Crime file: AP man sets engineering student on fire; sex racket in wedding hall busted, and more
AP man sets engineering student on fire
Hyderabad: A man allegedly threw kerosene on a woman and set her on fire in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.
The victim (aged about 21), a final year student of engineering, and the alleged offender were known to each other, and were having a strained relationship for the last several days.
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The alleged offender (30) is a petty businessman and is married, the police said.
According to the woman, the man called her to his shop in Nalgonda, poured kerosene on her and set her afire, the police said. The woman sustained major burns in the incident, police said, adding that the man is absconding. Further details of the case would be known only after investigation, he said.
Next - Bribery: CBI arrests Joint Commissioner Income Tax in Odisha
Bribery: CBI arrests Joint Commissioner Income Tax
New Delhi: CBI on Tuesday arrested two Income Tax officials including Joint Commissioner of Income Tax S. Shivanandan in Odisha while allegedly receiving bribe of Rs five lakh for closing tax penalty proceedings against a person and recovered documents of properties worth crores of rupees.
CBI sources here said the arrest followed a Income Tax search led by Shivanandan and Income Tax Officer Narayan Nayak at the house of one R K Shukla in Dhenkanal, 75 km from state capital Bhubaneshwar, in connection with an alleged IT evasion on October 29, 2013.
Later, Shukla approached CBI claiming that Nayak was allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs five lakh for stopping the tax enquiry against him as part of which search was carried out at his home, they said.
"The complainant alleged that both the accused, in conspiracy with each other, demanded Rs 30 Lakh to close the income tax proceedings initiated against him and his wife," the CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
The official said Shukla expressed his inability to pay such a huge amount and on bargaining, both the accused allegedly agreed to accept Rs 10 lakh as bribe from him in two equal instalments through Nayak to close the income tax proceedings initiated against him.
"First instalment of Rs five lakh was to be delivered to Narayan Nayak, ITO at his office premises. CBI laid a trap and the ITO was arrested while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs five lakh," it said.
Later, the agency started a search operation at the residence of Nayak which led CBI to the Joint Commissioner's home as some of the documents seized from his house indicated Shaivanandan's alleged involvement.
The CBI immediately searched the premises of Joint Commissioner and claimed to have made recoveries of documents that pointed to amassing huge immovable assets. Both the officials have been arrested and are being questioned by the CBI sleuths.
The CBI claimed that searches at the residence of Nayak led to recovery of documents relating to the income tax proceedings; documents of four-storeyed well-furnished building at Bomikhal, Bhubaneswar; one double-storey house at Cuttack; one plot in Sapur, Bhubaneswar; one plot at his native near Tirtol, Jagatsinghpur and nine bank accounts in his own name and family members.
The sources said the value of these properties could be several crores of rupees.
"The search at the premises of the Joint Commissioner of Income Tax lead to recovery of certain documents relating to the income tax proceedings; more than a lakh of rupees; a bunch of miscellaneous papers pertaining to bank account details and other expenditures. The documents are being scrutinised for further investigation," the agency claimed.
CBI said a case under IPC section related to criminal conspiracy and relevant provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against Nayak and Shivanandan.
Next: Chennai cops bust flesh trade racket in wedding hall
Chennai cops bust flesh trade racket in wedding hall
Chennai: The Chennai police on Monday busted a flesh trade racket operating in the guise of running a wedding hall on 48th street in PazhavaÂnthangal.
The police arrested the manager of the marriage hall along with a pimp and also detained commercial sex worker.
“Manager Muthukrishnan and pimp Noor Mohamed had been remanded while the woman has been sent to government home,” the police said.
The police team had deployed a decoy, who went to the marriage hall and was asked to pay Rs 5,000 to spend time with the woman there. The decoy immediately informed the police team. The sleuths raided the place and detained the three.
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According to the police, the rooms meant for groom and bride were being used as bedroom for sex work by the two.
“One can go to the wedding hall as if he was going to book for a marriage. He can spend some time to look around. So, nobody will suspect their presence.
The manager keeps one or two women as employees and he keeps changing them every two weeks,” the police noted.
The duo was hoping to make good money by running the racket during the Tamil month of Margazhi, when there will be no marriages.
Next: Techie held for sending threat mails, SMSes
Techie held for sending threat mails, SMSes
Hyderabad: Cyber Crime police of Cyberabad arrested a techie for sending threatening e-mails and SMSs to his ex-girlfriend’s parents and friends.
The accused. 27-year-old Y. Koteswara Rao, is a software engineer in an MNC.
He had also created a fake facebook account of the girl to take revenge. However, he had deactivated the account before a complaint could be filed.
Cops have booked a case under Section 506 for criminal indimidation, and 66 of IT Act against the accused and sent him for judicial remand.
Next: College guard killed by robbers
College guard killed by robbers
Hyderabad: Robbers killed a college watchman and decamped with Rs 50,000 and a computer from the college office at Srinagar Colony, Panjagutta, early on Monday morning.
