Mumbai: A 79-year-old widow has gathered support of over 2,400 followers from India and abroad on a social networking website for her legal battle against Maharashtra Police officials over her "illegal arrest". Mohini Kamwani, along with her 58-year-old son Dilip, have been seeking support on social networking website Facebook, claiming they were illegally arrested by police in 2012. The mother-son duo were arrested on January 25, 2012 for threatening to...
05:40 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Chennai: Well-known Tamil cinema actor 'Powerstar' Srinivasan, was arrested today for allegedly cheating a person of a huge amount of money. Srinivasan, 50, was arrested this morning on a complaint from one P S Ranganathan of Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh, a police release here said. Ranganathan alleged that Srinivasan took Rs 50 lakh as commission from him with a promise to secure a loan of Rs 20 crore. However...
11:48 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Islamabad/Lahore: Pervez Musharraf was on Thursday formally arrested by Pakistani investigators over the murder of Benazir Bhutto after an anti-terrorism court directed them to include the former President in the probe into the 2007 assassination. A team of officials from the Federal Investigation Agency formally arrested Musharraf at his palatial farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which was declared a "sub-jail" after he was remanded to judicial custody last week....
02:47 AM, Apr 26, 2013
London: Pop diva Madonna's homeless brother has been arrested and suffered nine stitches while resisting the arrest. Police were called to the Grand Traverse County Civic Center in Michigan after 56-year-old Anthony Gerard Ciccone refused to leave the bathroom and began harassing staff, reported Daily Mirror. "He pulled away, turned around and confronted the female officer in an aggressive manner. She turned him around and brought him to the ground,...
06:27 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Hyderabad: The daughter of a legislator in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday approached a court, alleging that her father "detained" her at home for four years and also tried to get her re-married after she married her lover against his wishes. The father dismissed the claims. E Ramya, daughter of ruling Congress party legislator Eeli Nani, approached the Legal Services Authority in Guntur, claiming that she was kept under "house arrest"...
05:42 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Toronto: Canadian security forces thwarted a plot to blow up a rail line between Canada and the United States and will announce arrests on Monday afternoon, police and intelligence agencies said. US security and law enforcement sources also said the suspects had sought to attack the railroad between Toronto and New York City. Canadian media said two men had been arrested after raids in Toronto and Montreal, Canada's two biggest...
01:35 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: In what may spell more trouble for actor Sanjay Dutt, a Mumbai court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him after a producer moved court against him. Producer Shakeel Noorani moved the Andheri court alleging that the actor did not complete his film. The Supreme Court had recently given the actor four more weeks to surrender in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. The actor, who had earlier...
01:41 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Two more of the eight men who allegedly gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in Delhi in March 2013 have been arrested, taking the total to five, police on Sunday said. The girl, who attempted suicide on Saturday, is stated to stable in hospital. "We have arrested two people in the case," a police officer told IANS but refused to divulge any more information. Three people were arrested on Saturday,...
05:05 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Metro closed down its Race Course station near Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence for public Sunday evening anticipating protests against the rape of a five-year-old girl. The station was closed at 6:45 pm, hours after a group of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists tried to stage protest at 7, Race Course Road, residence of the PM, demanding the removal of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in connection...
09:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: 7:57 pm: Aam Aadmi Party workers gather at 7, Race Course Road, which is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence. They deflate tyres of Delhi Police buses even as police presence is increased at 7 RCR. 6:16 pm: The accused in the Delhi minor rape case Manoj Kumar is produced in court and is sent to judicial custody till May 4. 6:21 pm: Rapid Action Force deployed at...
07:32 PM, Apr 21, 2013
An AIIMS doctor said that the five-year-old rape survivor is showing gradual recovery and her vital parameters are stable. ...
12:26 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police is investigating whether a second person was involved in the rape of a five-year-old girl, who is undergoing treatment in AIIMS. However, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat issued a statement denying "rumours" of arresting a second accused or looking for him. A senior police official said they will investigate whether any other person is involved in the incident either in raping the girl or helping...
11:59 AM, Apr 21, 2013
The five-year-old Delhi rape survivor is still in hospital but stable and alert as the capital took to the streets once again to protest against rising rape cases with a wave of revulsion anger across the nation as well. ...
11:12 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Condemning the rape of a 5-year-old girl in Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said safety, security and status of women in the country is a matter of concern. While addressing the Civil Services Day function in the national capital, Manmohan said the gruesome assault on a little child reminds us of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society. All of...
10:56 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: 6:21 pm: Rapid Action Force deployed at India Gate, Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh's official residence 7, Race Course Road and at police headquarters. Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) members block ITO crossing near police headquarters even as around 100 protesters gather at India Gate and hold peaceful protests. 5:45 pm: Police drag away demonstrators from outside PM's residence at 7, Race Course Road. 5:30 pm: AAP workers...
09:49 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Former top cop and social activist Kiran Bedi said that the police officials need to be trained better. ...
03:34 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat on Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gunbattle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an extraordinary dragnet. "We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted. A cheer erupted from a...
06:42 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Three Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials were arrested for molesting their colleague's wife in Delhi, police said on Friday. The incident was reported from south Delhi's Dwarka Sector 23 area on Thursday morning. Sujal Haldar, Rahul Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Kumar were arrested on Thursday evening following the 28-year-old victim's statement. "All the accused belong to West Bengal and are deputed with the Special Protection Group (SPG),"...
05:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Muzaffarpur: A 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital was arrested in Muzaffarpur on Saturday morning, police said. Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law's village, at around 2.00 am from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, about 50 kms from Patna. The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police. The accused, who has come here by...
04:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Islamabad: Hours after his arrest in a case related to the imposition of emergency rule in 2007, former President Pervez Musharraf was moved from his farmhouse to the police headquarters in Islamabad to fulfil the conditions of his transit remand. Musharraf, 69, was moved from the fortified farmhouse to the Police Lines or headquarters in Sector F-11 on Friday amidst tight security shortly after 2 pm. Officials said the move...
06:33 PM, Apr 19, 2013
