1. Man Lynched in WB on Suspicion of Child-Lifting, 17 Arrested
A man was lynched by a mob in Alipurduar district on Sunday, 30 July, over suspicion that he was a child-lifter.
On Monday, 17 persons were arrested in connection with the case. The identity of the deceased, who was in his mid-30s, was yet to be ascertained, police said.
“Over 250 people had beaten up the man. He was seriously injured when we saved him from the mob,” the officer said.
“I cannot confirm or deny that police had to fire in the air. However, when the police went to the spot, local residents resisted. We have initiated awareness campaigns, including using loudspeakers at tea gardens, markets and villages, urging people to alert the police if they think something is suspicious and not to take law into their own hands,” said a senior police officer from the district.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Five Men Asked My Name and Beat Me Up, Says Mumbai Youth
A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten up by a group of five youths after they inquired about his name and found out his community in Bharuch on Saturday. Bharuch police registered complaint on Sunday and are looking for the accused.
According to the complaint filed by Faisal Khan, a resident of Indira Nagar in Andheri West, Mumbai, the incident took place Saturday evening when he left his work place, a company that manufactures tyres at Jolwa village in Dahej, Bharuch, to purchase something from a hardware shop. Faisal joined the company as supervisor on 6 July.
(Source: The Indian Express)
3. Two Minor Girls, Found Dead in Pune, Were Sexually Assaulted: Police
Two minor girls who were found dead in their house in Bhosari, had been sexually assaulted, the police said on Monday, following a post-mortem.
The girls, seven- and nine-years-old, students of Class 2 and Class 3, respectively, were found hanging from a hook, along with their brother, aged six, also dead.
Their mother was found dead in the second room of the two-room house, also hanging from a hook. “We encountered injury marks on their bodies, which pointed towards sexual assault. We had the doctors confirm it,” said senior police inspector Shankar Awtade of Bhosari police station. “We are questioning the father of the girls as a suspect in the matter,” he added.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Mumbai Crime Branch Invokes MCOCA Against Dawood’s Nephew, Co-Accused
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Monday invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against Rizwan Kaskar, the nephew of wanted terror accused Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, and the other accused arrested in the case earlier this month.
The Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Crime Branch had on 15 July arrested Ahmedraza Wadhariya, followed by Mumbai-based businessman Ashfaq Towelwala on 17 July, and Mr. Rizwan on 18 July. The trio has been in police custody since then.
(Source: The Hindu)
5. Fake Whatsapp Profile: Man Held for Sending Nude Pictures of Ex-Girlfriend to Her Husband, Friends
Police arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly creating a fake WhatsApp profile of a woman and sending inappropriate pictures of her to her husband, sister and her friends. The accused and the woman were in a relationship that had turned sour, following which he started harassing her, police said.
The complainant, in her statement to the police, said she met the man in 2016 at her workplace after which they became friends and later got into a physical relationship. “The two moved in together a year later and rented a flat in the western suburbs,” said an officer.
According to police, the woman, who was unmarried then, had ended the relationship after the man refused to marry her.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. Meat Trader’s Killer Held in Faridabad, Had Tried to Kill Brother in Hospital
A man named in 43 criminal cases has been arrested for gunning down a meat trader in his car at a traffic junction on the busy Rohtak Road in Punjabi Bagh on 17 July.
The meat trader, Salim Qureshi, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne men. His brother Rahees, who was seated next to him in the car, had a narrow escape.
The suspect Arif has reportedly told the police that after killing Salim, they had also visited a private hospital in west Delhi’s Paschim Vihar to try and kill Rahees. “Rahees escaped as the killers couldn’t find him at the hospital,” said Manishi Chandra, deputy commissioner of police (special cell).
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Pune BPO Employee Murder: Bombay HC Commutes Death Sentence of Two Convicts
MORE THAN two years after their mercy petitions were rejected by the President, the Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of two convicts for the 2007 kidnapping, rape and murder of a BPO employee in Pune and sentenced them to life imprisonment, observing that the delay in their execution was “undue, inordinate and unreasonable”.
The convicts were to be executed on June 24 at Yerawada Central Prison, but on 21 June, the High Court stated that the execution of the men, who had moved the court urging it to quash their execution warrants and commute their death sentence to life imprisonment, “shall not take place” until further orders of the court.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Uttar Pradesh: Baghpat Man Held for ‘Killing’ Teen Daughter
In the second case of alleged “honour killing” in Baghpat in 10 days, Binauli police on Sunday arrested the father of a 17-year-old girl whose half-burnt body was recovered from forests near Maheshpur Chopra village on July 18.
The girl’s 28-year-old brother, who is also an accused, is absconding. The two allegedly strangled her to death in a forest area and set the body on fire on the night of 17 July, police said. Superintendent of Police (Baghpat) Shailesh Kumar Pandey said that the girl was in a relationship with a youth from her village, and her father and brother were opposed to this.
The father even sent the girl to her brother’s place in Ghaziabad’s Loni on July 13 so that the two could not meet.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. Conversion Rumours: Pastor ‘Beaten up’ by Bajrang Dal Workers
A group of Bajrang Dal workers allegedly beat up a pastor on suspicion of conversion in Kashiram Colony of Kanpur on Sunday. They handed over the pastor, Raju Prasad, to police who said he was neither thrashed nor tried to convert anyone.
A police officer said the matter was resolved without filing a first information report (FIR).
Station House Officer of Chakeri police station, Ranjeet Rai, said, “The preliminary investigation suggested that a woman had called the pastor and two women to offer prayer for her ailing mother at her house. She told us that her mother was recovering due to the prayer. She and the pastor denied conversion.”
(Source: The Indian Express)
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