MUMBAI: A detailed medical examination by the state has added five more girls to the list of mentally challenged inmates of a Panvel shelter home who were raped by those who were supposed to look after them.
There is also evidence of the girls being subjected to brutality, stated the report of the medical tests conducted by the state women and child development department. "Some of them had marks around their necks," assistant commissioner of police (Bhiwandi) Rashmi Karandikar said before a high court bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud on Thursday afternoon. The plight of the Panvel girls came to light after the Bombay high court took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper report on mentally challenged children being starved and raped at an orphanage in Thane and set up a committee to inspect all shelter homes in the state.
An inquiry by the committee, headed by Asha Bajpai from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, revealed sexual abuse at the Panvel home a month ago, when five girls were found to have been raped. After the discovery, Bajpai and psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty, also a member of the committee, castigated the state department of women and child development for granting licences to shelter homes like those in Thane and Panvel, which had absolutely no facilities to take care of mentally challenged children and on top, abused them, mentally and physically.
The department of women and child development is also supposed to conduct regular inspections of the children's homes. However, none of the their reports showed any hint of the atrocities going on there. The Chief Justice has ordered the department to submit reports of their inspections over the past three years to the HC-appointed committee.
TINSUKIA, April 29 – In a bizarre incident, one Sanjib Chakraborty (37), a married business man and son of late Anil Baran Chakraborty of Sripuria, Tinsukia, fired from point blank range at Mrigaya Dey (19), a degree first year student of Makum College and daughter of Gobinda Dey of Sunday Market, Makum, on NH-37, at Chandmari of Makum town.
The girl was on way to college for appearing in an examination and Sanjib, father of a three-month-old child,
went to meet her by a Maruti Alto car (No AS-23-E-3811). He was talking with the girl by the railway line near the approach road to Makum College. After a few minutes he shot at the girl on her head with a pistol and then shot himself. After the incident, the duo has been first admitted to the Civil Hospital, Tinsukia in a critical condition. They have been later shifted the Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh. Though the real reason for the incident could not be ascertained, it is suspected to be the fallout of a love affair. Further investigation is on.
Shanghai, Apr 28: A man has been arrested in China for killing a young woman as she looked like his ex-girlfriend and then having sex with the corpse, a media report said Monday.
Twentythree-year-old Zhang Fenglang said he killed the woman as she looked like his ex-girlfriend who had left him, Shanghai Daily quoted prosecutors as saying.
Zhang fled Shanghai and was arrested from his hometown in Shandong March 30. He was sent back to this city to face criminal proceedings.
He told the police that he had no intention of killing the woman - till he saw her face. It sparked anger as he recalled getting dumped by his ex-girlfriend.
"At first, I only wanted to rob her. But when I looked at her and discovered how much she resembled my ex-girlfriend, I decided I must vent my anger," he told the police.
His girlfriend broke up with him in July and he then moved to Shanghai. He, however, decided to rob people and return to his hometown after getting into gambling debt.
The media report said that Zhang confessed that he initiated the attack on the 27-year-old woman by putting a rope around her neck and strangled her to death.
He allegedly had sex with the woman's corpse soon after the murder.
Lone constable arrested after 11 trainees in Kolhapur become pregnant points finger at seniors, his wife demands victims' narco test, MP wants immediate transfer of all senior officers
Pressure is mounting on the authorities to initiate action against senior police officers in Kolhapur after several newly recruited women constables undergoing training there were found pregnant. It is alleged that senior officers are involved in the sexual exploitation of the women trainees but are being shielded. It wasn't me: Arrested constable Yuvraj Kamble has denied all charges
against him in his police statement and said his seniors were behind
the sexual exploitation of women trainees
Amruta Kamble, wife of police constable Yuvraj Kamble (32), who alone has been arrested in this case so far, has demanded that narco-analysis tests be conducted on the 'victimised' women constables to reveal the real culprits.
Member of Parliament Sadashiv Mandalik from Kolhapur has demanded transfer of all senior police officers, including Superintendent of Police Yashaswi Yadav. Hasan Mushrif, MLA from Kagal constituency, has demanded that Meeran Chaddha Borwankar, the commissioner of police of Pune, should conduct the inquiry in the matter. The case
At least 11 women police constables undergoing training at the Kolhapur Police Training School (PTS) have reportedly tested positive in pregnancy tests. They have now been shifted to Nagpur for training after the incident came to light. The first woman constable who was found pregnant lodged a rape case against Kamble, a trainer at the PTS, at the Shahpuri police station.
Kamble, in his statement to the police, denied all the charges and instead blamed his senior officers Police Inspector Dnyaneshwar Munde of Shahpuri and Deputy Superintendent of Police Parkale of being behind the sexual exploitation. Recently, Home Minister R R Patil had ordered Additional Superintendent of Police (Nashik Rural) Maithili Jha to conduct the inquiry in the case. Seniors shielded?
In a press release, MP Mandlik has demanded transfer of all senior officers currently posted at Kolhapur, including that of SP Yashaswi Yadav. "Yadav has consistently failed to take action against the tainted Inspector Munde of Shahpuri police station," Mandlik has stated. When contacted, MLA Mushrif said his demand was that a senior woman officer like Borwankar should be conducting the enquiry against the accused as there was a possibility of influence being used on an officer of the level of additional SP like Jha. 'Won't spare guilty'
Addressing mediapersons, Additional SP Maithili Jha said, "All the distressed women constables should come forward and lodge a complaint against the accused. The identity of all such constables will be guarded. If any senior police officer is found involved in the sexual exploitation, he will not be spared."
Asked about Amruta Kamble's demand, Jha said, "I could not meet her today as I was busy interrogating Yuvraj and recording statements of other persons concerned with the case. But I will hear what Amruta has to say and I assure her that her grievances will be taken care of."
He allegedly killed a man trying to help out a common friend woo a girl they both loved; police on the lookout for accused.
A bloody love triangle came to light when the Nallasopara police embarked on a hunt for a 24-year-old who allegedly murdered a friend's friend over a girl. Anand Fose, allegedly shot an innocent boy, Swapnil Rodrigues, as he was helping Fose's friend, Aldrin Pereira, in his love affair with a girl, who Fose was also in love with, cops said. As per investigation, on Tuesday night, Fose and his friends, including Pereira, got drunk near a lake in Nallasopara. Fose had a heated argument with Pereira over the girl. Rodrigues, who was present at the get-together, intervened in support of Pereira. That is when Fose left to return with a country-made revolver. Victim: Swapnil Rodrigues
According to the police, Fose first fired in the air to threaten Pereira to leave the girl alone and stay away from the two of them. At this point, Rodrigues stepped in to speak on behalf of Pereira, infuriating Fose. A scuffle ensued between the two and Fose fired a shot at Rodrigues, which he took in his stomach. Thinking that his friends would catch him and hand him over to the cops, he fired another shot in the air to keep them off. Then he made a run for it.
A friend who witnessed the scene said, "There have always been problems between the two over the girl. She stays in our neighbourhood, but she has been giving more attention to Pereira, which made Fose jealous. When he saw that Swapnil was trying to help Pereira woo the girl, he got mad. That is what made him shoot Rodrigues."
