1. Badarpur MLA Booked for Abusing Woman Worker
An FIR has been registered against Badarpur MLA Narayan Dutta Sharma on the basis of a complaint by a woman ICDS worker. The woman claimed that the MLA had abused her while speaking to her on the phone.
Police sources said the woman had approached the Badarpur police station on Saturday, 24 March, alleging that the MLA had called her over official work during which he started abusing her citing inefficiency at work.
Following the complaint, the cops registered an FIR for criminal intimidation and using gestures or words to outrage the modesty of a woman. Sharma would be called for questioning in a few days.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. 16-Year-Old ‘Gang-raped’ by ‘Friend’, Two Others
In a case related to the suspected gangrape of a 16-year-old girl, allegedly by a 20-year-old college student and two of his friends, police said they were trying to gather evidence and look for eyewitnesses to establish the presence of the accused at the scene of the crime.
Police are scanning CCTV footage along the route on which she was taken by the accused to a shop, where she was allegedly raped by the trio. Following the incident, the girl confided in her parents about the alleged rape, after which they approached the Ghatkopar police station, where a gangrape case was registered and sections of the Prevention Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act were added.
Police arrested three persons on Sunday after the girl’s statement was recorded.
(Source: The Indian Express)
3. Ashwini Bidre ‘Murder’: Cops Likely to Restart Search for Body in Vasai Creek
After a failed attempt, the Navi Mumbai police are likely to restart the search for the “body” of missing Assistant Inspector Ashwini Bidre in the Vasai creek. According to sources, they have managed to procure the equipment needed in the search.
Bidre, who went missing in 2016, is suspected to be murdered by Inspector Abhay Kurundkar with whom she allegedly had an affair.
According to her husband, Raju Gore, the search for her “body”, which was allegedly dumped in the Vasai creek, will be restarted shortly. “Police told me that they have procured the equipment and have also received permission. I am waiting to see when they will start now,” said Gore.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Six Police Teams to Trace 5-Year-Old Mumbai Girl’s Killer
The Tulinj police have formed six teams to nab the unidentified woman who allegedly kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl from Nallasopara on Sunday. The woman was captured on CCTV footage on a road in Vijay Nagar.
According to the police, Anjali Saroj, was abducted by a woman in her 30s while playing outside her Sai Arpan building in Vijay Nagar, on Saturday night. Her body was found in the ladies’ toilet at Navsari station in Gujarat on Sunday.
The victim’s family told police that they do not know the woman, and police suspect that she is a local resident. “Since there are no CCTVs at Navsari station, it will be challenging for us to trace the killer,” said a police officer.
The Tulinj police have registered a case of kidnapping and murder and have released a sketch of the killer who seems to be fair, tall and was wearing a salwar kameez.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. Man Wanted in Businessman's Kidnapping Case Arrested
A 22-year-old man, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his arrest, was nabbed by the Delhi Police from Haryana.
The accused, Tarif, a resident of Mewat in Uttar Pradesh, had been on the run since 2015. He was wanted in different cases in UP, Mumbai and other parts of the country, said P S Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell).
He was allegedly involved in the abduction of a businessman in 2015. Tarif, along with his accomplices, had lured the businessman through advertisement in newspapers for sale of scrap. To meet the prospective party, the businessman, Sriram, had travelled to Delhi, where he was abducted from the airport, the police said.
Tarif had later been rescued from a village by the Delhi police, while the accused had fled.
(Source: PTI)
6. Man Shoots at Cousins in New Delhi
A 22-year-old youth and two of his younger cousins sustained gunshot injuries after a man tried to intervene in a fight, but when asked to leave them alone, he opened fire. The incident took place in northwest Delhi’s Mahindra Park late on Monday and the accused has been identified.
Police said that a witness made a PCR call. Soon, a team reached the spot and the victims were taken to a hospital, where they were given treatment and two of them were discharged on Tuesday.
(Source: The Times of India)
7. Children Forced to Carry Father's Corpse on Cart
A differently-abled youth and his sister in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh on Monday carried the body of their father on a cart after a health centre's authorities denied a hearse van to him, citing the unavailability of the same.
The incident took place at Trivediganj Community Health Centre (CHC) in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki town, where deceased Mansharam's children, Rajkumar and Manju, were forced to carry their father's body to their home nearly eight kilometres away on the cart.
Chief Medical Officer Dr. R.Chandra said they had only two vans available for the entire district, and asserted that the centre would have provided one had it been available at that moment.
(Source: ANI)
8. Trio Robs Man of Rs 3 Lakh, at Large
Three unidentified men allegedly robbed a supervisor of a courier company at gunpoint and fled with over Rs 3 lakh in central Delhi’s Ranjit Nagar on Monday, the police said on Tuesday.
The victim, Deepak, was going home around 6:45 am when three men who came in a white car bearing Haryana’s registration number held him at gunpoint.
Following this, the miscreants took his bag containing Rs 3 lakh and fled the spot, the victim told the police.
The incident happened in Delhi’s Patel Nagar, the police said. The police said they have ascertained the ownership of the vehicle and raids are being conducted in Faridabad and Ballabhgarh to nab the accused.
(Source: The Hindu)
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