As the nation woke up to images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi splashed across the front page of newspapers by Reliance Industries to announce the launch of its 4G services, Shiv Sena's Member of Parliament from South Mumbai, Arvind Sawant, was not impressed.
A day after the Devendra Fadnavis led government won the floor test by a voice vote, its former ally Shiv Sena on Thursday accused the Maharashtra government of violating constitutional provisions by proving its majority amid high chaos and strangulating age-old traditions of the state.
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Earlier, Rajagopal had surrendered before a local court to serve life sentence in a murder case and had been shifted to Vijaya Hospital, after the Madras high court passed an interim order on a petition filed by his son.
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The police investigation into the rape and murder of three minor sisters at Murmadi village in Bhandara district of Maharashtra has not made headway even after a fortnight. The post-mortem report had said that the girls, aged six, nine and eleven years, were raped and murdered. However, sources close to the investigation claim that they were not raped.
Observing that there are "definite and proved" allegations that complaints of the victims of violence in the aftermath of the West Bengal assembly polls were not even registered, the Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into all alleged cases of heinous crimes like rape and murder, while accepting the recommendations of a National Human Rights Commission panel.
A 23-year-old post graduate student of Osmania University was allegedly strangulated to death by her friend at his residence in Chatrinaka area of Old City, police said.
Dressed in pink, her hands flying about in eloquent gestures, excitement on her face, Indrani made quite a picture. There was pin-drop silence as she made strong points about why nothing in the hearings had uncovered anything against her. She spoke about there being "Not a shred of evidence... No scientific evidence because it didn't happen!"
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Police said the 32-year-old victim, who was a passenger of the Brahmaputra Mail that was travelling to the national capital, was dragged to the mango orchard and gang-raped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations.
Local Nationalist Congress Party leader Ganesh Maroti Matey was allegedly kidnapped from Kanhan near in Nagpur and murdered by goons following which his body was thrown on the railway tracks on the Nagpur-Gondia route, police said on Saturday.
A magistrate's court on Tuesday awarded 14-day police custody to two accused in connection with the murder of alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui in high-security Yerwada jail in Pune.
In the first reported case of 'honour killing' in Kashmir, the police has arrested a man and his two sisters on the charge of murdering their youngest sibling over her conduct
The husband of the deceased woman said that he suspects his landlord's involvement in the murder
Mohare, who is in his mid-20s, lived close to the girl's home, Kamla Nagar police station in-charge Alok Shrivastava said.
The parents of Shubham Shirke, who was abducted and murdered in Pune allegedly by three of his friends for ransom, have demanded justice for their son and stringent punishment for the killers. "My son was innocent and friendly with everybody. The suspects tortured him before strangulating him to death for no reason. We want justice," said Sunita Shirke, the mother of the 15-year-old.
A 23-year-old woman was attacked in the ladies compartment of a local train on Saturday morning by a man who tried to strangulate her when she resisted a rape attempt.
The Indian Olympic Association has rejected the revised draft of the National Sports Development Bill, calling it a 'cruel joke' and an attempt to strangulate the autonomy of National Sports Federations.
Locket Chatterjee, BJP MP from Hooghly, has threatened that the last rites will be done on the roads if the police don't allow them to move forward.
Dodging the police and media alike in Uttar Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi eventually surfaced suddenly in Nighasan town of Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 170 km from Lucknow, to call on the family of the minor girl who was brutally done to death in the local police station premises exactly 19 days ago.
Released from a juvenile home two months ago, in connection with a kidnapping-cum-murder case, a 17-year-old boy has killed an elderly woman again in South Delhi's Lodhi Colony.
The Planning Commission has offered an objective assessment of the unsatisfactory situation as far as Indian agriculture is concerned in its mid-term appraisal of the 11th Five-Year Plan.
'Democracy and dissent are being strangulated. It is not good for the country.'
Police said security has been tightened at Tappal as a precautionary measure.
They have been booked under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), said a senior police officer.
The police officer is seen slapping the woman, ripping her clothes apart, pushing her to the ground and continuously punching and kicking her.
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The duo allegedly kidnapped the girl by forcing her into a taxi and drove her to the Park Circus flyover where they took turns to rape the minor inside the vehicle.
He described how India had negotiations with US for almost 36 hours over the words of the Accord.
The family has objected to the AIIMS report saying that Gupta-headed forensic team was not submitting a post-mortem report but was only to expressing its opinion on the findings of Cooper Hospital in Mumbai.
The woman was gang-raped on September 14 following which she was admitted to the AMU's Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Aligarh.
Dr. Ere Shesiah, chief consultant pathologist of the Jamaican government, told an inquest that Bob Woolmer "died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cypermethrinide poisoning".
'Prime Minister Modi stated several times that we shall not let this challenge go away without converting it into an opportunity to undertake systemic reforms.' 'And hasn't that been reiterated in action?'
Close on the heels of attacks on churches in different parts of the country, two missionaries were found murdered at their hermitage in Dehradun on Monday morning. Sixty-year-old Father Samuel and Sister Mercy, 35, were found dead in separate rooms at their ashram 'Samarpanalaya' at Chhota Rampur, police said.
The accused has been identified as Harsh Sahay Gurjar and was held from Ganganagar in Sawai Madhopur district
Continuing his tirade against Raghuram Rajan, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday said RBI Governor's policies have finished small industries and are anti-agriculture.
Three concurring pathology reports have confirmed that Bob Woolmer died from natural causes.
Dr Gupta handled Shivade's blows with quite some equanimity... So it was often only Shivade down in the mud pit, egging and enticing the doctor to join the fight, while Dr Gupta cautiously kept to the sidelines, barely stepping a toe into the mud.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria tonight said the police have a fair idea of the motive behind the murder of Sheena Bora but declined to elaborate saying the "third accused" (Sanjeev Khanna) was yet to be interrogated.
Judge Jagdale halted Dr Gupta's testimony several times because he felt it had neither order nor direction. Tightly controlling his irritation, his lips compressed, the judge explained as patiently as he could: "What he has done in this case should come (out in his testimony) in a lucid manner. You eat chapati and then rice. You cannot eat half a chapati and then have rice and then eat half a chapati..." "He is not a witness of facts. He is an expert witness. Either he is not prepared. Or you are not prepared."
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