"By the time police could react, the person had already fired the shot. Everything happened in seconds. The investigation is on," Delhi Police Special Commissioner said.
Kumar, who was arrested by Gurgaon SIT, has not got a clean chit from the CBI.
'Having fared not too successfully in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the BJP can't afford to disappoint its supporters in Delhi,' says Amulya Ganguli.
Kapil Baisala and his father joined the AAP in early 2019, police said. DCP (Crime Branch) Rajesh Deo said his mobile phone has been seized and they have retrieved his WhatsApp data and photos of him and his father joining the party. Baisala's police custody has been extended by two days.
A Delhi court on Monday completed recording of the evidence of prosecution witnesses in the December 16 gangrape case with the investigating officer, saying she had arrested accused after the incident was reported.
An accused in the rape-and-murder case, who was earlier said to be a juvenile, is over 19 years old, the official said, quoting medical reports.
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Bahujan Samaj party Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh, who was arrested along with his wife Jagriti Singh in connection with the murder of their maid, was today allowed by a Delhi court to sign documents related to disbursement of Member of Parliament Local Area Development funds.
Shafqat Hussain, whose case sparked international outcry, was executed in Karachi Central Prison in the wee hours.
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday handed over a job letter to Ravinder's wife.
Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain has sent the file to Lt Governor Anil Baijal with Arvind Kejriwal government's recommendations in the case, they told PTI.
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.
A Delhi court on Saturday recorded the statement of two police officials in a case in which a 52-year-old Danish woman was allegedly gang raped by nine persons last year.
The 17-year-old has been charged with culpable homicide.
Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh, who was arrested along with his wife Jagriti Singh in connection with the murder of their maid, was on Friday denied bail by a Delhi court.
Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape case on Monday claimed before the Delhi High Court that police had registered the FIR on the basis of a "false" story narrated by the girl's male friend against them about the incident exactly a year ago.
The court had denied bail to her twice last month.
A 13-year-old school-going boy tried to kill a taxi driver by slashing his throat, copying a scene from a Telugu movie featuring his favourite hero.
Of the 315 Indian fishermen released by Pakistan from a prison in Karachi, 215 reached in Attari in Punjab on Thursday, officials said.
In a disturbing incident, 12 Indian youth were arrested on March 13, and charged with possession of weapons for unlawful purposes and rioting in Old Bridge Township in New Jersey.
The appeal would come up for hearing on Friday before Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav.
The minor accused in the gang-rape case was identified on Wednesday by the photojournalist and her male colleague during an identification parade held at juvenile remand home in south Mumbai, police said.
The girl was allegedly repeatedly assaulted before being killed at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district in January.
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"Nobody is talking about the police's role and how the case was investigated well," ex-Delhi police commissioner said.
Following is the chronology of events in the keenly watched trial of the December 16 gang rape and murder case of a 23-year-old girl in which a Delhi court on Friday awarded death penalty to the four convicts:
Three special teams have been formed to nab the juvenile pickpocket who allegedly attacked and injured a senior DRDO official with a razor blade after he was caught for stealing a cell phone in the crowded Charminar area, police said on Monday.
According to the chargesheets filed by the crime branch, the abduction, rape and killing of the Bakerwal girl was part of a carefully planned strategy to remove the minority nomadic community from the area.
An Indian computer scientist, who was brutally attacked by three juveniles three days ago while taking a walk with his family in a New Jersey suburb, succumbed to his injuries on Monday, said the police. The three 17-year-old assailants, whose names have been withheld because of their age, have been arrested and charged with homicide.Divyendu Sinha, 49, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus who was working as a consultant with Siemens, sustained injuries.
The Australian government has handed over to India a police dossier of high-profile attacks on Indians over the past year, which reveals that nearly half of the attackers were juveniles. The dossier, prepared by the Victoria police, was handed over in recent weeks, after Foreign Minister Stephen Smith telephoned his Indian counterpart S M Krishna on January 11 to express his condolences over the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Yarraville.
The JJB said in its order that the accused is in no manner lacking in mental and physical capacity to commit the alleged offence.
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With more than 300 sexual assault cases filed in Chennai under POCSO Act in the last three years, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to maintain a register of child sexual offenders. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said the agency took over the probe after a notification from the central government was received on Friday.
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The Mumbai police on Friday moved closer to nailing the five accused arrested in the photojournalist's gang rape case with forensic tests confirming that DNA samples found on the victim matched with those of the suspects.
The team probing the incident examined 808 suspects and 118 witnesses to collect strong evidence against the accused, the CID said in a release.
An FIR was lodged at Town Police Station of Jehanabad on Sunday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act by Additional Sub Inspector S S Singh. The motorcycle, whose owner was absconding, was seized, he said.
Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh, arrested along with his wife Jagriti Singh in connection with murder of their maid, was on Friday denied by a Delhi court which observed that he had "actively participated" in atrocities which aggravated the miseries of his domestic helps.
The incident took place late Wednesday night when dentist Pankaj Narang was playing cricket with his eight-year-old son and a nephew in a small space outside his house, a police official said.
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