Oct 23, 2011: Bhatta Parsaul protests: Women speak out after six months, allege rape

Vandana Keelor, TNN | Oct 23, 2011, 03.02AM IST

NOIDA: In another major setback to the Uttar Pradesh administration, Allahabad High Court on Friday upheld the decision of a Gautam Budh Nagar court to register cases against 16 policemen in the Bhatta Parsaul rape case. The court rejected the plea of the state government to quash the decision of the lower and ordered that an FIR should be filed against the accused cops.
The court also came down heavily on the Dankaur SHO for challenging a magistrate's order. Two petitions had been filed in this connection and the court had clubbed both of them, disposing them with a single order. The order pronounced by Justice SC Agarwal said, "The state government had no business to challenge the lower court's decision", ordering the police to register an FIR on the complaint of the victim. The court also said the "Order passed by the magistrate cannot be called illegal and doesn't require any interference by this court". The court added that "The correctness or falsity of the allegations can be ascertained only after thorough investigation (for which an FIR has to be registered)". "An accused person has no right to challenge an order passed under Section 156 (3) CrPC", the court said.
"The state has no business to challenge the impugned order", the court ruled before dismissing both writ petitions.
Earlier, the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Gautam Budh Nagar had directed registration of FIR against 16 PAC and police personnel on the basis of a complaint filed by a woman from Bhatta village, who was alleged raped by the PAC personnel. She had alleged that on May 7, around 10 pm, the accused had barged in her house and damaged property before raping her. Her husband, meanwhile, had been detained in police custody. A complaint at Dankaur police station and administration went unheeded, the complainant had alleged.
The police had filed a revision petition in the sessions court seeking to quash and set aside the order of the magistrate on September 22 claiming that the "allegations of the alleged victim were baseless and incorrect". In the petition, the police also claimed that the state had already initiated a "CBCID probe into the matter" and hence, "no fresh FIRs" were required. Counsel for the rape victim, Ved Prakash Sharma said, "Allahabad High Court has now rejected the petition and maintained the magistrate's order. The station officer of Dankaur police station has been directed to register an FIR and conduct an investigation into the case."

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Oct 23, 2011: 'Cops raped 7 women in Bhatta-Parsaul'

Ayaskant Das, TNN | Aug 22, 2011, 02.10AM IST

NOIDA: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has concluded that seven women had been raped by cops in the twin villages of Bhatta-Parsaul during clashes between police and farmers agitating against land acquisition in the month of May.

NCSC chairman P L Punia has confirmed that the commission has asked for registration of FIRs against the policemen for rape in these two villages. "Seven affidavits have been filed by women in the villages of Bhatta and Parsaul in which the victims have complained of being raped by policemen," said NCSC chairman P L Punia.

"After filing the affidavits with the investigating team, the women had appeared before the commission and corroborated the events," said Punia. NCSC official Latha Priyakumar conducted the probe.

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Oct 23, 2011: Youth killed over affair with dalit girl

Bhaskar Mukherjee, TNN | Oct 23, 2011, 12.41AM IST

JIND: A 27-year-old youth was killed and his body dumped in a canal after his relationship with a dalit girl was found out. The body was identified on Saturday.

The body of Krishan Nain, a resident of Amargarh village in Haryana's Jind district, was found in Narwana-Adampur-Sarangpur canal on October 18.

Nain fell in love with the dalit girl after they met at a wedding two years ago. He worked in a private firm at Narwana, about 30 km from Jind. Recently, they had decided to marry, police said.

A panchayat was held after the girl's family learnt about their relationship. The issue was resolved at the panchayat. The girl's family had decided to move out of Amargarh village and settle down in Narwana town. But, Nain continued to meet the girl.

"When Nain met the girl on October 17, her family members beat him outside her house. Nain went missing after that and his mobile phone was found to be switched off.

"The girl's relatives allegedly killed him and threw the body in the canal the same night," Nain's brother Gurdev told police. Gurdev had lodged a complaint at Narwana police station after which police registered a murder case against more than a dozen people, including the girl, her father Veer Bhan and brothers Pradeep and Sukhdeep, said Satya Prakash, Narwana police station SHO.

No one has been arrested yet. "The autopsy report shows Nain was strangled to death. Later, his hands and legs were tied and the body was stuffed in a nylon bag and thrown into the canal," said Prakash.

