May 30, 2012: Engineer, friend held for rape

TNN | May 26, 2012, 03.28AM IST

CHENNAI: The Vellore police have arrested a marine engineer and his friend and charged them with rape of two women from Chennai. Police have launched a search for two of their associates.

"The accused befriended the women on a social networking site and invited them to Vellore to visit the Sripuram Golden Temple," a police officer said. "They took the women to a hotel where they raped them and made videos of them in compromising positions." The accused blackmailed the women and forced them to repeatedly visit Vellore, he said. The officer identified the accused as Dileep, 25, and Ananda Babu, 24, from Ranipet. Dileep is a marine en8g8ineer and works for a company in England, police said.

The women, a chartered accountant and a supervisor in a private company, recently lodged a complaint with Vellore SP G Kayalvizhi.
Link: Engineer, friend held for rape

May 30, 2012: Girl shot dead in a suspected case of dishonour killing

Press Trust of India | Updated: May 30, 2012 12:55 IST 

Muzaffarnagar: An 18-year-old girl, Shiwa, was allegedly shot dead in a suspected case of dishonour killing in Kidwainagar locality, police said.

While the girl died, her boyfriend Shahid suffered injuries, the police said.

The girl's body was sent for postmortem, the police added.

Meanwhile, the girl's family members alleged that the boy was pressurising her to come with him, but the girl refused following which the boy shot her.

The boy has been taken into custody for interrogation, they said.
Link: Girl shot dead in a suspected case of dishonour killing

May 30, 2012: Mom pushes minor girls into flesh trade, arrested

S Ahmed Ali, TNN | May 30, 2012, 02.01AM IST

MUMBAI: A mother, who sent her two minor daughters to solicit customers, along with a woman pimp was arrested by the Mumbai police's social service branch from Sion. 

Last Friday, assistant commissioner of police Vasant Dhoble sent a fake customer to the accused and busted the racket run by the two women. "We raided a room at Prerna Municipality Kamgar Chawl, where the accused had let out her mezzanine floor and sent her two minor daughters (11 and 13) for soliciting customers. The customers were sent by her neighbour for Rs 4,000," said Dhoble. 

Police have arrested the neighbour, identified as Baby Nadar, under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act ( PITA). Nadar would get customers and then ask the accused to send her daughters. The mother, whose name has been withheld, used to rent the room as well accept money for her daughter's services, said police. The probe has been handed over to Sion police station.
Link: Mom pushes minor girls into flesh trade, arrested

May 30, 2012: Crime against women worries NHRC

TNN | May 29, 2012, 11.11PM IST

GUWAHATI: After holding a two-day camp in the state and hearing 50 human rights violation cases, the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday expressed its concern over the spurt in crimes against women in the state.

Though the NHRC said that compared to other states in the country, Assam fares better as far as incidents of human rights violation are concerned, the body suggested that the state government take strong steps to safeguard the rights of women, bonded labourers, children and disabled people.

Addressing the media here, NHRC chairperson Justice (retd) K G Balakrishnan said that the hike in crimes against women in all sections of society needs to be addressed immediately.

"After discussions with various NGOs, the DGP of Assam Police and hearing the cases, the NHRC has found that the rise in crimes against women in Assam is a major cause for concern. We have asked the state government to act on it. The state authorities have given us their assurance to act on the matter," said the chairperson.
Link: Crime against women worries NHRC

May 30, 2012: International prostitution racket busted in Delhi

IANS | May 30, 2012, 07.20PM IST

NEW DELHI: With the arrest of seven women, Delhi Police Wednesday claimed to have busted an international prostitution racket run in the capital by women from Uzbekistan. 

According to a police officer, six women, including a woman pimp, were arrested Tuesday. The racket was being run from a rented accommodation in south Delhi's Chhatarpur farms by a woman pimp Gulnaaz (33), he said. 

"All arrested women, who hail from Uzbekistan, are between the age group of 27 and 33 years," said the officer. 

Gulnaaz, who has been staying in India since 2009 after visa extension on various grounds, has been operating in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) since the past three years. 

