QCrime: Man Commits Suicide in Delhi Metro; CRPF Car Stolen
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1. Senior Citizen Commits Suicide at Delhi Metro Station
Annoyed and depressed due to his wife's extramarital affairs, a senior citizen on Thursday committed suicide by jumping before a Delhi Metro train, police said.
The police said the incident took place at around 3.20 pm at GTB Nagar Metro station when a senior citizen – later identified as Banarsi Dass, 60 – jumped before the train at Platform No 1.
"Banarsi Dass, a resident of Adarsh Nagar, was taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, where he was declared dead," a senior police officer told IANS
(Source: IANS)
2. CRPF Car Stolen From RK Puram
In a major security breach ahead of Republic Day, an official vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), with J&K registration, was stolen from its director general's staff camp in south Delhi's RK Puram.
TOI has learnt that the theft, reported two-three days ago, has sent security agencies in a tizzy and a massive hunt has been launched to recover the vehicle, a Tata Sumo Victa (JK 02AW 5441).
All toll plazas around Delhi, especially those on the way to Chandigarh and all the way to Jammu, have been alerted to keep an eye out for the vehicle. Cameras at tolls and gas stations are being scanned for clues.
(Source: Times of India)
3. Jigisha Ghosh Murder: Delhi High Court Commutes Death Sentence of Two Convicts
The Delhi High Court on Thursday commuted the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment.
A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and IS Mehta, however, upheld the life imprisonment awarded to the third convict by a trial court in the case.
“We commute death sentence awarded to two convicts to life imprisonment,” the bench said.
While convicts Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla were handed down death penalty by the trial court in 2016, the third offender Baljeet Malik was given reprieve from the gallows for his good conduct in jail and awarded life imprisonment for murder of the IT executive and other counts.
While sentencing the two to death, the trial court had said the 28-year-old woman was killed in a “cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner” and “brutally mauled to death”.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Four B'Luru Women Take on Harassers, Drag Them to Cops
When four women in UB City Mall noticed two men trying to take photos of them without their permission, they refused to take the harassment lying down. They snatched the men’s phones away, deleted the photos and lodged a police complaint against the men.
The women were at the mall on Tuesday evening, when one of them noticed two men – one in his late fifties and the other in his thirties – clicking photos of them. She immediately told her friends about it, who decided they should confront the men.
When they confronted the men, they discovered that they had taken quite a few photos of them.
An argument ensued between the men and the women, during which both sides were observed to be using abusive language. Security officials at the mall broke up the fight and called the police.
(Source: The News Minute)
5. Missed Calls Trigger Fight, Seven Land in Hospital
A quarrel over a minor girl’s repeated missed calls to a male neighbour led to a fierce fight in a Bengal village among members of two families during which seven persons suffered grievous injuries and had to be admitted to Malda Medical College and Hospital (MMCH).
While the girl is around 16-17-years-old, the neighbour she dialled is around 22.
The incident happened on Tuesday at Faridpur village, within Ratua police station jurisdictions, in the district of Malda in north Bengal.
No one was arrested till Wednesday evening.
According the police and local people, members of the families of Meher Ali and Anaul Haque, both farmers, attacked each other with sticks and blunt weapons on Tuesday night.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Man Steals From Donation Box in Delhi Church, Held
Reinstalling their defunct CCTV cameras helped the manager of Jesus Calls National Prayer Tower in Lutyens’ Delhi to catch a thief red-handed stealing from the donation box.
According to police, the footage showed the 29-year-old accused holding the Bible in one hand and stealing Rs 1,300 from the box. Police said they have solved three cases of theft with his arrest.
Police said the accused has been identified as Pawan Kumar Chouhan, a resident of Ghaziabad’s Vasundhara.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. Fake Passport Racket: UP ATS Arrests Bangla National, Two Others
The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terror Squad (ATS) on Tuesday arrested three people, including a Bangladeshi national, for their alleged involvement in preparing fake passports, Aadhar cards and other identity cards for illegal immigrants, the police said.
The Bangladeshi national, identified as Yusuf Ali alias Nazrul, was arrested from Muradnagar in Ghaziabad, the police said. Two locals, Ahsan Ahmad and Wasim Ahmad, were arrested from Deoband in Saharanpur, the police added.
The ATS said it had been getting information about a gang active in getting passports made for Bangladeshi nationals illegally residing in the country on the basis of fake Aadhar cards and other documents.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. UP Man Rapes Girl, Hurls Casteist Slurs
A man was arrested for allegedly raping a girl and hurling casteist slurs at her at a village in Mathura. The alleged incident took place earlier this week at Sehi village under Shergarh police station limits, they said.
According to the complaint, the girl was working in the fields when the accused, from the same village, reached the spot and dragged her to an isolated place, a senior police official said.
The accused then raped the girl and also made derogatory remarks about her caste, Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandradhar Gaud said.
Soon the girl's relatives along with other villagers reached the spot and seeing them, the accused fled the village, the Dy SP said.
(Source: PTI)
9. Slain Hindu Activist Cremated, Tension in Mangaluru
A Hindu activist, who was hacked to death, was cremated amid tight security near Mangaluru, as simmering tension prevailed in the district over his killing.
Tension prevailed at Katipalla when the body of Deepak Rao was taken to his home by the police without allowing a funeral procession planned by his family and various right-wing groups.
The Dakshina Kannada district administration later allowed the procession to be taken out from his house to the cremation ground, accepting the bereaved family's demand.
Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil and city police commissioner TR Suresh succeeded in convincing the family and activists of various Hindu organisations not to insist on the state home minister's presence before the body could be taken home.
(Source: PTI)