Cops have booked Fose for murder. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Thane Rural) Deepak Devraj said, "The deceased, Swapnil Rodrigues, stays at Ghaas village in Nallasopara West. Rodrigues and his friends had a regular habit of meeting up by the Ghaas talao to drink. Late on Tuesday night, he, Fose and four of their friends were drinking at the banks of the small lake when Fose got in an argument with Pereira. Later, Rodrigues got into the fray and was shot dead."
The victim was rushed to Alliance Hospital in the area where he was declared dead. "We have registered a case of murder and are trying to trace Fose. We have recovered a mobile phone and a gold chain belonging to Fose, which seems to have fallen down during the fight. We are trying to find the source of the gun," added Devraj.
Ranchi: In a shocking and gruesome incident a girl student was beheaded in the premises of Ranchi's prestigious St Xavier's College by a boy on Wednesday. The accused has been arrested.
The girl, identified as Kusum Kumari had come to the college to take her intermediate exam. She was a student of the college.
"Kusum Kumari was beheaded with a sharp weapon in the campus of St Xavier's college, Ranchi by a young man who was identified as Vijendra Prasad," Ranchi Superintendent of Police Sambhu Thakur.
Thakur did not rule out love angle being the motive behind the killing.
Madurai, Apr 26 : The body of a woman, who was reported missing a few days ago, was found in a tin-box left near a check-post here, police said today.
The deceased was the wife of a software engineer.
Police got information late last night that a tin-box was lying on the banks of a canal near the Viratipathu check-post and foul smell was emanating from it. When police opened it, they found the body of the missing 23-year-old woman, Latha, who was working as a pharmacist in a medical shop.
Police said her face had been mutilated,legs found crushed,and one hand had been cut.
She had got married two years ago, police said, adding her husband had lodged a complaint about her missing for the past few days. The couple's first child had died soon after it was born, a year ago, police added.
ROME (Reuters) - A man with a knife tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome Sunday night, demanding it be flown to Libya, but was quickly overpowered and arrested when the plane landed, officials and witnesses said.
Witnesses said the man put a small knife to the throat of a female flight attendant and held her for a few minutes.
"The man grabbed the stewardess from behind her back and pointed the knife. She was in difficulty and tried to turn around," a passenger named Sofia told reporters.
Stefanie, a French woman who lives in Italy, said the man laughed when the stewardess asked him to go the front of the plane with her.
"He held her for just a few minutes and then the other flight attendants intervened and passengers helped hold the man to the floor," she said.
Italian media said police had identified the man as a 48-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan who worked in Paris.
A statement from Alitalia airlines said the man had "assaulted a flight attendant and asked that the plane be taken to Tripoli."
Other attendants on flight AZ329 then overpowered the man, who was "clearly agitated" and the captain radioed police, who arrested the man when the plane landed, the statement said.
The flight attendant was taken to a first aid station at Rome airport for treatment of minor injuries.
JAIPUR: Three persons, who were running a girls hostel in Shipra Path area in the city, were arrested for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 21-year-old student over several months. The victim was pursuing Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at a private college in Shipra Path.
The main accused, Madan Singh (35) and Deepak Kumar (25), were running the hostel in a rented accommodation. The third accused, hostel warden Laxmi (30), was arrested for criminal conspiracy.
According to the police, the victim was fed up with the continuous sexual harassment and blackmailing by the two hostel owners and that too in the presence of the woman warden. On Saturday night, she approached the police and narrated her plight.
"The victim, who hails from Jhunjhunu, got admission at a private college in the city in June 2010. Since her family knew the accused, she took accommodation in the hostel — Ria Girls hostel — situated in Shipra Path. Initially, Madan and Deepak had provided her homely treatment. But in August 2010, both forcibly took her to a room inside the hostel and raped her," said deputy commissioner of police (south), Jose Mohan.
"While raping the girl, the accused had also recorded the video footage. Later, they raped her many times in various places including their own flats after threatening to make the video public," the DCP said.
Fed up by the treatment, she started resisting their attempts from January this year. Since her father works in Saudi Arabia, she had no local guardian to narrate her plight, he said.
Hospital exec, minor molested
By Salil Urunkar
Date: 2011-04-25
Place: Pune
In two separate incidents on Saturday, a hospital employee and a minor girl were allegedly molested in Nigdi.
Police Inspector Nandkishor Bhosle-Patil from the Nigdi police station said that both cases had been registered and investigations were on.
In the first case, a 25-year-old executive from the HR department of Lokmanya hospital filed a complaint saying a senior from her office molested her on April 15. Based on the complaint, the police arrested her supervisor Dinesh Sonu Nadkar (35), a resident of Dattawadi in Akurdi. He was later released on bail.
According to the complainant, Nadkar had been harassing the victim since she joined the hospital about a year ago. On April 15, when nobody was around in the afternoon, Nadkar allegedly touched the victim inappropriately when she was working on her computer. Nadkar allegedly also invited her to his house, saying his wife was away.
Teacher held for abusing 9-yr-old
In the second incident, a nine-year old girl was allegedly molested by her drawing teacher at his residence in Vitthalwadi at Akurdi. A complaint was lodged after the girl went home on Saturday afternoon and told her mother about the incident. The arrested teacher was identified as Sharad Mahale (51). He was remanded in magisterial custody by the court yesterday, said the police.
The girl used to go for classes every day at 9 am with her four-year-old brother to Mahale's residence. But on Saturday, the victim's brother was not there. There were around 15 children in the class when Mahale allegedly touched the victim inappropriately.
GUWAHATI: Crucial documents pertaining to the construction of 2007 Games Village in Assam have been stolen from the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority office.
According to sources, a huge sum of money was allegedly misappropriated from the funds meant for the construction of the Games Village and related documents were sought by the CAG.
The GMDA came to know about the theft on April 18 when it re-opened after Bihu holidays and subsequently filed an FIR.
On Saturday, the police produced a note left behind by the burglar.According to the police, the burglar wrote in the note he had come to break into the treasury of GMDA. As the mystery continued, Assam’s Health and GMDA minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday that there was nothing to worry.
“A reliable source had told me ahead of the recently-concluded elections that a man could steal documents from either GMDA or Guwahati Medical College and Hospital. So, we had two sets of the original documents,” Sarma told a press conference. “I will tell the police of the man if they want.”
The AGP and the AASU have demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident. “Our stand is very clear that a CBI probe can only solve the mystery,” AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharjee told DNA.
“The disappearance of the files from the office of GMDA only suggests that the Tarun Gogoi-led government is involved in thescam,” AGP spokesperson Apurba Bhattacharjee said.
Bizarre question at trial of 2 NYPD cops charged with rape
By Mary Papenfuss Venus fly trap.
An attorney representing two cops charged with rape yesterday asked if the accuser's vagina was like a "snapping Venus flytrap" as he questioned a medical expert.
"That is a terrible example," interjected an angry judge in the New York City courtroom.
The cop partners are charged with raping an intoxicated woman they delivered to her home after she passed out in a taxi.
She filed a complaint after she awoke to find a man on top of her as she lay in bed. Both cops have denied that anything happened.
Video surveillance tapes show the two officers returning to the woman's apartment building three times that night, according to court evidence.