Some of the girls live with her in her rented accommodation in Chhatarpur while some others reside in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar. She has been arranging girls from Uzbekistan to Delhi on a regular basis. 

"Gulnaaz facilitated her other colleagues to come here in the capital and stay on a tourist visa. She even got one girl married to an Indian national to enable her to get multiple entry visa on marital grounds," said Sanjay Jain, deputy commissioner of police (Crime). 

Jain informed that she charged between Rs.20,000 and Rs.25,000 per girl per night. 

"The charges increased to even Rs.one lakh for other services including 'belly dancing', weekend parties and travel companions to various destinations like Shimla, Jaipur and Goa," added Jain.
Link: International prostitution racket busted in Delhi

May 30, 2012: Lover prime accused in girl's gang rape

TNN | May 30, 2012, 03.57AM IST

SAMBALPUR: Four persons were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the gang rape of a Plus II student during Sital Sasthi celebrations near Burla. Police said three other accused, including the victim's boyfriend, are absconding.

Police said the girl, a resident of Sonepur district, was having an affair with one Rahul Panigrahi. Though Rahul worked in the students' mess of VSSUT, Burla, he represented himself as an engineering student. He had even promised to marry the girl.

The girl's family, however, were opposed to the affair and sent her to their relative's home in Sambalpur. Taking benefit of Sital Sasthi, the girl had phoned Rahul on Friday and the two agreed to go to watch the celebrations at Gohiratikira near Burla.

Police said Rahul took her to the house of one Rahul Pradhan at Gohiratikira. The girl's boyfriend and three other persons raped her at the house on Friday and Saturday nights. On Sunday, Rahul had dropped the girl in Sambalpur after requesting her not to disclose the matter to anyone.

The victim revealed everything to her father, who rushed to Sambalpur and lodged a complaint with police. "We have registered a case of gang rape. We have also arrested four persons, including the house owner and his wife Sunita, for abetting the crime," said ASP (Sambalpur) Dilip Kumar Deo.

Deo added that police had launched a manhunt for the victim's boyfriend and two others identified as Kuldip Siddar and Hari Meher.

In a similar crime, a girl was gang raped on the outskirts of Deogarh town during Sital Sasthi festival in 2009.
Link: Lover prime accused in girl's gang rape

May 30, 2012: Girl burnt alive for refusing to marry in Bihar's Nawada district

PTI | May 30, 2012, 06.18PM IST

NAAWADA: In a bizarre incident, a girl was burnt alive by unidentified persons after she refused to marry a man who demanded dowry at Bhadauni village in Bihar's Nawada district today, police said. 

Sources revealed that the girl had refused to marry a man following dowry demand, sources said. 

Unidentified persons then overpowered her, sprinkled kerosene and set her on fire, sources said adding the injured girl was later admitted to a government hospital here where she succumbed to serious burns, they said
Link: Girl burnt alive for refusing to marry in Bihar's Nawada district

May 29, 2012: Nadiad man arrested for raping daughter

TNN | May 29, 2012, 03.24AM IST

AHMEDABAD: A 44-year-old man has been arrested by Nadiad town police for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter over a period of 12 months on Monday. The minor was impregnated by her father and then aborted, police said. 

Nadiad police have recovered 28-day-old fetus that was buried by the accused in a graveyard. Police have sent the accused and victim for DNA test to town Civil Hospital. 

According to Nadiad police officials, accused Ibrahim, a resident of Vohravaad, raped his daughter Aamna (name changed), between March 2011 and January 2012. "Ibrahim's wife is a Pakistan national and she used to visit her relatives frequently. She had gone to Pakistan in February 2011 and returned after 14 months.Ibrahim was alone with Aamna in March and raped her. He threatened her not to tell anyone or he would harm her and her mother," a Nadiad police official said. 

The incident came to light when her mother came back from Pakistan last month. She complained her of severe abdominal pain. She was then taken for sonography, where it was revealed that she was pregnant. 

