1. Body Found Hanging at Nahargarh Fort, Messages Referring to 'Padmavati' Found on Nearby Stones
The body of a 40-year-old man was found hanging from the boundary wall of the Nahargarh Fort near Jaipur on Friday, 24 November, with messages referring to the Bollywood epic drama Padmavati scribbled on nearby stones, a police official said. “Hum sirf putle nahi jalate... (We don’t just burn effigies)” and a note, “Padmavati ka virodh”, were also found near the body.
The president of the Rajput Karni Sena said the messages on the stones were written to provoke the outfit.
"People are threatening us... whatever is being done is wrong," he said.
Karni Sena leader Lokendra Singh Kalvi called the incident “regrettable”, adding that it “should not have happened”.
The man's family said his death has no link to the film and is not a suicide.
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2. Boy Stabbed to Death by Teenagers in School Uniforms on Delhi Bus
A 17-year-old first-year B.Com student was stabbed to death after a scuffle with five boys in school uniforms in a moving bus near Ashram in the heart of the national capital. The boy, Zakir Nagar resident Mohammad Anas, succumbed to his injuries before he could be taken to hospital.
The incident took place on a government-run cluster bus on the Punjabi Bagh-Badarpur route at 3:30 pm on Thursday, 23 November. The police apprehended four boys on Friday, 24 November, from Ali Vihar and Badarpur in south Delhi. They will be presented before the Juvenile Justice Board for further custody. A fifth boy involved in the crime is yet to be found, police said.
The suspects are all students of Classes 8 to 10 in two government schools near Ashram in south Delhi, according to Praveer Ranjan, joint commissioner of police (southern range).
The conductor of the bus, Jai Bhagwan, who was a witness to the crime, said there were at least 40 other passengers in the bus at the time of the murder, but no one intervened.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Ryan Murder: Scared of Cops, Bus Conductor Stays at Home With Fever
Ashok Kumar, the 42-year-old bus conductor of Ryan International School, Bhondsi, who was released on bail on Thursday, 23 November, after the CBI detained a Class 11 student of the same school in the Pradhyumn Thakur murder case, is suffering from high fever and is too scared to step out of his village for treatment.
Ashok was arrested by Gurgaon police on 8 September. He told reporters on Thursday that he was forced to confess to the murder of the seven-year-old Pradhyumn by cops who administered injections and electric shock as well as thrashed him mercilessly.
"He had fever when I met him in jail on Tuesday and he has been down with fever ever since," said Ashok's wife Mamta.
(Source: Times of India)
4. Children Can Be Tutored: Lawyer of School in 4-Yr-Old’s Rape Case
The four-year-old alleged rape victim from a private Delhi school could have been tutored, suggests the counsel for the school.
Rajappa Srinivasan, the legal advisor of the reputed school in Delhi where a four-year-old has been allegedly sexually assaulted, claimed that the allegations made by the child could have been been “taught”.
"Children are children, they can be taught. They can be made to say things," Srinivasan said.
In the incident, which came into light on 23 November, a classmate of the four-year-old girl had allegedly inserted his finger and a sharpened pencil into her, injuring her private parts, while on school premises on 17 November.
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5. Bengaluru Techie Who Fell to Her Death Had Searched Suicide Tips Online
Twentry-seven-year-old software engineer Geetanjali U, who fell to her death from the terrace of a 10-storey building in Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli in Bengaluru on Wednesday, 22 November, had earlier searched for ways to commit suicide online, according to Marathahalli police.
Geetanjali had got engaged at her Goa home only on Tuesday, 21 November, incidentally on her birthday. While police are yet to determine why she took the extreme step of suicide, they suspect that her engagement to a man against her wish may have contributed to her fateful decision to end her life.
According to the police, Geetanjali had celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, 21 November, after travelling to Goa with her aunt and younger brother. She had applied for two days of leave and returned to Bengaluru on Wednesday morning at 8:30 am. Instead of going home, she boarded a bus to office.
