Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan was on Monday exempted from appearance in the 2002 hit-and-run case by a sessions court following request by his counsel Ashok Mundargi. Sessions judge UB Hejib adjourned the matter to May 8, 2013. On that day, the court would also hear the 47-year-old actor's appeal against the order of the magistrate invoking charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' (section 304 part II IPC) in...
01:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Thane (Maha): A 19-year-old youth was arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old sister, who is reportedly seven months pregnant, police said on Monday. The accused raped the girl around a year ago and repeatedly thereafter, police said. The matter came to light, when the 14-year-old girl was rushed to a hospital in Kalwa after she started feeling uneasy and vomited, they said. "Doctors who examined the girl concluded that she...
11:40 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Yavatmal (Maha): A 50-year-old journalist of a local vernacular daily was arrested for his alleged attempt to rape a six-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The accused, Pradeep Laxman Deshmukh, was caught on Sunday by a youth from an isolated spot near Arni state transport bus stand while he was trying to rape the girl studying in first standard. The journalist was handed over to police by the youth...
09:36 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Speculation is rife over the fate of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in the wake of recent rape of a five-year-old girl and police insensitivity in handling it. There are reports that Kumar may be shifted out of the key post and Special Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi may be asked to take charge as new Delhi Police chief. Home Ministry sources said Kumar, a 1976 batch IPS officer,...
08:42 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Thrissur: The father of a nine year-old boy, who drove a Ferrari F430 recently with his five-year-brother along side, causing widespread outrage, was arrested on Monday and released on bail. Police sources said Mohammed Nisham was arrested by Peramangalam police here, which is investigating the case. He came with the vehicle and was arrested. Since it was a bailable offence, he was granted bail on furnishing two surities of Rs...
07:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Nearly two weeks after the horrific Delhi rape, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, East, has been shunted out. DCP Prabhakar has now been transferred to PM Security. The move comes a day after the vigilance department admitted that the SHO at Gandhi Nagar police station had tried to pay off the survivor's family. Prabhakar, a 2003-batch IPS officer, has been replaced by Ajay Kumar, an IPS officer of...
06:36 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar to submit an affidavit on the Delhi rape case with details of the date on which an FIR was lodged. The court also asked for details of the probe being carried out. The matter was highlighted by an NGO during a hearing on its petition on missing children. The Delhi Police had come under criticism after details...
06:29 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Gandhinagar: In what is clearly a glaring case of lapse of duty, suspended policeman Rajkumar Pandian, who is facing trial in the fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, spend the night on Sunday at his home in Ahmedabad. This even as he is lodged in a Mumbai jail and was brought to Ahmedabad to be produced in court for a hearing. Escorted by the Maharashtra Police, Pandian was...
04:25 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat government and the state police are not cooperating with the investigation in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, said Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) sources on Monday. The sources have also said former Joint Commissioner of Police PP Pande is involved in the conspiracy of the case. The government is shielding Pande, whose whereabouts are yet not known, sources added. The probe agency is now set to request...
03:10 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Charges have been filed against a man who allowed his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, Kerala Police said on Monday. Mohammed Nisham was charged with endangering the life of a child and allowing a minor to drive, said Inspector MV Verghese. Nisham's wife filmed the boy driving the sports car on his ninth birthday two weeks ago, with his 7-year-old brother in the passenger seat. The video...
02:16 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan's plea in the 2002 hit-and-run case is up for a hearing at the Sessions Court in Mumbai. His petition challenging the Magistrate court's order which said there is enough evidence against the actor will come up for hearing on Monday. In September 2002, Salman's SUV had run over people sleeping on a pavement in suburban Bandra, killing one and seriously injuring four others. ...
01:42 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Ghaziabad: The main accused in a double murder case was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a Ghaziabad police station lock-up on Sunday. The dead man Vineet Sharma was arrested along with another accused Narendra for allegedly murdering a CISF constable and his wife in Ghaziabad. Vineet, the brother-in-law of the killed CISF constable, and Narendra had been arrested by a team of Uttar Pradesh Police from Hathras. Vineet's body...
01:04 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Fed up with domestic violence, the wife of Mumbai Police officer Nandkishor Taksalkar, posted with the local arms division, allegedly killed him using a hammer and the stone on Sunday. Nandkishor Taksalkar's wife Parvati has been arrested by the Mumbai Police in connection with the murder and police are investigating the case. According to the police, Nandkishor wife killed her husband with the help of a hammer and stone....
12:00 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear a plea on Monday seeking registration of an FIR against policemen accused of dereliction of duty in the rape case of a five-year-old girl. Assistant Commissioner of Police BS Alhawat was suspended after he was caught on camera slapping a young woman during a protest against the rape of the minor girl at Delhi's Dayanand Hospital. In an another development in the case,...
10:07 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Kolkata: Scam-ridden Saradha Group boss Sudipta Sen, arrested for being the alleged kingpin of the multi-billion rupee chit fund scam, was grilled by Assam Police in the cases of fraud and forgery lodged against him in the state, police sources in Kolkata said on Sunday. A team of police officers from Assam quizzed Sen on Saturday and Sunday about the four cases filed against his group companies in the northeastern...
04:16 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A vigilance inquiry by Delhi Police has found fault with the SHO of Gandhinagar police station in Delhi for alleged lapses in investigation into the rape of a five-year-old girl. Sources said the SHO has been found prima facie guilty of dereliction of duty. The report has been submitted to Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. The family had alleged that police did not pursue the complaint vigorously after the girl's...
01:45 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Patna: Bihar police on Sunday raided offices of over a dozen chitfund companies on the outskirts of state capital and arrested 11 persons from whom Rs 8 lakh was seized. On a tip off about activities of chitfund companies in Bakhtiyarpur, Barh and Mokama areas of rural Patna, a special team was formed which conducted raids in their offices, a release from the office of Senior Superintendent of Police said....
12:57 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Washington: Boston Marathon bombing suspects were trained in carrying out the attack, top US lawmakers claimed on Sunday and said that it is too early to arrive at the conclusion that there is no foreign connection to this act of terror. Congressman Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev had help, considering the device's level of sophistication and the type of...
10:44 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Kolkata: Sudipta Sen, Saradha group chairman accused of duping lakhs of investors, is cooperating with investigators, his lawyer claimed on Sunday. As per court order he was present when Sen was interrogated, Samir Das, Sen's lawyer said. Sen, along with Ponzi scheme director Debjani Mukherjee and company official Arvind Singh Chouhan have been remanded to police custody for 14 days. Chouhan, who has been kept in a separate place, is...
09:48 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Panaji: Goa police have been left red-faced after identity of a juvenile criminal, hailing from Kerala, was revealed on its website. A newsletter on Goa police website mentioned the name of a boy, who along with one Surendra Prakash was arrested here a month ago. The newsletter was uploaded around a fortnight ago, and the name was showing as of Sunday morning. Deputy Inspector General OP Mishra conceded that the...
02:51 PM, Apr 28, 2013