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Oct 22, 2011: Teenager gangraped in city

TNN | Oct 22, 2011, 12.40PM IST

BHUBANESWAR: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men while she was waiting to catch a bus at the Baramunda bus stand within Khandagiri police limits here on Wednesday night. The matter came to light after the girl was rescued and subsequently handed over to a shelter house on Thursday.
Though the girl told media persons that she lodged a complaint at the Khandagiri police station on Thursday, police said she has not filed any FIR. "We have not received any complaint," a police officer said. "I was waiting to catch a bus to go to my uncle's house at Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district. A man came to me and offered me cold drink. He took me to his house and raped me. Two of his friends also forced themselves on me," she said.
The girl said she had fled from her house in Cuttack. "My parents used to torture me. So I fled," she said.

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Oct 21, 2011: Model's angry ex-hubby hammers mother-in-law

Mid-Day.com Updated: Oct 21, 2011 12:25 IST

Mumbai: Starlet Nilofer Khan told the police that 25-year-old Faizan Shaikh was angry with her mother for preventing him from visiting her; Khan had divorced Shaikh six months after their marriage.

Model-actress Nilofer Khan has lodged a police complaint alleging that her ex-husband Faizan Shaikh attacked her mother with a hammer at their Andheri residence on Tuesday.


According to the Oshiwara police, Khan, who has worked in Hindi and Bhojpuri films, married Shaikh four years back. But she divorced him six months later, owing to his philandering ways.

The complaint
In her complaint, Khan said that in spite of their separation, Shaikh continued to blackmail her over the years.
On Tuesday night, he rang the bell at Khan's house in Ashiyana Towers, Oshiwara. When Khan's mother Shamshad Bano opened the door, Shaikh pulled out a hammer from his pocket and attacked her with it.

Khan, who was in the next room, emerged to find her injured mother lying on the floor, with a furious Shaikh standing over her.

Khan immediately raised an alarm, and neighbours came to her aid. Noticing the crowds gather, Shaikh fled from the scene. Neighbours then rushed Bano to the Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Four Bungalows.

Copspeak
Pratap Dighavkar, deputy commissioner of police (zone IX), said, "We have registered a case against Shaikh on charges of assault and attempted murder. We are investigating the matter."

Troubled ties
Khan had met Shaikh four years ago at a hotel, while she was struggling as an actress. The two married six months later. "I caught him with other women, and decided to divorce him. Even after we parted ways, he continued to threaten me and meddle with my affairs. My mother objected to his behaviour, and barred him from seeing me. Hungry for revenge, Shaikh attacked my mother, with the intention of killing her," said Khan.

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Oct 21, 2011: Woman unable to bear boy child dies; brother cries foul

Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: Oct 21, 2011 07:39 IST

Jaipur: The brother of a 38-year-old woman who died under mysterious circumstances has filed a police complaint against her in-laws here, alleging they used to beat her up as she had not given birth to a boy child, police said Thursday.

Rajasthan, among other states, has recently been in a news due to augmenting cases of womanlike foeticide and infanticide. Poverty, stupidity about family formulation and high dowry final have been reported among a probable causes for such crimes.

The hermit serve purported that a in-laws forced her to cancel during slightest twice when bootleg sex integrity during pregnancy showed that a child would be a girl.

According to a police, Bhupendra Singh, a proprietor of Tilak Nagar in New Delhi, purebred a initial information news with Jhotwara military hire Thursday, a day after a genocide of his sister, Kuldeep Kaur.

Kuldeep had married one Jitendra Singh, vital in Prem Nagar of Jhotwara area, in 2005.

“The in-laws told a military that Kuldeep was found passed after they returned from a duty Wednesday. She had been left alone during home,” pronounced a military officer.

He combined that a means of genocide was being investigated. “We have conducted a postmortem and a news is awaited,” pronounced a officer.

Her brother, Bhupendra, claimed in a censure that Kuldeep had called him from a lavatory of her in-laws’ residence dual days before her death.

“She was frightened and pronounced that she feared her father would kill her. She had a three- year-old daughter. They wanted a child and had forced her to cancel lady children during slightest twice in a past,” Bhupendra claimed.

According to a Census 2011, Rajasthan has 883 girls between a age of 0-6 for each 1,000 boys.

Alarmed over a state’s lopsided sex ratio, a state supervision recently announced stairs to quell pre-natal sex integrity tests during ultrasound clinics.

The stairs embody augmenting a series of health dialect investigation teams and equipping them with inclination like dark cameras and voice recorders.

The state supervision has also increasing a volume of income given to a chairman who complains about erring ultrasound clinics.

