Apr 25, 2012: Father kills teenage daughter in Mumbai

V Narayan, TNN | Apr 25, 2012, 01.08PM IST

MUMBAI: The Shivaji Nagar police arrested a 45-year-old hawker for allegedly killing his 19-year-old daughter by banging her head on the walls of their Baiganwadi house on Sunday. Mohammed Kitabbuddin Shah committed the crime on learning that his daughter Tabbasum Shah and was not ready to get married to the boy he had selected for her in a village in Uttar Pradesh.

Initially the police recorded a case of accidental death. Shah misled the investigators saying his daughter's death could be because of TB and that she had died in her sleep. He cremated his daughter after the post-mortem was carried out on Sunday. However, he was nailed after the report showed the girl had died due to internal head injuries, the police said. Shah was picked up from his residence on Monday.

Shah said his daughter was in love with his tenant's son for the last three months and he was against their relationship. When Tabbasum refused to marry the boy of his choice Shah killed her. It is learnt that his daughter was seeing the youth but he fixed his daughter's marriage in UP. "Shah had got the mail ticket booked to travel on April 25 to get his daughter married to a man of his choice who hails from their community. This led to frequent fights between the duo; father-daughter," said the investigators.

The matter worsened on Sunday morning when the accused assaulted her and banged her head on the wall killing her on the spot. "Shah waited till 5am and called his neighbours alarming them that his daughter is not responding and seek help to rush her to the hospital. However his luck ran short when the report showed the actual cause of death," said the investigators.

Shah is booked under for murder.

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Apr 24, 2012: Forced into flesh trade, woman kills self

New delhi, Apr 16, 2012, DHNS : 

New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman committed suicide by pouring kerosene and then setting herself on fire at her residence in Khajoori Khas in north east Delhi on Sunday after her husband coerced her into flesh trade, police said.

Shahzadi, 40, was in a strained relationship with her second husband, Sehdulla, 42.
“In her dying statement, Shahzadi said that her husband, a daily wage earner forced her into prostitution.  When she could not bear, it she committed suicide,” said a police officer.

Shahzadi left her first husband, Rahish, 40, around 12 years ago and married Sehdulla. With Sehdulla she had three sons, Aman, 9, Sayil, 6, and Hrithik, 5. They were staying at a rented house at Khajoori Khas. Both are from West Bengal.

“She had complained of strained relations with her husband. They often quarrelled and on Sunday at 10.30 pm, after an argument with Sehdulla, she poured kerosene on herself and set herself on fire,” added the officer.

Police were informed about the incident at 11.50 pm and rushed her to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.

She suffered 90 per cent burns and died on Monday, the officer said. 

A case of abetment of suicide has been registered against Sehdulla at the Khajoori Khas Police Station. 

He is absconding and the police have launched a search to nab him.

Police are ruling out the involvement of Shahzadi’s first husband, Rahish.
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Apr 24, 2012: Dowry demand leads woman to suicide

Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – Wed 18 Apr, 2012

New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Anguished by repeated torture by her in-law's family for dowry, a 30-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a mall in the capital, police said Wednesday.

Garima, resident of west Delhi's Paschim Vihar area, jumped off the Ring Road Mall situated in west Delhi's Rohini Sector-3 around 8.30 p.m. Tuesday.

She was rushed to Baba Bhim Rao Ambedkar hospital where doctors declared her brought dead.

"Garima was identified from her PAN card. No suicide note was recovered from her possession, but her family members alleged that she was being tortured by her in-law's family for dowry that led her to take such a step," said a police official.

According to the official, probe is on into the case to ascertain the role of her in-law's family behind her suicide.
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Apr 24, 2012 : School secretary arrested for sexually harassing students

PTI | MADURAI | APR 24, 2012

Madurai: A septuagenarian school secretary has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing girl students at a school hostel at Viswanathapuram area in the city.

Police said the 76-year-old man, who is also the hostel warden, had been arrested on a complaint from eighth and ninth standard students that he was 'misbehaving' with them.

The students said no action had been taken by the authorities concerned despite several complaints

The secretary was earlier working as Personal Assistant to the District Collector.
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Apr 24, 2012: Man held after ex-girlfriend alleges rape

TNN | Apr 24, 2012, 02.27AM IST

MUMBAI: A 25-year-old man was arrested by the Samta Nagar police on Monday, after his ex-girlfriend filed a case of rape and cheating against him.

The complainant is a 22-year-old chartered accountancy student from Kandivli (E). She told the police that the accused, Bhavik Limbad, got intimate with her after making false promises of marriage. She realized she was being conned when Limbad got set to tie the knot with another girl.

"We have arrested Limbad under sections 376 and 420 of the IPC. He will be produced before a metropolitan court on Tuesday. The complainant underwent a medical examination and the reports are awaited," a senior official said.

The victim is a native of Rajasthan and came to Mumbai two years ago. She stayed at Akurli Road in Kandivali East.

She started attending a coaching class for her chartered accountancy course preparation. At the coaching class, she got friendly with a youth who introduced her to Limbad. "The victim and Limbad got close. After he promised to marry her, the couple had a physical relationship. But the victim soon learnt that Limbad was planning to marry another girl from Dahisar," a police official said.

