JDU legislator, Bima Bharti’s teenages son, Deepak, was found dead on a railway track in Patna Friday morning. Though the minister’s family suspects murder, the police said they would wait for post-mortem report to go ahead with next course of their investigation. Friends of Deepak, with whom he used to[Read More…]
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Student beaten to death in Delhi school
New Delhi: A 17-year-old student of a government school here died after he was allegedly beaten up by a group of students in the school compound, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday following a scuffle at Jyoti Nagar’s S.K.V school. When the policemen reached the spot, they found[Read More…]
Woman beneficiary of PM’s welfare plan found dead, cause still a mystery
A woman beneficiary of a Central welfare scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 7 was found dead on National Highway-8 the same day, the authorities said on Wednesday. Nandi Bai belonged to Dungarpur and had come to attend the Prime Minister’s Jan Samwad programme in Jaipur on[Read More…]
Supreme Court upholds death penalty to 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape convicts
The Supreme Court on Monday, 9 July announced death penalty to the convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Three of the four adult convicts, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, had filed review petitions seeking reduction of the death sentence to life imprisonment. A three-judge bench comprising[Read More…]
SC seeks Centre’s response on SIT probe into Kulburgi murder
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Centre on a plea by Uma Devi, the widow of rationalist M.M. Kalburgi, seeking a SIT probe into his murder. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sought the response as Uma Devi demanded a coordinated[Read More…]
Haryana: Mentally unstable man kills 6, arrested
A mentally unstable man, who had allegedly murdered six persons in just two hours with an iron rod, was arrested on Tuesday in Haryana’s Palwal city, police said. The crime took place within 100 metres of the police station early on Tuesday and was recorded in a CCTV camera that[Read More…]
Rajasthan: Man burns two wives to death in car, held
In a horrific incident, a man burnt his two wives to death in a car after an argument broke out between the women while travelling together in Rajasthan’s Jalore district, police said on Wednesday. In order to hoodwink the police, accused Deepram concocted a sob story, but ultimately spilled the[Read More…]
Former TV host Suhaib Ilyasi gets life term for wife’s murder
A court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to former TV producer/host Suhaib Ilyasi for murdering his wife in 2000. Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Malhotra also slapped a fine of Rs two lakh on the convict and directed him to pay Rs 10 lakh to Anju Ilyasi’s family. On December 16,[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…]
Twin murders take place in Noida’s Sector 49
Two brothers were murdered after a quarrel broke out in the Barola village of Sector 49, Noida. The deceased brothers have been identified as Umesh and Yogesh, students of Class XI and X respectively, who were strangled to death. When taken to the hospital, the doctors declared them brought dead.[Read More…]
SC appoints lawyer to examine whether Gandhi assassination can be re-investigated
The Supreme Court on Friday has appointed a senior advocate, Amarendra Sharan to help it examining whether Mahatma Gandhi’s killing can be probed again. A bench including Justices SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao asked Sharan to find evidence to accept a petition seeking re-investigation into the murder that happened[Read More…]
Gauri Lankesh murder: CCTV shows how the killing takes place
After journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot three times, she tried to run into her house in Bengaluru but failed. She collapsed outside, where neighbours who heard the gunshots found her lying in a pool of blood. The killing, which has outraged journalists, activists, and citizens, was reportedly recorded by security[Read More…]
Techie Rajesh Gulati sentenced to life imprisonment in wife’s murder case
A Dehradun court on Friday sentenced software engineer, Rajesh Gulati, to life imprisonment in connection with his wife, Anupama Gulati’s murder. The Dehradun Chief Judicial Court (CJI) on Thursday convicted the engineer in a seven-year-old murder case under Section 201 and 302 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on charges of[Read More…]