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Oct 22, 2011: Kurla minor was raped, strangulated: Doc to court

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Oct 22, 2011: Drunks brawl with diners, kill youth

Vijay V Singh, TNN | Oct 22, 2011, 12.46AM IST

MUMBAI: A 24-year-old hotel employee was stabbed to death and his friend seriously injured by a gang of men in Andheri (West) on Thursday night after they protested the eve-teasing of their female friends. Three men have been arrested for the crime.

Keenan Sentos, a bartender in a five-star hotel, and six of his friends-including three women-were waiting at a paan shop in Amboli when four drunken men came by. One of the drunks purposely fell on a woman in Sentos' group, and when her friends objected, a brawl ensued.

The four drunks retreated, only to return minutes afterwards with, according to one account, a dozen more men. The large gang first assaulted Sentos and his male friends-Rubin Fernandes, Avinash Bali and Benjamin Fernandes-and then stabbed him and Rubin. Sentos died soon after in a hospital. Rubin, a student, is still critical.

The DN Nagar police early on Friday arrested three men-Jitendra Rana, Sunil Bodh and Satish Dulhaj-in the case and are on the lookout for a fourth, Dipak. They have registered a case of murder under section 302 of Indian Penal Code. Officers said it was these four who first brawled with Sentos and his friends and thereafter brought backup. It is learnt that Sentos and Rubin were stabbed by two of the four accused, though it is unclear precisely by whom. A local court remanded Rana, Bodh and Dulhaj to 14 days' police custody.

A cousin of Sentos, Valentine Silveira, said, "What did they achieve by killing an innocent man? Wasn't beating him enough to sate their anger? Why kill him? All the accused should be caught by the police and punished."

The sordid sage began around 10.30pm, when Sentos and his friends exited the Amboli Bar and Kitchen in Amboli after having dinner there. Spotting a paan shop outside, they stopped by. While they were waiting for their paans, four drunken men-Rana, Bodh, Dulhaj and Dipak-came to the shop. To his buddies' amusement, one of the drunks deliberately stumbled onto a woman accompanying Sentos. When Bali and other men in Sentos's group objected, the four drunks stepped closer. An altercation ensued, followed by a scuffle. The four drunks withdrew but returned minutes later with, according to Silveira, with about 12 other men.

The gang first assaulted Sentos and other men in his group with bottles and sticks, and then stabbed Sentos and Rubin, both in the stomach. The women in the group were not harmed.

Once the gang left, Bali and others, with the help of bystanders, rushed Sentos and Rubin toKokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. About an hour after admission, Sentos succumbed to his wounds. Rubin, meanwhile, is still battling for his life.

Police said they cracked the case in the wee hours of Friday when they visited a slum near Amboli Bar and Kitchen. During their search, officers found most houses shut save one in which they discovered beer bottles and a knife similar to the one described by Bali. A little questioning after that allowed them to identify the attackers.

Vijay Bhoite, senior police inspector of D N Nagar, said, "We have arrested three accused. We are now trying to establish their individual roles in the crime."

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Oct 21, 2011: Youth held in eve-teasing case

TNN | Oct 21, 2011, 01.23AM IST

PATNA: A week after the sensational, daylight incident of eve-teasing near the Income-Tax roundabout, the Patna Police on Thursday arrested an accused, Pintu Singh, from a place in the state capital.

Two youths, in an inebriated condition, had made attempts to molest a BA part III student of Magadh Mahila College when the girl was waiting for her father. They even thrashed her father when he intervened.

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Oct 21, 2011: Man rapes niece, gets 10 years jail

PTI | Oct 21, 2011, 07.33PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old father of two has been jailed for 10 years by a Delhi court for raping his six-year-old niece.

"The offence for which the convict is being sentenced, is grave, heinous and utterly abominable. Such an act of perversity has to be dealt with strictly and sternly," said Additional Sessions Judge Mamta Tayal.

The prosecution stated that Uttar Pradesh-native Vinod had kidnapped and raped his cousin's minor daughter, who was the same age as one his children, on June 21, 2010.

On the day of the incident, the victim was playing with her younger brother outside their house in south-west Delhi when Vinod came up to her and took her to a deserted spot in a rickshaw.

He raped the girl and when she cried, he threatened to slit her throat, asking her not to disclose it to anyone. Vinod then left the traumatised girl at a temple close to her locality from where she went home and slept.

The incident came to light after the victim's mother noticed blood stains on her clothes the next morning and inquired about it.

Her medical report confirmed rape and the minor was sent for counselling by an NGO through the Delhi commission for women.

The court held Vinod guilty on the basis of testimony of the minor victim, her parents and a neighbour who had seen him taking away the child in a rickshaw.

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