1. Three-Year-Old Raped, Beaten and Left to Die in a Drain in Delhi
The six-year-old is disturbed. She has not slept or eaten in the past nine hours. All she has been doing is uttering the name of the person who abducted her three-year-old sister and disappeared in a dark lane.
The six-year-old, who is mentally-challenged, tried to raise an alarm and inform her parents. She kept uttering the person’s name who had offered her sister a chocolate and then taken her with him. But no one listened to her.
The three-year-old was found 12 hours later on Tuesday morning, lying unconscious inside a drain across the railway tracks in north Delhi’s Sarai Rohilla area. She was allegedly raped by the man, thrashed and then dumped there, left to die. But, she survived.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Man Travelling in Chartered Jet Held With Rs 3.5 Crore in Old Currency
A Bihar-based businessman, who arrived in Nagaland in a chartered jet on Tuesday, was held for allegedly carrying Rs 3.5 crore in demonetised currency.
Identified as A Singh from Bihar’s Munger district, he was questioned by officials of central security agencies and the CISF before his case was handed over to local income tax authorities.
“CISF sleuths acted on some prior inputs and intercepted the passenger as soon as he landed here. Initially, the amount detected was said to be Rs 5.5 crore but later I-T authorities reported the final amount with him to be Rs 3.5 crore. The taxman is investigating the source of the currency,” officials said.
Security measures have been stepped up by security agencies and the Central Industrial Security Force at airports in the wake of the demonetisation of the two large currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 by the government.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Woman Arrested for Allegedly Stealing 10 Mobile Phones on a Train
A young woman has been arrested by railway police at the New Jalpaiguri station for allegedly stealing mobile phones from passengers in the AC 2-tier coaches at night.
The young woman, Soni Kumari, told police that she is a Zoology student. She allegedly stole 10 mobile phones on the Delhi Avadh-Assam Express.
On Monday, passengers from the AC 2-tier coaches complained of their lost mobile phones to the RPF. Passengers who kept their cell phones besides them at night were the ones who woke up to find them gone.
One passenger accused Soni, alleging that he had seen her enter every cubicle in the coach. Though she refused the allegations.
When RPF personnel searched her bag, they recovered 10 mobile phones, along with a flight ticket to Chennai. Police suspect she could have aimed to smuggle the phones to Chennai.
(Source: The Times of India)
4. Property Dealer, Wife Killed Because He Wanted to Pay in Old Notes: Delhi Police
What started with a property deal in southwest Delhi’s Bijwasan area two years ago ended in a double murder on 14 November. The reason, police said, was the accused’s unwillingness to accept Rs 20 lakh from the victim in old currency notes.
At 3 pm on 14 November, two juveniles went to the home of a property dealer, Sanjay Rana, in Bijwasan posing as tenants.
When Sanjay and his wife came out, the two juveniles took out country-made guns and shot them dead before fleeing on scooters, police said.
(Source: Indian Express)
5. Miscreants Flee With Car Carrying Rs 2 Lakh Old Notes
A car carrying demonetised currency worth Rs 2 lakh, a licensed pistol and three mobile phones was looted at gunpoint on the Abohar-Sriganganagar highway this afternoon.
Balwinderjit Singh of Srikaranpur segment in Sriganganagar district reportedly informed the Abohar police that he was returning from New Delhi, had his lunch at Malout and during his brief halt at Abohar, he collected a payment of Rs 2 lakh from an arhtiya in Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.
At about 3 pm, he halted near Usmankhera village. Some miscreants came out of Skoda and Verna cars, caught hold of him and pushed him to the roadside. They took away his Fortuner car (RJ 13UC 1800). Since the miscreants were armed, none of the passersby tried to intervene
(Source: The Tribune)
6. Murder Accused Helps Trap Jailor Who Sought Bribe
The Bhavnagar unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) nabbed Haresh Babariya, a jailor posted at Rajkot Central Jail, accepting Rs 5,000 bribe near the jail premises on Tuesday.
ACB officials said that a murder accused, who was on interim bail, approached ACB after Babariya demanded Rs 5,000 for not harassing him inside the jail. Babariya also told him he would not be lodged in the high-security zone.
The complainant is accused of murdering one person in the Bhaktinagar area in 2012.
(Source: Times of India)
7. Six Held Over Obstruction in Govt Duty
Police today arrested six persons of Sudhal village in Yamunanagar district, including two women, on the charge of obstructing a public servant from discharging duty.
In his complaint to police, District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO) Gagandeep Singh said the local administration had constituted a team to install domestic electricity meters outside houses in Sudhal village and he was appointed as duty magistrate.
He said when the team was performing its duty, several persons of the village caused hindrance in performing government duty.
(Source: The Tribune)
8. Sonepat 'Honour' Killings: Brother-In-Law Arrested
Police on Tuesday arrested a man in Kharkhoda honour killing case, in which 27-year-old Pradeep Kumar and his parents were shot dead, while his pregnant wife Susheela and younger brother Suraj survived with bullet injuries. The accused has been identified as Sonu, elder brother of Susheela. Police said he has been charged with criminal conspiracy (Section 120-B of the IPC) .
“He was nabbed from Bidhana village in Jhajjar. We produced him in local court and procured his five-day remand . Susheela’s another brother Monu and his accomplice are yet to be arrested ,” Sonepat SP Ashwini Shenvi said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. Pune: Newly-Married Woman Found Dead, Husband Arrested
A 24-year-old newly-married woman was found brutally murdered at her home in Dhayari on Tuesday evening. The victim was identified as Pooja Bhadawale, a hotel management graduate. Pooja’s husband Swapnil (28), a construction contractor, has been arrested.
The couple had been fighting for the last few days after Swapnil started suspecting his wife of having an affair, said police. Swapnil and Pooja had been married for six months.
It was Swapnil who called police on Tuesday evening and told them that his wife had been “brutally murdered”. When a team from Sinhagad police station reached the spot, they found Pooja lying in a pool of blood on her bed. Her throat had been slit and her hands had several stab wounds from a sharp weapon.
(Source: Indian Express)
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