QCrime: 10 Held For Torturing 3 Teens; Jilted Lover Attacks Girl
A roundup of the top crime stories of the day.
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1. Ten Detained for Torturing 3 Teens
A day after a video of three teenagers being stripped and thrashed by a group of rowdy men surfaced, police have detained 10 people from Kolambi Kalan village in Rohini.
The police also said the suspects were neighbours of the victims and had tried to implicate them for theft earlier as well. They said that they are also waiting for the victims to record their statements pertaining to the incident and might invoke further charges against the accused.
(Source: Times of India)
2. Ludhiana Man Held for Raping Minor Daughter
A man allegedly raped her 16-year-old daughter repeatedly for the past three years and also threatened to immolate her and her mother if she informed this to police.
Jamalpur police have arrested Mukesh Kumar (36) of Mundian Khurd area and produced him before the court of duty magistrate on Sunday and sent to Ludhiana Central Jail, following a complaint by the victim’s mother.
In her complaint, the mother told the police that on 3 November, she had gone out with her two sons, leaving her daughter and husband at home. In the evening when she came back, she caught her husband red-handed raping their daughter. Following which, her daughter broke down and told her that she is being raped since three years.
(Source: The Indian Express)
3. Jilted Lover Attacks Girl With Blade
A 24-year-old jilted lover allegedly inflicted injury on the neck of a 22-year-old girl with a blade at the VUDA park in Vishakapatnam on Monday. He later inflicted wounds on himself. Seeing the duo bleeding, the park staff shifted them to a hospital, where they are declared out of danger.
The boy has been identified as K Naga Lakshmana Rao (24), resident of Krishna district and the girl, hailing from Srikakulam district and pursuing B.Sc second year in a private college in Visakhapatnam.
According to the inspector of Three Town police station, B Venkat Rao, the accused came to know the girl through a social network site about two years ago and later got acquainted with her over phone.
(Source: The Hindu)
4. Woman, 11-Year-Old Daughter Found Murdered in Thane
A 32-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter were found dead at their Thane residence on Sunday morning.
According to the police, while Nazia Siddiqui, a homemaker, was strangulated to death, her daughter Saniya was attacked with a sharp object and had injury marks on the throat. The Shil Daighar police have registered a murder case and detained a domestic help and her “boyfriend”.
The police said gold and valuables were missing from the house. An officer said that Siddiqui lived on the ground floor of the Eklavya building in Pimpri village on the Panvel road along with Saniya, who was studying in a school, and her elder son, who was not present at home. Siddiqui’s husband resides in Dubai.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. 22 Bikers Caught for Illegal Racing on Mumbai Highway
In a crackdown on illegal racing in Bandra, police arrested 22 bikers aged between 25 and 28 for rash and negligent driving on the Western Express Highway (WEH) early on Sunday.
Four of the arrested bikers were also booked for manhandling and obstructing police officials. Deputy commissioner of police, zone 9, Paramjit Singh Dahiya, confirmed the development. “We received a tip-off about the bikers. Following this, a team from Bandra nabbed them,” he said.
“There were 26 accused, who were heading from Kalanagar in Bandra (East) to Bandra-Worli Sea Link from the WEH. A team of 20 men and officers were waiting for them ahead of the bridge near the Bandra traffic police chowky. We nabbed 22 bikers, but four saw us approaching and escaped. We seized 11 bikes,” said a police officer from Bandra police station.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Capital's First Drug Racket via Dark Web Busted
The capital's first Dark Web-based international drug racket was busted by crime branch with the arrest of two youths while they were receiving the drugs they had ordered online.
The suspects accessed the Dark Web through networks such as Tor and I2P (Invisible Internet Project). They then downloaded encrypted software to get in touch with drug cartels and purchase narcotics using Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.
The men, Kamal Kalra, a DJ from Rohini, and Mahesh Goyal, a supplier, were arrested along with 42 grams of MDMA or ecstasy that they had planned to sell at rave parties, police said.
(Source: Times of India)
7. Two Detained After Video of Mob Beating up Neighbours Emerges
Two persons were detained after a video emerged purportedly showing a group of men beating two persons, including a minor, and then stripping them in the Rohini area here on the suspicion of them being thieves, the police said today.
The footage, recorded on a mobile phone at Holambi Kalan village, emerged yesterday, they said. Over eight persons can be seen in the clip thrashing the duo and dousing them in petrol, the police said, adding that the group rubbed chili powder on their private parts.
Police claimed to have identified all the suspects, some of whom were juveniles, with the help of the footage.
(Source: PTI)
8. Mumbai Woman Stalked by Three Men in Car for Over One Km
A 25-year-old woman on a two-wheeler was stalked by three men for more than a kilometre in a car in Mumbai on Saturday night, police have said, in yet another case of a sexual attack in the city widely considered to be India’s safest for women.
The woman, a resident of Yari Road in Andheri (West), was riding her scooter home from a gym at Lokhandwala Circle around 11.10pm when the men in a Ford Classic car drove up behind her, said police. They kept blaring the car horn at her near the Model Town junction.
The woman said she gave way to the car as she thought that the men wanted to overtake her but they drove up alongside her instead. One of them stuck his neck out of the window and passed lewd comments at her, a police official said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. 18-Month-Old Boy Dies In Suspected Case of Poisoning
An 18-month-old boy died and his two brothers were in a critical condition in a suspected case of poisoning in Dankaur, while a woman allegedly involved in it was found dead today, the police said.
According to the boys' father, his wife Chhato had gone to fields last evening leaving the children with the woman who was their neighbour. Late in the night, the children complained of stomach pain and headache, the police said.
The three brothers, Bunty (8), Vinit (5) and Nakul (18 months) were rushed to a hospital in Greater Noida. While Nakul was declared brought dead, the condition of Vinit and Bunty were critical, a police official said.
(Source: PTI)
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