The bizarre defense innuendo arose during cross examination of a nurse, reports the New York Daily News. The nurse testified that redness on the woman's vagina could indicate a rape, even though there was no tearing.
"It's not like a Venus flytrap and snaps?" asked the attorney, seeking clarification, which drew a rebuke from the judge.
Mumbai, Apr 22 : A 56-year-old Tantrik, who claimed he possessed supernatural powers, has been arrested for molesting a 25-year-old woman, police said today.
The accused Chandrashekhar Kashinath Kadam, a resident of Tilak Nagar, was arrested last evening. The victim went to his residence as she was not able to conceive after a year of marriage.
Kadam took her to another room as her husband and mother-in-law waited outside. He made an attempt to molest the lady.
The victim's husband thrashed Kadam and handed him over to the police, who subsequently arrested the Tantrik.
Raipur, Apr 22 : Seven close relatives of a girl, including her parents, were Friday arrested in a remote village of Chhattisgarh after they chopped off her nose to punish her for eloping with and marrying a village boy, police said.
The arrests were made from Rahmankapa village in the state's Kawardha district, some 280 km from here.
Police said family members of the 19-year-old girl Nanki Bai were highly upset after she eloped on April 19 with village boy Narendra, 19. The boy and the girl returned on April 20 after getting married at a temple in Raipur.
"After returning to the village, the girl was living with her husband's family," Sushil Malik, head of Pandariya police station that covers Rahmankapa village, told the media over phone.
"The girl's parents and five other close relatives stormed into her in-laws' house and dragged her into a room and chopped off her nose to punish her for love marriage," he added.
Malik added that the girl's family chose to attack her when most of her in-laws were not home.
Later, the girl registered a police complaint and finally her parents and five other relatives, including three women, were arrested for house-trespass, criminal intimidation, causing injury by dangerous weapons and other offences.
New Delhi, Apr 22 : FIVE days after a 10-year-old boy was found dead in Northwest Delhi’s Wazirpur area, his maternal uncle was arrested from the Inderlok Metro station. The accused, Kaleemullah, had allegedly beaten the child to death when he refused to work.
The arrest followed a tip-off on April 21 that the accused was planning to flee from the Inderlok Metro station, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Meenu Choudhary.
The accused, hailing from Madhubani in Bihar, had come to the Capital 15 years ago in search of employment. He then launched a bindi-making business, and brought his two brothers — between nine and 11 years of age — three months ago after assuring the family that he would provide for all their basic requirements. He recruited two other boys at his JJ Colony residence in Wazirpur four months ago.
“The accused would often brutally beat the boys and starve them for days. At times, when they made minor mistakes at work, he even tortured them with red hot iron rods,” Choudhary said, adding that Kaleemullah’s wife left for her native village with her newborn because she did not approve of his ways.
“On April 15, the victim, Moin, was reluctant to work as he was not feeling well. This angered Kaleemullah, who started beating him brutally — even banging his head on the wall several times. The boy died, following which the accused fled the spot. While one of the boys was rescued on the same day, the police picked up the other two a day later. All the three were sent to Mukti Ashram, Ibrahimpur,
after a medical examination,” Choudhary said.
A day after the murder, police were informed that the accused’s brother and his associates were planning to dispose of the body at the Azadpur cemetery. Cemetery in-charge Rahis Khan told police that they were unable to give a satisfactory explanation for the injury marks on the child’s body.
“After inspection, we sent the body to the mortuary at BJRM Hospital,” Choudhary said.
New Delhi, Apr 22 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday busted an illegal human trafficking racket allegedly run by a Delhi-based politician, who contested 2008 Assembly elections on Samajwadi party ticket here, in collusion with some government officials including a Home Ministry official.
The agency carried out searches at nearly 38 residential and official premises of recruiting agent Waseem Ahmed Gazi, officials, and other people allegedly involved in the racket. During the searches, spread across Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Hyderabad, the sleuths recovered some incriminating documents.
The CBI has registered three cases against Gazi, three recruitment firms, the then certain officers of Protectorate of Emigrants V B Singh, Nadeem Ahmed, Arup Agrawal and Y P Ahuja, official sources said.
Singh, who was the then Protector of Emigrants (PoE) in Delhi, is now posted as Director Labour Ministry, Ahmed who was the then PoE Chandigarh is now section officer at Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Agrawal the then PoE Chandigarh is now PoE Hyderabad and Ahuja the then PoE Delhi is now an under secretary with the Home Ministry, they said.
"The allegations against local Recruiting agent (Gazi) are that he and other Agents in connivance with officials of Protectorate of Emigrants based at Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh were obtaining emigration clearance in respect of unskilled workers on the basis of false and forged documents," official spokesperson said.
Sources in the know of investigations say that several documents are required for emigration of unskilled labour which include agreement between the employer and employee, job category, medical insurance, confirmation of a vacancy by the recruitment agent procured from the employer.
The CBI alleged that Gazi managed to procure forged documents and used them in collusion with government officials to send unskilled labours to gulf countries.
Gazi is said to be in business since the late 1970s and has over 20 offices across the country, sources said.
They said Gazi also contested Delhi Assembly bypolls from Okhla constituency in 2008 but lost to Parvez Hashmi of Congress. On a given day, he gets over 200 emigration clearances from the Protectorate of Emigrants here, the sources said.
Kenia Monge disappeared almost three weeks ago from nightclub 24K in Denver, and today suspect Travis Forbes is facing mounting suspicions as more light is being shed upon his criminal past.
Forbes, 31, has a history of burglaries which include "a creepy interest in stealing, poking holes in and marking women's panties," according to Westword. He is reported to have stolen at least two pairs of women's panties, marking them with the letter "M" and presumably ripping them.
In a separate burglary case, he told 9News he used to steal Demerol from dentists' offices and even spent three years in jail. In 2004, he was convicted of third-degree assault for stoning two female joggers.
Factoring into the mounting suspicions are Forbes self-proclaimed status as "the main suspect in the search of the missing teen" and his being the last known person to have seen Monge, 19. 9News reports:
Records show he has been arrested three times for burglary, twice for shoplifting and several other times for assault, parole violations, trespassing and disturbing the peace since June 1997. He was evicted from his last residence in Denver in January because he didn't pay rent and owes his landlord $3,000 in damages he left behind, according to his landlord Dena Kitsos.
The caretaker of the property says Forbes had a pot growing operation in the basement of the rental property and had rigged the electrical meters to steal electricity for his lights.
They sat down, smoked cigarettes and all of a sudden, I was no longer important. I was just one stranger and then she was off with another stranger. I didn't think anything of it. I didn't get any bad vibes from this person. He was clean cut. He wasn't homeless. Everybody has their own choices. And she chose to walk off with this guy and I can't blame myself for that.
But a search warrant obtained by police shows that the day Monge disappeared Forbes turned off the surveillance cameras for two hours at the bakery where he worked, although he wasn't scheduled to work that evening. Before the cameras were turned off, they showed Forbes wearing latex gloves and at least two men outside burning something in a big barrel, according to a witness from that evening.
A detective said that a search of Forbes' van seemed to reveal new interiors including a new rubber floor mat.
According to the warrant, Forbes also texted Monge the next day saying, "Hey this is Travis, the guy who gave you a ride last night. - white creepy van.:) did you get home okay?"
