1. SC Dismisses Plea Against Bail to Ryan International’s Trustees
Three top management executives of Ryan International Group will continue to remain out on anticipatory bail, with the Supreme Court on Monday refusing to cancel their relief in a case relating to the killing of a 7-year-old student in its Gurgaon school premises.
The top court said the involvement of Ryan Pinto, Grace Pinto and Augustine Francis Pinto, the three top trustees of school, in the crime cannot be established until and unless there was some substantial evidence against them.
A bench of Justices RK Agrawal and Abhay M Sapre said it does not find any good ground to interfere with the 21 November order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Pradhuman, a Class II student, was found with his throat slit in the school washroom in Gurgaon on 8 September. School bus conductor Ashok Kumar was earlier arrested by Haryana Police in connection with the crime. He was recently granted bail by a lower court.
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2. Indian Student Shot at in US
A 30-year-old Indian national pursuing his masters in Chicago has been seriously injured after he was shot in his right cheek by an unidentified assailant, according to media reports.
Mohammad Akbar was seriously wounded in the shooting on 6 December in the Albany Park neighbourhood in Chicago, according to reports and information provided by his family in India.
Around 8:45 am, someone walked up to him and fired shots, Chicago Police was quoted as saying by the Chicago Tribune. Chicago police said they were not treating the attack as hate crime. Nobody has been arrested yet.
Akbar, who hails from Hyderabad, is studying for his postgraduate degree in computer systems networking and telecommunications at DeVry University in the US city, his family has said.
3. New Twist in Sheena Bora Murder Case
Shyamwar Rai, the accused-turned-approver in the Sheena Bora murder case, on Monday told a special CBI court that he was not aware that the punishment for murder was more severe than that for possessing illegal arms.
The killing of Sheena Bora had come to light in August, 2015 after Rai, who was arrested in another arms case, revealed it. Rai is currently being cross-examined by the lawyers of accused Sanjeev Khanna.
Khanna's lawyers, Niranjan Mundergi and Shreyansh Mithare, asked Rai about the presence of drains near his locality, indicating that he could have dumped the gun used in the crime near his house.
Rai was arrested by the police when he had come to Bandra purportedly to get rid of the gun.
(Source: PTI)
4. Gangster, Carrying Reward of Rs 50,000, Held New Delhi
A gangster, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, has been caught in Rohini area of the city, police said today. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Jitender Choudhary (24) from near a CNG pump on Kanjhamala Road in Sector 21 of Rohini in last week, DCP(Crime Branch) Joy Tirkey said.
Choudhary, who was an alleged member of the Ajay Jadeja gang, was also wanted in a sensational case of kidnapping of two businessmen in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi in which Rs 25 crore ransom was demanded, he said.
The accused is allegedly involved in more than 12 cases including kidnapping for ransom, dacoity, attempt to murder, attack on police team and possession of illegal firearms, the officer said.
(Source: PTI)
5. Four Arrested for Cheating Man of Rs 22 Lakh Hyderabad
The Cyber Wing of the Hyderabad police have arrested a gang of four persons, including a foreign national, for cheating a person after sending phishing mails.
Police said that the gang was arrested from New Delhi on 8 December and were brought to the city on a transit warrant. A statement issued by the Central Crime Station said that the gang, posing as officials from the Reserve Bank of India, had cheated a person in October of Rs 22 lakhs.
Police said that the gang sent mails to the victim informing him that he had "won" a Rs 3.6 crore lottery. The accused were produced at a court on Monday, said officials.
(Source: PTI)
6. Two Bank Officials Booked for Embezzling Rs 21 Lakh in J&K
The Jammu and Kashmir crime branch have booked a former bank manager and a retired clerk for allegedly embezzling Rs 21 lakh from a bank in Kashmir.
The accused are the then manager of Baramulla Central Co-operative Bank (BCCB), Latief Ahmed Chalkoo, and a retired clerk named Ghulam Rasool Dar. Both of them were from the bank's Tangdhar branch in north Kashmir.
It also came to the fore that in the Tangdar branch, ledgers, day books, account sheets and account opening forms were manipulated to reflect wrong entries and they deceitfully withdrew the said amount illegally and fraudulently without knowledge and consent of actual account holder, officer said.
The two also used bank accounts of deceased persons to defraud the BCCB, Baramulla, he said.
(Source: PTI)
7. Man Gets Life in Jail for Raping Daughter
A special court on Monday sentenced a man to life in prison for raping his 15-year-old daughter. Relying on the girl's statement and medical records, Justice VP Avahad held her father guilty of raping her.
The prosecution said the girl had in October 2015 complained of stomach pain to her mother, who thought it was due to the appendicitis surgery she had undergone in 2013.
When the mother took the girl for a sonography test, it came to notice that she was pregnant. Later the girl told her mother that her father raped her several times since September 2014.
The girl, who later gave birth to a child, is staying at an ashram.
(Source: PTI)
8. Man Held Over Murders of French Police Couple
French police arrested a man in connection with the jihadist murder of a police couple after his DNA was matched to traces found in their home near Paris, legal sources said.
The 24-year-old has been linked to Larossi Aballa, the ISIS extremist who claimed the June 2016 attack in a live video from the murder scene before being killed by police in a shootout, the sources added.
The suspect, who was not on a terrorism watchlist but was known to be radicalised, was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux. His brother has already been charged with providing logistical assistance to Aballa, whose chilling attack – one in a string of assaults in France since January 2015 – caused shock in police ranks.
Aballa stabbed police captain Jean-Baptiste Salvaing to death outside his home in Magnanville, 60 kilometres west of Paris, and then slit the throat of his companion Jessica Schneider in front of the couple's three-year-old son. In a Facebook Live video from the scene, he called for further terror attacks.
(Source: PTI)
9.Nineteen-Year-Old Kills Sister, Brother-In-Law in Pak for Honour
An angry Pakistani youth has allegedly shot dead his sister and her husband for marrying without the family's consent, in the latest incident of honour killing in the country, police said.
The accused, identified as 19-year-old Saeed Anwar, had been upset at his sister, Mismat Musarrat, 18, for marrying Qaiser, 25.
The Station House Officer Ishtiaq Masood Cheema said that when Anwar found the couple alone in their house, the accused fired at them with a pistol, killing them both on the spot. He later tried to flee the scene, but was apprehended by the police along with the murder weapon.
Cheema said police have booked Anwar for a double murder.
(Source: PTI)
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