QCrime: Juvenile Justice, Nigerian Men Assaulted and More

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Two juveniles from UP and Delhi may be the first ones to be tried as adults after the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Bill, 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

1. Tanzanian Student Assault Case: Four Police Officers Suspended In Bengaluru

Four police officers, including a police inspector, were suspended on Friday in connection to the mob assault case where a Tanzanian student was stripped by a mob, the Deccan Chronicle reports.

City Police Commissioner NS Megharikh reviewed a report submitted by Additional Commissioner of Police, West, Charan Reddy on the alleged policemen’s laxity even as a mob at Hesaraghatta stripped a Tanzanian girl student and burnt two cars on Sunday night.

The suspended officials have been identified as Praveen Babu, the police inspector, Manjunath, a constable, attached to the Peenya police station, V Jagdish, constable attached to Soladevanahalli police station and CK Honnesh, a traffic police constable with the Jalahalli traffic police station.

According to the report submitted by Charan Reddy, constables Manjunath and Jagdish were at the spot when the Tanzanian girl was stripped and assaulted, yet failed to protect the victim.

2. Nigerian Men Attacked in Hyderabad After Assault on Tanzanian Student

After the assault and stripping of a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru, three Nigerian nationals were allegedly assaulted in Hyderabad by a group of around 10 locals who hurled “racist” comments.

The Hyderabad police, however, dismissed it as a “minor brawl” between one Nigerian and a local youth.

P Murali Krishna, Banjara Hills Police Station Inspector said they have received a counter complaint from local residents against the Nigerian, alleging assault by the latter.

We have registered a case under IPC Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 341 (wrongful restraint) against the local youth following a complaint by the Nigerian youth.

<b>P Murali Krishna, Banjara Hills Police Station Inspector</b>

Read the full story on The Quint.

3. Juvenile Who Allegedly Raped a Dalit Minor May Be First Tried As an Adult in UP

A controversy erupted in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family borough of Mainpuri after the chief medical surgeon of the district hospital refused to treat a 9-year-old Dalit rape victim, reports The Times of India.

The accused, a 16-year-old, has been sent to the district jail instead of a remand home.

The accused was produced in court on Friday and sent to judicial custody for 13 days and may become the first juvenile to be tried as an adult in a rape case following the recent amendment in the juvenile justice law.

4. Juvenile Who Allegedly Strangled A Woman May Be First to be Tried As an Adult in Delhi

While the boy in Uttar Pradesh may be the first juvenile in the state to be tried as an adult, in New Delhi, a 17-year-old boy, who was released from a juvenile home two months after he had kidnapped and killed a child last September, has been accused of murdering an elderly woman.

He could well be the first ever accused in Delhi to be tried under the new juvenile Act that treats those above 16 as adults in the case of heinous crimes.

Surender Kumar, Additional DCP of Delhi Police told The Indian Express:

We will submit an application to the Juvenile Justice Board, requesting them to consider the provisions of the new law inducted this year.

Read the full story on The Indian Express.

5. Ryan International Case: Delhi Police Send Questionnaire to School’s Chief Executive Officer

A day after the principal of Ryan International School was arrested with four other school staff, the Delhi Police sent a questionnaire to the school’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ryan Pinto and its manager Francis Thomas.

The police sought details of the charter of duties, construction plan of the school building and approval by various civic agencies as part of their investigation into the death of six-year-old student Divyansh Kakrora.

The information has been sought under Section 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

The school was mandated to construct the building as per the plan sanctioned and approved by the Delhi Development Authority. However, a deviation from the sanctioned plan led to a no-completion certificate issued by the DDA in 1993.

According to The Indian Express, the school is yet to receive the “completion certificate” from civic agencies which has been pending before the bodies since 1993.

6. Australian National Suspected to be ISIS Supporter Deported from Delhi

India deported an Australian national based on “strong indications” that he was an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) supporter on Thursday.

The Indian Express reported that a Malay-origin Australian youth, identified as Ahmad Fahim Bin Hamad Awang, was detained for questioning on Thursday night after he landed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on a flight from Perth.

Sources said that on questioning Awang after receiving a tip-off, officers from a central agency found jihadi literature, including ISIS propaganda on his laptop.

According to the report, sources said:

When he was questioned about the purpose of his visit to India, Awang said he had to attend a meeting in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area but was evasive in his replies. He had managed to secure a valid visa. However, after scouring through the contents of his laptop, a call was taken that it was too dangerous to allow him to enter India, and he was sent back to Perth.

The threat of attacks by ISIS supporters has been a matter of concern for security agencies in India. The security agencies also found photos of a bare-chested Awang brandishing an assault rifle. Another showed him sitting with a pistol on his lap.

Awang’s deportation comes amid a nationwide crackdown on ISIS supporters.

7. Delhi Police Busts Adoption Racket, Arrests Nine Men and Two Women

An adoption racket was busted by Delhi Police sleuths while investigating the abduction of a one-year-old child from northwest Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar. The child has been rescued.

Nine men, identified as Hemant, Rakesh, Sonu, Kundan, Vijay , Rehan and Raju, and two women, Poonam and Anita, were arrested for being part of a gang that specialises in providing a child overnight for a few lakhs to women who cannot conceive.

But what the 30-odd couples who fell for the promises of the gang didn’t know that the members, posing as owners of an adoption agency, used to, in fact, abduct children from slums and villages of northwest and outer Delhi and sell them.

The accused have been booked under IPC sections 370(4) (bonded labour) and 34 (acting with common intention).

Read the full story on The Times of India.

8. Three Arrested for Confining and Sexually Abusing a Minor Girl in Goa

Goa Police has arrested three men on charges of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 16-year-old minor in confinement for over a month, reports The Indian Express.

The girl was rescued by the police from a house in South Goa on Thursday night. According to the police, a labourer named Raju and his friends Mohan and Biswajeet had befriended the girl and over a period lured her with promises of jobs.

Panaji Police Inspector, Sidhant Shirokdar said that Raju talked the girl into abandoning her family and accompanying the three accused for more lucrative prospects. However upon reaching a house in Madgaon, they held the minor girl against her will.

All the three men have been booked under Section 8 of the Goa Children’s Act (Child abuse), R/W IPC 376 (Rape). The minor, meanwhile, has been sent for counselling and treatment.

9. School Boy Found Bludgeoned to Death on Teacher’s Hostel Porch in Ranchi

A Class VII student was found bludgeoned to dead on the porch of a teachers’ hostel in a reputable school in Ranchi, less than 30 minutes after CCTV showed him leaving his own hostel nearby in the dead of night.

The boy who has been identified as Vinay Kumar Mahto, aged 12, studied at Sapphire International School in Hardag, 25 km from the Jharkhand capital.

The post-mortem report is awaited. But according to a professor of forensic science at a hospital said, as per indications, the boy was subjected to “severe torture”. Police would probe whether abuse was involved, sources said.

The school campus spreads over 40 acres and has more than 80 surveillance cameras, 16 security guards and two Great Danes. But it is still not known why and how the child reached the teachers’ hostel, which is around 750 metres from the students’ facility.

Read the full story in The Telegraph.