Crime file: Bhopal girl bites off stalker's tongue when he tries to kiss her; 7 held for raping housewife, mother-in-law in WB and more
Girl bites off man's tongue when he tries to kiss her
Bhopal: An 18-year-old girl bit off the tongue of a man, who forcibly tried to kiss her, police said.
In her complaint to police, the girl alleged that the man, identified as Kamlesh (30), had been stalking her for the last ten days and Tuesday he forcibly tried to kiss her in public near Income Tax colony in Kotra Sultanabad area of the city, they said.
The girl, in a fit of rage, then bit off his tongue.
Later, the accused, who hails from Morena district in Madhya Pradesh, and the girl reached the Kamla Nagar police station where the man claimed that he knew the girl for the last four years and that she owed him money.
Following the incident, Kamlesh was arrested and booked under section 354 (assault or use of force to outrage a woman's modesty) of the IPC, police said.
Next: 7 held for raping housewife, mother-in-law in WB
7 held for raping housewife, mother-in-law in WB
Howrah (WB) : Seven persons were arrested for allegedly raping two women of a family here at Muktirchowk under Amta Police Station, police said Wenesday.
The incident happened last night when the two women — a housewife, in her mid-twenties and her mother-in-law (50) — were alone at home at Muktirchowk, they said, adding that, eight persons had allegedly barged into the house and raped them before escaping the scene.
An FIR was lodged in this connection Wenesday morning by the women's relatives and police managed arresting seven persons while one was still at large, they said. The seven persons were produced before the court which ordered seven days of police custody, police said.
"We are waiting for the medical reports of the two victims... We are looking for the eighth person and hope he will soon be arrested," an investigation officer said.
A team of senior state police officials visited the victims, who were, first, admitted to the Amta Hospital and later shifted to the Uluberia Hospital for medical examinations, they said. Meanwhile, CPI(M) demanded strict actions against the culprits alleging that they belong to the ruling Trinamool Congress, which, however, rubbished the allegations.
Next: 15-year-old Punjab boy killed by classmate
15-year-old Punjab boy killed by classmate
Muktsar (Punjab): A class IX student was allegedly murdered by his classmate with a sharp-edged weapon in a village here following an altercation, police said Wenesday.
Gurmeet Singh (15), a resident of Mahabadar village, had left his house on Monday evening to collect a book from his friend when he met his classmate and namesake, Gurmeet alias Babu, on the way, they said.
The two got into a fight over some matter during which the accused attacked the victim with a sharp-edged weapon, leading to his death. Police said Babu threw Gurmeet's body in nearby fields from where the body was recovered Tuesday.
A murder case has been registered on the complaint of the victim's father and a search has been initiated against the accused, who is absconding, they said.
Next: Woman abducted, gang raped in UP
Woman abducted, gang raped in UP
Lalitpur: A woman, working in an NGO, was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youths here, police said Wenesday.
The incident occurred on February 3 when the woman (32) was returning to her home after working from the NGO. She was abducted by three car-borne youths, who took her to a secluded place, where they gangraped her.
An FIR in this regard has been registered Tuesday against Manoj Samaiya, Babloo and another unidentified person at Lalitpur police station. The police is probing the matter. No arrests have so far been made in this connection.
Next: Fraudster tampers ATM, withdraws Rs 26,000 from woman's a/c
Fraudster tampers ATM, withdraws Rs 26,000 from woman's a/c
Mumbai: A woman lost Rs 26,000 as she fell prey to a fraudster who allegedly tampered with an ATM and siphoned off money from her bank account after she unsuccessfully tried to withdraw cash from an ATM kiosk in south Mumbai, police said Wenesday.
Rita Yadav, who works with a law firm, had on January 18 evening walked into an ATM centre of ICICI bank in Fort area of south Mumbai to withdraw cash, according to police.
The 30-year-old customer of the bank inserted the debit card in one of the three ATM kiosks when the system got stuck and she pressed cancel button, before moving on to another ATM machine. However, she faced a similar problem following which she moved to the third machine, police said.
"A man, who appeared to have been in the ATM centre for a long time, advised me to use the third machine saying that the other two were not working properly.
After withdrawing Rs 1,000 from third machine, I received a text message on my mobile for the same from the bank. Within five minutes of my withdrawal, to my shock I received one more text message which stated that Rs 26,000 had been debited to my account," Yadav said in her complaint.
Panicked, Yadav rushed to the unmanned ATM centre to find out the suspicious cash withdrawer, but in vain. She rang up the ICICI customer care representatives, who claimed that the needful would be done, police said quoting her complaint.
However, when there was no response from the bank representatives even after six days, she visited the bank in Fort and went through the CCTV footage, in which two men moving suspiciously near the ATM were spotted, she claimed.
The CCTV footage showed that the man, who had informed her on January 18 that the two ATM machines were not working, had used the same machine soon after she had left the place, the victim claimed.
On January 25, Yadav lodged FIR with MRA Marg police station, which is yet to get a breakthrough in the case. Police suspect that the ATM machine might have been tampered, so that it gets hanged when transaction is underway.
As the customer walks away thinking the machine has hanged, the fraudster withdraws cash from the victim's account. "We sought the ICICI bank to share the CCTV footage of the ATM, but they are yet to respond.
We are working on the case," senior inspector Ashok Jagdale said. Despite repeated attempts, ICICI bank officials could not be contacted.
Next: Customs seize gold bars worth Rs 17.56 lakh from passenger in Hyderabad
Customs seize gold bars worth Rs 17.56 lakh from passenger in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Customs officials on Wednesday seized 566 grams of gold bars worth Rs 17.56 lakh from a passenger at the Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) airport in Shamshabad here.
