The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
A violent mob had attacked the Gurdwara and pelted it with stones on Friday. A team of police had to intervene briskly to control the situation. The accused, identified as Imran, was arrested on Sunday for his role in the incident, Geo News reported.
The minor girl's statement in the chargesheet submitted by police in the court on Wednesday alleged that she was abducted and kept forcibly in Chandigarh, Delhi and Goa by the main accused Nishan Singh, who is already facing at least 18 criminal cases.
The two accused were re-arrested on August 9 after they joined the police investigation and charged with attempted abduction under section 365 of the IPC and section 511, which relates to an attempt to commit an offence punishable with life or other imprisonment.
He was arrested based on evidence police gathered during the process of investigation into the case.
Bagga has been highly vocal against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on social media.
The Punjab government had moved a habeas corpus petition in the high court on Friday.
The officials said the freed Taliban leaders include Sheikh Abdur Rahim and Mawlawi Abdur Rashid, who had served as the insurgent group's governors of Kunar and Nimroz provinces respectively during the Taliban administration before it was deposed by the US-led forces in 2001.
Jailed gangster and former member of Parliament Atiq Ahmad and his wife on Tuesday joined the All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen in the presence of its chief Asaduddin Owaisi, drawing a sharp reaction from the Bharatiya Janata Party which said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will not allow "Jinnah's jihadi mentality" to flourish in Uttar Pradesh.
The body of the 22-year-old woman, who had gone missing two months ago, was recovered from a vacant plot near an ashram built by Fateh Bahadur Singh, a minister in the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government, police had said on Friday.
A senior Hamas official has admitted the militant group's involvement in the kidnapping and murders of three Israeli youngsters which sparked off the current violence in Gaza, contrary to the outfit's earlier claims that it had nothing to do with the killings.
Relatives of John Philip have informed the Kerala CM and the external affairs minister that they suspect it to be a case of abduction.
Popular Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested on the charge of being a key conspirator.
The defence submitted before the court that the case is based merely on apprehension of kidnapping, which has been built under pressure.
Uzhunnalil had gone missing in Yemen after the Islamic State militant group attacked a care home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.
One soldier of Assam Rifles was injured in the operation and his condition is stated to be stable, they said. The encounter took place in the jungle between Nginu and Ngissa villages of Longding, officials in Arunachal Pradesh said.
A group of veterans on Wednesday came out in open support of Kulbhushan Jadhav and demanded "strong action" by the government in securing his immediate release and return home.
A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted all the five accused of abducting and gangraping a 30-year-old BPO executive from the northeast in south Delhi's Dhaula Kuan area in 2010.
Nithyananda was booked on the similar charges after police recorded statements of the four children who were rescued from a flat and the ashram, "Yogini Sarvagyapeetham", a police officer said.
The police, which had initially claimed that it was a case of suicide, later arrested the five accused and started a probe.
Congress MPs Ambika Soni, Pratap Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo said they would move a motion against Swaraj in the Upper House after compiling documents and information on the issue.
As a self-confessed scaredy-cat, I have to say I was dreadfully exhausted by the end and noting the sloppy visual effects and continuity glitches in Janhvi's ghostly makeup.
The state government will also give Rs 2 lakh more as financial assistance, the Balrampur MLA who met the victim's family said on Friday.
The leader of a five-member gang which had allegedly abducted and raped a 30-year-old call centre employee in New Delhi, was on Monday night arrested from neighbouring Haryana, police said.
Their leaders in the provinces, which have been under the control of Taliban commanders for several months now, speak the language of the bigot. Women are known to have been abducted and enslaved. Several young girls have simply disappeared.
The MEA said the government of Pakistan should act in defence of their own minorities instead of "preaching sermons" about it to other countries.
The body of Assistant Sub-Inspector Lucas Tete, who was among the four cops abducted by Naxals after an encounter in Lakhisarai, Bihar, was recovered near a forest in the district early Friday morning.
The fight against ultras will be intensified to end the Naxal menace, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday as he took stock of the situation in the aftermath of the killing 22 security personnel in an attack by the rebels in Chhattisgarh.
Sanjiv Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case.
Rediff.com presents statistics of crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2013. Also, compare and see if women were safer under the Mayawati government.
During the interrogation, they were repeatedly threatened that this is how the other members of the High Commission would be treated as well in future.
T Mandal, general manager (project) with NHPC, had been abducted from Vaishali district in Bihar on November 19.
According to Pak army officials, Kulbhushan Yadav "confessed" of working for Indian intelligence agency RAW to "foment trouble" in restive province of Balochistan.
The Government of Dominica has told a court there to reject the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of businessman Mehul Choksi who had claimed that he was abducted and forcefully brought to the Caribbean island nation, local media reported. The high court of Dominica ordered that the businessman be produced in a magistrate court to answer charges of his illegal entry into the country and adjourned the hearing on the habeas corpus petition till Thursday, according to local media. Rejecting the submission of Choksi who is wanted in India in an alleged Rs 13,500 crore loan fraud case in Punjab National Bank, the prosecution said the habeas corpus petition does not stand as he had illegally entered the country and was subsequently detained.
Al-Qaeda chief's daughters released for ex-Pakistan Army chief's son, claimed a media report.
Five men, arrested in connection with the abduction of the daughter of a Kerala Member of Legislative Assembly in Mangalore last week, were granted bail by a local court on Friday. However, their lawyer claims that the accused will remain in lock-up till the Kerala government assures them about their security.The daughter of Communist Party of India Marxist MLA from Kasrgod C Kunhambu was allegedly abducted by the accused in Mangalore last week.
The Indian was abducted along with a Nepali on Monday while they were travelling from Herat to capital Kabul. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility and no arrests have been made so far.
An Islamabad court on Friday granted bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, in a six-year kidnapping case.
The girl claimed that she is facing "death threat" from her family which wanted to marry her to a person against her wishes.
