The anti-CAA activist was slapped with a sedition case after his alleged speeches went viral on social media where he was heard speaking about "cutting off" Assam and the northeast from India. Earlier, he had been booked on similar charges by Aligarh police in Uttar Pradesh for a speech he delivered on the AMU campus.
Jain was being tracked by detectives in London, the United States, Holland, Italy, Spain and the UAE when he was arrested in New Delhi on Sunday. Britain's Serious organised Crime Agency said Jain controlled a worldwide money laundering system that, at its height, was capable of moving $2.2 billion every year.
Sources said that the woman was waiting for a taxi near AIIMS when a cab driver offered her lift to Noida on Thursday. Midway, the driver stopped the car at a secluded place near Moti Bagh in South Delhi and allegedly raped her.
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Security agencies have decided to bring arrested gangster Chhota Rajan to New Delhi with the Central Bureau of Investigation keeping him in custody for initial period before any other police force is allowed to take him for their respective investigations.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation probe into an alleged sexual assault case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.
The support for the eight-year-old girl was growing with politicians, cutting across party lines, seeking justice for her.
'True closure will come only when we as a people, as a civilisation, can relax in crowded, public places without fear, when the ugly metal detectors that greet us at the entrance of every single public space goes forever. That is a distant dream, towards realising which Kasab's sentence is but a baby-step.'
In a new twist to the double murder case of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani, the role of a sixth suspect is being probed even as fresh leads suggest that the prime accused Vidyadhar Rajbhar, who is on run, is preparing himself to surrender before police, a senior officer said.
The apex human rights body in the country had taken cognisance of the encounter killings, saying it was a matter of concern and needed to be investigated carefully.
The victim's mother Asha Devi, in a display of extraordinary courage, took her daughter's name in public.
The Manipur police in coordination with the Bangalore Crime Branch picked up a suspected terrorist in Bangalore on Tuesday evening.
The terror group says lone wolf jihadists should attack white Americans and avoid minorities so that no one mistakes their terror assaults for hate crimes.
The Rs 2,000-crore project to bring all 16,000 police stations in the country under a single network to counter terror challenges will become operational by 2011-12, said Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday.
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Maharashtra Police plans to announce a cash reward for information on Indian Mujahideen operative Afzal Usmani, who recently fled from court premises.
The incidence of more crimes across Tamil Nadu is threatening to make law and order an inevitable poll issue in the state-wide local bodies elections due only months from now, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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Bangladeshi law enforcement and intelligence officials said a manhunt was underway for Jibon Singh, a suspected leader of Assam-based militant group Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, in line with requests from the West Bengal police, but they could not track him down yet. They said they received from their Indian counterparts documents of cases filed against Singh which were circulated among police stations across Bangladesh.
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The fact that so many victims turn hostile should be a matter of concern. If so many accused persons continue to roam freely in society, this becomes an additional liability to women's safety, points out Rashme Sehgal.
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Monday questioned Abdul Halim, an activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India, who was arrested in connection with the serial blasts, as it launched a massive operation to track down those involved.Halim was allegedly involved in recruiting people for Jehadi activities, the police said.The police also conducted raids in different parts of the city last night and detained many people for questioning.
The notices were issued on Tuesday after damage of nearly Rs 25 lakh was assessed across the district by the police and the administration.
Criminals will find it difficult to cover their tracks now, with the Directorate of Forensic Sciences launching a project to fingerprint firearms and create a National Ballistic Imaging Database. The Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Chandigarh, has begun an exercise to create a database of all guns used in crime all over the country.
The Juvenile Justice Act that exempts minors from severe punishment could be changed to deliver tougher punishment to juveniles accused of heinous crimes like rape and murder, reports Anita Katyal
A 21-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by five-six youths in a truck, looted her belongings and then dropped her in a deserted place in the city, police said on Monday.
'Analysts see BECA as a 'force multiplier' for India.' 'But China too is known to have such capabilities.' 'The military gap with China will continue to remain a fact of life, BECA notwithstanding,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
The apex court, after perusing the report, said it would not 'digress' from the main issue of ensuring a fair trial, not only for the accused but also for the victim's family.
Former top cop and BJP leader Kiran Bedi has said that the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the Delhi gang rape case need not have been banned by the government without watching and analysing it, as it meets the "needs of crime prevention strategies" in chauvinistic segments of Indian society.
Additional Chief Secretary K P Bakshi told reporters at a hurriedly-called press conference that all the cases against 55-year old Rajan, who has been deported from Indonesia, are being transferred to CBI because of its expertise in "handling transnational crimes".
In an explosive claim, arrested underworld don Chhota Rajan on Tuesday alleged that some officials in the Mumbai police are working with India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.
25,600 cases of banking fraud totalling Rs 1.79 billion were reported up to December 2017. 'There is an inherent legacy when it comes to insuring crime.' 'Generally, most banks are uncomfortable in sharing data about employee fraud.'
Five persons including four tea executives were sentenced for life by a division bench of the Gauhati high court for murder of a 17-year-old girl in December, 1992.
'In the Indian context it is not easy for rival parties to come together, especially pre-elections.' 'Having pulled it off, they should be taken seriously.'
The kingpin of the racket, Joseph, an unemployed techie hailing from Virudunagar in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, was nabbed from a cyber cafe in Mahadevapura near Whitefield by the police on November 29. Six of his associates have also been nabbed. The police tracked the accused by tracing the IP address of the PC from where the accounts were hacked.
"Apart from other factors, the low conviction rate in the cases of rape or molestation is the biggest worry we have today. There is hardly any deterrence. Law should provide fast track courts to deal with such cases," says Girija Vyas, Chairperson, National Commission for Women.
The 35-year-old Gabrial, one among four Romanians accused in the robbery in which a large number of persons lost their money from their accounts, was taken into custody on transit remand from a court in Mumbai.
Led by CBI joint director Arun Kumar, the seven-member team of the Central agency's special crime branch spent more than an hour near the railway tracks in the Patipukur area of Kolkata's northern fringe after taking over the investigation from the state CID following an order of Calcutta High Court. The team includes forensic experts.
Prosecuting juveniles aged above 15 years as adults for heinous crimes, setting up of 'special police stations' and ensuring death penalty or life term to those accused of raping minors were among a host of proposals mooted by the Aam Aadmi Party government on Monday to deal with cases of sexual violence.
