1. Violence in Punjab Town After SUVs Mow Down Two
Violence erupted in Dera Baba Nanak town, around 50 km from Amritsar, on Tuesday afternoon after two youths were allegedly crushed to death on Fatehgarh Churian road.
Subeg Singh (32) and his friend Sanjeev Kumar (25) were allegedly run over repeatedly by unidentified men in two SUVs. Manager of a liquor vend, where one of the two victims worked, and his four aides were later booked for murder. No arrests have been made so far.
Following the incident, relatives and friends of the deceased went on a rampage and burnt two vehicles, two liqour vends and a shelter for the vend staff. The mob also damaged power lines in various parts of the town. Electricity supply in many areas could not be restored till late in the evening.
(Source: Indian Express)
2. Husband, In-laws Sell Woman’s Kidney For Not Meeting Dowry Demand; 2 Arrested
West Bengal police have arrested a 28-year-old woman’s husband and brother-in-law after she complained that they tricked her to sell one of her kidneys because her family failed to meet their demand for Rs 2 lakh in dowry.
According to the complainant by the woman, Rita Sarkar, her husband of 12 years and her in-laws tortured her often for dowry and took advantage of her appendicitis to steal a kidney from her.
“Around two years ago, I began suffering from acute stomach ache. My husband took me to a private nursing home in Kolkata, where he and the medical staff told me that I would be fine after removing my inflamed appendix through surgery,” she said.
But her pain persisted, or rather intensified, after the operation. “My husband warned me not to disclose the surgery in Kolkata to anyone. I begged him to take me to a doctor to treat the pain, but he ignored me.”
Rita was allegedly taken to North Bengal Medical College and Hospital by relatives from her parents’ side around three months ago and doctors found that her right kidney was missing.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Noida: Accosted By Men Who Abused Her, 19-Year-Old Fears Leaving Home
For the first time since July 2017, a 19-year-old teacher didn’t go to school. While the van came to pick her two younger sisters who study at the same school, she stayed home. Recently, the woman was accosted by two-bike borne men in Greater Noida, who had allegedly hurled abuses at her and had assaulted her uncle and a friend accompanying her.
The men also recorded the incident, which went viral on social media. The minute-long video shows a man wearing a black jacket hitting another man with a stick, even as the woman shouts that he is her uncle. The woman is also made to face the camera.
After an FIR was lodged at Bisrakh police station in Greater Noida on January 31, two residents of Bisrakh village – Anuj Bhati (18) and Sanjeet Bhati (23) – were identified as the attackers.
(Source: Indian Express)
4. Vihaan Gupta Kidnapping Case: 3 First-Timers, 12 Days of Cat & Mouse
There were a lot of surprises when Delhi Police got to the bottom of the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy late on Monday. Not only had abductors never targeted a school van or had opened fire during the process earlier, but the criminals were first timers too. And yet, they showed the calibre of professional kidnappers and ably masked their identities and whereabouts even though they remained in a 10-kilometre radius of the crime scene.
Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik himself monitored the case from 25 January, the day Vihaan Gupta was kidnapped. When the Shahdara police claimed they were close to cracking the case, Patnaik assigned the case to Crime Branch.
(Source: Times of India)
5. Man Shot in The Chest in Suspected Road Rage Killing
A 43-year-old Congress Seva Dal worker was shot dead in a suspected road rage incident on the Bhalaswa flyover near GT Karnal Road in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to police, the victim, Vinod Mehra, was returning home after attending a wedding. He was in a Wagon-R with his 16-year-old nephew Kunal. The boy told police that when they were returning, an Eeco brushed past their vehicle, and Mehra rolled down his window and yelled at the driver. The nephew told police that the Eeco, which had four persons inside, intercepted them moments later, after which occupants of both vehicles stepped out.
The men allegedly assaulted Mehra before shooting him in the chest at point blank range, police said, adding that the men fled after the incident.
(Source: Indian Express)
6. Youth Congress Leader, Aide Booked For Attempt to Murder
A youth Congress leader and his accomplice were booked on the charges of attempt to murder on Tuesday for allegedly opening fire at a guest during a ladies’ sangeet programme at UK marriage palace on GT Road in Khanna late on Monday.
Ajwinder Singh alias Kala Ghudani, the youth Congress district president of Fatehgarh Sahib, opened fire at Puneet Kaushal after he objected to three rounds of celebratory firing by the accused earlier.
An FIR has been registered on the complaint of Amarinder Singh of Patiala, owner of the UK marriage palace, who told the police that during the sangeet programme, Ajwinder and his accomplice Hardeep Singh alias Deepu climbed the stage and the youth Congress leader fired three celebratory rounds, to which Kaushal objected. An argument ensued and soon Ajwinder opened fire again, this time targeting Kaushal
(Source: Indian Express)
7. How Cannabis From Jammu & Kashmir Reaches Mumbai
With seizures worth Rs 2.06 crore, cannabis, locally known as charas, emerged as the second-most smuggled drug in the city, with most of it coming from Jammu & Kashmir, followed by Himachal Pradesh.
Police sources claim the cannabis produced in Himachal Pradesh is of the highest quality. International syndicates smuggle most of it, leaving very little for the Indian market, said sources. The situation in militancy-hit J&K is the opposite. With very few international takers, cannabis from the region is supplied across the country.
Along with the role of Mumbai’s underworld in the cannabis supply chain racket, intelligence bureau is checking if drug money is being used to fuel militancy in J&K, said sources.
In 2017, the ANC managed to crack down on key suppliers from the region and recovered cannabis worth Rs 1.40 crore in Mumbai. Haji Abdul Rehman Ali Mohammad Sheikh, 67, a resident of Anantnag district of Kashmir, who allegedly supplied 25-30 kg of charas to the city every month was arrested in July, along with his aide Irfaan Maisar Qureshi, a 42-year-old taxi driver from Nagpada.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. Dehradun Fake Encounter: Delhi HC Upholds Conviction of 7 Cops
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld a trial court’s order convicting and awarding life terms to seven policemen for killing a 22-year-old MBA student in a staged shootout in Dehradun in 2009.
The High Court ruled that a “fake encounter has no place in legal system”. “A fake encounter is a form of extra-judicial killing which has no place in a legal system governed by the rule of law.
“It is a manifestation of the impunity with which armed forces, including the police, are prone to act in utter disregard of the rule of law,” a bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and IS Mehta said.
“It also is symbolic of the cynicism with which the police themselves view the efficacy of the criminal justice system. The police, in this perception, are not just the accusers, but the prosecutor, the judge and the executioner.”
The court described the matter as “a tragic case of the killing of a 20-year-old by the Uttarakhand Police in a fake encounter.”
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. Murder of Hoshiarpur Man: Accused Surrenders
Five days after the murder of a Hoshiarpur man in Bengaluru came to light, the accused travel agent surrendered in Dasuya Court in the district on Tuesday. Police have taken the agent, Harminder Singh Shailly of Chakk Shariff village in Gurdaspur district, on three days’ remand.
A case was registered against him at Tanda police station on 15 January, along with three others – JD Patel, Sanjiv and Naresh Patel. The family of Surinder Singh from Kalyanpur village in Tanda of Hoshiarpur district got to know about his murder on 1 February when they had gone to locate him in Bengaluru along with a Punjab police team.
(Source: Indian Express)
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