"Ibrahim took her for abortion and disposed off the foetus when his wife was threatening him of police case. He was absconding for past fortnight. On the basis of tip-off, we nabbed him on Sunday," inspector of Nadiad town police station H B Rathod said.
Link: Nadiad man arrested for raping daughter\

May 29, 2012: Lecturer booked for sexual harassment in Mundikota

TNN | May 29, 2012, 02.31AM IST

GONDIA: Lecturer Sanjay Kalbande of Subhash School and Junior College, Mundikotain Tiroda tehsil was booked for cheating, sexual exploitation and atrocities on one of his tribal students. Offence has also been registered against his three colleagues and eight members of the lecturer's family.

According to police sources, a tribal girl of Navegaon Khurd village of Tiroda tehsil was a student of this school and college since year 1998-99 and prof Sanjay Kalbandhe was her lecturer and after completing her studies she started teaching in this school on honorarium basis. Meanwhile, Kalbande had been assuring her that he would pay the required amount for her regular appointment in this school and on the pretext of marriage, keeping her in the dark about her first marriage, developed sexual relationship with her from August 2011 till May 5 2012. Finally, they got married at Rukmini Temple in Korni Ghat on May 1, 2012.

The ceremony was attended by Sanjay's colleagues Vijay Bhanadarkar, RD Patle and Bhaurao Nagmoti. After marriage, when Sanjay took the bride home, his first wife and other members of his family denied them entry into the house. The girl then lodged a complaint with Tiroda police .

Dy SP of Tiroda, Anil Paraskar is investigating further the matter.
Link: Lecturer booked for sexual harassment in Mundikota

May 29, 2012: Three cops held for raping minor inside police post

TNN | May 29, 2012, 03.39AM IST

LUCKNOW: Three police constables and their civilian friend were arrested and sent to jail in Budaun in connection with the rape of a minor girl inside a police outpost late in the night on Sunday. Allegations are that the victim and her maternal grandfather were brought to the police outpost after the locals near Durgah Barde Sarkar got suspicious of their behaviour and informed the police. At the police outpost, the cops first allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from the duo to let them free. When the two expressed their inability to meet their demands, the cops allegedly assaulted the old man while their civilian friend raped her at the police outpost itself. 

The accused were however arrested when the same locals who had handed her over to the police, overheard her cries from inside the police outpost and informed the senior officials who reached the site and caught the accused red handed. Police then registered a case of rape and assault against three police constables on duty at the police outpost and their civilian friend involved in the crime. The four accused were later sent to jail. 

A native of Rampur district, the minor girl had come to Budaun to visit Durgah Barde Sarkar situated in Lal Pul area under Kotwali police circle on Sunday evening. Two constables from theLal Pul police outpost under Kotwali city police station - later identified as Ausaaf Ali and Majid Hussain - arrived at the scene on a motorcycle and brought the duo to the police outpost, a couple of hundred meters away from the Durgah. After sustained grilling, the cops allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from the duo to set them free. When they expressed their inability to pay the cops, the two cops left the site leaving behind constable Sumit Kumar at the outpost on watch duty. 

According to the victim, shortly thereafter constable Sumit once again started questioning the duo when he was joined by one Gopal - later identified as a local resident and a friend of the cops. Allegations are that Gopal started misbehaving with the minor girl, her grandfather objected to it. This left the two so angry that Sumit assaulted the old man while Gopal dragged the girl away to another room. 

SSP Budaun RK Srivastava said that on the complaint of the girl a case of rape was lodged against the two accused and the other constables who brought the girl to the outpost were also rounded up and arrested as accused.
Link: Three cops held for raping minor inside police post

May 29, 2012: Indian kills wife in Italy for wearing western clothes

Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: May 29, 2012 10:48 IST 

Rome: A 37-year-old Indian migrant in Italy killed his pregnant wife because she loved wearing western clothes and he wanted to punish her for going against Indian traditions.

The Indian - whose name was given as Kulbir Singh - told police in Piacenza city in northern Italy that he strangled to death his 27-year-old wife - named as Balwinde Kaur - before throwing her corpse in the Po river, the AKI news agency reported.

Investigators said Kulbir, who worked for an agricultural company, killed his wife to punish her for dressing like a Westerner against Indian traditions. Balwinde's body was found floating on Sunday in the Po river near Piacenza, 153 days after she went missing.


