Patna: Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said.
Jainandan Mandal, husband of Kishanpur Baluwa village head Chimo Devi, was first beaten up and then thrown into his brick kiln in Kurkron village in Purnia district, about 350 km from Patna, on Friday.
"Police have arrested 35 people in connection with the murder," Purnia's Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar told IANS over phone.
The officer said more people were expected to be arrested in connection with the case....
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02:01 PM, May 25, 2013
Muzaffarnagar: A man and his daughter were arrested for allegedly sacrificing a four-year-old boy at Naheri village in Muzaffarnagar, police said on Saturday. The body of Vishal with nail-marks and other injuries was found last evening, they said. Locals have alleged that the duo performed some exorcism ritual as they wanted to improve their economic condition through the exercise, police said. A case of murder has been registered against the...
12:22 PM, May 25, 2013
London: Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers. Suspects Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police after the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran...
06:15 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: The parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar have moved the Supreme Court yet again in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The Talwars have sought questioning of 14 witnesses in the case who were dropped by the Central Bureau of Investigation. This is the second time the Talwars have moved the apex court with the same plea as the court had rejected the plea earlier, telling the couple to go...
11:04 AM, May 24, 2013
London: The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the brutal attack on the UK soldier, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich and appealed for calm and prevention of reprisal attacks on Muslims. However, Anjem Choudary, the head of the radical British Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun raised concerns about the Muslim affairs worldwide and the British foreign policy in Muslim countries. In fact one of the attackers used to attend Al-Muhajiroun demonstrations and lectures....
09:37 AM, May 24, 2013
The Ghaziabad police has arrested a man identified as Rahul, the former driver of businessman Satish Goel, for allegedly killing him and six other members his family. The seven people were killed late on Tuesday night in Ghaziabad. ...
02:30 PM, May 23, 2013
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police has arrested a man identified as Rahul, the former driver of businessman Satish Goel, for allegedly killing him and six other members his family. The seven people were killed late on Tuesday night in Ghaziabad. Sources say Rahul carried out the murders as an act of revenge because he was sacked from his job as a driver by Goel for an alleged theft in the house....
11:28 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered prosecution of Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi and ballistic expert Prem Sagar Manocha for turning hostile in the 1999 Jessica Lal murder case, an offence which entails maximum punishment of seven years' imprisonment. Munshi, the complainant and the key witness in the case, had disowned the complaint during the trial, saying he did not know Hindi. Munshi had disowned the statement, presented...
05:32 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: He could have had a perfect start in his career had he not witnessed one of the most shocking murders that the country ever witnessed. Model turned actor Shayan Munshi was the only one who had seen the perpetrators who killed model Jessica Lal on April 1999. But instead of helping the police in nabbing the killers, he succumbed to pressure and drew major flak for his conduct...
05:21 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has decided that a case of perjury will commence against two witnesses, Shayan Munshi and Prem Sagar Manocha in the Jessica Lal murder trial. The rest of the 17 witnesses have been acquitted by the court. The 19 witnesses had turned hostile during the trial of the Jessica Lal murder case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and GP Mittal pronounced its decision...
02:50 PM, May 22, 2013
Ghaziabad: A businessman and six members of his family, including his three grandchildren, were found killed in their house in a densely populated locality here Wednesday, police said. Satish Goel (62), his wife Manju (60), son Sachin (40), daughter-in-law Rekha (38), and grandchildren Medha (13), Honey (11) and Aman were found killed, said a police official who visited the spot in this suburb of the national capital. "The entire house...
02:46 PM, May 22, 2013
Balrampur: A seven-year-old girl was killed allegedly by her stepmother, who threw her body into a well in Haraiya area, police said on Wednesday. Shanti, a student of standard III, went missing on May 19 from Dharmpur village, they said. During police interrogation last evening, her stepmother Krishnawati allegedly confessed that she strangled the girl, sealed her body in a sack and dumped it in the well, they said. The...
11:59 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: More than two years after reserving its verdict, the Delhi High Court will on Wednesday decide whether to prosecute 19 witnesses including Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on the charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of Jessica Lal murder case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and GP Mittal would pronounce its decision in the afternoon in the case in which the high court had...
03:07 AM, May 22, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Tuesday told special court in Ghaziabad that the CBI did not carry out any dummy test at their Jalvayu Vihar residence where his daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj were killed five years ago. CBI investigator AGL Kaul, who led the second probe team in connection with the sensational murders, had claimed in his deposition as prosecution witness that he carried out such a test...
06:46 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's father Rajesh Talwar is being cross-examined in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case for the past two days. CNN-IBN has learned that Talwar has faced 411 questions already in two days. The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the double murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and...
12:35 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to move the Allahabad High Court. The Talwar couple had approached the apex court challenging the order of the special CBI court rejecting their plea for calling 14 other witnesses, including ADG...
11:43 AM, May 21, 2013
Srinagar: In another case of fratricide, a personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal allegedly killed two colleagues in Kishtwar late on Monday night. SSB personnel identified as Narinder Singh and Veer Singh died while two others were injured when their associate Vijay Kumar ran and fired at them while they were sleeping. Hospital authorities say four persons were brought at Kishtwar's District Hospital and among them Narinder Singh of Uttrakhand...
09:07 AM, May 21, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Monday claimed in the court that he was asleep on the fateful night when his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered and internet activity recorded from his room might not be correct. Talwar's statement is being recorded under section 313 of CrPC where the judge poses questions directly to the accused to explain his version of the circumstances. So far Special CBI Judge...
03:40 PM, May 20, 2013
Berhampur: A man was arrested for allegedly attempting to kill his six-month-old son by slitting his throat with a blade at Sorada in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Monday. Sitaram Sethi allegedly committed the offence in a fit of rage following a quarrel with his wife at their house in Sorada on Saturday, said officer-in-charge of local police outpost BK Sahu said. The baby was first admitted to Balipadar...
01:14 PM, May 20, 2013
Mathura: An unemployed youth allegedly killed his mother after she refused to give him money for his expenses in Balipur village, police said on Sunday. Police has arrested the accused son. According to the police sources, the 60-year-old, Bindawati refused to give money to her son following which he verbally abused her and hit her on the head using a stick. The victim died while being taken to the hospital,...
07:55 AM, May 20, 2013