They strangled the victim and slit his throat before entering the college premises. Victim, M. Raj Reddy, 35, was found dead by the college staff. The incident occurred at Narayana Junior College.
Panjagutta police said that more than one robber must have attacked the victim. Cops believe that Raj Reddy might have tried to stop the robbers and, therefore, was attacked.
“The robbers had strangled him first. To be sure that the guard had died, they then slit his throat,” said Panjagutta ACP Venkat Narsaiah.
Cops said that the main gate of the college was not locked as a family lives at the fifth floor of the building.
The investigators are not sure if the motive was only to rob the college. “The stolen property is not worth a large sum. We are investigating all other angles as well,” said an official.
Next: Drunken youths push man out of train
Drunken youths push man out of train
Chennai: Four drunken youths, hailing from Odisha, allegedly passed lewd remarks on a woman passenger in an EMU train and when her husband got into an argument with them, pushed him out when the train approached Fort railway station.
The man was injured and following the cries of his wife, the public and railway police held the four men.
However, police sources maintained that there was a communication gap and the man was pushed out after an argument with the gang, when they prevented him from getting near the footboard to spit.
The injured person, Kumar, 36, had got into the train at Chetpet station along with his wife Maheshwari.
Sources said the four, standing near the footboard, had passed lewd remarks at the woman.
Later, an argument broke out when the man tried to get near the footboard and they pushed him out as the train approached Fort station.
According to a senior railway police official, the fall would have been fatal had the train been moving fast. Kumar was admitted to the government general hospital and he has a fractured hand and internal injuries, said an official who called on him.
Next: Teenage girl commits suicide
Teenage girl commits suicide
Hyderabad: A teenaged girl committed suicide in her house allegedly due to harassment by a youth at Shalibanda on Monday. The youth had approached her several times professing love and she had turned him down.
The victim, identified as C. Rekha, 16, is the daughter of Anjaiah. She had completed Intermediate and had quit education.
The accused, Pruthvi, 24, sells ID liquor, and used to harass the minor girl. Inspector S. Maheshwar said that when Rekha’s parents learnt about the issue, they warned Pruthvi.
Elders warned both of them and asked them to keep away from each other. Some days back, Pruthvi’s uncle Shiva approached Rekha’s family and complained against her. “He complained that Rekha was trying to contact Pruthvi since some time,” the SI said.
When Rekha learnt what happened, she could not stomach the allegation. “She hanged herself to death on Monday morning in the bathroom of her house,” the inspector said.
Next: Inspector, constable held for graft
Inspector, constable held for graft
Bangalore: The police inspector and a constable of HalaÂsur Gate police station were caught red handed by Lokayukta sleuths while they were accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the owner of a recreation club.
InspecÂtor C.V. Deepak and Manjunath, a special branch constable were arrested. They have been remanded in judicial custody till Tuesday.
According to Ayukta police, the duo had demanded Rs 25,000 from Manjunath, who runs a club on Avenue Road. Manjunath was reluctant to pay the bribe and filed a complaint with the Lokayukta police.
“The accused finally accepted to allow him to run the club if he paid them Rs 10,000. A trap was laid and the duo was caught, while accepting the bribe from ManjuÂnath at the police statiÂon on Monday evening. They were arrested,” the police added. Further investigations are on.
Next: Trio held for cheating bizman of Rs 4.14 crore
Trio held for cheating bizman of Rs 4.14 crore
Chennai: The central crime branch (CCB) of the city police on Monday arrested three persons from the same family for cheating a city businessman of Rs 4.41 crore through online trading.
Only two months ago, the trio was arrested for cheating Usha Narayanan and her husband in a similar way of Rs3.8 crore and were released from prison a few days ago.
The accused, PraÂkÂaÂÂsam, his wife Mano Chitra, and his sister Rekha, ran Prakasam Associates which involved in online trading.
In 2010, the trio had met the complainant, Srinivasan, 48, a granite businessman, residing in T. Nagar and lured him to invest in online trading.
They had promised him 40 per cent returns for the investment and made him invest Rs 4.41 crore over several intervals, with the intention of cheating him, the police said.
When Srinivasan asked them to pay the profits, the trio dodged him whereupon he started asking for the investment to be returned. They gave him four cheques, which bounced.
After the businessman’s complaint at the commissionerate, the CCB, which enquired into the case, found the family to have purportedly cheated the businessman and remanded them to judicial custody on Monday. The trio had also cheated another person, Ajithkumar, from Kancheepuram by similar means, the police added.
Next: Mechanic arrested for molestation
Mechanic arrested for molestation
Chennai: Police on Sunday arrÂestÂed an AC mechanic who allegedly misbehaved with a college girl, when she was attending to a complaint at her house in Choolaimedu on SuÂnÂday.
The girl's father, a seceretariat employee, had alerted the police control room, after he found the man touching his daughter inappropriately while she was sleeping. The accÂuÂsed, MurugaÂnaÂnÂdÂÂham of Avadi, was summoned to repair an air conditioner in the house.
