1. Man Kills Wife in Front of Her Students in Tamil Nadu School
The husband of a social science teacher entered her classroom and stabbed her to death in front of her students on Monday evening after a heated argument in front of her students at a government-aided boys’ high school in Madurai.
The incident took place in the last hour of the PKN Boys High School in Thirumangalam. The education department has decided to give counselling to the students who witnessed the murder.
Police said that G Rathidevi (35), a mother to twins, was living with her parents for the last few months following disagreements with her husband Guru Muneeswaran (37), an engineer who works in Chennai.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Taliban Link: Two Held With 50 kg Heroin
Two Afghan nationals were caught by the Special Cell of Delhi Police with a consignment of liquid heroin that was packed in cardboard boxes filled with raisins from Afghanistan and on their way to sellers in Delhi. Cops found 50 kg of heroin worth Rs 200 crore packed in 102 cartons lying in a cold storage.
The men are alleged to be a part of the same cartel from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region controlled by a Taliban leader and a Pakistani that was busted last week.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Brazilian National Carrying Rs 24-Crore Cocaine Held at Mumbai Airport
In the fourth case of smuggled cocaine in July, a Brazilian man was arrested at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) on Monday, for attempting to illegally traffic cocaine worth Rs 24 crore. Rodrigo Dos Santos Alves, 23, has been charged with possession and smuggling, under relevant sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Alves arrived in the city from Sao Paulo, via Addis Ababa, on Monday morning. The customs officials who were on duty found his demeanour suspicious and went on to carry out a detailed security check and x-ray.
The check revealed Alves had two polythene pouches filled with cocaine tied to his waist and these were covered with white cloth. Altogether, Alves had little over 4 kg of cocaine on his person.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Shooting Accused Held, Changed Clothes on the Go to Mislead Cops
Twelve days after a 38-year-old woman was shot at by two bike-borne assailants outside Hotel Radisson Blu in Dwarka, while she was driving back home after dropping off her nine-year-old son to school, police arrested five men in connection with the attack.
The woman had crashed her car into a divider and was rushed to a hospital by an auto-rickshaw driver, where she is currently undergoing treatment. Joint CP (Western Range) Madhup Tewari said, “During questioning, the accused, Chandraprakash (27), said his uncle met the woman and became close friends with her.
He committed suicide in December 2018, and his family blamed his friendship with the woman for it.” Tewari said Chandraprakash, who is accused in another murder case also, “pledged to take revenge for the death of his uncle and hired contract killers”. Police have arrested the bike-borne assailants,Giriraj Tomar (26) and Abhishek (23), who had been hired for Rs 5 lakh.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. Trinamool Worker Beaten to Death in Hooghly, 6 Arrested
A Trinamool worker was beaten to death, allegedly by BJP-backed goons, in Hooghly’s Goghat around 10.30 pm on Monday.
Like every day, Lalchand Bag was returning home after work at his party associate Sheikh Mumtajul Islam’s shop at Goghat’s Nakunda. As he approached nearer his home, a group of allegedly armed miscreants surrounded him. “I heard them questioning him on why he led a large number of people to the July 21 Shahid Diwas rally in Kolkata. Then they started beating him up,” said Bag’s wife Rina. He fell unconscious.
(Source: The Times of India)
6. Collegian’s Mystery Death: Kin Begin Their Own Probe
The family of 21-year-old collegian Nikhil Shah, who was found with a skull fracture in Powai and died a day later, has started investigating the case on their own after the police seem to have drawn a blank.
On July 12, Shah left college and was waiting at a bus stop near IIT-B. Around 5.30pm, two bikers found him lying unconscious 60 feet away from the bus stop. He was rushed to a private hospital where he died the next day. Police said the spot was not covered by any surveillance cameras.
(Source: The Times of India)
7. Man Held for Giving Drugs to an Undertrial Inmate Outside Court
A 25-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly handing over a bag containing a mobile phone and drugs to a prison inmate while he was being taken from the district court to Bhondsi jail on Monday afternoon, the police said.
According to the police, a man in a Bolero handed over a bag to an undertrial, Ravinder Kumar, who was arrested in 2015 for a vehicle theft and was being taken from the court to the jail in a police bus. The police personnel spotted him and raised an alarm, following which the police control room and the police station concerned were informed to track the suspected man.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. Armed Students Strike Terror in Chennai
Two groups of college students brandishing two-foot long machetes struck terror among commuters at Arumbakkam on Poonamallee High Road in Chennai on Tuesday afternoon, chasing each other along the busy stretch. All the clashing teens, police said, were from Pachaiyappa’s College and the attack at Arumbakkam around 2.30pm followed one that took place near Ampa Skywalk around 9am.
After a video of the attack went viral on social media and following instructions from commissioner A K Viswanathan, police nabbed Madhan, a 20-year-old third year BA (philosophy) student, and Shruthi, 20, a third year BA (history) student from a hideout and launched a hunt for four others, all third year students.
(Source: The Times of India)
9. Six-Year-Old Boy Left for Dead by Kidnapper, Rescued After 48 Hrs
A six-year-old boy, who was reportedly kidnapped from outside his house near Dubbaga, Kakori in Lucknow on Saturday evening, was rescued by a police team near Joggers Park on Monday midnight.
The boy was strangulated by the kidnapper and then dumped in the bushes near the park after assuming that he was dead. He kept lying there in unconscious state for around two days.
Inspector of Kakori police station, PK Mishra said the accused Deepak Kumar of Zehta village who was arrested for kidnapping the boy, revealed during interrogation that he had strangulated the boy and disposed the body in bushes behind Joggers Park. The accused had kidnapped the boy with intent to sodomise him and strangulated him when the latter shouted for help, said police.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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