(Source: The News Minute)
6. On UP Trains, Abuse, Attacks on Minorities Rise
Anger is writ large on the faces of the minority community at Chahaulda village, 8km from Baghpat city. Two days after a cleric and his family from the village were attacked on a train nearby, the community says abuse and physical violence on them has become common on trains in the area.
Late on Wednesday night, cleric Gulzar Ahmad Rana along with his two relatives was attacked by an unidentified group of youths while they were preparing to de-board a Delhi-Haridwar passenger train near the village. Mohd Israr, 25, was the worst affected as he was allegedly stabbed with a pointed object multiple times and injured.
The heavily-bandaged Israr said, “They all just pounced upon me and stabbed me with some pointed object repeatedly. I have at least 50 wounds, if not more.”
According to villagers, attacks in trains are a common occurrence and most of them go unreported.
“They pass comments like ‘Pradesh mein rehna hai to Yogi Yogi kehna hai’ (If you want to stay in the state, you have to say ‘Yogi, Yogi’). At times they even pull off our skull caps and throw it on the train floor,” said one of the villagers, Mohd Suleman.
(Source: The Times of India)
7. Woman Beats Neighbour's Son to Death in Southwest Delhi
Angry over frequent fights with her neighbours over petty issues, a 30-year-old woman allegedly beat their two-year-old son to death in southwest Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. Police suspect the woman put the boy inside a sack and then threw him on the floor, as a result of which he sustained head injuries and died. She hid the body inside her house, intending to dump it later, police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Shibesh Singh said the woman, Deepu, lives with her husband and three children on the second floor of a three-storey building.
The incident took place on Thursday evening when the victim, Nikhil, was sleeping at his first-floor house. His father, Rakesh Kumar, an electrician, had gone to work, while his mother had gone to fetch his two sisters who were playing on the road.
“While looking for his son, Rakesh suspected he might have gone upstairs to where Deepu lives. He went to her house and conducted a search. Underneath a bundle of clothes, he found a blood-soaked sack with his son’s body inside,” said an officer.
During questioning, Deepu told police that she had frequent fights with Nikhil’s parents.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Auto Driver, Father of Two, Held for Gangrape of 21-Year-Old in Chandigarh
An autorickshaw driver, who is the father of two daughters, was arrested on Friday, 24 November, for the gang-rape of a 21-year-old woman in Chandigarh on 17 November.
The accused, Mohd Irfan (29), hails from Uttar Pradesh. He was staying in Zirakpur, a town adjoining Chandigarh. The police had arrested him on secret information.
Irfan said his two accomplices, Garib and Poppu, who are absconding, also belong to Uttar Pradesh. “The other two accused will be arrested soon,” Chaindigarh SSP said.
The victim, who hails from Dehradun, had boarded the shared autorickshaw at 7.45pm on November 17 after attending her first stenography class in Sector 37, Chandigarh. There were two male passengers already in the three-wheeler.
However, instead of taking the woman to Mohali, where she stays as a paying guest, the auto driver headed towards Sector 42, on the pretext of refuelling the auto-rickshaw. Later, he drove her to a jungle opposite the petrol station where all three took turns raping her.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. Three Fake Doctors Arrested From Kurla and Chembur
A team of Mumbai police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) conducted surprise checks and arrested three quacks, including a 47-year-old man who studied till Class 8, from the eastern suburbs on Thursday, 23 November.
“They were using fake certificates for their practice,” said Shahji Umap, Deputy Commissioner of Police, zone 6.
Jahir Shaikh, 36, who studied till class 12, runs a clinic, ‘Kranti Ayurvedic’, at SG Barve Road at Nehru Nagar in Kurla (East), while Farmanali Beg, 21, who studied till Class 11, had set up a clinic in Chembur. The third arrested person, 47-year-old Asif Shaikh, also ran a dispensary from Tilak Nagar in Chembur. All of them were allegedly using Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery and Bachelor of Science degrees of other doctors.
The police also raided a clinic in Mankhurd where they found the doctor had a degree from a naturopathy institution in Nashik. The police are verifying if the degree is fake.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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