Forbes has yet to be charged with a crime, or to be even labeled a suspect in this case, Lieutenant Matthew Murray tells HuffPost.
Dear Diana,I come from a conservative family and live with my parents and wife. I got married in 2008. My wife and I tried very hard to get a baby but we were unsuccessful. After consulting the doctors, we found out that I was medically impotent and there wasn't much we could do about my case. The doctor suggested us taking the help of a sperm bank, but my conservative parents and my equally conservative wife were totally against it. They wanted the baby to have the family's blood.
I know in these times that might seem rather stupid but some minds are too strong to change. The three of them decided that my wife should get pregnant from my father and they talked me into it; saying that this is something that happens in many families. They said that in time I will be okay with it and that its important to have the family blood being pure. She just gave birth to a boy last month.
But I hate it. And I hate myself even more because I wasn't man enough to not only produce my own but also that I wasn't able to stop my wife sleeping with another man. I feel like running away from my house and family, somewhere far where I can start afresh with a new name and a new life. Would it be right for me to abandon my wife and parents?I don't care at all about that child.
Name withheld
Dear Friend,
You really cannot expect me to believe you had no say in the matter. You could have chosen to walk out on your family the moment the suggestion was brought up. I am surprised your wife went through with this without so much as respecting your wishes. I understand she might well want to be a mother someday, but isn't it unfair for you to go through with something you aren't comfortable with in the first place? Of course, you should have just been more persistent in opposing their decisions. It seems likely that you are never going to live this down and that this will eat at you constantly. You may berate yourself for doing nothing, but you also have to remember that there were other options available.
Kula Lumpur, Apr 21 : A man in Malaysia was stabbed to death after he filmed his neighbour having sex with his wife.
The voyeur, identified as La Kampo, is said to have gone to his neighbour's house in their village off Jalan Utara and filmed the couple, the Star Online reported.
He then showed the video clip to friends, and even the neighbour's 17-year-old son without realising that the neighbour, who was at home, overheard the conversation.
When the son ignored him, La Kampo returned to his house where the enraged neighbour is believed to have taken a knife and stabbed him repeatedly.
La Kampo sustained multiple stab wounds and died on the spot, and his body was sent to the Duchess of Kent Hospital for a post-mortem.
The 44-year-old neighbour then took the murder weapon and turned himself in to the police about an hour after the incident, and he was arrested.
Sandakan police chief Asst Comm Rowell Marong said both men were Indonesians and worked as labourers.
Shillong, Apr 21 : Meghalaya police today issued a non-bailable warrant against an absconding sub-inspector who was allegedly involved in raping a minor at a city hotel on March 17.
S.N. Roy, a sub-inspector of the Rynjah police station here, was alleged to have been involved in abetting and raping a 13-year-old in a city hotel. Roy has now been placed under suspension.
The minor, a Class VIII student of a city school, was gangraped at the hotel, besides being raped successively by another three boys. A girl was alleged to have abetted the act.
Those arrested so far include Bobby Jyrwa Nongsiej, Johny Kshiar, Brando Nongrum and Angel Dulian.
Briefing reporters here, superintendent of police (city) M. Kharkrang said the non-bailable warrant was issued against Roy after investigations revealed that the sub-inspector was also involved in the crime.
Roy, who had taken unauthorised leave from April 13, is now absconding, Kharkrang said, while appealing to people to help the police find the sub-inspector.
According to Kharkrang, the police have conducted raids in several places in a bid to apprehend Roy but he has gone into hiding ever since his name began to surface in relation to the crime.
Kharkrang said the crime was initially registered as an abduction case, but following investigations, it was realised that the minor was raped. “The action against Roy was taken after the victim gave a statement in court,” Kharkrang said.
“However, action against Roy was delayed as we needed evidence,” he said, while adding that the police “will not condone anyone who is involved in illegal activities”.
“Roy has been booked under Sections 365/366-A/376/119/120-B of the Indian Penal Code,” Kharkrang added.
Replying to a query, Kharkrang said the police would crack the whip on hotels that encourage criminal acts based on specific inputs.
Premier Mike Rann is to be briefed after a SA Labor politician was charged with child pornography offences.
Police search a car at the suburban house of the MP under investigation. Picture: Campbell Brodie.
Unnamed MP taken into police custody
Laptops seized from suburban home
Police say investigation is continuing
A SOUTH Australian Labor MP has been charged with allegedly accessing child pornography.
The man was arrested at his house in Adelaide's northeast suburbs yesterday and later charged at the city watch house with two counts of possessing child pornography and two charges of taking steps to access child pornography.
Detectives said their investigation was continuing.
Under SA law he cannot be identified until his committal, unless he gives his consent.
He returned home earlier today but had not spoken to the waiting media outside.
Politicians from both sides say they are shocked by the allegations.
The MP will appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on May 20.
Police said the arrest was the result of the Sexual Crime Investigation Branch's ongoing "Operation Decimate", which targets people who use the internet for child exploitation-related offences.
The maximum penalty for possessing child pornography in South Australia is five years in jail for a first offence. The maximum penalty for an aggravated offence in seven years in jail.
Section 63 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 says that an aggravated offence includes an offender knowing that the victim was aged under 14 at the time, or the offence being committed in the company of one or more other people.
It is believed several laptops were seized from the MP's suburban home.
Turmoil swept state political circles as details of the incident emerged.
There were reports that police visited the MP's office at Parliament House but this was denied by the presiding officers, who have to give permission for police to enter the building.
Legislative Council President Bob Sneath said he had not been approached by police and Speaker Lyn Breuer said she had not been contacted by police.
Ms Breuer said she was "certainly concerned about the issue".
Labor and Liberal MPs were in shock last night and few were prepared to talk about the incident. Many were asking the media for details.
A spokeswoman for Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond said she could not comment.
It is understood the MP's home was raided on Tuesday afternoon and police spent 24 hours analysing the contents of a computer.
Yesterday, they went to the MP's office and seized another computer for analysis. Last night, police returned to the MP's house.
One officer emerged from the house about 7.35pm and went to a police car. He then carried what appeared to be a tape back into the house. At 7.55pm, two detectives wearing gloves searched a car parked in the driveway.
They examined the boot and under the seats before returning to the house. Police left the house at 8.10pm carrying several evidence bags containing compact discs and a mobile phone and the house was shut and left in darkness.
A TEXAS man angry that his teenage daughter was in a lesbian relationship was in custody today after allegedly killing her girlfriend and the girl's mother, The Austin American-Statesman reported.
Jose Alfonso Aviles, 45, was charged with capital murder over the deaths of Norma Hurtado, 24, and Maria Hurtado, 57, who were shot Monday night in their home in the 7100 block of Dixie Drive, in Austin, according to police.
Aviles could face the death penalty if convicted.
Police said they were also hunting another man, who fled the scene of the crime with Aviles in a green SUV.
Aviles' daughter, 18, who was not identified by name, was at the home when the shootings happened. She found her girlfriend and Maria Hurtado on the floor where they died.
Aviles did not approve of his daughter's relationship with Norma Hurtado, which had been going on for a few months, according to police. The relationship caused a feud between the two families, Austin police lieutenant Gena Curtis added.
