Chandigarh, In a relief to former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed the report of the Justice Dhingra Commission of Inquiry into the land scam in Gurugram. A division bench, which saw the sealed copy of the[Read More…]
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Gurugram: Serial killer-rapist wore ‘lucky’ shirt before committing crimes
Sunil Basura, 20-year-old serial rapist-murderer was arrested on Monday in Gurugram of Haryana. Apart from having had a modus operandi, Basura also had a ‘lucky’ blue shirt that he used to wore during committing the crime. Sunil also asserted that he was caught as he was not wearing his lucky[Read More…]
Youth accused of raping, murdering toddler in Gurugram held in Uttar Pradesh
Gurugram: A youth accused of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said on Monday. The incident happened in Gurugram on November 11 when the accused (aged about 19), a labourer, lured the child with sweets, took her to an[Read More…]
Gurugram: IndiGo employee commits suicide in guest house, probe underway
A 35-year-old IndiGo Airlines employee, identified as Mausami Gautam, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at a guest house in Gurugram’s Sushant Lok on Thursday night. The deceased hailing from Assam, was working with the airlines’ security wing. She Mausami was married and had an eight-year-old daughter. Mausami was[Read More…]
Elderly man tries to end life after murdering wife in Gurugram
Gurugram: A 75-year-old man allegedly tried to end his life after murdering his 72-year-old wife in an upscale residential area here on Saturday, police said. Police found Harnek Singh and his wife Gulmehar Kaur in a pool of blood after receiving a phone call from a relative of the couple[Read More…]
Judge’s wife, son shot at by his guard in a busy market in Gurugram
Gurugram: The wife and son a Sitting Judge were shot at by his guard in a busy market in Gurugram today, the police said. Both have been taken to hospital where sources say, the son is critical. The incident took place near Arcadia Market in Sector 49, Gurugram. The incident[Read More…]
Gurugram school murder: HC sets aside lower court order
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday set aside the order of a lower court which had allowed the trial of the 16-year-old accused as an adult instead of as a juvenile. The accused student allegedly killed a seven-year-old student in a private school in Gurugram in September[Read More…]
Income tax sleuths raid Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot’s 16 premises
New Delhi: Income Tax sleuths on Wednesday raided 16 residence and business premises related to Delhi Cabinet Minister Kailash Gahlot and his family members in the national capital and Gurugram, officials said. “The raids relate to two companies – Brisk Infrastructure and Developer Pvt Ltd, and Corporate International Financial Services[Read More…]
Haryana: Fake judge held for duping people in Gurugram
A B.Tech graduate from Hyderabad, posing himself as a Civil Judge posted in Gurugram, was arrested after he duped over three dozen people in the name of helping them to get cheap flats and jobs, police said on Monday. The suspect was identified as Kedarnath Sagar. Assistant Commissioner of Police[Read More…]
Gurugram: Illegal parking fine collection hits 10-year record yet no improvement
In an effort to curb the illegal vehicle parking in Gurugram, city traffic police had been issuing strict warnings and heavy fines from past one year but it seems the attempt has done a little to the problem. The Gurugram police said that this year, till August 31, they issued[Read More…]
Haryana: Gurugram becomes ‘rape-capital’, Panipat tops in women kidnapping
During the second day of ongoing Vidhan Sabha session, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar revealed shocking figures stating millennium cities Gurugram, Faridabad and Panipat as the most unsafe places for women. Answering to a question raised by Congress legislator Jagbir Singh Malik over the details of the number of[Read More…]
Police arrests gangster Rakesh Banjara’s son for raping minor in Gurugram
A 22-year-old man, son of a Gurugram gangster, has been arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl, police said on Monday. The arrested accused was identified as Piyush, son of Rakesh Banjara, a resident of village Sirhol near Sector 18 here on Delhi-Gurugram Expressway. Piyush is a student of a private university here and lived in a rented flat in a residential society in Sector 82 where[Read More…]
Seven Gurugram ETOs suspended for Rs 100 crore scam