Intimate Partner Violence in India: Murders and Marital Rape
When a wealthy and powerful nobleman asks the hand of his neighbour’s youngest daughter, it terrifies her family. While he boasts of a luxurious palace and riches, there is a hitch – all his previous wives have mysteriously disappeared. Yet the girl gets married to him against her will. One[Read More…]
Pune: Deprived of food, man stabs mother, eats her heart with chutney, say cops
A 27-year-old man, in an allegedly drunk condition, stabbed his mother to death and later feasted on her heart along with ‘chutney’ and pepper, at Kolhapur on Monday. He took this extreme step as he was deprived of food. An hour later, he was spotted walking out of the house[Read More…]
Journalist who exposed Ram Rahim’s rape cases’ killed; son awaits justice
Amid hype over Ram Rahim’s rape case and its verdict, a grieving son also awaits justice for the murder of his father, journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati. Chhatrapati had exposed the alleged rape case in 2002. He was shot at his residence on 24 October. Months before his paper had published[Read More…]
Nithari serial murders: Moninder Singh Pandher sentenced to death
Following the arrest and conviction by Central Bureau of Investigation, a court on Saturday charged the businessman Moninder Singh Pandher guilty of murdering a 20-year-old woman, one of the several cases known as the Nithari serial killings of 2006. On Monday, Pandher has been sentenced to death. There is a[Read More…]
Gujarat: RTI activist found dead in Navsari
RTI activist Rajesh Savaliya (31), who fought against the education mafia, was found dead in Navsari on Wednesday. The deceased bored multiple injuries on his head and shoulder and was found on NH-8 in Navsari. He was under treatment in a private hospital in Surat and was declared dead on[Read More…]
Husband shoots wife over delay in dinner
In a horrifying incident, a 55-year old woman was allegedly shot by her husband in Ghaziabad for serving dinner late. The incident happened late on Saturday night in Mansarovar Park colony in Kavi Nagar police station area. As per reports, Ashok Kumar (60), the husband, was arrested on Sunday. Reports[Read More…]
Man accused of Junaid Khan’s murder confesses crime, says Police
After 16-year-old Junaid was murdered on a local train near Ballabgarh on June 22, it triggered a nationwide outrage against lynching. According to the police, Naresh, who is in his thirties, has confessed that the knife with which Junaid was stabbed was in his hand. However, the murder weapon has still[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Another man lynched and killed in suspicion of murder
Soon after a beef trader, Asgar Ali was lynched near Bazartand area in Ramgarh district on Thursday, an angry mob in Dumka’s Jalve village mercilessly thrashed to death an alleged rape and murder accused identified as Mithun Hansda, 25. This is the third incident of mob violence in Jharkhand in[Read More…]
Faridabad lynching: Govt staffer among four detained for murder
Days after the first arrest was made in the murder of 15-year-old Junaid Khan, Haryana Railway Police arrested four others. Khan was stabbed to death on a Mathura-bound train. According to police, one of the four arrested is a 50-year-old, a “mid-level Delhi government employee.” The remaining three are in[Read More…]
#NotInMyName: Breaking the culture of silence against the lynching of the minority
The #NotInMyName protest is a demonstration scheduled in Delhi and several other cities across the country on June 28 (Wednesday) by citizens against incidents of the lynching of Muslims and Dalits. With the politics of mob-lynching claiming lives one after the other across our country, it is about time we[Read More…]
Mumbai: Two-year-old boy strangled, found wrapped in plastic bag
The body of a two-year-old boy was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a Chawl in Malad (West). The boy Vivaan Kandu went missing in Kanchpada area in Malad in Mumbai around 6 pm on Monday when he stepped outside to play with a relative. The relative, however, claimed[Read More…]
Ludhiana: Husbands squeezes foetus out of wife’s stomach
In Jhandi village of Ludhiana, a seven-month pregnant woman was killed as her husband and brother-in-law allegedly pressed on her stomach till the foetus, believing it to be a female, said the Police in Ludhiana, reported Scroll. The woman’s body was later dumped in the nearby fields close to his[Read More…]