The accuÂsed was handed over to the Choolaimedu police. Since the family members did not come forward to lodge a complaint, the police have let him go on bail.
Next: AP rapist was a police informer
AP rapist was a police informer
Nellore: The accused, V. Rajasekhar Reddy, involved in the molestation of a woman in front of her lover at Sullurpeta late on Saturday night, was an informer for police in the past.
It may be recalled that he threatened to take the couple to the police station claiming that he is a constable and raped the woman taking advantage of their panic when he found them in a secluded place near Sullurpeta town around midnight on Saturday.
Interestingly, the offender was a member of ‘Maithri Sangam’ established by police to bridge the gap between police and public few years ago.
He was also an informer to the police till last year.
Gudur DSP Chowdeswari has shared this information when contacted on Monday. She said that they have arrested Rajasekhar Reddy and the interrogation is in progress.
According to the DSP, the statements of the victim and her lover have been videographed and a case has been registered under section 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 323 (SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act) against the accused.
Meanwhile, a Sullurpeta-based non-governmental organisation demanded action against five friends of the accused while alleging that the offender had drinks with them close to the National Highway on Saturday night and they had encouraged him when he followed the lovers.
The NGO has alleged that the friends of the offender had cheered Rajasekhar Reddy when he went behind the couple after they noticed the couple heading to words a place known as Lovers Spot.
CEO of the women’s cooperative society run by the NGO, Camel (Cultural Association for Mass Education and Liberation), G. Eswaramma, has stressed the need to book the accused under non-bailable sections.
Expressing concern over growing trend of rapes and atrocities against women, she appealed the lawyers of the region to send a strong message to such criminals by not to representing the case on behalf of the accused.
Next: Farmer kills self in Gadag
Farmer kills self in Gadag
Vittal Shastri| DC
Hubli: The suicide by a farmer and contractor who supplied cane to a sugar factory has kicked up a row with agricultural labourers ransacking the office of the factory in Gangapur village of Mundaragi taluk in Gadag on Monday.
A tense situation prevailed in the village as the relatives of the deceased and farm labourers pelted stones at the office of the factory.
The police resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse the agitating farm labourers while the deceased’s relatives alleged that it was a case of murder by factory authorities.
The deceased farmer Rama Nayak (40) had taken a contract to supply sugarcane to Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd situated in the village and had obtained a Rs 5 lakh loan from the factory.
He had pledged 3.5 acres of agricultural land owned by him with the factory for this purpose.
Nayak had agreed to supply 8-10 loads of sugarcane to the factory every day in bullock-carts.
But, he could not supply the cane as he failed to get labourers for harvesting the crop. Moreover, his bulls were suffering from foot and mouth disease.
This prompted the factory authorities to demand that the farmer return the Rs 5 lakh taken as loan.
Later, they allegedly locked him inside a room of the factory when he failed to pay the debt.
Finally, he committed suicide by hanging himself inside the room after he was held captive for several days.
"Factory authorities refused to give him time to repay the loan despite several pleas made by us.", said farm labourer Durga Nayak.
Next: French teen accidentally shoots father dead, kills self
French teen accidentally shoots father dead, kills self
London: In a tragic incident, a 14-year-old boy in France accidentally shot and killed his father while they were out hunting - before turning the gun on himself.
The teenager from Salignac, slipped on leaves and accidentally pulled the trigger, firing a bullet at his father in Sourribes, Alpes-de-Haute Provence, on Saturday. The bullet struck his 42-year-old father in the legs.
The boy then called a family member who contacted emergency services but the father succumbed to the injuries after haemorrhaging and died before paramedics arrived. The distraught adolescent then turned the gun on himself and dropped dead beside his father's body, 'The Telegraph' reported. "It is a hunting accident caused unintentionally by the boy who, realising the irreversible consequences, turned the weapon on himself and killed himself," said prosecutor Stephane Kellenberger.
Next: 100 red sanders smugglers arrested
100 red sanders smugglers arrested
Railway Kodur (Kadapa): Police teams nabbed at least 100 red sander smugglers and expert labourers, who were tried to escape from Seshachalam forest by reaching Railway Kodur area in Kadapa district on Monday.
Special parties have been pressed into service to intensify combing operations all over the the forest in the wake of brutal killing of forest officials by the red sander smugglers in the deep forest.
More than hundred smuggles and expert labourers, most of them from Tamil Nadu, engaged to cut the logs were identified trying to escape from the forest and reached Railway Kodur.
Police team led by CI Ramakanth took as many as 48 persons into custody near Railway Kodur. Police said the smugglers had tried to assault the police teams even on Monday.
Similarly, 50 other culprits were arrested at several locations while they were trying to escape at Mamandur and Karakambadi under Railway Koduru police circle limits.
Forest officials condemned brutal killing of the officials by the smugglers. The officials demanded that all measures be taken to ensure safety, including sanction of modern weapons to protect valuable red sanders in the forest region.
