The sea training also included 'how to fish', something that made Kasab think that 'he had got a job and he could earn a respectable living'.
Senior Maharashtra Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, accused of raping and molesting a model-turned-actress, has declined to undergo a polygraph test while the victim expressed readiness to face the scientific examination.
Scotland Yard said the incident is being treated as possible terror offence.
'We realised that the government and police were shielding the Dera chief.' 'From 2002 to now, irrespective of which political party, the Dera has always been protected.'
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
'You can't go on creating division and rhetoric of hate.' 'It comes to roost. We are seeing the first glimpses of that in the state elections.'
Jeyapaul who served as a priest in Crookston township of Minnesota in 2004 and 2005 was arrested in India in 2012 and extradited to the US on charges of sexually abusing two girls in a congregation.
As the court delivers its verdict on Thursday on the conviction of the Talwars in 2008 double murder case in Noida, here's a timeline in the case.
'Gandhi turned his life into a counter-intuitive experiment in old ideas like non-violence and swadeshi.' 'He offered numerous universal ideas that talk to the human condition.' 'His ability to take risks was outstanding,' says Sopan Joshi, explaining why the Mahatma's ideas are as relevant as ever.
He was allegedly involved in the killings of Asaram's personal doctor Amrut Prajapati in June 2014, his assistant-cum-cook Akhil Gupta in January 2015 and another key witness, Kripal Singh, in July 2015 in different parts of the country, said the release.
''You should never give the impression that the police force is malicious, vindictive and indulging in retribution,' says Dr Vikram Singh, former director general of police of Uttar Pradesh.
Never in his long political career has the Union labour minister attracted such attention.
Reports of stopping of trains and road blocks are coming in from Patna following the bandh called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar against withholding of the caste-based census data by the central government.
Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.
The Uber cab driver accused of raping a 27-year-old executive has been a serial sexual offender and was out on bail in a rape case in 2013 besides being involved in similar case in 2011, police said on Tuesday calling him a 'big time rogue'.
One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Wednesday told a Delhi court that he is innocent and claimed that the other five co-accused had brutally assaulted and gang-raped the 23-year-old girl in a moving bus.
Self-styled Godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai was today allowed by a Delhi court to be taken into 24-hour custody of Gujarat Police which secured his transit remand for producing him before a court in Surat in connection with a rape case.
The Supreme Court on Monday extended till April 7 the stay on the execution of death penalty of two of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case, asking for a copy of the trial court judgement.
'The BJP has no presence where the regional parties are strong.' 'And we should think of the Congress and support the Congress in those places where it is the dominant regional party.' 'The leaders of the other parties (have to) get together on this simple principle of one candidate against the BJP candidate.'
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the family of the Kathua rape victim should get justice.
'The brutal violence of the UP government's first response to the anti-CAA protests suggests that the BJP will test drive the NPR/NRC in UP, where it has both a massive majority in the assembly and a chief minister whose instinct for Hindutva extremism and whose appetite for punitive policing allows a prime minister as darkly majoritarian as Modi to appear statesman-like,' notes Mukul Kesavan.
Charges were framed against self-style godman Asaram on Friday for rape, criminal conspiracy and other offences by a Jodhpur court in connection with sexual exploitation of a minor girl in his ashram in Jodhpur.
The prosecution in the December 16 gang rape case on Saturday told a court in Mumbai that the brutal assault meted out to the victim and her male friend by the alleged rapists was with a motive to "eliminate" them so that neither was left alive to narrate the horrific ordeal.
Witnesses in the cases that controversial Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Shahabuddin has been facing have been "bumped off", the Supreme Court said on Monday, rejecting his claim of facing "media trial" in a murder case and his vehement plea for more time to prepare for his defence.
Ironically, it was the members of the BJP (which the Indian press loves to dub as fascist) who resisted the assault on democracy and were jailed for 18 months. The RSS too played a stellar role in the resistance movement during the Emergency. Yet by some strange warped logic, the Indian media deems the Congress party with an established record of authoritarianism as a standard bearer of democracy while damning a true champion -- the BJP, says Vivek Gumaste
'Now with many itchy-fingered ex-bosses being raked through the mud, their marriages ruined, their careers trashed, their finances hit, the inclination of many male hiring managers will be to hire fewer women,' believes Rajeev Srinivasan.
Family members of Akshay Thakur, one of the four declared guilty in the December 16 gang rape and murder case, burst into tears after learning about the court's verdict and hoped God would be kind when punishment would be pronounced on Wednesday.
'Embedded with the divisive regime, they administer heavy doses of the opium of religion and nationalism day in and day out,' observes Mohammad Sajjad.
The vacation bench, comprising Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit, said: "Under what jurisdiction can we extend his detention? In the absence of any law we can't take away the right of a person. If the reformation programme takes 7 or 10 years, can we keep him under detention? Where is the legislative sanction?"
The verdict said that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating ones and hence, the convicts did not deserve any leniency.
A Delhi court dismissed the bail pleas of the four friends of murdered NRI student Anmol Sarna who were arrested in connection with the case.
With the state police pursuing only notorious criminals, petty thugs continue to prey on victims.
Two lawyers, representing death row convicts Mukesh and Pawan Kumar Gupta, on Tuesday informed the Delhi high court that they are withdrawing from the December 16 gang rape-cum-murder case on the ground of alleged interference by family members of the convicts.
Two of the accused in December 16 gang rape case on Friday alleged that the investigation as well as conduct of the authorities has not been impartial due to "political pressure".
'The Aam Aadmi's prophet is out of touch with both the city and his own flock.'
One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Thursday claimed before a Delhi court that he, along with other five co-accused, had not beaten or robbed the carpenter that night.
Most juvenile remand homes are in appalling condition and need a massive overhaul. But whether redrafting the law will bring down juvenile crime is the moot question. What is required better remand homes, more specialised care rather than to expose young people to the trauma and stigma of adult jails, says Rashme Sehgal.
Like many such cases, this case too would have remained under wraps had the survivor not exposed the villains and the crime they had commited.
The judgment in the December 16 gangrape case involving a minor was on Monday again deferred till August 31 by the Juvenile Justice Board.
The Juvenile Justice Board has held the minor guilty of illegally confining and robbing a carpenter on December 16 night before allegedly participating in the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi.
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