QCrime: 16 Get Life For Murder; Teen Held For Sodomising Toddler

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1. Man Kills Girlfriend, Marries 24 Hours Later

A 25-year-old man, employed as a private driver, allegedly killed a woman he was in a relationship with, and married another woman the next day. Police are questioning the accused, Narendra Goud (25), a resident of Bujilapur village.

The deceased, B Bhargavi, was a receptionist at a hospital in Hyderabad. Bhargavi's parents approached the police on Monday after she went missing.

"The accused and Bhargavi were in a relationship. His marriage was fixed for 4 March (Sunday)," said Inspector N Srinivas, of Ramannapet Circle police station.

(Source: Times of India)

2. Sixteen Men Sentenced to Life for 32-Year-Old’s Murder

A court in Kalyan has sentenced 16 men to life imprisonment for killing a 32-year-old man in 2012. All the accused were found guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy, rioting and destruction of evidence. According to the prosecution, there were strained relations between the murder victim, Vikas Patil, and the main accused, Kaka Patil, due to a past land dispute between the former’s uncle and the latter. The dispute had led to counter complaints filed by the two against each other.

Among the 21 witnesses examined by the prosecution were family members of the victim, including his wife who had told the court that due to the enmity, there were constant threats made against him. She had told the court that whenever her husband would go to work in a bar in Kalyan, where he was a manager, he would pass the house of the accused, where Kaka and his associates would stop him, abuse him and threaten him.

(Source: The Indian Express)

3. Teenager Accused of Sodomising Three-Year-Old Girl in Madhya Pradesh, Held

A teenager has been arrested for allegedly sodomising a three-year-old girl in Bundelkhand’s Tikamgarh district earlier this week.

According to a complaint lodged by the victim’s grandmother with the Kotwali police on Tuesday, the girl had stepped out of the house to play the previous day when she was sexually assaulted by 19-year-old Ashish Upadhyay from Uttar Pradesh. “When she returned, the girl said Upadhyay had done something that was making her bleed,” it added.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

4. Self-styled Guru Held for Triple Murder

Five days after a couple and their son were found murdered in village Chehlan of Khanna sub-division in Ludhiana district, police have arrested a self-styled guru, “Baba” Vipin Jain, who stays in Daba colony in Ludhiana.

Jain is an auto-rickshaw driver who also performs “Mata Ki Chowki” at his house and at the houses of his followers. Sukhdev Singh (45), who worked as a security guard, his wife Gurmeet Kaur (42) and son Harjot Singh (20) had been found murdered inside their rented house in Mirpur village on 2 March. During investigation, it was revealed by their neighbour, Rajinder Singh, that Vipin Jain was the last person to visit the family after which there was no movement inside the house.

(Source: Indian Express)

5. Menage-a-Trois Ends in Lover Killing Man’s Wife in Pune

A woman was arrested and remanded in police custody on Wednesday for smashing the head of her paramour's wife and killing her. The arrested woman was identified as Bina Rathod, 40, while the deceased woman was identified as Sarika Rathod, 38, according to Yerawada police.

"The two women were constantly fighting. The arrested woman was hitting Sarika's younger daughter, following which she ran into their house and Bina followed her. When Sarika questioned her, they got into a fight. Bina started abusing Sarika and held her by the hair before dragging her out and repeatedly smashing her head against an iron pole," said API Bobade.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

6. ATM Skimming: Jaipur Crime Branch Arrests 3 Romanian Nationals

Three Romanian nationals living on expired tourist visas in the city withdrew over Rs 27 Lakh by cloning as many as 88 ATM cards. There racket was busted on Wednesday morning when multiple teams of Jaipur crime branch arrested them from New Delhi.

The accused have been identified as Catanescu Catalin (41) Duica Bogdan (28) and Ciobanu (44). They were arrested after the city police scanned CCTV footage of ATMs located in the Mahesh Nagar, Jyoti Nagar, Jawahar Circle and Bajaj Nahar where the gang had set-up skimming devices including a card reader and a small spy camera.

(Source: Times of India)

7. Two BSF Men Killed in Naxal Encounter in Chhattisgarh

Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an assistant commandant, were killed in an encounter with suspected Naxals in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district on Wednesday, police officials said.

The incident took place at around 4 pm in the Kilenar village forest under the Rawghat police station limits when a joint team of the BSF's 134th battalion and district force was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Vivekanand Sinha told PTI.

"Assistant Commandant Gajendra Singh, a native of Haryana, and constable Amresh Kumar from Bihar, both belonging to BSF's 134th battalion, were killed in the incident," he said.

(Source: PTI)

8. Revenge Porn: First Conviction in Bengal, Man Gets 5 Years in Jail

Justice came to a 20-year-old victim of revenge porn on the eve of International Women’s Day with a court in Bengal’s East Midnapore district sentencing a man to five years in jail.

Animesh Bakshi, 23, was convicted on Wednesday for uploading nude videos of a woman on pornographic websites after she broke off her relation with him, the state CID’s lawyer said. Bakshi was also asked to pay a fine of Rs 9,000.

This is Bengal CID’s first conviction in cases related to cyber crime, including ‘revenge porn’, a term used to describe sharing of sexually explicit images on the internet with the aim of extorting or humiliating the victims, most of them women.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

9.Haryana Sees Sharp Increase in Women Kidnapping Cases

Haryana has witnessed a sharp increase in the cases of kidnapping of women and girls in the past three years, according to crimes figures tabled in the state Assembly on Wednesday. As against 1,698 such cases registered during the financial year 2015-16, as many as 2,495 such cases have been registered in the first 10 months alone of the current financial year.

When contacted, Inspector General of Police (crime against women) Mamta Singh said, “The increase in the number of such cases is because of newly opened women police stations. I take it positively. Women feel more comfortable in expressing their grievances to woman police officers than to male ones because of the kind of questions they face. There is also an increase in the number of molestation cases, which earlier used to go unreported. The people should come forward to report if there is any crime.”

(Source: The Indian Express)