The mother of a five-year-old boy, Balwinde was three months pregnant, according to the Piacenza Sera news website.

Another Italian news agency AGI said the accused killed his "excessively westernized" young Indian wife because he feared he would lose her.

The woman's father reported her disappearance May 1.

Her husband told the military police that he was sure she had left home because she wanted to leave him.

Kulbir, however, has no criminal record.

He confessed when his wife's body was found on the river bank near S.Nazzaro di Monticelli D'Ongina. The body was spotted by two girls walking in the area.

The AGI report said Balwinde lived for about 10 years with her husband in Baselico Duce village, on a farm where the man looked after the cattle.

She was a housewife and occasionally did domestic jobs and was known and liked by other mothers with children attending the local kindergarten. The other women had organised a search party when she disappeared.

Her husband too led a normal, quiet life and was seen taking their little boy to school.

The woman's family has lived in Tuscany for around 20 years.
Link: Indian kills wife in Italy for wearing western clothes

May 28, 2012: Honour killing: Brother kills sister, held

IANS | May 28, 2012, 09.30PM IST

CHANDIGARH: In yet another incident of killing for family honour in Haryana, a youth has been arrested for murdering his teenaged sister after he suspected her of having an affair, police said Monday. 

The weapon with which he killed her - a knife - has been recovered, police said. 

Payal, 18, was stabbed to death on May 20 by her brother Paras at Ashok Nagar in Karnal, 130 km from here, police said. The family had earlier claimed that the girl had committed suicide. 

"During interrogation, Paras admitted that he killed his sister as she would attend phone calls of some outsider. Therefore, he stabbed her with knife on May 20 when she was alone at home," a police spokesman said. 

Paras lied to the family members and misled them about the girl's death, the spokesman added. 

The police suspected foul play as the condition of the body of the girl did not suggest that she had committed suicide. Paras has been arrested and the murder weapon has been recovered, the spokesman said.
Link: Honour killing: Brother kills sister, held

May 28, 2012: Rape victim faints outside CM's residence

PTI | May 28, 2012, 11.04PM IST

JAIPUR: A woman who was allegedly raped by a doctor fainted outside Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot's residence after heated arguments with officials who stopped her from going inside, police said. 

The woman from Bikaner wanted to meet the chief minister to demand action against the doctor, but was stopped by officials, leading to a heated argument after which she fainted, they said. 

She was rushed to a government hospital for checkup, where her condition is normal, they said. 

The woman had visited the CM at an earlier public hearing on May 7 and alleged that her case was not being probed properly, they said. 

The CM had then transferred her case to CID?CB Jodhpur branch, they said. 

She again came to meet the CM in regard to the issue, but officers told her that her case had been transferred to CID-CB Jodhpur and her appeal was not pending at the CM's level. 

This led to a heated argument during which she fainted, and was rushed to hospital, they said.
Link: Rape victim faints outside CM's residence

May 28, 2012: Girl raped in police custody in Uttar Pradesh

Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN | May 28, 2012, 04.44PM IST
LUCKNOW: A girl was allegedly raped inside a police outpost in Badaun city late on Sunday night. The accused has been identified as a 'civilian friend' of the cops posted at the outpost that comes under City Kotwali police station. 

The victim is a native of Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh. She along with her maternal grandfather had gone to offer prayers at a Durgah in the city where two police constables on duty held them for their "suspicious movement". The duo were taken to the Lalpul police outpost for questioning. 

The two cops - later identified as Altaf and Wajid - reportedly left them at the outpost where their fellow constable Sumit was on duty. Sometime later, a local youth Gopal reportedly arrived at the police outpost and first manhandled the girl's grandfather and then dragged the victim away to another room where she was allegedly raped. 

All three constables and the accused have been detained by the police and the victim has been sent for medical examination. 

