QCrime: 100-Year-Old Raped in Bengal; Man Held for Raping Niece
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1. 21-Year-Old Man Arrested in Bengal for Raping 100-Year-Old Neighbour
A 21-year-old man has been arrested on charges of raping a woman almost five times his age in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Wednesday, 24 October.
Abhijit Biswas was produced in a sub-divisional court in Kalyani on Wednesday that sent him to 14 days of judicial custody. The incident took place in Ganga Prasadpur village, about 65 km away from state capital Kolkata.
The son of the victim lodged a complaint of rape against Biswas, a neighbour, at Chakdaha police station.
“The culprit was arrested on Tuesday. Section 376 (rape) of IPC (Indian Penal Code) has been slapped against him,” a senior officer at the police station, who did not wish to be named, said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. 36-Year-Old Held for Raping Minor Niece
A 36-year-old man was arrested for raping his five-year-old niece in northwest Delhi’s Haiderpur on Tuesday. He held the girl captive inside the washroom and assaulted her.
DCP (northwest) Aslam Khan said the accused has been booked under Indian Penal Code Section 363 (kidnapping) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
A preliminary probe revealed that the accused had come to the girl’s house where he took her to the washroom and locked himself with her and assaulted her. The girl’s cries were heard allegedly by a neighbour, who broke open the door and caught the accused. The locals thrashed him before handing him over to the police.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Private School Van Driver Held for Molesting 5-Year-Old Girl, Booked for Rape
Delhi Police have arrested the driver of a private school van for allegedly molesting a five-year-old in Rohini.
According to the police, the matter came to light on Monday morning when the girl, who lives with her family in Rohini Sector 25 , refused to go to school in the van. Police said that the girl told her father, a businessman, that the driver of her bus regularly touched her ‘inappropriately’.
“The girl’s family later approached the police and lodged a complaint. The girl was also taken for a medical examination and the school was informed. We identified the driver, as Suresh, with the help of the school. The driver was detained the same day and was questioned. When he confessed to having sexually assaulted the girl, he was arrested,” said a senior police officer requesting anonymity.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Mainpuri: Ex-Constable Held for ‘Inciting Policemen’
A former constable was arrested on Tuesday, 23 October, from Gola Bazaar in Mainpuri district for allegedly inciting policemen to protest against the arrest of officers accused of murdering an Apple executive.
Subodh Yadav, who was dismissed from service in 2011, was booked under sections 419 (cheating by personation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the IPC.
“Yadav had been posting videos on social media in which he had been inciting policemen to protest over several issues. He claimed to be the president of ‘Uttar Pradesh Police Association’. No such organisation exists or has been registered anywhere in our knowledge. Yadav was dismissed from service in 2011 after he went on stage and gave a speech in police uniform during the Anna Hazare movement,” said Jasveer Singh Sirohi, station house officer (SHO) of Kotwali police station.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. Pile-Up: Errant Driver Arrested
Two days after a private chartered bus rammed six other vehicles near Anand Vihar killing two DTC employees near Vivek Vihar, the accused driver, Nooruddin, has been arrested. During interrogation, he claimed that he was speeding to overtake the school bus when he lost control. Police said the vehicle, too, has been sent for a crash analysis to establish whether it suffered mechanical fault.
DCP (Shahdara) Meghna Yadav said Nooruddin was caught from the house of his friend in Ghaziabad where he had been hiding.
“We have charged him under Sections of causing death due to negligence and negligent driving. Further actions as per MV Act will be taken,” said DCP Yadav.
(Source: The Times of India)
6. Pune Police Arrests 61-Yr-Old for Sexual Assault of a 8-Year-Old Girl
A 61-year-old man belonging to a dominant upper caste in Saswad was arrested for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl from a lower caste family.
The complaint was registered at the Saswad police station on October 22, by the victims’ grandfather. “As per a government resolution and supreme court rules, we cannot reveal the name of the accused,” said police inspector Mugutrao Patil of Saswad police station who is investigating the case.
“We arrested him immediately after the case was registered and took him into police custody,” he added.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Six-Year-Old Girl Raped in Muzaffarnagar
A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by unidentified persons in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday, police said. No arrests were made so far. The police are trying to trace the culprits using from a CCTV camera at the panchayat office.
Police said that the girl had left home in the morning for school along with her two elder sisters. However, she returned home in th e afternoon because the mid-day meal was not served in the school. When her sisters returned, they did not find the girl at home, police said.
A villager spotted the girl lying in an abandoned agriculture field. He informed her parents and she was taken to a community health centre (CHC).
“There were were injury marks on the girl’s private parts and her clothes were torn,” a doctor at the CHC said.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Chargesheet Filed in Rewari Gangrape Case: ‘DNA of Three Accused Match Stains on Victim’s Clothes’
The chargesheet in the case pertaining to the abduction and gangrape of a 19-year-old girl in Rewari in September states that DNA samples of the three men arrested in the case match with “seminal stains” on the clothing of the victim and swabs collected after the incident.
According to the chargesheet, which was submitted last week, the stains found on the “underwear”, “under-shirt”, and swabs taken from the victim matched with the DNA profile of Manish, Nishu and Pankaj, but not with that of the other three men arrested, namely Sanjeev, Deendayal, and Naveen.
Filed in the court of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Piyush Sharma in Kanina, the chargesheet names 38 witnesses.
Nishu, a local wrestler, was the first among the accused to be arrested.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. Kerala Man Arrested for Cheating Depositors of Rs 16 Crore
Neyyattinkara police have arrested a 55-year-old gold pawn shop owner for cheating about Rs 16 crore from depositors who had invested in the financial firm he was running illegally. Raveendran, of Nellimoodu, near Neyyattinkara, was arrested from his relative’s house on the basis of complaints filed by the depositors.
Neyyattinkara Dy SP B Harikumar said more than 70 depositors have so far approached the police with complaints. He said Raveendran used to run a chit company under the garb of gold pawn business. Recently, when some of the depositors tried to withdraw their deposits, Raveendran went absconding, after which they lodged complaints with the police.
The police said they expect more complaints will surface against Raveendran in the coming days. “There are people who have invested a lot of money in his chit company. They are expected to turn up soon,” police sources said.
(Sources: The New Indian Express)
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