Pregnant woman survives 24 stab wounds

A pregnant woman in the Philippines has survived 24 stab wounds in an attack allegedly led by two police officers facing robbery and extortion charges, police said on Friday.

Grace Capistrano, 22, was a witness in the case against the two police officers, the regional police chief said.

Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao said the two suspects have been taken into custody, while manhunt operations were launched against two accomplices.

Capistrano told investigators that four suspects abducted her from her house in Angono town in Rizal province, 30 km east of Manila, Tuesday.

They then taped her hands and mouth and stabbed her in different parts of her body, shot her once in the leg and then dumped her in a ravine, apparently thinking she was already dead.

But Capistrano was able to crawl her way up to the road where a driver of a passing cargo truck spotted her and brought her to a police station.

The police then took her to a hospital for treatment. Her baby also survived the ordeal, police said.

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Lustful teacher killed in class by girl’s parent

KADAPA (India): In a shocking incident, a vidya volunteer was brutally murdered by the parents of a woman volunteer in the classroom of an upper primary school at Kondapet in Chennur mandal today for blackmailing their daughter for fulfiling his carnal desires.

According to information reaching the district headquarters, T Chaitanya Kumar (28) was working as a vidya volunteer for the last four years. Moharaj (21) of the same village joined the upper primary school as a vidya volunteer two years ago. It was alleged that Kumar filmed Moharaj on his cellphone when she went to toilet to answer the call of nature.

Using the cellphone footage, he blackmailed her to fulfil his lust. The woman vidya volunteer yielded to his blackmailing.

Moharaj told her parents Noushad Hussain and Bibi that Kumar was sexually harassing her for the past six months using the cellphone footage. Enraged Noushad and Bibi went to the school. While Kumar was in the classroom, Noushad slit his throat with a knife when Bibi sprinkled chilli powder in his eyes.

Kumar died instantaneously. Schoolchildren and some teachers were the mute witnesses to the brutal murder.

The police rushed to the school and took Noushad and Bibi into custody.

District education officer Srinivasa Rao and DSP Umamaheswara Rao visited the school to conduct an inquiry.

Meanwhile, some villagers denied the charge of Moharaj’s parents against Kumar stating that he lost one of his hands when he suffered an electric shock. A case has been registered.

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Rape accused abduct girl, rape her again

LUCKNOW: Three employees of Agra Central Jail, supposedly absconding since they raped a minor Nepali girl, abducted the victim once again and repeatedly outraged her modesty. They dumped the semi-conscious girl on the rail tracks 24 hours later, threatening her of worse if her family did not withdraw the rape case pending against them.

Neelu now fears stepping out of the single room rented accommodation of her parents situated close to the Central Jail compound and prefers to be locked inside the room.

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ATM frauds on the rise

Lakhs of rupees have been withdrawn fraudulently from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in Chandigarh and neighbouring towns in the past four months, and police said on Wednesday the culprits will be nabbed soon.

Around 30 cases of withdrawing money using cloned ATM cards of nationalised banks have been reported since August from Chandigarh, and Mohali and Panchkula, the city's suburbs in Punjab and Haryana.

"We are looking into all aspects and will nab the culprits soon. We are working with bank officials and surveillance around ATM machines has been enhanced," senior superintendent of police Naunihal Singh told IANS Wednesday.

Residents, meanwhile, are growing increasingly worried.

"I had withdrawn Rs.5,000 on Nov 12 and there was a balance of Rs.64,000. Then, I received SMSes saying that money has been withdrawn from my account. I checked with the bank manager and he said money was withdrawn from different ATMs of the city," said Ravinder Kumar, a sub-divisional engineer with the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).

A police officer explained the probable modus operandi of the thieves.

"The miscreants would have cloned the original ATM cards by placing a card-reader in the machine slot. They might have got the password by placing a micro-camera somewhere near the machine," he said.

"We have appealed to people to change their PIN (Permanent Identification Number) frequently as a precautionary measure," he said.

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Pastor who 'banned' Facebook had threesome with wife, church aide

A pastor who claimed that Facebook was a ‘portal to infidelity’ has revealed that he had threesome sex with his wife and church aide. In another incident, Pune police have arrested a ‘spiritual guru’ for sexually abusing boys. In a shocking incident, a teenage girl was given away to a money lender by her debt-ridden father. Read on.

