1. Gang That Helped SSC Candidates ‘Cheat’ Busted in Delhi, 4 Arrested
Four men have been arrested from north Delhi for helping Staff Selection Commission (SSC) candidates cheat by taking remote access of their computers, the police said on Wednesday.
The arrests come in the wake of a series of protests in recent weeks by students alleging that SSC question papers had been leaked.
Police said that the accused mainly relied on Team Viewer and AMMYY software that allows a user to take control of a computer remotely. Where they couldn’t use the remote access system, they provided answers through Local Area Network (LAN) that allows interconnection of computers within a limited area, said police.
Jatin Narwal, deputy commissioner of police (north) said that the gang charged Rs 5-10 lakh for solving SSC questions for posts such as lower divisional clerk, junior secretariat assistant and data entry operators.
“We recovered Rs 51.8 lakh in cash from the flat in Gandhi Vihar that we raided,” said Narwal.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Seeking Revenge, Dad’s Lover Kills 5-Yr-Old Girl
A 22-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday for kidnapping a five-year-old girl from outside her Nalasopara building on 24 March and strangling her in a women’s toilet at Navsari station in Gujarat.
Anita Waghela is the lover of victim Anjali Saroj’s father Santosh, 28, and sought revenge as he had reneged on his promise to marry her and even forced her to undergo two abortions – the second one in February.
Waghela told police she took Anjali in a local train to Borivli and then boarded a long-distance train to Gujarat. In the train, she gave the five-year-old some pills, rendering her unconscious. Waghela alighted at Navsari with Anjali in her arms in the wee hours of Sunday. She went to the ladies toilet on paltform number 1, strangled her and left the body there.
(Source: Times of India)
3. Boy Murdered in School, Hacked 8 Times with Axe
A 10-year-old boy was stabbed to death at a Zilla Parishad school in Nandeli village of Murbad. Police said the alleged killer had been identified but is on the run.
According to police, Suraj Dnyaneshwar Bhoir was in school when the accused, Jayawant Bhoir, 50, approached the two teachers of the school before the morning prayer and asked if he could take Suraj out for a minute.
Just as the prayers were ending, the teachers heard the boy shrieking and rushed out of the school building, sources said. “The boy had been attacked eight times with an axe. Bhoir threw the weapon next to the boy and ran away,” said the officer.
According to police, Jayawant Bhoir is the prime suspect though no motive has been ascertained. “We don’t know why he killed the boy, or where he is,” an officer said.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Uttarakhand Court Convicts 4 Men for Killing Delhi Couple
An Uttarakhand court has convicted four people of murdering a Delhi couple in 2014, but they were acquitted of rape charges in the absence of evidence, government counsel Guruprasad Raturi said on Wednesday.
The additional sessions court of Vikasnagar, 40km from Dehradun, pronounced the judgment on Tuesday and the quantum of punishment will be announced this Friday.
Besides murder, the court held the four men guilty of hiding evidence and looting the couple — painter Abhijit Paul and his friend Momita Das, who were from Lado Sarai in New Delhi. They were murdered during a holiday in Dehradun district’s Chakrata in October 2014.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. Three Accused in Pune Techie Murder Granted Bail
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to three men accused of murdering Mohsin Shaikh, a 28-year-old techie from Pune, in June 2014. The three accused are allegedly members of the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS).
The three men were previously granted bail by the High Court in January last year, following which the victim’s brother, Mubin Shaikh, challenged the bail order in the Supreme Court.
The court observed, “It is not a pre-designed crime. The accused had no personal vendetta against the deceased, Mohsin. They were provoked by the speech and discussion in the meeting which had taken place just half an hour before the incident.”
It also said: “…the accused can be granted bail by putting them to strict conditions.”
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. Woman Found Dead in Delhi, Police Look for Friend
A day after the decomposed body of a woman from Meghalaya was found from her rented accommodation in southwest Delhi’s Munirka village, police have launched a search for her male friend, who is missing.
Police sources told The Indian Express that a man from Nagaland was staying next to her room and they were close friends.
Police said the woman’s house was locked from the outside, and her body was completely decomposed when police reached the spot Tuesday morning.
“The room of her male friend was bolted from the outside but not locked. Since, the man is missing, he is under suspicion,” said a police officer.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. Four Arrested for Electricity Wire Theft from Delhi Metro Network
Four men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in stealing electricity wires from the Magenta Line of Delhi Metro, police said on Wednesday.
The four accused were identified as Dilshad (22), Ali Hasan alias Lala (23), Saddam (24) and Imran (27). They had carried out several thefts in the Metro network in the past one month.
Police said that Dilshad and Hasan were employed as labourers by a project company of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
On the basis of a tip-off, Dilshad, Hasan and Saddam were arrested on 27 March, said Pankaj Kumar Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro). Two country-made pistols, along with live cartridges, were recovered from them.
Subsequently, Imran, who used to buy the stolen cable from them, was also nabbed.
(Source: PTI)
8. Odisha Woman Arrested for Setting Husband on Fire
A woman allegedly burnt her husband to death as he used to thrash her and their children in an inebriated state at Saruabili in Jajpur district, police said on Wednesday.
Though the incident took place on Sunday night, the 36-year-old man succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Cuttack on Monday night, they said.
Subhash Singh, a driver, came home drunk and misbehaved with his elder daughter. When the daughter opposed his indecent behaviour, he beat her up. Singh’s wife and another daughter came to the rescue of the girl. Singh then thrashed his wife and the children, they said.
The wife and children of Singh overpowered him and tied his hands and legs. Later, his wife poured kerosene on him and set him ablaze, they said.
(Source: PTI)
9. Billing Data from UHBVN Hacked, Rs 1 Cr Demanded in Bitcoins from Haryana Govt
In a first of the kind of a case in the country, the hackers stole the billing data of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), one of the two power discoms of Haryana and have demanded Rs 1 crore in form of bitcoins from the state government to retrieve the data.
Sources said that UHBVN which is monitoring electricity billings of nine districts of the state came under cyber attack at 12.17 AM after midnight on 21 March and thus the billing data of thousands of consumers had been hacked as the IT wing of the nigam was target.
On 22 March, when the head office of UHBVN in Panchkula opened as a message was flashed on computer screens in which the hacker demanded Rs 1 crore in form of bitcoins from the state government in order to retrieve the data.
A case has been registered in Sector 5 Police Station of Panchkula under IT Act and different sections of IPC.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
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