New Delhi: A 33-year-old woman was arrested for attempting to cheat a diamond merchant by posing as the daughter-in-law of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, police said on Wednesday.
Shikha Bhatia called the office of Jindal Diamond in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar posing as Mona Dikshit, Sheila Dikshit's daughter-in-law, and asked for some diamond bangles to be delivered at Khanpur Chowk as she was going to catch flight.
When the shop owner called the Chief Minister's son Sandeep to ask if his wife had placed the order, he said no such order had been placed.
"A police official pretending to be an employee of Jindal Diamond met the woman, who took a packet containing the bangles and gave a cheque of Rs 3.89 lakh with Mona Dikshit's signature. She was taken into custody immediately," said a police officer....
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03:06 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Ghaziabad: A 2-year-old boy was beaten to death while his pregnant mother and labourer father were brutally beaten up by a brick kiln owner in Rajpur village, police said on Wednesday. The labourer Rampravesh and his pregnant wife Meera, residents of Peepli village, were brutally beaten up on Tuesday night, which led to the victim suffering a miscarriage, SP Jagdish Sharma said. The woman and her minor child were rushed...
02:26 AM, Jun 20, 2013
New Delhi: A 20-year-old newly married woman was gangraped by four men in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday. Two of the accused have been arrested. The incident happened at Gokalpuri area in east Delhi on Saturday. "The victim, a native of Bihar came to Delhi with her husband a few days ago. Two men, Digambar and Ravi assured her husband that they will get him employed in a factory,"...
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11:58 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Even though aerial surveys and rescue missions by the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and clearing skies provided some aid to the people in Uttarakhand, places that have been most affected by the nature's fury have remained inaccessible due damaged transport and road services. ...
11:54 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Melbourne: An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has become a father after conceiving a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend. The woman coerced the boy, from Auckland, into repeated sexual encounters over a period of time before becoming pregnant, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported. The woman gave the boy beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him, the report said....
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11:31 PM, Jun 19, 2013
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10:53 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rescue teams were finally able to evacuate some of the people stranded in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Wednesday even though damaged roads and washed away bridges continued to hinder evacuation throughout the day. The government, on its part, has pumped in immediate relief funds and rescue choppers to the battered north Indian state, which has been devastated due to torrential rains that have caused massive landslides and...
09:59 PM, Jun 19, 2013
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10:30 AM, Jun 19, 2013
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07:58 AM, Jun 19, 2013
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05:54 AM, Jun 19, 2013
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Paris: The trial of French football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema over claims they paid for sex with an underage call girl was adjourned for procedural reasons on Tuesday until 2014. Benzema, a Real Madrid striker, and Ribery, a Bayern Munich winger, are to be tried on charges of paying Zahia Dehar, a prostitute-turned-fashion muse, for sex in 2008 and 2009, when she was only 16, then 17 years...
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