"This had been an ongoing dispute between these families, and it turned tragic, into a horrific act of violence, with the death of two individuals," said Curtis.
A friend of Norma Hurtado told police that she "saw a text message from [Aviles] to Norma in which [he] threatened to kill both Norma and her mother" a month before their murder.
Aviles was caught after his wife, Roselia Martinez, arrived at the murder scene Monday night and told police she thought her husband was intoxicated and owned an automatic pistol.
A relative of Aviles told police that he admitted he had "done something" while he was intoxicated. He was arrested early Tuesday and was being held in custody at Bexar County Jail.
The Travis County district attorney's office had yet to decide whether the murders would be classified as a hate crime.
Police files charges of murder and rape against Govindachamy, held in connection with the death of lady train passenger - Reuters
Police has filed charges of murder and rape against a man from Tamil Nadu, held in connection with the death of lady train passenger, who was allegedly pushed out of a moving train and raped in February.
The chargesheet was filed by Deputy Superintendent of Police K. Radhakrishnan before Vadakancherry Judicial First Class magistrate.
Police said charges had been filed under sections - 302 (murder), 376 (rape) and 397 (robbery with attempt to cause death) of IPC against the accused, Govindachamy.
He had allegedly pushed the 23-year-old woman, employed in a private firm in Kochi, from the Ernakulam-Shornur Passenger train just as it left Vallathol Nagar railway station on February 1.
She was the lone passenger in the women's compartment and the accused had got into the compartment at Vallathol Nagar. After she thwarted his attempt to rob her purse, he allegedly pushed her out of the train and jumped out himself and raped her.
The woman, who was returning home at Shornur, suffered serious head injuries and died at the Medical College Hospital here on February 6.
Police said the chargesheet contained statements of 156 witnesses and 60 documents to prove the alleged crime.
After she had affairs with three men... and then claimed armed robbers had murdered her
Debt-ridden couple owed credit card firms £30,000
Police suspected Garbutt was lying from the start
Confused 999 call was first strand in web of deceit
The chilling 999 call made by a 'cold-blooded' shopkeeper hours after he bludgeoned his postmistress wife to death was released today after he was jailed for life.
In what would turn into a web of lies - described by a judge as 'pure humbug' - Robin Garbutt told an emergency operator that armed robbers had attacked his wife Diana.
But a jury at Teesside Crown Court rejected the 45-year-old's repeated story that a raider with a gun told him ‘don't do anything stupid, we've got your wife’.
Scroll down to listen to 999 call...
Guilty: Robin Garbutt bludgeoned his wife Diana to death after she was unfaithful. He was convicted after a jury spent nearly 13 hours deliberating
Affairs: Mrs Garbutt had relationships with (left to right) John Illingworth, Kevin Heapey and Craig Hall. She said her husband was 'just not interested in sex'
Garbutt, who had already served 60 customers before dialling 999 at 8.37am, had in fact battered Diana to death with an iron bar as she lay in bed up to six hours earlier.
He also told police that the robbers had stolen £10,000 from the shop in the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire.
But it later emerged that the couple were heavily in debt, including a credit card bill of £30,000, and that Garbutt had known his wife had cheated on him with several men.
WIFE TRAWLED WEB AT NIGHT FOR AFFAIRS
Villagers thought Robin and Diana Garbutt were the epitome of a loving couple, but behind the closed doors of their post office and shop their marriage was a wreck.
By March 23 last year, the vivacious 40-year-old, pictured, was fed up with the postmistress lifestyle, fed up with her husband and was looking for a new relationship, having already got involved with at least three other men.
Garbutt was heavily in debt, had stolen thousands from the post office and knew he was about to be exposed when a relief postmaster took over while they holidayed in the U.S. The couple rarely had sex - a problem for Mrs Garbutt who had a stronger libido than her husband.
So while he went to bed early to be ready for a 4am start to open their busy but unprofitable shop, she stayed up late, looking on the internet for men to date and flirting on Facebook.
Two years before, Garbutt was told by his wife that she had a drunken kiss with a man on a sofa after a night out in York - an incident that in all probability went further than that.
And the husband of her cousin was forced to ring him to tell him he had kissed Mrs Garbutt after his wife found out and made him confess.
Mrs Garbutt wrote him an email in which she appeared to call a halt to their budding relationship, saying it was 'seedy' but offering him a future together if they ever shed their 'emotional baggage'.
She also swapped sex fantasies on Facebook with Melsonby resident Craig Hall, with whom she went on late-night bike rides while her husband slept.
Garbutt shook his head as he was convicted by the jury of eight men and four women by a majority of ten to two.
His sister collapsed in tears as the verdict was announced. Diana Garbutt's mother Agnes Gaylor also wept.
The panel had been deliberating for nearly 13 hours.
Mr Justice Openshaw sentenced Garbutt to life in prison and told him he would serve a minimum of 20 years.
Garbutt, looking thin, did not look at his family and friends in the public gallery as he was led away.
The judge believed the murder was motivated by Garbutt's fear of being exposed for stealing from the Post Office.
It was significant that his wife had been looking at the business accounts on the night he killed her, though he did not want to speculate about what exactly happened that night.
Garbutt planned to kill his wife with a metal bar as she slept.
‘There was no struggle, she never awoke,’ the judge said.
‘He struck three savage blows, smashing her skull and causing her immediate death as clearly he intended.’
Garbutt hid the weapon across the road on a wall, then opened shop as normal.
‘He feigned cheerfulness as he served customers as he attempted to deceive them that all was well.’
The judge said Garbutt had told the same ‘ludicrous story from beginning to end’.
Garbutt hit his wife three times over the head with a metal bar in the living quarters above the Melsonby Village Shop and Post Office in North Yorkshire the early hours of March 23 last year.
He then opened the shop as normal and served around 60 customers before closing again.
He dialled 999 and claimed his wife had been attacked, crying hysterically.
When a paramedic told him rigor mortis had already set in, he challenged this, insisting: ‘She's still warm.'
He told police a raider had robbed him and when he ran upstairs his wife was motionless, face down on the bed.
'MY WIFE'S BEEN ATTACKED': HOW GARBUTT TRIED TO COVER HIS TRACKS, FROM THE MOMENT HE DIALLED 999
Robin Garbutt tried to cover his tracks from the moment he dialled 999.
Knowing his wife Diana was dead, the first of hundreds of lies began with his call to the emergency operator. After telling her his address and phone number, he added in a high-pitched voice: "My wife's been attacked."
The operator asks: "Is the attacker still nearby?"
Garbutt, sounding distressed, replies: 'No, no, no, he's gone.'
He is asked if the attacker was armed and replies: 'The guy with me had a gun and he said to me, he said "Don't be stupid, we've got your wife".
'He's gone and I've come upstairs.'
The operator asks: 'Has your wife been shot?'
Garbutt replies: 'I don't think... I would have heard a gun. I don't know.'
They were due to go on holiday to the U.S., where his wife's father was from, and Garbutt is thought to have feared a relief postmaster would discover the money was missing.
Police also discovered his wife, 40, had become involved with three other men, having a drunken ‘intimate’ encounter on a sofa with one, flirting on Facebook with another and kissing a third - the husband of her cousin.
Mrs Garbutt, who the killer claimed had a higher sex drive than him, was also looking online for men to date.
