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Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a colleague, will remain in the custody of Goa police for four more days.
The flight was diverted to the Jamnagar airport following a bomb threat and made a safe emergency landing there at 9.49 pm on Monday, officials had said.
Suella Braverman, an Indian-origin barrister, was appointed as the UK's new Home Secretary by Prime Minister Liz Truss earlier this week
BJP leader from Haryana and actor Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack in Goa, police said on Tuesday.
The accident took place at 4.45 am near Repoli village in Raigad, located more than 130 km from Mumbai. The victims, all relatives, were going in the van to Guhagar town in Ratnagiri district, Superintendent of Police Somnath Gharge said.
Terrorists planned to drive five vehicles to Goa and park them at the beaches where the foreign tourist population was the highest. They then planned to plant RDX in each of these vehicles and trigger of each of these bombs in quick succession. The entire idea was to create a serial blast only in Goa and the main target was the foreigners.
Rejecting allegations of showing undue interest in and interfering with the probe, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said the state government has a duty to do justice to the girl in the case of alleged sexual assault by Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who has drawn criticism over his remark about to the gang-rape of two girls, on Friday said his statement was taken out of context, and added that the safety of minors has to be a "shared responsibility".
The officer said the aircraft was on a regular training sortie when the incident occurred.
Sources said the duo attackers -- Rohit Rathore of Jaipur and Nitin Fauji of Haryana's Mahendragarh -- had planned to flee the country and had been allegedly promised Rs 50,000 each to kill Gogamedi.
Three persons allegedly seen last with 15-year-old British tourist, Scarlette Keeling, who was raped and murdered are likely to be arrested. The Goa police say that three persons had been detained and are being questioned. The police initially said Scarlette drowned to death, but the two autopsy reports stated that she was sexually assaulted.
If you thought the Scarlette Keeling murder case in Goa was mysterious, then take a look at the way in which the first phase of the investigation was conducted. This would seem more mysterious to you. The first question that is being asked is why there was a delay in writing to the head of the Forensic Sciences Department asking him not to send the viscera to the FSL in Hyderabad.
With this, five people have so far been arrested in the case.
The Goa police chargesheeted a 25-year-old Nigerian tourist for allegedly raping an Australian woman during her stay in Goa last month. The Crime Branch, which investigated the case, filed the chargesheet in a trial court within 15 days of the incident.
The accused, local resident Vincent D'Souza (32), was part of a group that illegally offered massage services near the Arambol beach in North Goa district, which is quite popular with international tourists, they said.
Even a day after he was booked for allegedly raping a German minor girl, the Goa police are still unable to arrest the state Education Minister Atanasio Monserratte's elder son Rohit. "We have not been able to arrest him till now. The search is still on," a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
An old bridge across Kali river in Uttara Kannada district collapsed in the small hours of Wednesday, resulting in heavy traffic along National Highway 66, connecting Goa to Karnataka.
South Goa district collector Jyoti Kumari issued orders imposing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
Police sources said 21-year-old Rohit has been charged with offences, including rape, abetment to crime and outraging the modesty of a minor girl.
The IGP also said that they have ten witnesses, who collaborate this version of events. He said the police are awaiting the testimony by British national Micheal Mannion aka Masala who had given a statement to the foreign media regarding what he saw on that fateful night. Kumar also said that the statements by the witnesses and the accused are similar. He said that Samson had admitted to sexually assaulting Scarlette
In an interview to CNN-IBN on Wednesday, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat obliquely blamed the Russian girl, who was allegedly raped by local politician John Fernandes, for the incident, saying she should not have gone out with male acquaintances late in the night.
Two passengers died and 75 others were rescued after a speed boat crashed into a ferry off the Mumbai coast. The ferry, carrying 80 passengers and five crew members, was on its way to Elephanta Islands when the speed boat circled it before crashing into it. The Navy and Coast Guard launched a massive rescue operation, with 11 Navy boats, three Marine Police boats, and a Coast Guard boat deployed. Four helicopters were also involved in the search and rescue operation. Police, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority personnel, and local fishermen are assisting in the rescue efforts. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that seven to eight passengers remain missing.
Former Goa minister Francisco Mickky Pacheco on Friday lodged a police complaint against Subhash Velingkar, former state unit chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, accusing of making statements aimed at creating disharmony between two communities.
The Goa police on Monday launched a manhunt and issued fresh summons for Goa Education Minister Antanasio Monserratte's son Rohit, who is wanted for the alleged rape of a German teenaged girl.The police searched for Rohit at his residence at Taleigao in Panaji, but could not find him there.
Nearly 80 domestic and international flights received bomb threats in less than 24 hours that later turned out to be hoaxes, keeping thousands of passengers and security agencies on tenterhooks.
The state police so far arrested five people in connection with the case. These include two associates of Phogat who have been charged with murder.
The Goa police in Panaji has arrested one of Britain's most wanted fugitives after his British friend was found dead in a hotel room. Ajay Kaushal, 50, has been on the run since 2005 when he was due to be tried for kidnapping a businessman and securing a 100,000-pound ransom, Sky News reports.
Two Delhi-based women were allegedly gang raped and assaulted by five men, who posed as officers of the anti-narcotic cell of police, at a flat in Anjuna beach village in North Goa, police said on Wednesday.
The Goa police on Thursday said eight out of 10 bodies found across the state in last three days were murders and claimed breakthrough in at least four deaths with the arrest of a gang.
The issuance of a 'look out' notice means that Rohit will not be able to leave the country. The police have flashed wireless messages to all the airports, ports and borders across the country not to allow the accused, Rohit, to leave the country
A 69-year-old lady was allegedly raped and murdered by unknown culprits at Santa Cruz village near Panaji on Saturday night, the police said.
Goa Cricket Association president Chetan Dessai, secretary Vinod Phadke and treasurer Akbar Mulla were today arrested by police for alleged misappropriation of over Rs three crore belonging to the organisation.
A 50-year-old American woman was found tied to a tree with an iron chain in a forest in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, and a set of documents, including an Aadhaar card with a Tamil Nadu address, were recovered from her possession, a police official said on Monday.
Nunes had also moved an application for bail, but the court rejected it, the official added.
The drugs were hidden inside plastic packets of snacks with 'Tasty Treat' and 'Chatpata Mixture' written on them. About 20-25 such packets kept in cartons were recovered from a small narrow shop in west Delhi's Ramesh Nagar area, the official said.
The restaurant, 'Curlies', located on Goa's famous Anjuna beach, was in news recently after Phogat was found partying at the outlet hours before her death.
Rohit Shetty's strengths have been action and humour; the former he delivers in spades, but the latter is totally lacking in Indian Police Force, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Vinod Mascarenhas (37), working as a gardener, was arrested by police at Ponda, about 20 kms from Panaji, on Wednesday after the victim's parents lodged a complaint.
The Goa police are planning to visit Sweden to record the statement of Swedish model Lucky Farmhouse, who used a spy-cam to expose the drug peddler-police nexus in the state, crime branch sources said. The sources confirmed that they have sought financial approval for the visit, which is very crucial to investigate the case. "The file is with the home department. Once the approval is granted, we will send an officer to Sweden to meet Lucky," an official said.
On the basis of her committee's report, the UCC in Uttarakhand established mandatory registration for marriages and live-in relationships, banned polygamy, and provided equal inheritance rights for women.
