BHUBANESWAR: A 14-year-old boy — son of a businessman — was murdered after being kidnapped in by-poll bound Jharsuguda in Odisha, police said on Wednesday.Jharsuguda superintendent of police Smit Parmar said though the family had got ransom calls hours after the kidnap on Monday night, other angles are also being probed since the boy was killed much before the deadline to pay money. The killers made...
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday informed the Tamil Nadu assembly that he has issued orders to suspend the controversial Ambasamudram assistant superintendent of police Balveer Singh.There were complaints against Balveer Singh that he had plucked the teeth and squeezed the testicles of several people in police custody.Responding to a special calling attention motion brought by the...
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THANE: Aggrieved by a police constable for checking his car, a man abducted and assaulted the on duty constable in 2017 has been convicted and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment by the Thane sessions court. The accused Ali Rajak Pathan, was convicted by additional sessions judge Rachna R Tehrawho also imposed a fine of Rs 1500. Two other accomplices of the accused identified as Rahul Rama...
KOLKATA: The sexual assault and murder of the seven-year-old girl in Tiljala was a planned crime, with the accused, Alok Kumar Sah, having stalked the child for at least two weeks, police said. Alok had clicked her photographs and studied her movements, especially her whereabouts on weekends, the probe revealed. Cops said Alok had chosen the day of the murder carefully. "Alok Kumar Sah had been...
CHENNAI: Up to nine people can get infected while travelling on a half-full city bus with one Covid-19 positive passenger, shows a study by scientists at the Anna University and Puducherry-based ICMRVector Control Research Centre. The numbers can increase if there are more infected patients or if the bus is more crowded or if the passengers travel longer distances. In the study, recently published in...
NOIDA: A police team had to be deployed at Supertech Ecovillage 2 in Greater Noida after a group of residents objected to a gathering for namaz on Monday evening.The residents said they did not have any objection to people offering prayers in the society's commercial compound, but alleged that many of them were outsiders. This, they said, had put the society's security at risk.Around 8.30pm on Monday, a...
MUMBAI: Daily detection of Covid-19 cases in the state more than doubled on Tuesday in comparison with Monday's tally, showing a steady rise in transmission. Experts said the recombinant subvariant XBB 1.16, which was isolated in the first week of March by genomic scientists from Maharashtra, is responsible for 60% of the cases. The subvariant has also been linked with a death -though not with increased...
NEW DELHI: With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear on Wednesday a Kerala man's petition seeking contempt action against Maharashtra for failing to rein in hate speeches by Hindu organisations despite SC orders, solicitor general Tushar Mehta asked why is the petitioner seeking to target one community."Why petitioner Shaheen Abdullah from Kerala is blind to hate speeches close to his home? Why is he...
MUMBAI: Holding that the special CBI trial court Judge passed a wrong order in January 2018 in a 2009 custodial torture and death case, the Bombay high court setting it aside directed framing of a murder charge against three accused police officials.The forensic report had said Shaikh had died due to contusions on head, noted Justice P D Naik and said the trial court order in not framing the murder...
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