QCrime: Judge’s Son Critical in Gurugram Shooting Case & More
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1. Gurgaon: Day After, Judge’s Wife Dead, Son Critical
The wife of an additional district and sessions judge, who sustained injuries after she and her son were shot at by a police head constable posted as the judge’s personal security officer, died on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, 14 October.
Her body was taken to Hisar, where her last rites will be conducted.
Police said the accused, head constable Mahipal (32), was produced in court on Sunday afternoon and remanded in four-day police custody.
He had been the judge’s personal security officer for the last one-and-a-half years.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Denied Liquor, Retired BSF Jawan Opens Fire on Wife in Pune
The Bund Garden police have arrested a retired Border Security Force (BSF) jawan for allegedly opening fire on his wife after she refused to let him drink liquor on Friday, 12 October.
The incident took place at their residence located in Saraswati Society on Tadiwala road at 1 pm. The accused, identified as Balaji Rangnath Chathe (43), has been arrested in connection with the case under the Arms Act and other Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The FIR was lodged by his son Yogesh (24) who stated that his father grew angry after his mother Kadubai denied him to drink liquor. Balaji lost his temper and in a fit of rage opened fire from a firearm in his possession, the complaint stated.
According to the police, the accused is a habitual drinker.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3.Bengaluru School Principal Hacked To Death In Front Of 20 Students
A school principal was hacked to death on Sunday, 14 October, by a six member gang in front of 20 students, for whom he was holding a special class, police said.
Ranganath, 60, principal of the Havanur Public School in suburban Agrahara Dasarahalli in Bengaluru, was holding classes for 10th standard students when the gang barged into the classroom and hacked him to death, they said.
They later ran away in the car in which they came to the school, police said.
One of the gang members was arrested later from Bengaluru's Mahalaxmi Layout area, based on a tip off.
(Source: NDTV)
4. 2 Beaten to Death by Mob in UP for Allegedly Shooting at 12-Year-Old
Two persons were beaten to death by a mob on Sunday after they allegedly shot at a 12-year-old boy during a religious ceremony in Sultanpur district, around 185 km from Lucknow, said police.
The incident occurred at Saraiya village under Musafirkhana police station area on Saturday night and the boy who sustained the bullet injury was rushed to the district hospital where he is undergoing treatment and is said to be stable.
According to Vishwanath Yadav, Station House Officer of Musafirkhana police station, the deceased persons — Rahul Singh and Dileep Yadav — reached the temple during the ceremony in an inebriated state and picked a fight.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
5. Man Arrested for Blackmailing Doc with Morphed Photos
A 26-year-old man, who allegedly blackmailed a doctor he had met in Saudi Arabia in 2017 with morphed photos, was arrested by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch this week.
The accused, Mohammad Tabish Malik, a resident of Jogeshwari, had befriended the doctor in October 2017 while working at a mall in Taif City in Saudi Arabia.
The doctor, who is from J&K, was working at a hospital in Taif.
Police said Malik claimed he wasn’t paid regularly by his employers at the mall. “The doctor felt sorry for him and helped him out. But as they kept in touch over the next year, Malik stole all the data from the doctor’s phone and left Saudi Arabia on September 26 this year,” said a Crime Branch official.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. 14-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Kidnapped, Raped in Ghaziabad
The family of a 14-year-old girl, a student of class 11, has alleged that she was kidnapped by three men in a car and later raped at a secluded spot near Modinagar on October 4.
The family hails from a locality in Modinagar and its members approached the police on Friday and lodged an FIR naming two persons and another man, who is yet to be identified.
The police have lodged an FIR under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape) and also levied provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the accused who were identified as Prince, 24, his friend Shubham, 22, and their as yet unidentified accomplice.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. 2 MNC Executives Allegedly Gang-Rape Colleague in Delhi
A woman employed with a Multinational Company (MNC) in west Delhi's Dwarka was allegedly gangraped by two of her colleagues on Saturday night, the police said on Sunday.
Birju (25), and his associate Vinod Kumar (31) offered her a lift after office hours on Saturday. During the journey, the accused served her cold drink laced with sedatives and she became unconscious.
"The victim was taken to a flat in an unconscious state where they took turns to rape her. After committing the crime, the accused dropped the victim near Vasant Kunj area," an official of Dwarka north police station said.
(Source: NDTV)
8. Couple Stabbed, Their Throats Slit in Sleep in Greater Noida’s Jamalpur
A couple was beaten up, stabbed and their throats slit by unidentified assailants on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, 13 October in Jamalpur village of Greater Noida.
The situation in the village remained tense all day as aggrieved relatives and villagers refused to cremate the bodies until the perpetrators are caught.
Another couple, who lived 200 metres away from the victims’ house, was also attacked in a similar manner. However, the accused fled the scene after those two raised the alarm, attracting the attention of villagers.
A heavy police force was deployed in the village since Saturday morning even as senior police officers spoke to the victims’ family to ascertain the motive behind the double murder.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. 21-Year-Old Stabbed to Death in Pimpri over Long Standing Enmity
The Pimpri police have booked three persons on charges of murdering a youth on Friday, 12 October, at Bhairavnath chowk. Two of the accused have been taken into custody.
According to the police, the accused have been identified as Anil alias Sonya Ashok Gholap, Kunal Sanjay Mane and Anil Kurhade. The trio reportedly had a long standing enmity (over financial matters) with the victim due to which they took the extreme step, police said.
The incident took place at 12.30 am on Friday when the three assailants armed with sharp weapons (hidden inside their shirts) accosted Ganesh Balbhim Bangar (21), a resident of Yelwadi in Dehugaon area of Pimpri.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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