1. Software Engineer Shot Dead in Lucknow
A 28-year-old software engineer working for a top technology company here was shot dead near his Banshi Vihar colony house in Thakurganj late Tuesday night.
The police suspect personal enmity but have so far failed to trace the killers or ascertain any specific motive.
Inspector of Thakurganj police station Neeraj Ojha said Sharad Nigam was returning home on his motorcycle from his office on Sultanpur Road in Gosaiganj at around 11.30 pm when two assailants, also on a motorcycle, shot the victim from behind, barely 100 metres away from his house. He said it seemed the assailants were aware of Sharad’s timings and were waiting for him.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Five Booked for Dowry Death in Greater Noida
Five persons were booked by the Sector Beta 2 police on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 25-year-old woman in Nat Madhaiya village. The woman, identified by her first name Neha, was rushed to a private hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.
According to the police, Neha, who belonged to Sameen Nagar in Bulandshahr, had married one Sanjay Singh in 2015. Neha’s father Ram Charan Singh said he received a call from Sanjay’s neighbour informing him about Neha’s death.
Ram Charan alleged that Neha was routinely tortured by her husband and in-laws for dowry. “Neha feared that she would be killed by her in-laws. Two days ago, she told me over the phone that her in-laws were pressuring her for ₹5 lakh in dowry and a car,” he said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Professor Accuses TMC Student Body of Assault
A professor was allegedly beaten up at a college in Hooghly district on Wednesday, after he tried to help some students get out of the institution after they were allegedly confined by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) members and forced to raise ‘Mamata Banerjee Zindabad’ and ‘TMC zindabad’ slogans.
MA Professor Subrata Chattopadhyay, who was allegedly assaulted, has lodged a complaint against TMCP members at Uttarpara police station in Hooghly district. However, TMCP has denied the allegation.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Man Slapped for Harassing Woman Dies, 1 Held
A 23-year-old man who was allegedly slapped for sexually harassing a woman in Kandivali on July 22, died after suffering severe head injuries, police said Wednesday. Police have arrested the woman’s brother for the murder.
According to police, Ajay Vishwakarma, who had come to Mumbai in search of a job from Uttar Pradesh, had recently shifted to the slum colony of Laljipada in Kandivali West.
On July 22 morning, Vishwakarma allegedly sexually harassed a woman living in the neighborhood in an inebriated state.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. Pune Man Arrested for Spreading Rumours of Terror Attack
A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly spreading rumours of impending terror attacks across Maharashtra. The accused, Pune businessman Pradeep Rasal, was arrested on Tuesday, police said.
Rasal, who had come to Mumbai on Sunday, approached the Vile Parle police station claiming to have heard a group of men conversing in Hindi and Urdu on the Western Express Highway in Vile Parle East. They were allegedly plotting to carry out terror attacks in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and Kolhapur during Ganesh Chaturthi, he claimed.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. 16-Year-Old Raped By Neighbour's Boyfriend In Ghaziabad: Police
A 16-year-old girl has alleged that she was raped last week by the boyfriend of her neighbour who had invited her over to her place in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place in Muradnagar area of Ghaziabad on July 18, they said.
The minor narrated her ordeal to her parents on Tuesday, following which they lodged a complaint, police officer O P Singh said.
On the basis of the complaint, an FIR has been registered against the accused, identified as Robin, and his girlfriend, he said.
(Source: PTI)
7. Gurugram Man Held for Sodomising Five-Year-Old Boy
A 58-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sodomising a five-year-old boy in Kherki Daula on Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday. The accused man is a distant relative of the victim’s and was visiting the family.
The police said the incident took place around 5pm on Tuesday when the boy was playing in the house and his parents were upstairs. The accused man was allegedly inebriated when he coaxed the boy into a room on the ground floor on some pretext, sub-inspector Sajjan Singh of the Kherki Daula police station said, adding, “After the incident, the boy ran to his father and shared his ordeal. His father filed a police complaint on Tuesday.”
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. Bengaluru Cop Demands Rs 40,000 to Release Minor, Nabbed
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths arrested an assistant sub-inspector attached to Kalasipalya police station and his friend on Tuesday midnight on charges of accepting a bribe of Rs 22,000 to release a minor, who was detained on robbery charges.
Assistant sub-inspector Srinivas and his associate A Babu were arrested after ACB sleuths caught the latter while accepting the bribe amount near the station on Tuesday midnight.
Earlier last week, a case of robbery was reported at the station. According to the complainant, a few youths accosted him near the bus stand in the wee hours and snatched his mobile phone. As per his description, police detained a few youths, including a minor, from the locality.
(Source: The Times of India)
9. Gang Murders Ex-Tirunelveli Mayor, Husband, Domestic Help
Uma Maheshwari, the first mayor of Tirunelveli municipal corporation, her husband Murugasankaran and their domestic help Mari were murdered by an unidentified gang at their house in Tirunelveli city on Tuesday. Though the murder is suspected to have taken place between noon and 1pm, it came to light only around 5.30pm when their son-in-law Lal Bahadur went to the house.
The 65-year-old woman took over as mayor when Tirunelveli was upgraded from municipality to a corporation in 1996. She was in office till 2001 and had contested unsuccessfully from Sankarankovil assembly seat in 2011. Police have picked up Maheshwari’s nephew for questioning. Murugasankaran, 72, is a retired highways engineer. They resided in a bungalow near the government engineering college on Reddiarpatti-Melapalayam road.
(Source: The Times of India)
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