Senior superintendent of police ( SSP) Badaun RK Srivastava said if rape was confirmed in the medical examination, then all the three cops and the civilian would be booked for it. 
Link: Girl raped in police custody in Uttar Pradesh

May 27, 2012: Home guard rapes woman

TNN | May 27, 2012, 02.28AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old home guard of Delhi Police was arrested recently in the Mongolpuri area of Outer Delhi for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman from the northeast. According to police, the home guard had allegedly laced her cold drink with drugs and raped her about 10 days ago. Police arrested him after the woman's medical report confirmed rape. 

Sources in Mongolpuri police said the victim, from Assam, forged a friendship with him recently. The woman, who works at a private firm, was drugged when she agreed to accompany the man to the local market. She was then taken to the house of the home guard and raped, said a police source. 
Link: Home guard rapes woman

May 27, 2012: Software engineer detained for beating 14-year-old domestic help

NDTV Correspondent | Updated: May 27, 2012 14:45 IST 

Noida: A software engineer living in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi has been detained for allegedly torturing her 14-year old domestic help.

Meenakshi Bharadwaj has been accused of beating her maid with leather belts and sticks and forcibly locking her indoors.

When questioned about the injuries on the girl she said, "That's not much; she just got a little burnt while making French fries."


In her police complaint, the girl who comes from Jharkhand, has alleged that Mrs Bharadwaj and her husband would not let her step out of their home and often beat her, even more when she tried to escape.
 
On Saturday, the girl finally managed to sneak out of the house and was taken to the local police station with the help of the security guards of the colony.

"She looked very scared and had bruises all over. So I just helped her reach the nearest police station," explained Shamim, the guard who took her to there.
 
Police say the medical reports on the girl confirm that she has been tortured and has burn injuries on her neck and back.
  
The police are now looking to question the placement agency and the woman who brought the girl to Delhi a year ago with the promise of a job. They are also looking at rehabilitating her and informing her family in Jharkhand.
Link: Software engineer detained for beating 14-year-old domestic help

May 27, 2012: 25-yr-old raped by aunt's boyfriend

Vijay Singh, TNN | May 27, 2012, 02.32AM IST

NAVI MUMBAI: A 25-year-old nursing student was raped by her aunt's African 31-year-old boyfriend. The victim, who hails from Manipur, is currently admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul where she will undergo reconstructive surgery on her private parts owing to the severe injuries she sustained during the rape. She has already undergone colostomy, a surgical procedure in which a pipe is inserted into the abdomen to remove stools and urine separately. 

The incident took place on May 13 in Bangalore when the victim went there with her aunt to meet the latter's boyfriend identified as Prince John alias Johnson. The victim's aunt works in a spa in Mumbai. In the morning hours of May 13 when the aunt was still asleep in Johnson's house, he asked the victim to accompany him to his friend's house to fetch water. The unsuspecting victim agreed as there was a water shortage at that time. 

On reaching his friend's flat in the same complex, Johnson allegedly raped her. Johnson then threatened the victim, who was bleeding profusely, against telling anyone, especially her aunt, about the incident. He told the victim to tell her aunt that she had started her menstrual period. Johnson also bought two air tickets for the victim and her aunt to return to Mumbai. 

When the victim's bleeding did not stop for the next four days, her aunt took her to a nursing home in south Mumbai on May 17. 

A doctor who examined the victim then told her aunt that she had sustained serious injuries on her private parts and will need surgery. That's when the victim broke down and confided in her aunt. The women then contacted another Manipuri doctor, who managed to get the victim admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital for the reconstructive surgery. 

Former vice chairman of Maharashtra Minorities Commission Abraham Mathai, who recently came to know about this case, informed the Navi Mumbai police. Late on Saturday, the Nerul police registered an FIR. Navi Mumbai additional commissioner of police Ashok Dongre said, "After I was informed by Mathai, I asked DCP (zone 1) Purushottam Karad to investigate the matter." 

Police officials went to the hospital and recorded the victim's statement. 