The victim told Limbad to stand by his promise and marry her, but he severed all contact with her. The victim even tried to end her life unsuccessfully on two occasions. Eventually, she decided to approach the police against Limbad. "The victim had come to my office and after hearing her out, I directed her to the Samta Nagar police station," DCP Rajendra Dabhade said. A case was registered on Saturday night and Limbad was held on Monday.
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Apr 24, 2012: Doctor ends her life - The Times of India

TNN | Apr 24, 2012, 12.58AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old resident doctor atLady Hardinge Hospital allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her Dilshad Garden house on Sunday. Dr Smita Rani did not leave a suicide note but police said she might have ended her life due to marital discord.

Dr Rani's husband, Dr Fazal, is on the run since her death. "We have registered a case under sections 306 (abetment to suicide) and 498A (cruelty to married woman from husband or his kin). Efforts are on to arrest him," said Sanjay Jain, DCP northeast district.

The couple, who followed different religions, married two years ago after falling in love. But differences arose between them soon afterwards, and they had filed for divorce. Their case is pending in a Karkardooma court.

Before ending her life, Dr Rani reportedly called up her sister and told her about her intent to commit suicide. By the time the sister reached the house, the doctor had already hanged herself. She was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

In her FIR, the sister has claimed that Dr Rani was harassed by Dr Fazal, who wanted her to convert for better compatibility.
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Apr 24, 2012: New born girl found dead near nullah

TNN | Apr 24, 2012, 01.27AM IST

JAIPUR: An infant girl on Sunday evening was found lying dead near a nullah at No. 61 railway crossing, Malpura Dhani. The police has registered a case against unidentified persons in this regard.

Sanganer police on receiving the information recovered the infant on Sunday evening around 6 pm. The new born was taken to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital where the doctors declared her dead. After post-mortem the baby was buried here on Tuesday.

"As soon as we found the infant on the spot we took her to the hospital. But doctors declared her dead. From post-mortem report it appears that the infant was born dead. It is likely that she was thrown there. A case against unknown persons under IPC 318 has been registered and we our investigating the matter," said Rajesh Kumar Meel, ACP, Sanganer police station.

The police is making inquiries at nearby hospitals and also analyzing the recent birth records. "We are looking at all the entries and discharge records of the hospitals located in the area. The doctors have also been asked to provide information. However, police officials claim that in many cases people from area of the city dump the body in another area making it difficult to investigate.
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Apr 24, 2012: Sex racket busted, 15 women rescued

Purusharth Aradhak, TNN | Apr 24, 2012, 06.46AM IST

NOIDA: Claiming to have busted a sex racketrunning a few metres from Sector 58 police station, cops have arrested three persons and rescued 15 women.

SP (city), Yogesh Kumar said police had received a tip-off that a gang is operating the racket in the sector 60 area. A team was formed under the supervision of DSP Monika Yadav. "We were keeping close tabs on the area for the last few days. On Monday, we raided the area," said DSP Monika Yadav.

"All the women are aged between 18 and 45. Most of them belong to Bihar and West Bengal," Yadav said. The women were taken to Mahila police station in Sector 39 where they were questioned.

"After questioning the accused, we have also got information on more people being involved in the racket," a senior police official said.
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Apr 23, 2012: Forced into abortion 6 times, woman turns whistleblower

Parth Shastri, TNN | Apr 23, 2012, 02.34AM IST

AHMEDABAD: She was forced to go for abortion not once but six times by her in-laws as they were obsessed for a male heir. Today she has used RTI to rescue several women who go through this ordeal many times in their lives. Amisha Bhatt, 36, from Vastrapur has exposed errant sonography clinics, how despite laws like Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and measures to prevent sex determination tests doctors have been maintaining a secret list of patients who are being sent by in-laws for abortions. This list is never revealed to the state government. In her RTI Bhatt has exposed this practice in clinics located in Anand, Anand, Vadodara and Panchmahals.

Bhatt had already filed a police case against her husband and in-laws for harassment. But in order to expose this practice Bhatt filed RTI applications with the health officers of two districts seeking details about her abortion case and other such cases. The explosive information exposed a nefarious nexus between gynecologists and sonography clinics involved in illegal abortion and sex determination tests. Bhatt found that her name did not figure in the elaborate list of patients who had undergone sonography tests.

"This meant that the government had no information on the tests conducted on me, as mandated under the PCPNDT Act. There may have been many such women like me. The doctors were maintaining a secret list of patients on which sex determination tests were being conducted," says Bhatt.

Due to Bhatt's expose, licences of two doctors' were cancelled for malpractice and the state government reviewed the requirements for doctors to submit their monthly reports.

Bhatt married Priyavadan Bhatt, a resident of Anand, in the year 2000. Between 2001 and 2009, she was subjected to six abortions. She even gave birth to Kamya, a girl child. Bhatt was sent to clinics in Anand, Vadodara and Godhra.

Rajendra Shukla of Yogkshem Manav Sansthan, a city-based organization, who helped Bhatt, says, "The records revealed an ugly truth. Bhatt's name was not mentioned in the monthly reports sent to the health officers. We proved the abortion and sonography with help of the bills of the doctors. The form 'F' for sonography did not have signature of Bhatt, a prerequisite. We submitted the proofs to the health officials and blew lid off the scam," said Shukla.
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Apr 23, 2012: Woman army officer accuses lieutenant colonel of sexual harassment

PTI | Apr 23, 2012, 05.37PM IST

DEHRA DUN: A woman army officer has filed a case against a lieutenant colonel here, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. 

The woman officer, a lieutenant in the Army Hospital here, filed a police complaint against the lieutenant colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to marry her. 

The woman, a divorcee, also claimed that the officer had married her in a temple, but when she asked him to register the marriage, he refused saying that he was already married. 

Further investigations into the allegations are on.
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