1. Two Men Beaten Up, Booked For ‘Transporting’ Cow Meat
Two men, who hail from Palwal and Nuh, were allegedly beaten up on suspicion of transporting cow meat by people claiming to be “gau rakshaks” Tuesday morning.
Police said an FIR has been registered against the two men, who are being treated for their injuries at the Civil Hospital.
According to the FIR registered at Sadar police station under relevant sections of the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act, 2015, the incident took place around 6 am near Islampur village.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Woman Shoots at Son for Beating up Wife in Howrah
A woman allegedly opened fire at her 31-year-old son in Salkia under Howrah district on Tuesday as he used to regularly harass his wife, police said on Tuesday.
While the mother, 60-year-old Renu Sharma, has been arrested, the condition of her son — Manoj Sharma — is said to be critical. He received a bullet injury in his stomach and has been admitted to SSKM Hospital.
According to police, Manoj, who owns a taxi and a truck, was very aggressive in nature and would often beat his wife.
(Source: The Indian Express)
3. 2007 Rape and Murder of BPO Employee: Bombay High Court Reserves Order
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on petitions moved by two men, sentenced to death in the 2007 rape and murder of a BPO employee in Pune, urging it to strike down the rejection of their mercy petitions and commute their death sentences.
In their petitions, Purushottam Borate (37) and Pradeep Kokade (30), claimed they had suffered “undue and avoidable delay of 1,509 days in the execution of death sentence, solitary confinement lasting more than seven year”. Earlier, their lawyer, Yug Chaudhry, had argued that the delay of two years in issuance of their execution warrant, after their mercy petition was rejected, was unprecedented in India.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Man Who Claimed to Be AAP MLA Manoj Kumar’s PA Gets 1 Year
A Delhi court awarded a one-year sentence to a man, who had claimed to be the personal assistant to an Aam Aadmi Party MLA for extorting money from a fair price shop salesman.
The case dates back to August 2015 when Sandeep Kumar, a salesman at a fair price shop in Delhi’s Kalyanpuri, informed police that Dinesh Kumar, a man claiming to be a personal assistant of local MLA Manoj Kumar, threatened to seal the shop if he did not pay him ₹2,000 every month. Dinesh further told the salesman that this money will go to the MLA.
The police had earlier chargesheeted both Dinesh and MLA Kumar, but the MLA was discharged as the police did not have “any admissible evidence”.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. Man in West Delhi Kills Friend to Marry His Wife, Is Arrested
A 20-year-old man on Monday night attacked his friend with a heavy object, knocked him unconscious and left him to die on some railway tracks in West Delhi’s Zakhira, the police said.
But instead of trying to pass the death as a train mishap, the alleged suspect called the police himself and informed them that a man had been murdered by a group of men, said Monika Bhardwaj, deputy commissioner of police (west). “The killer’s decision to call the police ultimately gave him away,” said the DCP.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Man Duped of Rs 25,000 After His ATM Card Swapped with Fake One
A man was allegedly duped of around Rs. 25,000 by an unidentified man who swapped his ATM card with a fake one and withdrew the amount from his bank account in Sector 14 last month, the police said on Tuesday.
According to the police, the victim is a resident of Rajiv Nagar. The incident took place when the victim went to an ATM kiosk and the accused man offered him help in withdrawing the money.
Ved Pal, station house officer (SHO), Sector 14 police station said, “The accused man was standing right next to the victim inside the ATM kiosk. He offered to help him withdraw the money and when the victim gave him his ATM card, he slyly swapped it with a duplicate one. Later, the victim realised that around Rs. 25,000 was deducted from his account.”
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. In Sherin Mathews' Death, Adoptive Father Pleads Guilty To Lesser Charge
In an unexpected turn, the Indian-American father, accused of killing his 3-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews and hiding her body in a culvert in suburban Dallas, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, according to media reports.
Wesley Mathews, 39, pleaded guilty to injury to a child by omission even before his capital murder trial opened at a Dallas district court on Monday. The lesser charge comes with a lighter possible sentence.
Mathews had been charged with capital murder of a person under the age of 10 in the death of his special needs adoptive daughter, Sherin, in October 2017.
(Source: NDTV)
8. On Camera, High-Rise Guards In Ghaziabad Thrashed After Car Denied Entry
A group of seven to eight men on Sunday attacked two security guards of a private housing society in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad with sticks and sharp weapons, allegedly after a car was denied entry inside the complex. The attackers also vandalized the guard room, in an incident that was caught on CCTV.
The attack took place on Sunday night after a man, identified as Omveer Singh, went to visit a resident of the Proview Laboni high rise in Crossings Republik in Ghaziabad, right next to the national capital Delhi.
(Source: NDTV)
9. Argument Over Old Rs. 10 Note Costs 35-Year-Old Mumbai Man His Life
An argument over an old Rs. 10 banknote cost a 35-year-old man his life in Dadar in Mumbai, police said Tuesday.
According to police, the victim Mohammed Hanif Siddhiqui had handed the old banknote to a vendor while purchasing vegetables from him outside Dadar (West) railway station on Monday night.
An argument broke out between the two over the old currency, which soon turned into a scuffle during which the vendor allegedly stabbed Mr Siddiqui with a knife.
(Source: NDTV)
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