Mumbai: Another child was kidnapped from Mumbai's busy Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) station on Wednesday. The incident was caught on CCTV cameras. Ten-year-old Sagar, who was lying next to his grandmother, was kidnapped when she fell asleep. Officials are examining the footage to nab the kidnapper. This is the second case of child abduction from the CST station in 2012. Three-year-old Sangita was kidnapped in June while her parents continued...
05:10 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Two state-level boxers and a teenaged wrestler were on Sunday arrested for kidnapping a property dealer in outer Delhi on September 1, sources said. The police said that the businessman was on his way to work when the trio waylaid him and kidnapped him. The victim says he was waylaid and abducted by the accused. He alleges they then took pictures of him in objectionable positions with a...
01:59 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Tirupati: Fatigue after the pilgrimage to Tirumala and Tirupati, which makes parents of babies sleepy-eyed, has come in handy for professional kidnappers who are always on the prowl, waiting for the right moment to make the snatch. Most of the babies have been kidnapped when their tired parents have dozed off or busy trying to find the conveyance back home at bus and railway stations. The recent abduction of 11-month-old...
12:53 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Four women, two from West Bengal and two from Mumbai, were kidnapped from a government-run shelter in Hyderabad on Saturday. Reports indicate that the four women were victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation and were kidnapped earlier this morning from Ramanathaur. The other inmates of the shelter staged a protest asking for immediate police action. The police have registered a case of abduction. They say that a few men...
03:22 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Thane: A 20-year-old son of a civil contractor at Tarapur nuclear plant was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by his friend and his accomplice at Naigaon on the outskirts of Mumbai, police said on Wednesday. The duo, identified as Kalpesh Soraj (25) and Ravindra Kumar (25), were arrested on Tuesday by Thane rural police on the charges of abduction and murder of Ganesh Sriram, a second year student of Thakur College...
05:57 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Islamabad: A 14-year-old Hindu girl in Pakistan, who was kidnapped two days ago, has converted to Islam and married a Muslim, a media report said on Saturday. Her distraught father, however, says that she "can never give up on her religion, she has been coerced into doing it". Manisha Kumari, 14, is now Mahvish and herself called up her parents from an unknown location and broke the news of her...
01:41 PM, Aug 11, 2012
A 14-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in the Sindh province of Pakistan on Thursday. ...
09:17 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Lucknow: Two policemen of the Delhi Police Crime Branch were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday for kidnapping an engineer from Bijnor district, officials said. The state police told IANS that four kidnappers, including two Delhi Police constables were arrested and Sushil Bansal recovered early on Wednesday from Rampur. The four kidnappers, posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), after kidnapping Bansal Tuesday, had sought Rs...
12:24 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, two minors were reportedly kidnapped near the dargah of Moinuddin Chisthi at Ajmer on Sunday. One of the abductions was caught on CCTV. The CCTV footage showed a man in a monk's robes asking a woman to bring food for him. As she goes away, the man walks-off with her two-year-old son. The police are now on the lookout for the kidnapper. Meanwhile, in...
08:12 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Chennai: Work is on at a frantic pace at the Beach Railway Station to implement the first phase of the Integrated Security Surveillance System (ISSS). The project is aimed at giving security and law enforcement officials eyes over every part of the station. The project would help track kidnapping, pickpocketing and chain snatching cases, apart from keeping an eye on the safety of train driver cabins, officials told City Express....
12:52 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Ajmer: A woman in Ajmer has been caught on camera kidnapping a six-month-old baby from the Dargah premises. The child belonged to a pilgrim Safia from Hyderabad who was visiting Ajmer Sharif with her family. Safia along with her mother and six-month-old baby went to sleep in the Dargah premises on Monday night. But early on Tuesday morning a woman kidnapped the baby sleeping next to her. The CCTV footage...
04:08 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: The three-year-old whose kidnapping at Mumbai's CST station was caught on CCTV camera returned home on Wednesday. She was rescued and brought home by the police from Haridwar. Her kidnapper is in custody. The kidnapper was nabbed after the CCTV video of the kidnapping was repeatedly flashed across news channels alerting locals in Haridwar. A CCTV footage from the station showed a man walking inside the station premises and...
01:24 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Mumbai: There will be relief for the parents of the little girl whose kidnapping from Mumbai's CST station in June was caught on CCTV. The Mumbai Police is expected to bring back the three-year-old from Haridwar on Monday. The kidnapper was arrested on Friday after the CCTV video was repeatedly broadcast by news channels. The child is safe and will be reunited with her family soon. A CCTV footage from...
08:18 AM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the Uttar Pradesh Police recovered the child who was kidnapped from Chhatrapati Shivaji station in Mumbai, yet another similar kidnapping incident caught on CCTV camera has come to light. This time, the victim is a 5-month-old baby girl, who was abducted from the premises of the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. The incident although happened almost an year ago, it has come to light only now....
03:17 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Patna: Ten days after an engineering student was abducted for ransom from the Bihar capital, police have failed to make any breakthrough for his safe recovery. Ravi Kumar, 22, a third-year civil engineering student at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Patna, was kidnapped June 23 from near his rented house in Patna, a police official said. His abductors have demanded a ransom of Rs 20 lakh to release...
04:41 PM, Jul 03, 2012
The Meadow is a book that details a kidnapping of six foreign tourists in Kashmir in the mid-90s, the cover-up, the complicity of Pakistani intelligence, as well as a ploy for world attention, and subsequent strategising by Indian intelligence. One of the authors, the award-winning journalist Adrian Levy speaks to CNN-IBN's Karma Wangdi in London, about the revelations his and Cathy Scott-Clark's investigation threw up, on the kidnapping and the...
11:42 AM, Jun 10, 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
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
