1. Three Udaipur Nursing College Students Force Juniors to Drink, Undress While Ragging
Three senior students of a nursing college in Rajasthan’s Udaipur have been arrested for forcing four of their juniors to drink alcohol and undress while ragging them for five hours, police said on Thursday.
The arrested students have been identified as Giriraj Changani, Mohit Kumawat and Udit Kumar Garg. One of the accused is still absconding, according to police.
The four senior students have also been suspended from the college associated with the government-run Ravindra Nath Tagore Medical College for six months. A fine of Rs 25,000 has been slapped on each of them.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. 2012 Delhi Gangrape: Victim’s Kin Move Court for Speedy Hanging of Convicts
The parents of the physiotherapy student, who was raped and murdered in December 2012 in New Delhi, have approached the Patiala House Court to expedite the procedure to hang all the four death row convicts in the case, news agency ANI reported on Thursday.
The agency said the hearing in the plea will be held on 2 March.
The 23-year-old paramedic student was raped on the night of 16 December 2012, inside a running bus in south Delhi by six men and brutally assaulted before being thrown out on the road along with her male friend. She died on 29 December 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Noida Woman, Found Delirious on Road, Dies; Kin Allege Sexual Assault
A 48-year-old woman, who was admitted to a private hospital in Noida’s Sector 29 on Sunday night, died during treatment on Wednesday morning.
The family suspects that she may have been drugged before being sexually assaulted. The hospital has not ruled out these possibilities and has sent the body for an autopsy.
The woman, a resident of Arun Vihar, Sector 37, ran a tea stall near her home.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Uttar Pradesh: Four Injured as Groups Clash in Chandauli
A motorcycle was set ablaze and the school bus was vandalised after an argument between two groups led to a clash in Alinagar police station area of Chandauli on Wednesday evening that left four persons injured.
The groups, one with members from the Yadav community and the other Dalit community, filed cross FIRs, based on which two persons were arrested. One person received serious injuries while three suffered minor injuries. Chandauli SP Santosh Kumar Singh said the situation was under control.
(Source: Indian Express)
5. Bhopal Cop Says Certified Dead Father Is Alive, Improving With Ayurveda
Doctors declared the father of Rajendra Kumar Mishra, Bhopal Additional Director General of Police (Selection and Recruitment), dead last month, but he has not given up hope. The senior police officer has been administering ayurvedic medicines to his parent's motionless body ever since it was brought home on 14 January from a private hospital, where doctors had struggled in vain for 20 hours to save him.
The 1987-batch officer has recruited an elderly Ayurveda practitioner to revive his 84-year-old father, K Mishra, who was declared clinically dead on 14 January. Hospital sources said he had suffered malfunctioning of the kidneys, lungs and heart, following which a death certificate was issued. Things, however, changed after Rajendra Kumar Mishra brought his father home that evening.
(Source: NDTV)
6. Maharashtra Man Gets Life Sentence for Raping Female Relative
A court in Maharashtra's Palghar district Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping a minor girl, who was his relative.
District judge Rajendra Majgaonkar convicted Arvind Patil under IPC section 376 (rape) and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him. The court also held Patil's wife Manisha (35) and her mother Bhanubai Kini (57) guilty under the POCSO Act for abetting the crime, and awarded them ten years of rigorous imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs 1,000 each.
(Source: CNN-News18)
7. Labourer Found Hanging From Tree; Unidentified Body Found on Roadside
Two dead bodies, one of a labourer and the other of an unidentified man, were found in separate instances in Noida on Thursday, police said.
The body of 23-year-old Manzar Ali was found hanging from a tree in the morning in Barola village, under Sector 49, police said.
In another case, the body of an unidentified man, apparently around 50-year-old, was found along the Gijhor Service Road, under Sector 24 police station, in the morning, the police said.
(Source: Times of India)
8. Three Held in Delhi for Smuggling Weapons to Criminals in UP, MP, Bihar
Three men have been arrested near Laxmi Nagar here for allegedly supplying pistols to criminals in the northern states of the country, police said on Thursday. Aslam, Sukhvinder Singh and Rupesh Sharma are reportedly members of an Uttar Pradesh-based gang and supplied weapons in parts of UP, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, they said.
The arrests was made on Wednesday. Aslam was spotted in Laxmi Nagar area with a bag and after sometime, when two men arrived and received pistols from him they were nabbed, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Jasmeet Singh said.
(Source: Times of India)
9. Double Murder Case: SC Declines Bail, Directs Trial to Be Complete in 9 Months for Chintan Upadhyay
Incarcerated artist Chintan Upadhyay, accused in a double murder case, will continue to remain behind bars as the Supreme Court on Thursday declined his plea for bail but directed that the trial be completed within nine months.
The apex court dismissed Upadhyay’s bail petition after recording in its order a statement made by the Maharashtra government that it would complete the trial in nine months after framing charges.
(Source: Times of India)
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