1. International-Level Shooter Alleges Coach Spiked Drink, Raped Her
An international-level woman shooter has alleged that her coach raped her after drugging her. The shooter’s coach is an Arjuna Award-winning shooter himself.
Police said an FIR was registered at the Chanakyapuri police station in New Delhi on Thursday. She was sent for a medical examination, which confirmed rape.
According to media reports, she and the accused knew each other for a period of two years and eventually got into a relationship. He had promised to marry her.
The crime allegedly took place on 12 November, the shooter’s birthday, inside the government quarters where she lives alone.
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2. Not Allowed to Dance, Drunk Man Guns Down Dancer in Bathinda
A 22-year-old dancer was shot dead on stage allegedly by a drunk man after he was not allowed to dance with her troupe in Punjab's Bathinda district.
The incident happened on Saturday night during the wedding function of a local businessman's son in Maur where the deceased, identified as Kulwinder Kaur, was performing with her dance troupe.
A group of the groom's friends, who were allegedly drunk, were firing in the air and tried to come on to the stage to join the dancers, police said. On being prevented from dancing on stage, one of the men from the group, Billa, allegedly opened fire with his .12 bore gun, shooting Kulwinder in her head.
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3. Three Chopped, Mutilated Bodies in Nine Days Puzzle Delhi Cops
It could be an eerie coincidence that three corpses found within 10km of each other over the past nine days in the Capital were chopped and mutilated almost identically.
Police in south and south-eastern districts, where the bodies of a man and two women were found, have launched separate investigations to solve the mystery – are there separate murderers, or a single killer is involved.
Investigators suspect the victims – probably between 30 and 40 years of age – were murdered somewhere and their bodies dumped elsewhere. And the murder weapon for any of these three cases is yet to be recovered.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. British-Sikh Woman Honour Killing Victim in India: Family Demands Probe
A British-Sikh family has written to UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson calling for a new investigation into the death of a woman who they claim was the victim of an honour killing in India.
The woman, who cannot be named due to legal reasons, was a mother of four who died in "highly suspicious circumstances" in March 2015 after allegedly refusing to allow one of her sons to be adopted by her childless brother-in-law, who was said to be desperate for a male heir to secure "ancestral wealth", The Sunday Times reported.
In the letter to Johnson, representatives of the mother's family say she was "tricked" into going on a family trip to India, where she died after a heated argument with her husband about giving up their youngest son.
The family said they were told she had died of a "sudden heart attack", but found bruises on her body.
(Source: PTI)
5. Dowry Death Social Crime But Can't Convict Husband Without Proof: Court
It is a heinous crime to hang one’s wife to death, but a husband cannot be convicted without any reliable evidence, a Delhi court has said while acquitting a man and his family members in a murder and dowry death case.
The court freed the man, his father and two sisters, all residents of east Delhi, saying there was no cogent evidence that the woman was subjected to cruelty or harassment for demand of dowry.
“While it is proved that husband being the companion in the house ought to be able to explain as to the circumstances under which his wife was found lying hanged in the bedroom, but there also exists an obligation on the part of the prosecution to prove the guilt of the accused beyond all reasonable doubt,” additional sessions judge Sanjeev Kumar Malhotra said.
According to prosecution, the woman was found hanging in her matrimonial house in April 2008.
(Source: PTI)
6. Ghaziabad Constable Wanted For Shooting Colleague Arrested
The Ghaziabad Police on Sunday arrested the constable who allegedly fired at his colleague with his service pistol, leading to his death at a private hospital on 2 December. Following the incident, the accused was absconding, but was traced to Loha Mandi in the city and held.
Following the arrest of the accused, Umesh Yadav, police also seized his 9mm service pistol that was allegedly used in the incident, which resulted in the death of constable Sukhbir Singh.
Sukhbir Singh had sustained a gunshot from close range following an alleged altercation with Umesh on the night of 1 December outside the Loha Mandi police post, falling under Kavi Nagar police station. Sources said that they were both having alcoholic drinks when they got into an altercation.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Men Nabbed in Murder-Cum-Robbery Case in Delhi; New Notes Seized
Delhi Police have apprehended an engineer and his five associates, including two juveniles, in connection with a murder-cum-robbery case after they fled with Rs 80,000 in new notes in southwest Delhi's Najafgarh area.
A PCR call was received at 8 pm about a murder-cum-robbery case near Chhawla stand in Najafgarh area.
Both the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital where one of them, identified as fruit-seller Sanjay Kumar, was declared dead, while another person, businessman Ashok Kumar, was critical and undergoing treatment, police said.
Ashok told police told that he was leaving for home from his shop when two boys assaulted him and tried to snatch his bag containing Rs 80,000 in new notes.
Sanjay rushed to help him and he was injured when the robbers shot at them in panic.
The robbers fled with his scooty and cash bag.
After apprehending the six accused police recovered the victim’s scooty, firearms and robbed cash amounting to Rs 11,000.
(Source: PTI)
8. Three Arrested For Allegedly Driving Dosa-Vendor To Suicide
A day after an Ahmedabad couple and their friend were arrested for allegedly driving a dosa vendor to suicide, a local court sent the trio to one-day police custody on Sunday.
Heena Mehta, her husband Sameer and their friend Paresh Dave were arrested by Aji Dam police on Saturday for allegedly forcing Jaydeep Rathod, a dosa vendor of Rajkot, to commit suicide. Rathod, who used to run a dosa joint on Hari Dhava road of Rajkot city, had allegedly consumed poison and committed suicide at his rented residence in Juna Ganeshnagar area on Kotharia road on Friday. In his suicide note, 28-year-old Jaydeep had alleged that Heena, Sameer and Dave had been blackmailing him and issuing death threats.
Before ending his life, Jaydeep had allegedly hacked his parents to death, fearing that after his death, the trio would harass them also. Police said Jaydeep was a paramour of Heena.
(Source: Indian Express)
9. HC acquits Three in Dowry Death Case After 25 Years
Ending the "trauma and suffering" of almost 25 years, the Delhi High Court has acquitted a couple and their daughter of charges of dowry harassment and murder in 1991.
HC set aside a trial court order sentencing them to life term for allegedly setting ablaze their daughter-in-law in 1991, after it found that even the parents of the deceased woman testified in favour of the accused and maintained that their daughter was never subjected to dowry-related cruelty.
As per the prosecution in November 1991, the daughter-in-law of the couple suffered burn injuries in her matrimonial home and later died after a month during treatment. She got married just a year earlier, leading to the police to rely on her dying declarations recorded in the hospital.
(Source: The Times of India)
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