Noida: Five men, who had abducted two BBA students of Amity for ransom, have been sent to police custody. A District and Sessions court on Monday granted the custody of the five men to the police.
While one of the accused had surrendered at the court yesterday, the four others were earlier arrested by Uttar Pradesh special task force and Noida Police. The five men had kidnapped the students on April 30 and later released them after their parents allegedly paid a ransom of Rs 85 lakh.
After their questioning, sleuths recovered Rs 28 lakh ransom money, a SIM card and a mobile phone used for making extortion calls.
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10:55 PM, May 21, 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
Noida: The poor law and order in Uttar Pradesh was once again highlighted on Monday night when five drunken men opened fire in Noida's Film City, the hub of several national and regional news channels. The men first consumed alcohol and then opened fire. Uttar Police reached the spot after getting the information and arrested all the five accused. The police recovered a pistol, a revolver and also seized their...
11:22 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
Greater Noida: A newly-married woman was burnt to death allegedly by her in-laws in Jarch area in Greater Noida. Five persons, including her husband, have been booked, police said, adding that they are absconding. According to the complaint filed by father of the twenty-year-old Renu, she got married to one Dushyant in April 2012. Since her marriage, she was constantly being harassed by her husband and in-laws. Her father Deshraj...
10:40 PM, May 17, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will record the Talwar couple's statement on Monday in connection with the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. Meanwhile, The Supreme Court will hear the plea of the dentist couple, Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, accused of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, to call 14 "crucial" witnesses who were dropped by the CBI during the murder trial. The Talwar couple has approached the apex...
09:18 AM, May 13, 2013
Noida: Around 100 Bhartiya Kisan Union members forcefully occupied Noida toll plaza of DND Flyway on Thursday and allowed vehicles to ply without paying toll for around half an hour to protest levy of toll on users of the flyway. The protestors vacated the toll plaza after administration and DND (Delhi-Noida-Delhi) management urged them to end their demonstration and participate in discussions on the issue. BSK leader Rakesh Tikait told...
03:15 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The special CBI Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case till Wednesday after accused Nupur Talwar and Rajesh Talwar sought a stay on recording of their statements. Both the accused do not want the statements recorded in the case until the Supreme Court takes a decision on a plea filed by them saying that CBI had not examined 14 witnesses. Dentist couple Rajesh and...
09:10 PM, May 07, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar on Tuesday sought stay on recording of statement in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case till the proceedings are over in the Supreme Court. The special CBI court hearing the double murder case was scheduled to record statements of the teenager's parents on Tuesday. Talwars moved a Special leave petition (SLP) in the apex court saying that the CBI hasn't called 14 other witnesses...
01:08 PM, May 07, 2013
Ghaziabad: The special CBI court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case will record statements of the dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday. However, both Rajesh and Nupur are likely to move an application seeking more time to record the statement. Special CBI judge Shyam Lal rejected the defence counsel's plea, which demanded that 13 other witnesses including ADG (law and order) and the then CBI Joint Director Arun...
09:13 AM, May 07, 2013
Greater Noida: Samajwadi Party national executive member Chaman Bhati was shot dead by assailants in Dabra village in Greater Noida, triggering protests by villagers who demanded arrest of the killers. The assailants scaled the boundary wall of the house of 35-year-old Bhati on Wednesday and killed him. The attack came on a day when the two gunners provided for his security were on leave, police said on Thursday. Bhati, who...
10:15 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: In more revelations in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Investigating Officer AGL Kaul has told a Ghaziabad court that he wanted to arrest Aarushi's mother Nupur Talwar, but was stopped by a superior officer. He also mentioned that in his closure report he had clearly stated that both Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar were behind the double murder. Kaul had earlier told the court...
01:51 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating officer, AGL Kaul, has deposed before a Ghaziabad court in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. Kaul has claimed that it was Rajesh Talwar, Aarushi's father, who killed the duo. He also said Talwar did not intend to kill Aarushi, but she was killed accidentally. Kaul said that Talwar hit Hemraj with a golf club upon discovering him and Aarushi in a...
10:23 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Noida: Noida SSP Preetinder Singh on Sunday launched the community policing here under which station house officers and DSPs held meetings with residents in their respective areas and heard grievances of the people. In urban areas, meetings were held with RWA representatives at sector community centres while police stations saw people come out in large numbers in rural areas. Residents raised problems related to parking, encroachments and unauthorised movement of...
07:18 AM, Apr 22, 2013
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Iran-Pakistan border on Tuesday, sending shockwaves as far as North India and West Asia. ...
05:16 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border with tremors felt across North India, Pakistan and West Asia. The quake struck at about 4:18 pm (IST) as strong tremors rocked Rajasthan, Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) on Tuesday afternoon. The tremors lasted for over 20 seconds. According to the USGS website, the earthquake to have hit Iran measured 8 on...
04:20 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation probe officer AGL Kaul's examination in the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder case before the CBI court in Ghaziabad got over on Tuesday. Kaul told the court that Aarushi was killed by her parents Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar. Kaul told the court that no one from outside could have come inside the flat and have committed the crime. Kaul is the 39th witness in...
01:05 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A builder who failed to start a Greater Noida residential project on time has landed in trouble as a consumer court in Delhi has directed him to pay compensation of Rs.3 lakh and refund the over Rs.49 lakh cost of a flat to a complainant. Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission member Salma Noor and Member(Judicial) VK Gupta held RS Builtwell and its director guilty of deficiency in service...
04:48 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Ghaziabad: An official of the Gujarat Forensic Science University (GFSU) on Tuesday told the special CBI court hearing Aarushi-Hemraj murder case that the crime was possibly committed using a golf club and surgical knife, and that no outsider except the Talwar couples was involved in the murder. While the injury on their heads was that of something like a golf club, the neck wounds were inflicted using a sharp-edged thing...
09:32 PM, Apr 09, 2013