Pastor's secret past exposed

London: A pastor who claimed that Facebook was a ''portal to infidelity'' has revealed that he had threesome sex with his wife and a male church assistant.

The Rev. Cedric Miller's secret past was exposed after he ordered church leaders to delete their Facebook accounts or resign.

He blamed the social networking giant for causing married couples to have illicit affairs and igniting ''old passions''.

The 48-year-old leader of the Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune, New Jersey, confirmed that he played sex games with his wife Kim after his testimony in a court case was revealed.

"It has come to my attention that a very painful part of my past has resurfaced," the Daily Mail quoted Miller, as writing in an e-mail.

"This was resolved at that time and accordingly we will not allow it to detract from our mission at hand to save as many marriages as we can.

"My life as a minister, husband, father and friend has led me to the conviction that I must do all that I can to help as many people strengthen, preserve and repair the often times fragile cords of marriage," he wrote.

Miller said his wife had an extramarital affair with a church assistant and that he was present at many of their meetings. And sometimes the assistant's wife was there too, he claimed.

But the minister said the encounters ''came to a crashing halt'' when several women in the church accused the assistant of having sex with them.

The pastor sparked controversy last week when he ordered about 50 married church officials to delete their Facebook accounts or quit their leadership positions.

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Online sex-racket unveiled in B'lore; techie held

Bangalore, Nov 20 : A software engineer and a Mumbai-based prostitute has been detained in Bangalore on Friday, Nov 19 and a major online sex racket was unveiled.

The engineer Vijay Kumar, the prostitute, Riya were arrested from a hotel room, police stated.

Police officials also informed, "The racket has been going on for nearly two years. Vijay Kumar used to contact a pimp called Kalpana in Mumbai through the Internet to ask her to send girls for him."

"We have been looking to crack down on online prostitution rackets for a few months as they have become rampant in the city," it added.

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Man rapes 52-yr-old maid for 2 days

MARGAO: Police investigations have revealed that a 52-year- old woman was raped by a 32-year-old Dilip Goswami at Dicarpale, Davorlim.

The woman had responded to an advertisement for a maid servant put by the accused in a local newspaper. Following her "recruitment", Goswami raped the "maid" for two consecutive days after confining her in a room.

On the third day, the victim managed to escape and soon lodged a complaint with the police.

Police interrogations have also revealed that the accused Goswami had many aliases to his name and the police are investigating if he was involved in any similar cases earlier.

Maina Curtorim police are conducting further investigations.

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Russian molested by burglar in Goa apartment

Panaji: A 32-year-old Russian woman has alleged that a thief broke into her rented apartment at Colva beach village Wednesday morning, stole her laptop and molested her while she was sleeping, police said.

The police have registered a complaint under sections 378, 441 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code which deal with theft, criminal trespass and outraging modesty respectively. Colva, a beach village popular with foreign tourists, is some 40 km from here.

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IIT Kanpur girl commits suicide

Kanpur: A final year engineering student of the premiere Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), Wednesday committed suicide in her hostel room on the campus, police said.

"The girl, aged around 22 years, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her hostel room. Prima-facie, it appears to be a case of suicide," Deputy Superintendent of Police Lakshmi Narayan Mishra told reporters in Kanpur, some 80 km from Lucknow.

The suicide came to light after the door of Madhuri's room was broken as she did not respond to repeated door knocks by her friends. The police identified the girl as Madhuri Salve, a fourth year civil engineering student hailing from Andhra Pradesh. However, sources said the name on her identity card appeared as Madhuri sale.

IIT-K officials, who barred the entry of reporters following the incident, were not available for comment. Several calls were made on the mobile phone of IIT-K Director Sanjay Govind Dhande and Registrar Sanjeev S. Kashalkar, but the calls were not responded. Sources in IIT-K said a committee has been constituted to probe into the girl's death.