The couple had discussed splitting and Garbutt faced a future with no assets as what they had was in his wife's name.
Grisly: Mrs Garbutt's body was found in the upstairs living quarters of the Village Shop and Post Office in Melsonby, North Yorkshire
Murder weapon: The iron bar used by Garbutt to bludgeon his wife to death
Loss-making: Inside of the post office run by Garbutt
A crucial piece of evidence came from a meal of fish and chips they had the night before she died.
An expert on digestion told the jury Mrs Garbutt stopped processing the meal around six to eight hours after she finished eating it - giving a likely time of death in the early hours rather than when Garbutt claimed the robber struck.
Mr Justice Openshaw said Garbutt's lies had been exposed as ‘pure humbug’.
He said the defendant had shown no remorse over his wife, adding: ‘He has always accompanied his lies with sanctimonious lies of his love for her.
‘By their verdict, the jury have exposed this as pure humbug.'
His story unravelled after officers delved into the secrets of his seemingly happy marriage.
Distraught: Diana Garbutt's mother Agnes Gaylor wept as the verdict was announced
They found the couple had £30,000 in credit card debts and despite their long hours were making little profit in the bustling shop at the heart of the community.
‘This was a brutal, planned, cold-blooded murder of his wife as she lay sleeping in bed.’
Outside court, the victim's mother Agnes Gaylor said: ‘I am not thinking about Robin now.
‘I'm not going to let Robin enter my head after today.’
In a statement read on her behalf, she said: ‘Diana meant the world to us and we are still struggling to come to terms with what happened to her on that awful day.
‘We loved her with all our hearts, our loss is unbearable.’
Detective Superintendent Lewis Raw, who led the inquiry for North Yorkshire Police, said: ‘It is satisfying that we have been able to secure justice for Diana Garbutt and her family in this most tragic and distressing of cases.
‘I hope the murder conviction of her husband Robin Garbutt will provide a measure of comfort and closure, allowing her family to start rebuilding their lives after a very traumatic year.
‘The murder of Diana - and the subsequent arrest and charge of Robin Garbutt - has also caused a great deal of upset and distress to the residents of Melsonby.
‘In particular, the original circumstances that she was killed during an armed robbery which turned out to be a bogus scenario made up by Garbutt to cover his tracks.
'I would again like to reiterate North Yorkshire Police's sincere thanks to local residents who have supported the police throughout the investigation.
‘As for Robin Garbutt, he has shown himself to be a calculating and deceptive individual who attempted an elaborate cover-up after he violently ended his wife's life as she lay asleep in bed.
‘His actions that morning not only killed Diana, they also devastated the lives of Diana's family and plunged a small, close-knit community into fear.
‘That he did not have the decency to admit his guilt from the outset and therefore spare Diana's family the pain of reliving the tragic events in full during a trial, demonstrates the type of selfish and deluded individual that Robin Garbutt really is.’
Tribute: Flowers were lined outside the guest house in Melsonby
Any clues? Police search for murder weapons in the nearby river
Xanthe Tait, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for North Yorkshire and Humberside, said: ‘Diana Garbutt's life was cut brutally and tragically short. Her family is left to forever mourn her loss.
‘She was violently bludgeoned to death by her husband as she lay sleeping. It was a callous crime motivated by the basest of human characteristics.
‘Robin Garbutt went to great lengths in creating a cover story involving a robber with a gun, bludgeoning his wife to death: a story which he maintained throughout the trial - lying about his finances, lying about his relationship with his wife and lying about the robbery - to conceal his appalling crimes.
‘We have worked closely with North Yorkshire Police to build a robust prosecution case and secure justice for Diana. Our thoughts are with her family and we hope that today's conviction will bring them some measure of comfort and peace.’
Sacked UK woman wins 12,300 pounds after gay man gropes her breasts
Place: London
April 20 : A livery yard manageress in Britain, who was sacked after she complained that a homosexual stable-boy groped her breasts after telling her gay men love boobs and bums, has been awarded 12,300 pounds damages.
Louise Smith, 25, was regularly fondled by the stable groom, who also simulated sex with her, and even flashed his genitals at St Ives Equestrian Centre in Bingley, West Yorks.
And when Smith complained to bosses about his lewd behaviour, they refused to believe her because of the man''s sexuality.
Instead, she was hauled before a disciplinary hearing and accused of lying, before being sacked due to a CRB check matter, which was "fabricated" by her bosses.
Smith, who had been promoted to manageress of the Equestrian Centre within a year of working there, was awarded the damages for sexual harassment.
Smith, who was responsible for nine staff and 40 horses, said the groom, who cannot be named for legal reasons, started harassing her within a month of starting the job.
"Shortly after he was employed I remember walking up the yard towards the office and he was walking towards me," the Daily Mail quoted her as telling the tribunal.
"As we passed he grabbed my breasts and made a comment about how gay men love boobs and bums, and then he walked off. I was totally shocked.
"A few days later I was in the bottom barn and when he came up behind me as I was bending over, grabbed my hips and simulated sexual intercourse.
"I stood up and pushed him away and nervously tried to laugh it off. I did not know how to handle it.
"I do not believe he had evil intentions, I think he thought it was a joke but it was inappropriate and I did not think it was funny," she stated.
Louise complained to her line manager Deborah Homewood in September 2009 and took a few days off hoping that the sexual harassment issue would be addressed, but the behaviour continued.
"On one occasion he was sitting out in the front yard having a cigarette," she said.
"I walked past with a horse on my way to the horse walker, which is basically a treadmill for horses used during the winter months to keep horses exercised.
"He pulled his trousers and underwear down and shouted to me that he had used some spray tan and you could see where his thong had been - ie the line distinguishing where he was white and where he was tanned.
"On a few occasions he tried to touch me between my legs. When he took me by surprise he managed to touch me, but if I knew he was around I would be more wary and managed to stop him," she revealed.
The tribunal also heard that some livery customer had witnessed the groom "brutally kicking" horses on the yard and they had removed their animals from St Ives Estate.
Smith said she had passed on these allegations of ill treatment to the British Horse Society, a governing body concerned with equine welfare.
"The fact that the groom is a homosexual should not make the allegations of sexual harassment less likely to be true," tribunal chairman Jonathan Whittaker, said while delivering the verdict.
Says man who held his own mother at knifepoint to escape cops who had come to arrest him for assaulting his teenaged daughters and wife
As bizarre as it sounds, but a man did hold his own mother at knifepoint to escape a team of policemen that landed at his door to arrest him. The strange story unfolded in the quaint neighbourhood of Orlem, Malad, when the shrieks of Maria Rodrigues (name changed) and her daughters were heard in the neighbourhood. It so happened that Joseph (50), her husband, had come to her house and was trying to forcibly take their daughters back with him. When they refused to accompany him, he began to assault Maria and the girls. In a fit of rage, Joseph then locked up the trio and fled the scene. Illustration/Jishu Dev Malakar
Maria, on the other hand, feeling helpless at being locked up called the cops. A team of policemen reached the spot and unlocked the door. When Maria narrated the entire incident to the cops, they set off to pick up Joseph from his residence in Orlem. However, when the cops reached Joseph's house, he panicked. He picked up a kitchen knife and held it to his mother's throat. He threatened the cops that he would 'kill his mother', if the cops tried to arrest him. Not wanting to take any chances, the cops backed off and let Joseph have his way. During the course of investigation, the cops learnt that Joseph was a habitual alcoholic and fed up of his vagabond ways Maria has separated from him. However, Joseph would continue to harass her and last week he lost his temper and after assaulting Maria, he locked her up. Bizarre! Before holding his mother hostage, Joseph had locked his
wife in her apartment after she refused to let go of her daughters. Evading arrest
After escaping from the clutches of the cops, Joseph began to use a red beacon on his car to avoid checks at naaka bandis. He also purchased a leather gun holster to pose as a policeman on duty for a high-ranking officer. His con was successful for a week as he was able to avoid all checkpoints. However, yesterday Joseph's luck ran out when a senior cop spotted him at a naaka bandi in Orlem and nabbed him.
