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
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
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
New York: Pakistani Taliban and its aligned terror groups have embarked upon a campaign of high-profile kidnappings which has armed the insurgents with millions of dollars in ransom being used to galvanise a sophisticated network of jihadi gangs whose reach spans the country. Wealthy industrialists, academicians, Western aid workers and family members of military officers have been targets in a spree that began three years ago, the 'New York Times'...
01:31 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak, who was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life, continues to be in critical condition. Doctors at AIIMS said that the toddler is suffering from meningitis. "Falak is suffering from meningitis. Future course of treatment depends on how the baby responds to the treatment. Her chances of survival have severely gone down," Sumit Sinha, Neurosurgeon, AIIMS said. He said that infection...
03:40 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: Four accused, acquitted by a local court in the case of kidnap and murder of teenager Adnan Patrawala, were on Tuesday released from the Arthur Road jail in South Mumbai after they spent over four years behind the bars. "The four were allowed to go home this afternoon after they completed all the legal procedures," a jail official said. The family and friends of the youths were eagerly awaiting...
03:36 PM, Jan 31, 2012
The 2-year-old Falak underwent a second brain surgery on Monday and has been put back on ventilator. ...
09:36 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: In the national capital, two-year-old Falak, who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing...
09:14 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Mumbai: Four people accused in the Adnan Patrawala murder case were let off by a Mumbai court on Monday. The accused Sujit Nair, Amit Kaushal, Ayush Bhat, Rajeev Dhariya were acquitted after the prosecution failed to produce evidence in the court linking them to Adnan's murder. Five people were arrested for Adnan's murder with one of the accused being a minor and his case is being tried in a juvenile...
02:03 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak, who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. Doctors, who operated on her for the second time on Monday, said that her condition has deteriorated after some fluids entered her brain. The operation was performed to clear the fluids. Meanwhile, crucial leads have surfaced in the case. Sources say that Delhi...
01:16 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The two-year-old baby Falak who was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with severe head injuries, fractures and bite marks on her body continues to battle for life even 9 days after she was abandoned by a teenager. The toddler had severe head injuries and bite marks on her body. Doctors say her chances of survival have improved but only marginally. The bigger fear...
08:17 AM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police is trying to trace the parents of two-year-old Falak, who is fighting for her life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Falak was brought to the AIIMS in a very serious condition by a 15-year-old girl, who claimed to be her mother, on January 18. Now the police has found out that the teenager is not related to the baby. "We are trying...
04:17 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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