QCrime: Delhi Woman Murdered; Assamese Man Convicted in Jisha Case
The Quint’s roundup of latest crime stories.
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1. Delhi Woman Killed by Husband Over Family Dispute
A 50-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband over a family dispute in south Delhi's RK Puram area, police said on Tuesday. A case of murder was registered on a statement by the deceased's daughter at the RK Puram police station, a senior police official said.
The complainant told the police that the relationship between her father and mother.
The accused worked as a pump operator with the Central Public Works Department, he said. He was arrested and a country-made pistol and two empty rounds were seized from him.
(Source PTI)
2. Nigerian, 2 Others Arrested With Heroin Worth Rs 45 Lakh in Delhi
Two alleged drug-peddlers, including a Nigerian national, have been arrested and heroin worth Rs 45 lakh recovered from them by the Narcotics Cell of Crime Branch, police said on Tuesday.
Har Govind Singh (33) and Nigerian national Ikenna Okoye (33) were arrested from the Vikas Puri area last week, a senior crime branch official said. Fine quality heroin weighing 380 grams, worth Rs 45 lakh in international market, was recovered from the duo.
Okoye, who hails from Anambra state of Nigeria, came to India in July 2102, on tourist visa and started living with his fellow countrymen.
"He fell in bad company and to earn quick and easy money started supplying drugs in the area of Uttam Nagar and Dwarka," the police officials said.
(Source: PTI)
3. Nirbhaya Gangrape: Police Opposes Review Plea of Convict in SC
The Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed in the Supreme Court a plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the 16 December 2012 gangrape and murder case for review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment awarded to him.
The police told a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan that submissions advanced by the counsel appearing for convict Mukesh does not make out a case for review of the apex court's judgement.
The apex court had on May 5 upheld the death penalty to the four convicts – Mukesh (29), Pawan (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31), saying the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock" to destroy a civilised society.
(Source: PTI)
4. HC Reserves Order on Tejpal's Plea Seeking Quashing of Rape Charges
The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday reserved its order on a petition by former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, seeking quashing of rape and other charges against him.
Justice Nutan Sardesai reserved the order without specifying the date.
Tejpal, who is accused of raping a former colleague during an event in Goa in 2013, today presented before the high court the CCTV footage outside the lift of a five-star hotel, where he is alleged to have sexually assaulted her.
"The CCTV footage shows that the petitioner and the prosecutrix (victim) were out of the lift walking leisurely not indicating any sign of distress or outrage," Lekhi said while providing the footage which was sourced from the Goa Crime Branch, which has filed a charge sheeted against the Delhi-based journalist.
(Source: PTI)
5. Jisha Rape and Murder: Kerala Court Convicts Assamese Man
A court on Tuesday found a migrant labourer from Assam guilty of rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student in Kerala last year.
Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court judge N Anil Kumar is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow.
Muhammed Ameerul Islam was found guilty under various sections of the IPC including 302 (murder), 376 (Rape) 376 (A) (causing death or causes the woman to be in persistent vegetative state while committing rape).
Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam and the lone accused in the case, was charged with brutally raping and murdering the woman, a law student, at nearby Perumbavoor on April 28, 2016.
The accused, however, was not found guilty under 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and various sections under SC/ST (prevention of atrocities) amendment Act 2015.
(Source: PTI)
6. Sarabjit Murder Case: Pak Jail Superintendent Records Statement
A Pakistani jail superintendent on Tuesday recorded his statement before an additional district and sessions judge Lahore in the murder case of Indian national Sarabjit Singh who was killed by fellow prisoners in 2013.
Two Pakistani death row prisoners, Amir Sarfraz alias Tamba and Mudassar, in May 2013 had attacked Sarabjit (49) in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore and killed him.
"Additional district and sessions judge Amin Haider recorded the statement of the Kot Lakhpat Jail superintendent in the murder case of Sarabjit Singh. Two more witnesses have been summoned for the next hearing next week," an official at the jail told PTI.
(Source: PTI)
7. Messi's Brother Under House Arrest Over Gun Possession
Matias Messi, older brother of Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel, has been sentenced to house arrest in Argentina for possession of a weapon, a prosecutor said Monday.
Messi, 35, was to be discharged from hospital later Monday and transferred to his home in Rosario, 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital Buenos Aires, head of the prosecutor's office for Cybercrimes and Weapons Lucas Altare said.
He was taken to hospital with facial injuries after being found in a drifting and blood-stained motorboat on November 30, apparently after colliding with a sandbank. He was arrested for possession of a firearm found in the boat.
It's the second time that the star's brother has been arrested for possession of a firearm. The offence carries a jail sentence of between three- and-a-half and eight years.
(Source: PTI)
8. Thai Cops Arrest Australian in Crackdown on 'Hells Angels'
An Australian man linked to a "Hells Angels" chapter has been arrested in Bangkok for smuggling drugs, police said on Tuesday, as Thai authorities tackle organised crime run by motorcycle gangs in the kingdom.
Immigration officials detained 34-year-old Luke Joshua Cook and his Thai wife Kanyarat Wedphitak at Bangkok's main airport on Saturday for attempting to smuggle half a tonne of crystal meth into Thailand in 2015.
Cook is accused of trying to bring the drugs to land from a boat moored in the Gulf of Thailand. He was spooked by a patrol boat and threw a large amount of the "ice" overboard.
Around 50 kilogrammes of the drug later washed up on Thailand's southern coast.
(Source: PTI)
9. RPF Filed 10.68 Lakh Criminal Cases, GRP 61,952 in 2016
As many as 10.68 lakh crime cases were reported by the railway protection force (RPF) in 2016, up from 9.42 lakh the previous year, according to data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Maharashtra topped the list with 2,23,360 reported cases (or 20.9 per cent of the total cases) in 2016. The state had reported 1,96,602 cases in 2015, reveals the annual crime data recorded by the central agency.
Delhi reported 24,293 cases in 2016, a sharp surge from 15,083 in the previous year.
According to the NCRB data, the GRP in 2016 registered a total of 61,952 cases of crimes including those of theft, robbery, rape, rioting, kidnapping and arson, up from 53,547 the previous year.
(Source: PTI)
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