Mathai, who has been helping the victim and her family, told TOI, "I have also contacted Karnataka's additional police commissioner T Sunil Kumar and he has promised to take action against the accused. The accused had earlier claimed that he was from Jamaica and worked in the courier service business, we suspect he is hiding his real motives.'' Mathai also questioned why the doctor at the south Mumbai nursing home did not inform the police about this aggravated sexual assault.
Link: 25-yr-old raped by aunt's boyfriend
Follow up Story: African who raped girlfriend’s kin held

May 27, 2012: Man kills woman, attempts suicide in a crowded station in Kolkata

Reported by Monideepa Banerjie | Updated: May 27, 2012 00:41 IST

Kolkata: A person reportedly stabbed a woman to death, then attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself at the crowded Sealdah station in Kolkata on Saturday evening.

Eyewitnesses say, at around 9 pm the two were seen having an argument, following which the man reportedly attacked the woman.

The woman, identified as Asha Ghosh, a resident of Garia in south Kolkata, reportedly died on way to hospital.

The man, a resident of Girish Park in north Kolkata, was critically injured. He has been admitted to the nearby NRS hospital.

The reason behind the assault is still not clear.
Link: Man kills woman, attempts suicide in a crowded station in Kolkata

May 26, 2012: Acid thrown on a female volleyball player

PTI | May 26, 2012, 07.10PM IST

ROHTAK: Two youths riding a motorcycle threw acid on a teenaged female volleyball player near crowded Prem Nagar Chowk here today. 

The incident took place when Ritu Saini (17), a student of eleventh class, was going to the play ground for her daily practice at around 5pm. 

Two boys, in their early twenties, who were waiting for her, took out the acid and threw it on the girl, said Rammehar Saini, uncle of the victim. 

He said Ritu was a player of volleyball and had participated in school-level national games held last year. 

The victim suffered burn injuries on her face, arms and some other part of the body, said a doctor attending on the girl at the emergency ward of the PGIMS. 

The bikers managed to escape from the spot after hurling the acid. 

This is the second incident of throwing acid on a girl in Rohtak in a year. 

Earlier, two bikers had thrown acid on three girl students when they were returning home after their tuition classes on June 18, 2011.
Link: Acid thrown on a female volleyball player

May 26, 2012: Teenager gang-raped in Navi Mumbai; 1 arrested

TNN | May 26, 2012, 01.58AM IST

NAVI MUMBAI: A 17-year-old schoolgirl was gang-raped by two acquaintances in a car in Panvel taluka on Wednesday evening. 

One of the accused, Naresh Patil (21), has been arrested by the Panvel city police. 

A police official told TOI that the victim lodged a complaint only on Thursday. 

The accused, who are from the same village of the victim, offered her lift in a car, and raped her in a secluded place. 

They threatened her not to tell anyone about it. The victim is studying in ninth standard at a local school.
Link: Teenager gang-raped in Navi Mumbai; 1 arrested

May 26, 2012: Spurned lover stabs teenage girl 14 times

TNN | May 26, 2012, 01.43AM IST

P GANNAVARAM (EAST GODAVARI): Ateenage girl was attacked and seriously injured by her neighbour on Friday morning atBurugukunta village after she spurned his marriage proposal. The accused allegedly slit her throat and then stabbed the girl 14 times. 

M Dhana Lakshmi, a polytechnic student, was rushed to the Amalapuram area hospital in a critical condition. She was taken to Kakinada when her condition deteriorated. 

Kolli Kishore Kumar, 23, a farm labourer, had been pestering Lakshmi to marry him for the last two years. She had refused his proposal and informed her parents who scolded Kishore. Sources said Kishore confronted her again on Friday and when she refused, he stabbed her with a knife. 

The accused fled from the spot and police have launched a manhunt.
Link: Spurned lover stabs teenage girl 14 times

May 26, 2012: Woman kills daughters, hangs herself to death

TNN | May 26, 2012, 02.17AM IST

HYDERABAD: A mother killed her two daughters before committing suicide by hanging herself at Kushaiguda on Friday. Police said she was depressed following alleged harassment by her husband and in-laws.


The woman, Chaitanya, 28, hanged her daughters __ two-and-half year old Likitha and one-year-year old Dikshita. Chaitanya had married Srinivas, a welder, four year ago. For the last several months, Chaitanya was in a disturbed state following alleged ill treatment by Srinivas and and her in-laws, Dhanaya and Kanthamma. '`Using a saree, Chaitanya first hanged the children and subsequently killed herself in a similar manner. She did not leave any suicide note,'' Kushaiguda inspector Srikanth Goud said.


