Miscreants break idol kept in temple in UP's Bahraich
Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Durga Prasad Tewari on Saturday said that some miscreants broke an idol in a temple located in Khasa Mohammadpur village under the Ramgaon police station area on Friday.
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Sadhvi alleges rape at Ghaziabad ashram; two women arrested, main accused absconding
Ghaziabad Police has arrested two women for allegedly facilitating the rape of a Sadhvi, and also blackmailing and threatening her, police said on Sunday. The police said that both the accused women are also Sadhvis at Ghaziabad's Gurukul Shantidham Ashram. 'The two women have been identified as Divya Yog Maya Saraswati, 62, a resident of Assam, and her associate Radhika alias Shabnam, 35, a resident of Kaushambi in Ghaziabad,' said the Station House Officer (SHO), Kaushambi, Ajay Kumar Sharma. Sharma said that the main accused, Gokul, who is the brother of Divya, has not been arrested yet, adding he may have fled to Assam. According to the police, the victim had filed a written complaint at the Kaushambi Police Station on May 8. 'In her complaint to the police, she said that Gokul raped her at the ashram after the trio spiked her cold drink. They then blackmailed and threatened to kill her if she told anyone about this,' said the SHO. 'We have registered a case under section 64(1) (rape) and 123 (causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). On Friday, the two women were arrested during routine checking,' said the investigating officer. 'We are taking all the necessary legal action and soon, the main accused will be arrested as well,' said the SHO. Neetika Jha is a trainee reporter with The Indian Express, Delhi. She covers crime, health, environment as well as stories of human interest, in Noida and Ghaziabad. When not on the field she is probably working on another story idea. On weekends, she loves to read fiction over a cup of coffee (cold coffee if it is summer). The Thursday Murder club and Yellow face were her recent favourites. She loves her garden as much as she loves her job. She is an alumnus of Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. ... Read More
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Senior citizen defrauding people by impersonating Colonel arrested from Punjab
A senior citizen, who posed as a Colonel to cheat people on the pretext of providing them jobs in the Army and by offering flats in the Army Welfare Housing Organisation (AWHO), was arrested from a Punjab old-age home, police said on Sunday. The accused, identified as Sitaram Gupta alias Sitaram Singla, 77, who was evading trial in a case of cheating and forgery registered against him in Delhi, was arrested on Saturday. During interrogation after his arrest, Gupta revealed that he left his home, family members, and changed his appearance and mobile number to avoid his detection by law enforcement agencies, Delhi's Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, Apooorva Gupta said. Gupta was wanted in connection with a 2007 fraud case of offering a flat and a shop in the AWHO. A case was registered against him on the complaint of Anil Nigam, a bank employee, who alleged that the accused had introduced himself as a Colonel rank officer posted in Delhi and offered a flat which was to be built by the AWHO. As per the complaint, Gupta also offered him to book a shop under the same scheme and took Rs 56,000 from him. Disappointed over not getting anything, Nigam filed a complaint at Vivek Vihar Police Station, and a case was registered there under relevant sections of cheating and forgery. After the investigation, the accused was arrested and later released on bail by the court. However, Gupta jumped bail and started living in an old-age home in Punjab. Initially, non-bailable warrants were issued against the accused, but he didn't appear before the court, after which he was declared a proclaimed offender. Police received a tip-off that Gupta was residing in an old-age home located in Punjab's Patiala by hiding his identity. Using advanced technical surveillance and human intelligence, a team comprising ASI Sanjeev, ASI Neeraj, HC Mintu Yadav, and HC Sawai from the ARSC, Shakarpur, Crime Branch, arrested him on Saturday. Born in Mandi Dabwali in Haryana's Sirsa in 1948, Gupta did his MA (History) and MA (Economics) from Panjab University and was reportedly a student of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when the latter was a professor there. "Sitaram Gupta, who worked as a contractor in the Indian Army, gained knowledge of various ranks of army officers and learned about the recruitment process of the Indian Army. He came to Delhi in 1987 and started working as an oil contractor. Besides work, he used to introduce himself as a Colonel of the Indian Army and started defrauding Delhiites. He took money from several youths on the pretext of giving them a job in the Indian Army," a statement issued by the police said. The accused was found involved in three cases of cheating and forgery registered at the Police Station Shakarpur and the Crime Branch in Delhi.
Time of India
12 minutes ago
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Mass shooting at house party in Hickory, North Carolina: 1 dead, 11 injured
A mass shooting at a house party near Hickory, North Carolina, left one person dead and 11 others injured in the early hours of Sunday, police said. Officers were called to the home at around 12.45 am, roughly 60 miles northwest of Charlotte. Upon arriving they found that 12 people had been shot, the Catawba County Sheriff's Office said, quoted by the New York Post. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, while another still remains in critical condition. The conditions of the other victims have not been disclosed. No arrests have been made yet, and authorities have yet to release any information about potential suspects. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is assisting local police and the sheriff's office as the investigation continues. Further details are awaited.