Following an FIR that was file in July, seven Excise and Taxation officers posted in Gurugram, have been suspended and chargesheeted under Rule 7 of the Haryana Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 2016, for helping nine firms siphon off funds worth over Rs 100 crore from the state exchequer[Read More…]
Government may soon offer subsidy of up to Rs 1.4 lakh on Electric Vehicles
In a bid to boost the sales of electric vehicles in the country, the central government has announced that it will offer a subsidy of upto Rs 1.4 lakh on the purchase of EVs, including cars, motorcycles and even three-wheelers. The decision was taken at a meeting held on 23[Read More…]
Muslim youth forced to shave beard suspecting to be Pakistani
A Muslim man alleged on Wednesday in Haryana’s Gurugram, that he was assaulted and forced to shave his beard and brutally thrashed by some unknown men on the suspicion of him being a Pakistani citizen. The police has lodged an FIR against and has started investigating the matter. The incident[Read More…]
Check-list by Haryana govt violates couple’s right to privacy: Punjab and Haryana HC
In a recent ruling on Wednesday, in connection with an inter-caste marriage case of a Hindu-Muslim couple, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that officialdom must not be seen “raising eyebrows and laying snares and landmines” in such cases. The procedure for a court marriage, it has said,[Read More…]
Haryana: Pregnant woman gang-raped in Gurugram
Gurugram: A six-month pregnant woman was allegedly gang-raped by an autorickshaw driver and his two accomplices in Manesar here, police said on Saturday. The victim, 23, approached the police four days after she was victimised. A case under Section 376D (gang rape) and other sections of the Indian Penal Code[Read More…]
Muslims, activists seek space for namaz in Gurugram
Gurugram: Muslims and members from the civil society on Tuesday met Gurugram Divisional Commissioner D. Suresh and sought open space for namaz and an amicable solution to the situation arising from the activities of rightwing outfits. A meeting was called to plan a response to the ongoing campaign by the Sanyukt[Read More…]
2 killed in Gurugram accident
Gurugram: Two people were killed on Sunday when the vehicle they were travelling in collided head-on with an SUV in Gurugram, police said. The victims, identified as Vinod Kumar Yadav and Kishor, died on the spot while another woman, a pilot with a private airline, was seriously injured, a senior[Read More…]
Protest march in Gurugram over FIR for stopping ‘namaz’
Gurugram: A protest march under the banner of the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti was taken out here on Monday to demand cancellation of an FIR against six youths on the charge of disrupting ‘namaz’ on government land. The protesters gathered at the Kamla Nehru Park and marched to the Mini[Read More…]
Ashok Khemka questions Haryana bureaucrat’s appointment as RERA chief
The announcement of the appointment of a senior bureaucrat, who had given a controversial “clean chit” to the Robert Vadra-DLF land deal in 2012, as a real estate regulator has been questioned by another senior bureaucrat, Ashok Khemka. “An officer, who was member of committee that gave clean chit to[Read More…]
Health minister seeks report from Fortis Hospital after girl’s death
Calling the death of a seven-year-old girl at Gurugram’s Fortis Hospital unfortunate, Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday said the government had sought a detailed report from the hospital. Stating that action will be taken if required, Nadda also said that his ministry had written to all states regarding the[Read More…]
BS VI grade auto fuels to be introduced in NCT Delhi next year
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gases announced that the introduction of BS-VI grade auto fuels in the national capital would be brought forward to April 1, 2018, today. The government has also asked oil marketing firms to examine the possibility of introducing the more refined fuel in the National[Read More…]
CBI should probe Ryan student’s murder thoroughly, fairly: Congress
Questioning the CBI investigation into the murder of a Class 2 student in Gurugram, the Congress on Wednesday demanded a thorough and fair probe. “A young boy was brutalised and killed in a school in Gurugram. It shook the conscience of the nation. We and the parents had demanded that[Read More…]
Ryan student who wanted exams postponed killed Pradhuman: CBI
A 16-year-old student of Ryan International School in Gurugram who wanted exams and a scheduled meeting between teachers and parents delayed is the prime accused in the murder of Class 2 student Pradhuman Thakur, the CBI said on Wednesday. CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said the Class 11 student was detained[Read More…]