At around 9 am, Srinivas and his parents left the house to attend their respective jobs. ``Minutes later the incident took place. The deaths came to light when the house owner went to inform her that the municipal water supply had started," police said.


Based on the complaint lodged by Chaitanya's father Maheshwar Rao, a case of dowry harassment was registered against Srinivas and his parents. Both Chaitanya and Srinivas's families hail from Srikakulam district.


The bodies were shifted to Gandhi Hospital.

Link: Woman kills daughters, hangs herself to death

May 26, 2012: 22-year-old carpenter held for raping 8-year-old in Chennai

A Selvaraj, TNN | May 26, 2012, 01.18PM IST

CHENNAI: Police arrested a 22-year-old carpenter on charges of raping an eight-year-old girl at Valasaravakkam in Chennai on Friday.

The man, Mani, assaulted the girl on Friday afternoon when she was alone at her house. When the child cried out loud, Mani ran out. The girl later complained to her parents when they returned home at 9pm on Friday. They informed the neighbours. Angered, local residents bashed up Mani before handing him over to the police. He is now undergoing treatment in a government hospital.

The girl, now admitted to the Institute of Child Health in Egmore, lives on the first floor of a building, where the accused lives on the second floor. The girl's parents work with a private company.
Link: 22-year-old carpenter held for raping 8-year-old in Chennai

May 25, 2012: Engineering student held for molesting two women in Pune

TNN | May 25, 2012, 02.30AM IST

PUNE: The Sahakarnagar police on Wednesday arrested an engineering student for allegedly attacking and molesting two employees of the central railway.

The incident took place on a ground on Taljai hillock on Wednesday afternoon, when the women had come for their daily running practice. The police said the suspect, Abhishek Dinesh Singh, hails from Bihar. Singh is pursuing his engineering degree from a city-based private engineering college. One of the victims has lodged a complaint against him.

Singe was produced before the court on Thursday and released on bail after being remanded to magisterial custody.

Assistant police inspector C B Mane of the Sahakarnagar police station said that the incident took place around 3.45 pm on Wednesday. "While the two women were running, Singh approached them and pushed the complainant's friend down. Singh then started gagging her with a handkerchief," Mane said.

Mane said that when the complainant tried to rescue her friend, Singh also assaulted the complainant and hit her near her eye. "Singh also allegedly molested the victim," Mane said. Both the women raised an alarm for help. The people on the ground nabbed Singh and handed him over to the police.

Singh has been charged under sections 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code.
Link: Engineering student held for molesting two women in Pune

May 25, 2012: Wife’s ‘Facebook love’ leads to man’s murder

TNN | May 25, 2012, 05.14AM IST

JAGRAON: A love affair that blossomed while chatting on Facebook ended up claiming a life and landing three people behind bars. Unearthing a murder mystery, police on Thursday said Sukhdeep Kaur, 32, of Mullanpur Dhaka conspired to kill her husband with Karamjeet Singh, a man she met and fell in love with on Facebook. She confessed to the crime during interrogation.

SSP (Ludhiana rural) Gurpreet Singh Toor saidAmarjeet Singh, 36, was killed on May 11 around midnight with sharp-edged weapons and his body was abandoned in Sohian village of the district. ''Sukhdeep said she had heard a lot about Facebook and asked a friend to open an account for her too. She started chatting and met Karamjeet. They exchanged phone numbers and had an affair. Confessing to the crime, Sukhdeep, who has studied till Class VIII, said she had hatched the murder plan with her lover and his friend Satnaam Singh, residents of Mandi Gobindgarh of Fatehgarh Sahib district. " said Toor.

According to police on May 11, Sukhdeep brought her husband and son to Ludhiana on the pretext of getting the latter treated at an eye hospital. At the hospital she introduced her lover Karamjeet and his friend as relatives to her husband. She then asked them to take her husband to her village claiming that it will take time at the hospital.

