary nurse midwife at a sub-centre in Jaliwada village - around 120 km from Jodhpur, is missing since September 1. Amarchand has alleged she was kidnapped at the behest of Mahipal...
12:33 AM, Nov 30, 2011
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