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Three arrested for smuggling morphine worth Rs 2 crores

Barabanki (UP), Nov 16 (PTI) Three persons were today arrested and over two kg morphine, a narcotic drug also used as a pain reliever, worth over Rs 2 crores was recovered from them at the city police area, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Mohsin, Mohammad Rehan and Aftab for illegally possessing the drug, SP Navneet Kumar Rana said.

The trio revealed that they brought the morphine from Nagaland and Manipur by train and sold it illegally in the state, he said, adding, investigations are on to nab other members of their gang.

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22-year-old son attempts to rape mother: Report

LONDON: In a horrific incident, a 22-year -old man in Britain has allegedly attempted to rape his mother and gouged out her eyes, just two hours after police visited their home over a "domestic incident", a media report said.

The 53-year-old victim was left blinded by the attack and her son has been arrested by the police only after he ran naked from his home and started jumping into moving cars, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

"A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape and grievous bodily harm and transferred to a secure unit," a Thames Valley Police spokesman said.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the case after it emerged that police officers had visited the home two hours previously over a "domestic incident", but left after 30 minutes.

According to neighbours, trouble started when the man, who lived with his mother, a nurse, and teenage sister at their four-bedroom home in Slough, Berkshire, began shouting and throwing objects out of a first-floor window.

A computer and television set were hurled on to the front garden before police were called in. The cops spent half-an-hour with them before leaving, the report said.

Two hours later, the man ran out of his home naked and jumped into the side of a neighbour's car while he was turning out of his drive. He then stopped another car before jumping on the bonnet and hitting the windscreen.

Witnesses say he jumped off the car and ran into the path of another, which hit him, throwing him up on to the windscreen and hurling him to the side of the road. Police and an ambulance arrived to treat him and were alerted to mother in the house, the report said.

Officers later found that she had severe eye injuries and feared that she may have been sexually assaulted.

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Over 100 trafficked people rescued in Mexico

MEXICO: Mexican marines have rescued 103 people, including three newborns and a pregnant 12-year-old girl, who were held captive by human traffickers at a banana plantation in Mexico, officials said.

Eight suspects have been arrested and will be charged with people trafficking, the attorney general's office said Sunday.

The rescue operation was staged at a banana plantation in Tapachula city in Chiapas state, on the border with Guatemala. The 83 men and 25 women rescued are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

The victims were found to be living under conditions of exploitation and overcrowding, the officials said.

Illegal immigrants often fall prey to gangs of robbers, police, immigration officers and Mexico's drug cartels.

More than 1,000 Hondurans and Salvadorans have gone missing in Mexico, and their whereabouts are unknown, reports by NGOs say.

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Kingfisher pilot arrested for molesting minor

Mumbai: A Kingfisher Airlines pilot has been arrested on charges of molesting an eight-year-old girl at his residence in suburban Kandivali, police said on Thursday.

The accused, Uday Singh Rawat (39) lured the girl to his residence by promising her chocolates on Tuesday evening and tried to assault her sexually, they said.

She was playing with her friends in the premises of her residential building Oberoi Park when the accused, who also resides in the same building, took her to his house, said Anant Kenjale, senior inspector at Samta Nagar police station.

The girl went with him because she knew Rawat. The accused subsequently started abusing her sexually when the victim got scared and started crying, he added.

The traumatised girl later narrated the incident to her father, the officer said.

Following an inquiry, Rawat was arrested yesterday, he said adding the accused was remanded to judicial custody by a local court. He later applied for bail which was granted by the court.

Rawat, who is a divorcee, has been living alone since long time. For the last four years, he has been working with the Kingfisher airlines as a pilot, the officer added.

However, the girl's father alleged the accused had also taken the help of his housemaid to get his daughter into Rawat's residence.

Her father demanded that the maid should also be held guilty, police said, adding further probe was on.

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Fritzl planned to kill his dungeon family in acid bath

London, Nov 11 (IANS) Josef Frizl, who raped his daughter up to 3,000 times over a 24 year period after locking her up in a dungeon, planned to kill his cellar family by dipping them in an acid bath, said the Austrian's prison cell mate.

Fritzl told his cell mate, 19-year-old Patrick Jakob, that he was tired of living two lives and wanted to rest in his old age. Jakob spent three months locked up with Fritzl in St Poelten jail, Austria.

