1. Two jailed for 30 years for raping Ugandan woman last year
A Delhi Court has sentenced two men to 30 years imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a Ugandan woman in June 2014.
“By choosing a foreign national as their target, they have shown that they do not care even for the respect and dignity of our country. Their act has brought India in disrepute in the eyes of the world. Incidents like the instant one brings a very bad name to the country itself,” said additional sessions Judge Virender Bhat while sentencing Delhi residents Raj Kumar and Dinesh Sharma.
Read the full report in The Times of India here.
2. Quack on the run held after a year
“Miracle-doctor” Munir Khan has been arrested by Versova Police on charges of fraud for his ‘Body Revival’ medicine. Khan had previously claimed that his medicine could cure cancer, tuberculosis and several other diseases.
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) contention was that the advertisements of the medicine were in violation of the conditions the court had set for him while granting him bail in 2010, after his first arrest. The Versova police said that based on an FIR registered against him in March 2014, they had booked Khan. However, he has been absconding for the last one year.
Read the story in The Indian Express here.
3. Finally, FIR filed against immigration officer who harassed woman at IGI
An FIR has been lodged against Vinod Kumar, the immigration officer who had allegedly put intrusive questions to a woman passenger at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The FIR was filed at the IGI airport police station under sections 354A, 354D and 506 after police received an email complaint from the victim. “We have registered an FIR and taken up investigation after we received the women’s complaint through email. Everything will be done in this case as per the law,” said a senior police officer.
Read the full report in The Hindustan Times here.
4. Cops foil robbery bid in jewellery store at Kurla, 4 held
Mumbai Police have arrested four out of the five accused who were allegedly preparing to rob a jewellery store in Kurla. The police have recovered two pistols and 18 live rounds from the accused.
According to Crime Branch officers, the arrests were the result of a tip off received by the Crime Branch Unit V, according to which, a gang of robbers would be robbing a jewellery store in Kurla on Monday. The informant further told Unit V officers that the gang would be getting together at a bus stop near the Kurla Garden on the LBS road before proceeding to commit the crime and accordingly, the police laid a trap at the spot
Read the full report in The Indian Express here.
5. ED attaches Rs 18 crore property in the MPPMT impersonation scam
Enforcement Directorate has made the first property attachment in the multi-crore MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) by attaching property worth around Rs 18 crores owned by a key accused, Indore-based community medicine specialist Dr Jagdish Sagar.
Dr Sagar, who hails from Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh was running the inter-state MP Pre Medical Test (MPPMT) impersonation racket from Indore. He was the first big fish to be arrested by the city police crime branch in the medical entrance examination scam in July 2013.
Read the full story here in The Times of India here.