Police have recovered the knife allegedly used by 20-year-old Sahil to kill a teenage girl in northwest Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area, police said on Thursday.
A special investigation team (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a charge sheet against activist Teesta Setalvad, retired director general of police R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail pleas of three convicts serving life term in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, which plunged Gujarat into one of the worst communal riots, terming it a "very serious incident".
Schools, shops, business establishments, private offices and banks remained closed in most pasts of the Valley due to the strike, officials said.
Former deputy commissioner of police (detective) Ajay Kumar and two other police officers, included in the chargesheet in the Rizwanur Rahman death case, on Tuesday surrendered before a Kolkata court which sent them to 14 days' judicial custody. The court rejected their bail applications, CBI counsel Partha Tapaswi said.
Bahujan Samaj Party MP Dhananjay Singh and his wife Jagriti, arrested in connection with the murder of their maid, were on Saturday remanded to two-day police custody by a Delhi court after police told a court in New Delhi that they have to confront them with recordings of CCTV footage regarding the identity of some unidentified persons seen in it.
A man arrested for allegedly beating and molesting two Manipuri women while hurling racist abuses at them was on Monday sent to one-day police custody by a Delhi court.
Five persons arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist were on Monday sent in police custody till January 23 by a Delhi court.
Victim Saraswati Vaidya's live-in partner Manoj Sane, 56, has been arrested for allegedly killing her and dismembering the body in their 7th-floor rented apartment in Mira Road of Thane district.
The situation is alarming. All the dead had completed their sentences, Bagchi said.
Curfew was clamped in Srinagar, Pampore, Kakapora, Pulwama and Sopore towns as a precautionary measure even as restrictions remained in force in other major towns of Kashmir Valley on Wednesday in the wake of a protest march called by separatists. Hard-line Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who has given a call for the march to Pampore, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday evening as a preventive measure, a police spokesman said.
Taking to Twitter, United Nations Human Right Council said, 'At its 35th special session, the @UN Human Rights Council decided to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate alleged #HumanRightsViolations in the Islamic Republic of #Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022.'
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday triggered off another controversy when she termed the death of Student's Federation of India leader Sudipta Gupta a "small and petty matter". The Kolkata police have called for media restraint amid allegations he was beaten to death in police custody.
During his first day in police custody, Sheezan told Waliv police that he ended the relationship with Tunisha after seeing repercussions emerging from the Shraddha Walkar case and told his former paramour that belonging to a different community stands in their way as did their age gap.
Charlotte Hornets and owner and former NBA great Michael Jordan and golfer Tiger Woods, who rarely speak out on social issues, have also called for change.
Scarlett, 15, who was holidaying in Goa with her mother and siblings, was found dead on the popular beach on February 18, 2008. The cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was drowning.
Iran's winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh said on Thursday that the focus of the team will be on the World Cup, not political issues related to the country's nationwide protests.
A person cannot be incarcerated for an indefinite period of time pending trial as it is violative of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of India, the Bombay high court said while granting bail to a man, accused in a double murder case.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday asserted that not even a "speck of dust" fell on state Governor R N Ravi during a black flag protest against him in Mayiladuthurai and said the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's attempts to "do politics" over the matter will not fructify "as this is DMK rule."
Nottinghamshire police said the 31-year-old suspect, who remains in custody, then went on to stab a man in his 50s to death and also attempted to run over three people - still in hospital - with a van stolen from that man.
An undertrial, allegedly tortured in police custody, has died in a hospital sparking off protest and forcing the government today to suspend two policemen and remove Jamui Superintendent of Police Deepak Varnwal.
Jailed gangster Chhota Rajan's close aide Santosh Mahadeo Sawant was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation as he landed at Mumbai airport from Singapore, after being on the run for 18 years, officials said on Wednesday.
With this, five people have so far been arrested in the case.
Ehsan Jaffry was killed by a mob in the Gulbarg Society massacre on February 28, 2002, following the Godhra incident.
The family members of the deceased filed an FIR against the station in-charge and other police personnel for beating Kamal to death.
The vehicle used by the attackers of Dalit leader and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad was recovered from a village in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, the police said on Thursday.
Trust deficit has widen further between Pakistani secret agencies and the Afghan Taliban after reports surfaced that Taliban leader Ustad Yasir has dies in a Pakistani jail. Tahir Ali reports.
The study estimates that 1,134,000 children lost a parent or custodial grandparent due to COVID-19. Of these, 10,42,000 children lost their mother, father or both. Most lost one, not both parents.
Manorama was reportedly picked up from her house on July 10 by Assam Rifles jawans and her body was found hours later with bullet wounds.
After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention.
An unofficial and brutal justice system exists parallel to the official one, and it executes many times more of the accused than the official one executes convicts, points out Aakar Patel.
The security guard in a residential complex, who allegedly stabbed to death a lawyer two days ago, was on Saturday remanded to police custody till August 17 by a local court. Producing the accused Sajjad Ahmed Mughal, 22, before the court, police said they wanted to interrogate him further to find out if anybody else was involved with him in committing the crime.
Iran's players did not sing the Iranian national anthem in an apparent show of support for anti-government protesters back home.
The Waliv Police in Maharashtra on Wednesday said that TV actor Tunisha Sharma's death case accused Sheezan Khan's 'secret girlfriend' also deleted her conversations with him.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in the case.
In a 'major breakthrough', the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a policeman and a bookie in connection with the alleged murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, an official said on Sunday, adding Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze had played a key role in the crime and emerged as the prime accused.
The girl tried to immolate herself near the chief minister's residence in Lucknow on Sunday.
The YJC news agency said the gathering was a birthday party, and added that all those detained had been released except one person, who is not a soccer player.
The Hyderabad police is mulling filing a petition with the Juvenile Justice Board seeking to treat the five CCLs (child in conflict with law) as adults during the trial in the gang-rape case, to ensure that they get the maximum punishment.
Earlier, the Bombay high court, which is hearing a petition on the Yunus case, had instructed the state DGP to file the chargesheet in the case.