"We were about to let the vehicle pass, as we thought it belonged to a senior official. But as the car passed, one of the officers recognised Joseph in the driver's seat and caught him," said police inspector Vasant Patil.
When he was questioned about the red beacon, Joseph claimed to be a member of a political party.
"On searching the vehicle we also found a leather revolver holster from the car. He has been arrested for pointing knife at his mother, assaulting his wife and kids and also misusing the beacon light," Patil added.
Melbourne: A 16-year-old boy today pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which threatened Australia's ties with India.
The teenager, whose identity has not been revealed, appeared in Supreme court where he pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted armed robbery in the killing of Garg.
21-year-old Garg, who migrated from Punjab, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by assailants in Cruickshank Park in Melbourne's Yarraville while on his way to work in January last year.
The teenager's friend was sentenced to 18 months probation last year after agreeing to testify against the murderer in a trial and pleading guilty to accessory to murder.
The friend's plea hearing was told that he had worn a wire to record the murderer talking about the crime.
The murder, which followed a series of attacks on Indians, made international headlines and provoked fear among Indian students in Australia.
The incident led to outcry in India, forcing the police authorities to solve it. The police reportedly planted a recording device at his house where the murderer's mother told her son 'I knew you did it'.
The accessory agreed to wear a wire to record conversations between himself and his friend and police also installed listening devices at the accused murderer's home.
In one, the boy's mother asked: "Did you do it?"
Son replied: "Yeah."
Mother: "Yeah, I knew you did it". Son: "I come back and I just saw him walking there. Had the biggest knife [with] me, a big silver one and I saw him."
Mother: "Yeah, and you don't mention about having any knives at all if they ask you."
Son: "Definitely not."
The teenager was remanded in custody to appear in the Victorian Supreme Court for a pre-sentence hearing in June.
Source: PTI
Agartala, Apr 20 : The Agartala city police have detained two women who allegedly attempted to steal a newborn from Agartala Government Medical College and Hospital last night, police said today.
According to a report, the accused were identified as Beauty Biswas, a resident of Nagicherra, southern Agartala and her mother-in-law Manika Biswas.
The duo had taken the baby revealing fake identity cards.
Police recovered the baby from an auto stand away form the Hospital.
Initial investigation revealed that Beauty had been suffering from rare Pseudo Pregnancy Syndrome and in such case the patient believes that she is pregnant, Hospital Superintendent Dr Chinmoy Biswas said.
One Bulti Sarkar of South Charilam in West Tripura had given birth to a son on Saturday and the baby was kept in neo-natal care unit due to some complications.
The nurse, in charge of the unit, had asked Bulti Sarkar to come to the unit from the Gyaneacology department to feed the baby milk.
By that time Beauty appeared claiming to be Bulti and took the baby on her lap. She even faked to breast-feed the baby and left the area with the new born.
Bangalore, Apr 19 : An Indian woman and a Nigerian have been arrested for allegedly cheating people to the tune of several crores of rupees through a fake E-lottery scam.
Abiodun (32) and Himakshi Hazarika (27), a native of Assam, were arrested during a raid at their residence in the city three days ago, police said.
Himakshi came in contact with Abiodun while working in a call centre at Delhi. They enlisted the help of another Nigerian Prince Mike to make a duplicate passport and arrived here.
Their modus operandi was to send SMS to the people informing them that they have won a lottery and need to deposit a certain amount in an account to get the prize money.
Some people filed a complaint after they failed to get the 'lottery' prize, following which investigations were launched.
Police said Abiodun came to Delhi from Nigeria in March 2007. He was allegedly involved in international credit card racket here and was imprisioned. He was recently released on bail.
Prince Mike is absconding and a hunt is on to nab him, police said.
They duo rented a house at HRBR layout by giving a residential address of Tamil Nadu, police said.
New Delhi, Apr 19 : Cops say accused may have looted others
A French national was robbed by a 39-year-old sex worker and her four aides on Saturday evening. Police said the Frenchman Sebastien Marcaillou, who lodged an FIR at the Connaught Place police station, had know the woman Meena (name changed) for the last five years.
Busted: The sex worker (extreme left) and her three aides who robbed
a French national in Connaught Place area on Saturday in New Delhi
on Monday. PIC/Imtiyaz Khan
"Whenever he came to India, he would meet Meena who always posed as Sarika Chaudhary for him. On Saturday, Meena called up Sebastien, who was staying at hotel Park near Connaught Place, and both decided to meet. Sebastien wanted to meet her in the hotel itself but she pretended that she had some work and said they would go to her New Friends' Colony flat where he had visited her earlier too," said a senior police official.
"At around 6 pm on Saturday, Meena reached hotel Park in her car to pick Sebastien and they drove towards the fixed destination. However, on the way she opted for an isolated route which was a part of her plan. Her two aides Yash alias Dk and Naresh, a bouncer who were following them on a bike then intercepted their vehicle. The duo hit Sebastien on his face and robbed of him of his valuables.
They even attacked Meena to avoid any suspicion. Sebastien was then thrown out of the moving car near Golf Links area," the police official added. Sebastien, who is sales manger with a French Company, then approached the police and reported the incident. He told the police that he used to visit India quite often and at times even lived in Meena's house in New Friends' Colony. This time he came to India on an official tour and reached Delhi on April 16 but was robbed the same day.
"Initially, he refused to believe that Meena could be behind the robbery," the police official said. The police then detained Meena and during questioning she broke down and confessed her role in robbery. "She said that as she was growing old, she was losing her regular customers. So she had decided to form a gang to earn money through crime and also get even with her customers who were not paying her full.
She then met Naresh, a bouncer at a restaurant and developed friendship with him. He later introduced her to Amit and Yash. Meena would then call her old friends and take them on a ride during which her aides would rob them," said the official. The police said that though she might have robbed many but the French national was the first one who approached the police to complain against her.
Wellington, Apr 19 : Two women from Christchurch, New Zealand, have been remanded in custody after they were caught with cannabis at Queenstown Airport.
Acting Sergeant Steve Watt, of Queenstown, said a 52-year-old woman was caught after repeatedly setting off a metal detector on her way through security, Stuff.co.nz reported.
He said she had stuffed about 50g of the drug into 28 individually foil-wrapped cannabis bullets inside her bra.