'He (Fritzl) said he had two choices - to let them all go and face justice, or kill them.

'He said he had considered how he would kill them and the best option would be an acid bath, so all traces of his secret family would be destroyed,' The Sun qouted Jakob as saying.

'That way no one would ever know what he had done. He (Fritzl) could make them all disappear. He had all the details worked out.'

Fritzl wanted to kill his daughter Elisabeth, now 44, and three of the seven children he fathered from her in the dungeon.

Fritzl locked Elisabeth in the dungeon basement at his home in Amstetten when she was 18, and told his wife Rosemarie that she had run away.

One of the seven babies he fathered with her died and he burned the body. Three others were locked up with Elisabeth. The other three were raised by Rosemarie and Fritzl. He told his wife that he found them abandoned.

Jakob said: 'He (Fritzl) said he put Elisabeth in the cellar for her own protection, because he thought she was taking drugs.

'I was young and naive and I fell for his arguments at first. But with hindsight I could tell he was just manipulating me.'

Fritzl was arrested in April 2008 and is likely to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric institution.

'He never got to make the decision whether to free his cellar family or to kill them. But I have no doubt he would have done, given the choice. He is that evil. He tried to make out he was a good man because he hadn't killed his family and they had been set free. What nonsense,' Jakob said.

Recalling the days he spent with Frizl, Jakob said: 'When I saw my new cellmate was Fritzl, I was scared, genuinely terrified. I'm not proud of my crime, but it was a teenage mistake. How could I be in the same cell as a monster?'

Fritzl told Jakob that his crime of burning down two farm houses wasn't so serious.

'I was stunned at how friendly he was. You would never know what he had done.

'There are two Fritzls - the upstairs Fritzl, the one who lived a normal life, and the downstairs Fritzl, who raped his daughter in the basement.

'Most of the time I saw the upstairs Fritzl, but over time I saw his other side. If he didn't get to see the news at 5 p.m., he could turn nasty.'

The former prisoner said that Frizl used to get dozens of letters from fans.

'One day he showed me a photo sent to him. There was a woman standing next to a masked man. She was laughing. It was macabre. The fans saw him as the chief monster. They respected him.'

Jakob said that Frizl sobbed after listening to Elisabeth's testimony in court

'He was broken. He knew it was all over. He lay down on his bed and sobbed uncontrollably. He looked a pathetic old man.

'On his last day in St Poelten he rose at 7 a.m., packed his gear and left. We didn't say goodbye. I hope I never see him again.'

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19-year-old raped by friend in central Delhi

NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly raped and threatened by a man in central Delhi on Tuesday. The incident was reported late in the night from Kasturba Gandhi Marg. The accused, Dharmender Singh Rathore, is absconding, cops said.

A case of rape and criminal intimidation has been registered against the accused at the Tilak Marg police station.
The accused had known the girl for the past five months and had even promised to marry her.

On Tuesday, he asked her to come to Kasturba Gandhi Marg. When she arrived, he raped her near some bushes on the road late in the night. ''The victim has claimed that he then threatened her with dire consequences if she complained to anyone. He even physically assaulted and intimidated her by trying to strangle her with the drawstring of her salwar. The MLC report has confirmed rape,'' said a senior police officer.

The victim came from West Bengal to Delhi two-and-a-half years ago. She had become friends with the accused who works with an NGO. He then promised to marry her and get her a job, police said.

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Bank manager sentenced to imprisonment for causing loss

Bangalore, Nov 10 (PTI) A branch manager of Bank of Baroda has been sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment for causing a loss of Rs 1.51 crore to the bank.

The Special Judge for CBI cases, Bangalore, has convicted P N Upadhyay, the then manager of the bank''s branch in Panambur, Mangalore, and sentenced him to imprisonment of one year and eight months with a fine of Rs 20,000, a CBI spokesperson said.

As per the CBI investigation, Upadhyaya had allowed six persons to open various current accounts and also allowed temporary overdrafts beyond his discretionary powers in these accounts.

"He sanctioned overdrafts which were outstanding in the bank books in violation of the laid down norms of the bank resulting in loss to the extent of Rs. 1.51 crore to the bank," the official said.

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