1. Techie Falls to Death in Bengaluru, Police Suspects Suicide
A 27-year-old IT professional fell to her death on Wednesday from the tenth floor of her office building in Cessna Business Park in Bengaluru.
Geethanjali, an engineer employed in Adva Optical Networking, located in the Business Park in Kadubeesanahalli, fell from the building at around 11:30 am. According to the police, it is suspected that the techie killed herself, though other possibilities are also being investigated.
"Geethanjali fell from the top most floor of her office building. The company is located in Cessna Business Park. She was working as a senior engineer in the company. The reason for her death is not known. Investigations are still on," said Abdul Ahad, Whitefield DCP.
The police have registered a case of unnatural death, and hope to obtain a clearer picture once Geethanjali’s family members have been interviewed.
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2. Three Muslim men thrashed in train near Baghpat
A group of men travelling in a train from Delhi to Haridwar first heckled and then beat up three fellow passengers, identified as Gulzar Ahmad, Mohammad Israr and Abu Bakr, near Baghpat in UP on Thursday, ostensibly "for covering their heads with rumaal (headscarves)".
"Some youths, who are yet to be identified, beat Ahmad, 30, Israr, 25, and Bakr, 22, after a tiff," said Baghpat superintendent of police Jaiprakash Singh.
"Six-seven men ganged up and started beating us with rods and even some pointed objects. When we asked them why they were hitting us, they said, 'rumaal kyon pehente ho sar pe' (why do you wear handkerchiefs on your head)?" Ahmad said.
(Source: Times of India)
3. ED to Question Indrani Mukerjea in Karti Chidambaram PMLA Case
A special CBI court in Mumbai, which is conducting the trial in the Sheena Bora murder case, on 23 November allowed the Enforcement Directorate to question key accused Indrani Mukerjea in connection with a money laundering case against her and others, including former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son, Karti.
The agency can interrogate Indrani on 24 November and 6 December.
In May, the ED registered the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and its directors Peter and Indrani Mukerjea, and others.
Peter and Indrani "allegedly siphoned off 90 million pounds and this money is suspected to have gone to overseas countries through an unauthorised route of hawala etc", the ED plea said.
(Source: PTI)
4. Shimla Rape Case: Accused Colonel Gets Three-Day Police Remand
The 56-year-old Colonel arrested on 23 November for allegedly raping a fellow officer’s adopted daughter was on Thursday remanded to three-day police custody by a local court even as the girl, in her statement recorded under section 164 of the CrPC, reiterated her charges against him.
Shimla Superintendent of Police Soumya Sambasivan said a medical examination of the girl had been done, but because of some doubts on the report and the findings, the matter had now been referred to the state’s Forensic Science Lab (FSL). “The girl, in an FIR lodged on 21 November, had stated that beside the accused Colonel, there was also another person at his house. Today, she modified her version and we have accordingly amended the FIR. As per her new statement, there was no third person at the Colonel’s house where the alleged incident happened,” the SP said.
Meanwhile, the police have taken into custody the mobile phones of the girl and the Colonel to analyse their locations and call details. After the Colonel’s arrest on Wednesday, the police had examined his WhatsApp posts and call details, which reportedly established that the girl had sent him photographs and some messages.
(Source: Indian Express)
5. Panchkula Triple Murder: Motive May Be Property, Not Father's Affair, Say Police
A man allegedly shot dead three of his cousin brother’s children at Sarsa village in Haryana’s Kurukshetra this weekend because he was eyeing about 12 acres of farmland owned by their father, police said on Thursday.
The property motive gave a dramatic twist to the gruesome triple murder as the suspect, Jagdeep Malik, had initially alleged that the children’s father, Sohan Malik, or Sonu, asked him to kill them to clear the way to marry a woman with whom he was suspected to be having an extramarital affair.
Jagdeep had told police that Sonu promised to pay him handsomely after his second marriage.
But police were not convinced with Jagdeep’s alleged confession when he was arrested after the bodies of 11-year-old Sameer, Simran and Samar, aged eight and three, were found in a forest in Morni on Tuesday, nearly 110 km away from their village.
The 26-year-old Jagdeep, father of a three-year-old child, was remanded in police custody as investigators suspect he was hiding the truth.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Delhi 4-Year-Old Booked for Rape: Legal Experts Say No Grounds to Register Case
After booking a four-year-old for allegedly sexually assaulting his classmate at a west Delhi school, Police on Thursday remained undecided about to proceed with the case even as legal experts questioned the grounds of filing the FIR.
Delhi Police said they went ahead and filed the FIR against the child only because they were following the “policy of registering a FIR without delay”.
“The FIR can be cancelled, but there should be no delay in lodging a complaint. The case was registered only after proper legal consultation. We were thoroughly professional in our work while staying sensitive to the fact that the victim as well as the suspect were small children,” Dependra Pathak, Delhi Police’s chief spokesperson said.
The Indian Penal Code says a child aged below seven years cannot be prosecuted. “Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age,” the IPC section 82 days.
A case was registered against the boy on 18 November after the mother of the four-year-old girl complained that he allegedly sexually assaulted her. The complaint said he allegedly used his finger and a pencil to assault her.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Delhi Police Rescue Minor Girl Being 'Sold' for Rs 3.5 Lakh
Posing as interested "buyers", police have rescued a 15-year-old girl from Bihar who was being "sold" in the capital by two dealers for Rs 3.5 lakh.
Police said the minor was brought to Delhi by one of the dealers a year ago on the pretext of marriage and pushed into prostitution. The two accused have been arrested and the victim reunited with her family in Bihar.
The dealers landed in the police net when they called up the SHO of Kamla Market in central Delhi, mistaking him for another dealer, and said they wanted to sell a "beautiful minor girl".
(Source: Times of India)
8. Telangana: Police Bust Fake Currency Racket, Five Arrested
The Jammikunta police have nabbed five persons and seized counterfeit currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination of a face value of Rs 6.58 lakh, and a car from their possession in Kothapalli village of Jammikunta mandal.
Disclosing this to newsmen in Hyderabad on Wednesday, Commissioner of Police VB Kamalasan Reddy said that on credible information about the movement of counterfeit currency in the agricultural markets in the mandal, the Commissioner’s Task Force and the Jammikunta police jointly conducted the operation and nabbed the accused during the vehicle checking and seized the fake currency notes.
The arrested include, Devarakonda Raj (29) of Jannaram village in Mancherial district, Chennamaneni Manohar Rao of Redlaguda village in Mancherial district, Durgam Kranthi (19) Ponakal village in Jammikunta mandal, Puramshetti Sharath Chandra of Ponakal village in Jammikunta and Syed Rahman of Jannaram village in Mancherial district.
(Source: The Hindu)
9. 15-Year-Old Tribal Girl Beaten by Nuns in Kerala Hostel
A 15-year-old tribal girl was beaten up by two nuns at the Mount Carmel High School in Jellippara, Attappady. The nuns beat her up because she allegedly left the premises without permission.
Speaking to TNM, Shiva*, the girl’s father, said that his daughter had been beaten, her hair was pulled, and that they tried to move her head towards the wall but the girl resisted.
The accused nuns, identified as Anija and Jaya Rose, were in charge of the girls hostel. Sub-Inspector S Subin of the Agali Police Station said that an FIR has been registered and that the police had started its investigation into the matter.
“We have spoken to the girl and her parents. According to the statements given by the girl, we have filed an FIR. We even had a word with the doctor who treated the girl. The girl was not grievously injured, but the nuns have admitted to beating the girls,” Subin said.
(*Name changed to protect identity)
(Source: The News Minute)
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