Seven members of gang involved in major gold heists in 3 states arrested
A huge cache of arms, including 14 illegal Glock and Zigana pistols, 12 extra magazines, and 255 live cartridges, was recovered from them, it said.
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Time of India
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- Time of India
Wanted thief held after encounter in Lucknow
Lucknow: A man accused of stealing a police constable's service pistol and gold jewellery was injured in a police encounter and arrested in the Para area late Thursday night. The accused has been identified as Karan Verma, a resident of Kashiram Colony, Para. According to the police, the encounter occurred around 10:15 pm on June 12 during a routine check near the railway tracks in BB Kheda village, under the Para police station limits. When intercepted, Karan opened fire on the police team. In retaliatory firing, he sustained a gunshot injury, was immediately taken into custody, and sent to the trauma centre for treatment. DCP West Zone Vishwajeet Srivastava said that Karan Verma was wanted in connection with a theft reported on June 11, in which a head constable of the Uttar Pradesh Police reported the theft of gold jewellery and his official Glock pistol from his Para residence. Police recovered the stolen pistol from his possession along with Rs 90,000 in cash, which he allegedly received after selling the stolen jewellery. Further investigations are underway to identify any accomplices and recover the remaining stolen property. Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Austrian school shooter was fan of online shooting games
GRAZ, Austria -The 21-year-old man who carried out Austria's worst school shooting was an introverted fan of online shooting games, criminal investigators said on Thursday. The Austrian man, identified by local media as Arthur A., killed 10 people on Tuesday before shooting himself at his former high school in the southern city of Graz, sending shockwaves through Austria, which declared three days of national mourning. Police found discarded plans for a bomb attack and a non-functional pipe bomb during a search of his home after the shooting in Graz, capital of the state of Styria. Police are still trying to establish a motive, but Michael Lohnegger, head of Styria's criminal investigation office, said findings indicated the man was very introverted and that his great passion was online first-person shooting games. "He led an extremely withdrawn life, he didn't want to take part in activities in normal life outside in the real world, he preferred to withdraw into the virtual space," Lohnegger told reporters. Police said the rampage at the school lasted about seven minutes and that the man shot himself in the head in a toilet about 10 minutes after beginning the attack. A few minutes earlier, the man entered the school with a rucksack, then went into a bathroom to prepare for his assault. He put on a weapon belt with a hunting knife, donned shooting glasses and a headset and armed himself with a Glock pistol and sawn-off shotgun, police said. He opened fire at random on people on the second and third floors of the school, shooting off the locks to the doors in one of the classrooms he attacked, according to Lohnegger. Most of the victims were apparently unknown to the shooter, but he did know one of the teachers who died, police said. PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION He acquired the guns legally in April and May after passing a psychological evaluation to obtain the necessary permit. Authorities said the suspect failed to complete his studies at the school. Local media reported the man, who lived with his mother on the outskirts of Graz, felt bullied at the school and wanted revenge. The police declined to confirm this. Neighbours and officials in the commuter town of Kalsdorf bei Graz, where he lived, described a withdrawn, slight man who usually wore a cap and headphones, covering himself up. Of over a dozen local residents spoken to about the shooter by Reuters, few wanted to talk at all. Some said they had seen him, but none said they knew him. Questions about the bullying allegations at the Dreierschutzengasse school the man attended were put to its deputy head, Norbert Urabl, on national broadcaster ORF. "Bullying is a very delicate topic. Bullying occurs on so many levels that it's very difficult to pinpoint the term bullying in this case," he said. "But the fact is that, if bullying can be triggered, then more sensitivity is urgently needed to recognise bullying processes earlier."
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Teen boy, accused in Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe's shooting, pleads ‘not guilty'
A 15-year-old boy, who is accused of trying to assassinate Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, pled "not guilty" on Tuesday, news agency AFP reported, citing the prosecutor's office. The teenager was formally charged with the attempted murder of 39-year-old conservative candidate Uribe, who was shot twice in the back of his head on Saturday during a campaign rally in Bogota. Additionally, the teenager was also charged with carrying a firearm. Meanwhile, Uribe's doctors at the Bogota hospital said that he remained in a critical condition, "fighting for his life". The alleged gunman was apprehended at the scene by the security guards, who recovered a Glock nine-millimetre pistol from his possession. Police said they believed that the boy was a "sicario" or a hitman working for money, the AFP report mentioned. If found guilty, the boy could face eight years in detention as he is a minor. Giving people an update on Uribe's condition, who is still critical, his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona, said, "No family in Colombia should be going through this," adding that, "There is no name for this - it's not pain, it's not horror, it's not sadness." Authorities, investigating the assassination attempt, said that they were also probing several other angles to ascertain the motive behind the shooting. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has reportedly alleged that an international crime ring is behind the attack on Uribe. However, he did not provide any specific details or evidence of the same. Miguel Uribe was shot in the El Golfito Park in the Modelia neighbourhood of Bogota's Fontibon district on Saturday during a public gathering. The right-wing opposition leader and a presidential candidate from the Democratic Centre was meeting with his supporters when he was shot from behind. Notably, Uribe was a critic of Petro's security strategy aimed at ending six decades of armed conflict in Colombia. The 39-year-old conservative leader had argued that Petro's approach of halting offensives on armed groups despite failed peace talks only backfired. At the time of the shooting, Uribe had two government-assigned bodyguards protecting him, the head of the National Protection Unit said on Monday. Uribe's lawyer, Victor Mosquera, meanwhile, said that he had repeatedly asked for more security for the leader.
