1. Man Kills Minor Boy After He Resists Sexual Assault
A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a minor boy after he tried to resist from the crime, police said on Friday, 16 March.
The accused, Amar Nath, was traced after the victim's friend helped the police in getting his sketch prepared, they said.
On 28 February, a resident of Jaitpur approached police with a complaint that his 11-year-old son was missing and expressed a suspicion that he had been kidnapped. A case was registered and efforts were made to find the boy, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said.
However, on 3 March, the body of a boy was seen floating in Agra Canal. The body was sent to AIIMS mortuary as it resembled the boy. The father subsequently identified him and the autopsy revealed that he had a sharp cut injury on his neck.
(Source: PTI)
2. Minor Rape Survivor Spends Night in Bloodstained Clothes at Gurugram Hospital
A 10-year-old rape survivor was left unattended in her blood-soaked clothes and excruciating pain for around 11 hours at Gurugram Civil Lines Hospital, in another alleged case of medical negligence that came to light barely a month after a 25-year-old woman was forced to deliver a baby in the open in front of the emergency ward of the hospital.
The doctors and paramedical staff attended to the minor girl and gave her clean clothes only following an intervention from the Child Welfare Committee’s chairperson next morning. Later, the girl, with injuries in her private parts, was referred to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where she is currently recuperating.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. ‘Dispute Over Naming Chowk After PM’: BJP Worker’s Father Hacked to Death in Bihar
Two persons have been detained in connection with the murder of a BJP worker’s father in Bihar’s Darbhanga district on Thursday, 15 March. While local residents have claimed that Ramchandra Yadav (62) was killed in a dispute over naming of a chowk in Lahesarai after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police suspect a land dispute was behind the murder. The identity of the two persons arrested has not been revealed.
Police said the incident took place at Bhadwa village in Balha panchayat under Sadar Police station. Yadav, the father of BJP Balwa panchayat president Tej Narayan Yadav, was killed with a sharp-edged weapon on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
Tej Narayan Yadav’s brother, Kamlesh Yadav, who was injured by the attackers, is being treated at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Homoeopathy Doctor Booked for Raping Minor in Pune
Sahakarnagar police booked a 47-year-old homeopathy practitioner Dr Uday Shah on charges of allegedly raping a minor at gunpoint. According to the First Information Report (FIR) lodged with Sahakarnagar police, the victim had visited his clinic located in Sambhajinagar in September 2017 after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival for a medical check up between 2 pm to 3 pm as she was ill.
Dr Shah examined her and gave her a tablet for consumption, following which she became unconscious, said police officials. Before giving her the tablet, she was administered an injection. After taking the tablet, the victim fell unconscious, following which he raped her. When she regained consciousness and realised that she had been raped, Dr Shah threatened to kill her and her parents with a pistol and said that in no circumstance must she speak of the events to any of her family members or outsiders, police said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. Suspecting Infidelity, Man Stabs Wife to Death
A 33-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times by her husband at their house in southwest Delhi’s Baba Haridas Nagar early on Friday, 16 March. Police said that the accused had doubted the woman’s character due to which he often thrashed her in the presence of their three children.
Police said that the accused, Nasir Ali (40), had shifted to Delhi with his wife and children eight years ago. He was suspicious about his wife’s activities for the past few years due to which they regularly had arguments.
(Source: The Times of India)
6. Uttarakhand: Bank Security Guard Kills Cashier, Peon
A security guard in the Khetikhan branch of the district co-operative bank in Champawat district allegedly opened fire on the bank’s cashier and peon on Friday, 16 March, killing the two on the spot.
At around 10:15 am on Friday, Dinesh Singh Bohra (36), who is from Champawat district’s Manar village, allegedly got into an argument with cashier Lalit Singh Bisht (37) from Valsu-Chaumail village in Champawat, and peon Rajendar Verma (46) from Talli Haat area of Champawat.
It was during the argument that the guard allegedly killed the duo, police said.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. Mumbai Man Gets 4 Life Terms for Raping his 2 Teenage Daughters
A 41-year-old security guard was sentenced to four concurrent life imprisonments on Friday for repeatedly raping both his teenage daughters between 2013 and 2015.
The special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court tried the accused on charges of rape under sections of the POCSO Act. Judge MA Baraliya ordered the convict to pay Rs 45,000 to each of the survivors as compensation.
The incidents came to light when the younger survivor, 15, was crying at school and narrated the ordeal to her friend. The friend told her sister and eventually local Shiv Sena party workers got to know of it. The man’s crimes were reported to the police in July 2015 when a group of Sena workers, including women, showed up at the house of the girls’ uncle and beat up the parents of the survivors.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. Man Shoots ‘Bully’ in Revenge Killing, Leaves Body on Defunct Railway Track
Vineet Kumar, a 28-year-old Meerut resident, went through several plots, some even in meticulous details, for the past two years to serve his coldest dish of revenge. A glaring loophole in the plan, however, landed him and an accomplice behind the bars.
Vineet and his friend Itesh Kumar had killed 30-year-old Rahul Chaudhary on 6 February and left his body on the railway tracks hoping that it will be mutilated beyond recognition. Only that, no trains ran on it for the past several years. The two were arrested on Friday, 16 March, for the murder that had kept police clueless for more nearly a month.
The details of the incident were revealed during Vineet’s interrogation by officers. “Chaudhary was a bully. Two years ago, he had thrashed me during a drinking session for no fault of mine. I tried to forget it but he would not let me. Every time we saw each other, he would mock about it by saying a dialogue: jo mere dilo-dimag mein khatakte hain, wo shamshaano mein bhatakte hai (those who bother me end up in graveyard). I could take it no longer and began looking for opportunities to settle scores with him,” Vineet told police.
(Source: The Times of India)
9. Advocate Rizwan Siddiqui Arrested in ‘Spying’ Case
Celebrity advocate Rizwan Siddiqui was arrested by the police on Friday in course of their investigation into the illegal acquisition of Call Detail Records (CDRs) by private detectives. Siddiqui is representing actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a case pertaining to spying on the actor’s wife. Abhishek Trimukhe, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that advocate Siddiqui acquired CDRs of the actor’s wife from one of the 11 detectives arrested by the Thane Police Crime Branch.
A crime branch official claimed that the advocate had engaged a detective to spy on the actor’s wife.
(Source: The Indian Express)
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