1. Operation D-Gang: Anees is Mumbai Cops’ Target
Corner fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim by targeting the aides of his brother, Anees, operating across the world – this is the new game plan of Mumbai’s crime branch, according to sources in the know of the development.
Anees is wanted by the Mumbai police in connection with more than 24 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling.
Sohail Kaskar (son of Dawood’s other brother Noora), who takes instructions from Anees, ran Dawood’s global drug syndicate with Danish’s help, sources said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Youth Held for Threat to Abduct Delhi CM's Daughter
Delhi Police has arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly sending e-mails to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office threatening to abduct the latter’s daughter.
Accused Bikash Roy, a native of Samastipur in Bihar, was arrested from his sister’s residence in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh.
Police said Roy was suffering from some mental disorder and had come to Delhi for treatment a year ago. He told cops that after a few days of treatment, doctors at Safdarjung Hospital asked him to do some exercises and discharged him. Because of this, he felt rejected and so he sent the e-mails from his personal ID to draw the attention of the chief minister to his plight.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Student Duped of Rs 5.8 Lakh by Cyber Frauds in Thane
A cheating and impersonation complaint was registered last week in a three-year-old case, where a 21-year-old engineering student was allegedly duped of Rs 5.85 lakh by cyber frauds in Thane, Maharashtra.
The fraudsters allegedly emailed the complainant that he had won an online lottery and on pretext of giving him the winnings, extracted money from him.
Saiteja Gundeti, a resident of Padmanagar in Bhiwandi, in his statement to the police said he received an email around 3:45 pm on 30 September 2015, from an unknown email address. The mail stated that he had won a lottery in the UK, a sum of Rs 3 crore along with a laptop and a mobile phone.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. 78-Year-Old Held for Molesting Minor in Delhi
A 78-year-old man was arrested for molesting a minor girl in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar on Monday, 14 January.
The girl had gone for tuition classes at the accused's house but her teacher wasn't present. She later informed cops, who arrested him.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. Father Held for Sexually Assaulting Teen Daughter in Mumbai
The Powai police on Monday, 14 January, arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly molesting and sexually assaulting his 19-year-old daughter since the past three months.
According to the victim’s statement, the accused touched her inappropriately in the absence of her mother, a police officer from Powai police station said.
The victim lives in Powai with her mother and they both work as domestic help in the neighbourhood.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Delhi: Boy Beaten to Death by Mother’s Live-in Partner Over Homework
A five-year-old boy died of injuries two days after being beaten up by his mother’s live-in partner for not doing his homework in southwest Delhi’s Samalkha village.
The accused and the child’s mother had initially tried to show the death to be an accident.
His father was reportedly told that the child fell in the washroom while having a bath and got injured, police said.
DCP (southwest) Devender Arya said a case of murder and criminal conspiracy has been registered against the accused and the mother’s role in the crime is being probed.
(Source: The Times of India)
7. Two Held for Clobbering 16 Puppies to Death in Kolkata
Police on Tuesday, 15 January, arrested two nursing students for clobbering of 16 puppies to death on 13 January even as the city struggled to emerge from the shock triggered by a video that caught two women in the gruesome act.
One of those arrested, Moutusi Mondal, is a first-year student, while the other, Soma Barman, is in the second year.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
8. No Headway in Her Rape Complaint, UP Woman Ends Life
A 28-year-old woman was found dead inside her house in UP’s Gonda on Monday, 14 January, four months after she tried to set herself ablaze outside the Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow demanding action against two men accused of raping her last year.
With Unnao police stating that the woman committed suicide by hanging, Gonda SP RP Singh said two police officers who conducted separate probes in the rape case have been suspended from duty – a third has been transferred.
The woman’s husband alleged that she took the extreme step after police failed to take action against the accused.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. Molested on Train, Teen & Friend Chase, Get Man Arrested in Mumbai
A 16-year-old girl and her friend chased a 32-year-old man who molested her in a second-class general compartment of a local train on Monday evening, 14 January, and got him arrested though he tried to flee after physically assaulting them.
According to railway police, when the girl and her friend were boarding a Titwala local at 8.26pm from Dadar station, Om Hari Singh, who was just behind her, put his hands on her shoulders. And when the teenager turned around and looked at him in anger, he molested her, police said.
(Source: The Times of India)
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