''The deceased agreed to go with the accused in their car. When they were on the way to Mullanpur the accused stopped at a tavern where they offered laced liquor to Amarjeet. When he fell unconscious after having the liquor they took him to an isolated spot and stabbed him with a knife. The accused then fled with the deceased's gold bracelet, ring and chain and wallet that had Rs 20,000 in cash,'' said Toor, adding that according to preliminary investigation Karamjeet is a kabbadi player.

Police have arrested all the accused and registered a case against them.
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May 25, 2012: Woman gets life term for murder

TNN | May 25, 2012, 02.37AM IST

PUNE: Additional sessions judge V K Shewale on Wednesday sentenced a construction labourer, Sakina Khan (27), to life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 1,000 for killing her husband Mohsin Shaikh (28) in 2010. The incident had taken place at their residence in a labour camp at Bhosalenagar, Hadapsar, in 2010.

The prosecution's case was that Sakina killed her husband as she suspected him of having an illicit relationship with another woman. Sakina had attacked Mohsin with a knife and used a stone to kill him.

The incident came to light around 10 am on October 8, 2010, when Arvind Bhosale, who had given the couple the room, found the door locked from outside. Bhosale opened the door and found Mohsin had been murdered. The police had recovered a knife and a big stone from the crime scene.

Sakina, who had gone absconding after the incident, surrendered before the Jalgaon police, the prosecution said.

Additional public prosecutor Kashinath Dighe examined 12 witnesses to prove the guilt of the accused. Inspector Vishwamber Golde of Hadapsar police station investigated the case.
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May 23, 2012: Four-year-old from Mumbai raped and killed in Goa on vacation; one arrested

Reported by Rashmi Rajput | Updated: May 23, 2012 13:22 IST 

Panaji: Police arrested a construction worker on Tuesday for allegedly raping and brutally murdering a four-year-old girl from Mumbai's suburban Kurla area in Goa. 

According to reports, the victim was on a visit to her grandfather's house to spend her summer vacation. She went missing on May 20.
 
On Tuesday morning, a construction worker spotted the decomposed remains of the victim's body at an under construction site in Quepem.

According to police, the accused, identified as Dipak Kumar, a labourer, is a married man and hails from Begusarai in Bihar. Police said, he has confessed to sexually abusing the girl and killing her on Sunday evening. 


The minor victim was playing with other kids, when the accused offered her a chocolate and took her to an under-construction site, where he raped her, police Inspector
Santosh Desai said.

Fearing that she would reveal the incident to her grandparents, the accused later killed the girl by strangulating her and then chopped her body into pieces, Mr Desai said.
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May 23, 2012: Husband burns pregnant wife after fight over bargirl

Press Trust of India | Updated: May 23, 2012 14:34 IST 

Thane: Both the victims, mother and unborn child, are battling for life at Sion Hospital. Momina Begum, 20, the mother, has suffered 90 per cent burns, and cops have notified her kin in Assam. Cops have registered a case of attempt to murder against the husband, Almin alias Sameer alias Saddam, who fled the spot after committing the crime.

According to the Ulhasnagar police, Saddam married Momina three years ago after they fell in love with each other. But since the past eight months, Almin started having an extra marital affair with a dance bargirl. 

"In her statement, Momina told us that her husband is having an illicit affair with a bargirl, and he wanted to accommodate her in their house. Due to this there were frequent quarrels between them and the accused had even beaten her on several occasions," said Ravindra Mhatre, police inspector at Hill Line police station.

"As the wife began convincing Saddam to leave the girl, he in turn asked her to leave the house. She even informed him that she was seven months pregnant, and it would be impossible for her to find a suitable accommodation," said Mhatre. On Monday at around 2.30 am after another fight, Almin poured kerosene from the cooking stove on Momina.


Soon after the incident, Almin managed to flee from the spot while the neighbours rushed Momina to Central Hospital in Ulhasnagar. Yesterday, the victim was rushed to Sion hospital as her health started deteriorating. "They used to fight every night. He used to beat her every day and told her to leave the house," said Manoj Rao, a neighbour.
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