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MUMBAI: A security guard was arrested by the Malwani police recently for molesting a minor girl in a housing society at Malad West. The Malwani Police registered a case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.Police said the guard used to drop the 10-year-old victim home and had molested her on a few occasions in the past. The latest incident occurred a few days ago when the girl was...

PATNA: A man allegedly strangled his minor sister to death before burying her body in the riverbed in Bihar’s Madhubani district in what police describe as another case of “honour killing”. The police have arrested the accused and sent him to jail.Police said Neelam Kumari, 15, a resident of Laukaha police station area, had gone out to offer prayers to a local temple in the evening of October 21...

BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought action taken report from Mayurbhanj SP in two different cases related to sexual assault of two minor girls by cops of a police station in Mayurbhanj district.While an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police lived with a 16-year-old girl after his wife’s death, a home guard sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl from Jharkhand by posing...

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has initiated a "minor" cabinet reshuffle, wherein the water department — which was previously overseen by minister Saurabh Bhardwaj — has now been entrusted to Atishi, as reported by officials.The responsibilities of the tourism, art, and culture departments, which were previously overseen by Atishi, will now be under the purview of Bhardwaj,...

ULHASNAGAR: Two teenagers, one of them a minor, died after the car the two collegians were in had an accident in Ambernath late Tuesday evening. The younger teen, Manav Tharwani (17), was at the wheel, the police said, adding that he had gone for a late-night drive with his friend Kushal Thawani (18). Manav's parents have claimed that they were not aware that their son had taken the car, the police...

FEROZEPUR: An Indian Army general court martial has recommended a five-year jail term and cashiering from service as punishment to a Major who was found guilty on charges of sexual harassment involving an 11-year-old girl.The general court martial found the allegations levelled by the mother of the survivor to be correct and awarded a five-year jail term along with cashiering from service to the Major...

MUMBAI: A month-and-a-half after a 63-year-old Chandivali resident in Mumbai was knocked down by a speeding MUV car outside the Orchid Enclave building on September 6 that was driven by a 14-year-old school student, the police has registered a first information report (FIR) against the Saki Naka-based businessman, Shamsool Khan (40), who was allegedly found at fault during the probe.Saki Naka police...

THANE: In separate incidents in Thane district, two men were arrested, and a minor was detained for the alleged possession and transportation of beef valued at Rs 1.67 lakh. On Friday at around 5 am, authorities apprehended some individuals unloading beef from a tempo at MHADA colony in Bhiwandi town.The police confiscated 200kg of meat, valued at Rs 1.2 lakh, from the tempo, and the driver, Mohammad...

NOIDA: The father of a youth accused of raping and killing his cousin in 2016 had come up with a marksheet, showing his son was born on February 10, 2000, which meant he was 16 at the time of the crime, said Arun Kumar Gupta, a member magistrate at the Juvenile Justice Board. "He told the board his son had studied till Class VIII at a school in Kanpur. His date of birth, according to that document, was...

THANE: Two residents suffered minor burns after they accidentally came in contact with an electric cable in the Sabegaon area of Diva late on Monday, officials said.Yasin Tadvi, the in-charge of the Thane regional disaster management cell, said the incident was reported around 11pm when locals reported minor blasts and sparking from a power cable in Sabegaon area. Suraj Gurav (21) and Ashutosh Kumar...