On suspicion, the customs officials intercepted a passenger, Khaja Saleemuddin Shareef of Warangal, who arrived by a flight from Dubai at 1.30 AM. During detailed search, five gold bars weighing 566.56 grams concealed in his shoes were found, an official said. Further investigation is on.
Next: Kanpur IIT student found dead inside hostel room
Kanpur IIT student found dead inside hostel room
Kanpur: A third year B.Tech student at IIT Kanpur was found dead Wednesday morning inside his hostel room with officials at the institute saying that the case appeared to be one of suicide.
Officials at the premier technological institute said that the deceased student, identified as Manjunath (20), had been suffering from depression and was even taking assistance for the same. This is the second instance at IIT, Kanpur, this year of a student being found dead under mysterious circumstances.
On January 1, the body of a second year B.Tech student hailing from Andhra Pradesh was found near railway tracks here. Manjunath, who was enrolled in the computer science stream, had lost use of his legs due to polio. He hailed from Raichur district of Karnataka.
IIT, Kanpur, Registrar RK Sachan said that the boy had lost his father in his childhood while, a few months back, his sister also passed away. Sachan said that some poisonous substance has been found in Manjunath's room with the preliminary post-mortem report also pointing at the likelihood of death due to poisoning.
Sachan added that the boy's mother had been informed about the tragedy while a committee has been set up to investigate the death.
Next: Woman killed over dowry by husband and in-laws
Woman killed over dowry by husband and in-laws
Bhadohi: A married woman was allegedly killed by her husband and in-laws over dowry in Suryawa area here, police said Wenesday.
Shashi Pandey (23) was allegedly beaten and strangulated to death by her husband Deendayal Pandey and in-laws Tuesday over dowry, they said. Later, the family members left the body at home and fled.
The matter came to light when her children started crying and neighbours arrived on the spot and informed the police.
An FIR has been registered in this regard by victim's uncle and the accused husband and three other family members were arrested by the police.
Next: Youth gets 10-year jail for raping three-year-old girl
Youth gets 10-year jail for raping three-year-old girl
New Delhi: A 20-year-old youth has been jailed for 10 years for kidnapping and raping a three-year-old girl by a Delhi court which observed that children across the nation are at a "risk".
The court refused to show any leniency to Mohammed Moim, saying children of this age are vulnerable and easy prey to such sexual assaults.
"The victim in this case is just aged three years and she was subjected to horrific and sadistic sexual assault. A recent report by Asian Centre for Women Rights says that incidents of child rape have multiplied in the last decade. "The recent horrific incidents of rape have created a furore in the society.
It appears that across the nation childhood is at risk. The children of this age are vulnerable and easy prey to such sexual assaults. In view of these circumstances the convict deserves no leniency," Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg said.
The court imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on Moim. It directed that the copy of the judgement be sent to Delhi State Legal Services Authority, East Delhi, with a direction to pay compensation to the victim as per provisions of guidelines of Delhi Government under Victim Compensation Scheme.
According to police, the incident took place in November 2011, when the minor girl was playing outside her house. After the child's father left the place, the youth took away the victim with him.
Bihar native Moim took the child to a park and raped her behind the bushes, it said, adding the victim's father came to know from his neighbour that the youth had taken away his daughter and he went to Mandawali Police Station.
The child was rescued after two home guards caught the accused with the victim in a park and brought both of them to the police station where Moim was arrested.
The youth claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case. The court rejected the contention of the defence counsel that the child was not examined in the case which is fatal to the prosecution case.
The judge said no doubt in such types of cases, statement of the victim is of utmost importance but here the child was just three-year-old and she was not called by the court to depose as she was too young to understand the incident.
By all parameters she cannot be put in the category of a competent witness to testify before the court, the judge said.
Next: Saudi beheads drug smuggler, murderer
Saudi beheads drug smuggler, murderer
Riyadh: Saudi authorities Wenesday beheaded a Pakistani for smuggling drugs and a national for killing a compatriot, the interior ministry said, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to nine.
Mohammed Asharaf Ramadan was caught attempting to smuggle into the kingdom an amount of heroin that he swallowed, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He was executed in Riyadh. In another case, Saudi national Turki Ahmed al-Salami, was executed in the southwestern Asir region after he was convicted of shooting dead Salman Subaykhi, the ministry said in a separate statement.
Saudi Arabia beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count. Last year, the UN High Commission for Human Rights denounced a "sharp increase in the use of capital punishment" since 2011 in the kingdom.
According to figures from Amnesty International, the number of executions in Saudi Arabia jumped from 27 in 2010, of whom five were foreigners, to 82 in 2011, including 28 foreigners.
In 2012, the number of executions slipped slightly to 79 people, among them 27 foreign nationals. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the conservative kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.
Next: Armed men loot passengers of Delhi-Dehradun train
Armed men loot passengers of Delhi-Dehradun train
Muzaffarnagar: A group of armed men allegedly looted cash and other valuables from some passengers of a Delhi-bound train in Bamanheri district here, police said.
The unidentified men entered the Delhi-Dehradun special AC train last night when it was about to enter Bamanheri railway station near here, they said.
The accused flew the spot after looting the victims, mostly businessmen and officials, as the train slowed down to enter the station.
This is the second time the same train was looted in the district within 18 days. Some of the victims from Roorkee and Delhi have lodged complaints, although no arrest has been made in this connection so far, police said.
