Beijing: A Chinese woman has been detained at the commodity hub of Yiwu for kidnapping an Indian trader last week over a debt dispute, after the latter was rescued and sent back home. The woman surnamed Wang and her boyfriend had illegally detained Muhammad Danish Qureshi at Wang's home since last Monday, state-run news agency Xinhua reported quoting local police as saying. Police freed Qureshi, a "purchaser working for an...
11:37 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Many people have asked us why reinvestigate a kidnapping from 1995 when there are many more recent incidents, horrific and baffling, that remain unsolved? There are several reasons. For me, (and for Benazir Bhutto with whom we discussed the Kashmir kidnapping many times as it had struck such a chord with her as Prime Minister) it was a watershed, a point at which the West witnessed for the...
02:50 PM, May 15, 2012
Maoists on Saturday kidnapped the district collector of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh. ...
11:44 PM, Apr 21, 2012
The BJP, which rules Chhattisgarh, has already slammed central inaction for the increasing number of Naxal attacks in the country. ...
08:33 PM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Maoists on Saturday kidnapped the district collector of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh. Maoists reportedly fired on the convoy of Alex Paul Menon, a Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer. Menon's two bodyguards have been shot dead in the attack. Menon was on his way back to Sukma when 15-20 Maoists stopped his vehicle and took him hostage. Menon, a 2006-batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), was abducted...
06:06 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Hyderabad: A 12-year-old boy, kidnapped four days ago while he was on his way to school, was on Friday found murdered in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district, police said. The body of Naga Vivek, a Class 7 student, was recovered by police from Korangi Lake in Tallarevu mandal near Amlapuram town, about 500 km from here, a senior police officer told IANS from the Amlapuram police station. According to police,...
02:28 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: The young woman in the picture is Simran Sood, a small-time model-cum-actress and accomplice of Vijay Palande alias Karan Sood. Cops say she was often used as a honeytrap by Vijay, who is currently behind bars. So are his aides Dhananjay Shinde and Manoj Gajkosh, in connection with the murder of senior citizen Arun Tiku. And yet, had police managed to puzzle out the kidnapping case of Karan Kumar...
12:46 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: A 25-year-old model-cum actress was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a Delhi-based wannabe film producer with the help of her three gangster associates, who are currently under arrest in connection with a senior citizen's murder, police said on Friday. Simran Sood was apprehended on Thursday on the charge of abducting Karankumar Kakkad, 28, who wanted to try his luck in the film industry, said an official from Amboli police station....
06:01 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Islamabad: Some political parties and Hindu groups in Pakistan are furious over the kidnapping and alleged conversion of Hindu girls in Sindh province. The Human Rights Club, Young Hindu Forum, Minority Commission of Pakistan, Awami Jamhoori Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistan Hindu Council and Aurat Foundation held a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club Sunday, the Daily Times reported Monday. They alleged that a Hindu girl, Rinkal Kumari of Mirpur Mathelo...
03:42 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Noida: Three youths were arrested from Noida on Sunday for allegedly kidnapping the four-year-old daughter of a priest and demanding ransom. The trio, aged between 18 and 20 years, had planned a trip to Bangkok for which they needed money. One of the accused is said to be a B.Tech. student. The trio had allegedly demanded a ransom of Rs 1 lakh from the priest. The girl, meanwhile, has been...
07:52 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Noida: Three youths, including two college students, were arrested from Ghaziabad on Sunday for allegedly kidnapping an 18-year-old girl, who was later rescued by police. The victim, Srishti, was allegedly kidnapped by the trio from Noida on Saturday when she was on her way home, SP Yogesh Yadav said. The accused, which lived in the girl's neighbourhood, later called up her parents and demanded Rs one lakh for her safe...
11:01 PM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: An engineer was found dead in West Delhi on Friday. He has been identified as Johnny Gupta and was kidnapped on April 3. His family members said that they had received a ransom demand for Rs 1 crore after which they had approached the police. "I got a call from the kidnapper asking for a ransom. I informed the same to the police but they refused to book...
09:32 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Italian hostage crisis issue figured in Odisha Assembly for the second day on Tuesday with Opposition Congress alleging failure of intelligence system as the incident came to light through media four days after the foreigners were abducted by Maoists. Though the two Italians were abducted by Maoists on March 14, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told the Assembly on Monday that the government came to know about the incident...
05:37 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Mumbai: On Saturday morning, Durga Kale, whose seven month-old son Vishwanath was kidnapped from Cama & Albless Hospital on February 29 was reunited with her son in a bizarre turn of events. Vishwanath's abductor allegedly handed him over to a teenager outside a mosque at Marine Lines and even provided medicines and a milk bottle to the boy. The Kales have been extremely fortunate, because till date three families whose...
09:44 AM, Mar 04, 2012
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