Police subsequently spoke to the woman's 44-year-old friend, who was wearing tight-fitting clothing, and found that she had concealed about 40g of cannabis about her trunk.
Both women had visited Riversdale before trying to board the flight to Christchurch, and are now facing drug charges in the Queenstown District Court.
Ghaziabad, Apr 19 : Seeking to teach her a lesson for dumping him earlier, a 30-year-old man persuaded his girlfriend to commit suicide alongwith him. He then made her consume about 50 sleeping pills in a hotel room here Monday, but he himself had only a few. The woman died while he is admitted in a semi-conscious state at a local hospital, police said.
Manoj, a resident of Mandoli area of east Delhi, took Seema, 20, to Hotel Pelican here Monday afternoon.
"In his confession, Manoj told us that Seema had ditched him in the past, hence he planned to kill her. He arranged for the sleeping pills and assured her that he would consume as many pills as she did. While Seema had around 50 pills, Manoj had just a few," Circle Officer Praveen Ranjan Singh told IANS.
After making Seema consume the tablets, Manoj SMSed his relatives that they had committed suicide.
His family members immediately informed the police, who rushed to the hotel room and found Seema lying unconscious on the bed, while Manoj was in a semi-conscious state.
The two were rushed to a hospital, where doctors pronounced Seema brought dead.
Manoj is undergoing treatment.
"Manoj is a supervisor with a dials manufacturing company in Delhi. Seema was his long-time friend," Singh said.
The woman was chatting to a friend overseas when a man entered her room before attacking and killing her
Friend sees man enter girl's room on webcam
Woman attacked after man forces way in
Online witness in Beijing helping police
A WEBCAM may have captured the likely murder of a Chinese student in Canada while she was chatting online with a friend overseas.
Canadian police said an assailant was seen through the lens of the webcam struggling with the 23-year-old woman in her basement apartment near York University in Toronto at about 1am local time on Friday, hours before her body was discovered by police.
The online witness in Beijing told police there had been a knock at the door. A man in his 20s with a muscular build and medium-length brown hair asked the victim to use her mobile phone.
Suddenly, a skirmish erupted. The witness saw part of it, but some of the action took place out of the camera's scope. The man then turned off the laptop computer, which is now missing.
Public broadcaster CBC said the victim's mother contacted the Chinese consulate in Toronto, which alerted local authorities.
Police said there were no signs of "substantial trauma" to the body that could identify the cause of death, nor any "obvious" signs of sexual assault.
However, she was unclothed from the waist down.
An autopsy was scheduled for this week.
Hyderabad, April 19 : On Sunday, the 18-year-old girl who was raped on Sunday called K. Venkatesh, a resident of Gayatri Hills to say she would be going to church and they would go on from there. After Venkatesh called her, she came out of the church, informing her mother that she was going to meet a friend. The girl told the police that she liked Venkatesh and wanted him to marry her but he said his parents were not agreeing to the match. She also said he was demanding a dowry.
She told the police that she was taken to the basement by Venkatesh where he forced her to have sex. The police found a condom thrown on the floor of the basement and have taken semen samples from it.
“After the incident the girl called up her mother from Venkatesh’s mobile phone and told her that she was bleeding heavily,” the DCP, Mr Akun Sabharwal, said. “With the help of the service provider we traced the number but it was found to be registered with some other person,” he said. “When we zeroed in on him, he told us that his friend Venkatesh is using the number,” the officer added. After the rape, Venkatesh took the vehicle to the house of the commercial tax official and parked it there. He covered the blood with a towel as he could not clear all traces of it. “Initially, we picked up the dance teacher of the girl for questioning but he was let off as he was not involved,” Mr Sabharwal said. Medical reports of the girl showed that she was not drugged as police had initially suspected.
Boston: An Indian father-son duo is among over 30 people indicted by federal authorities on charges of running a large-scale prostitution racket in California.
Vinod Patel, 60 and his 27-year old son Hitesh Patel owned and operated a motel in San Diego that was used as a brothel.
Federal prosecutors said the father and son managed prostitution activities in rooms away from legitimate customers and also warned pimps and others about police inquiries.
Authorities have charged 36 others, mostly members of a street gang, with racketeering and sex trafficking of minors and adults, kidnapping, extortion and distribution of controlled substances.
The prostitution ring involved adult women and underage girls and was managed by a street gang known as the Oceanside Crips that had used the Patels' motel since 2005 for prostitution.
The motel has been seized by authorities.
The indictment alleges that incarcerated senior members of the Oceanside Crips controlled the ring from jail and directed junior gang members.
"The indictment unsealed today targets a growing problem in San Diego County and across the country - street gangs like the Crips expanding traditional gang activities to include prostitution," US Attorney Laura Duffy said.
About 30 underage girls, all US citizens and some runaways, were rescued by the authorities.
The charges were the result of an 18-month undercover investigation called Operation Vice Grip.
Pimps "focused on vulnerable juvenile females who were runaways or from broken homes," according to the indictment.
Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter were used to lure girls into prostitution.
The girls were then given alcohol and drugs "to manipulate their loyalty and increase productivity".
Bhiwani: Two widows - Suman and Shakuntala - were beaten to death in the village of Raanila in Bhiwani, Haryana, allegedly by their nephew Naresh. But shockingly, not a single villager came to their rescue.
According to reports, Naresh claimed Shakuntala had a bad influence on his aunt Suman, but what has stunned everyone is how Naresh saw fit to allegedly murder the duo.
"I begged people to help, but they chose to stand and watch. He (Naresh) pushed and threatened me," said Rohtash, Suman's brother-in-law.
The accused, a rape convict, had already served a three-year sentence and was out on bail. Further reports indicate, the police have arrested two others.
"We are investigating the murders that took place here," said SHO Japan Singh.
Having killed both women, Naresh has now surrendered to the police. But the village of Bhiwana remains scarred by this gruesome tale.
London, Apr 19 : A UK doctor had sexually assaulted patients and told a colleague to keep quiet, a hearing was told.
Dr Adil Shareef, a general practitioner facing charges of sexual assaults against his patients and a colleague could be barred from practicing, reports the Daily Mail.
Shareef, 44, is accused of indecently touching one patient after she went to him with a urinary infection.
Another woman allegedly had her breast felt after she complained of a persistent cough and cold.
During an earlier court case a jury was told the GP also indecently touched a medical colleague during a bogus massage session before warning her: ‘Don’t tell anyone else or everyone will want it.‘
The General Medical Council (GMC) heard he groped the four patients and one nursing colleague over a five-year period while working as a GP in Epsom, Surrey.
Shareef was convicted of four counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault at Guildford Crown Court in July 2010.
He was jailed for 18 months and released earlier this month after serving half his sentence.
He has since requested leave to appeal his convictions claiming new evidence has come to light.
A High Court judge will rule if he has grounds to appeal later this month.
Shareef was suspended by the GMC following the convictions 2010 and he could now be struck off if the panel decide his ‘fitness to practise’ is impaired.
The court heard that he was visited by one woman, then aged 23, who went for a consultation in 2003 at the Old Cottage Hospital Surgery in Epsom after developing a urinary tract infection.
Jurors were told that the defendant instructed her to remove her trousers and gave her what she described as a wholly unnecessary examination.
Jurors were told the remaining incidents allegedly took place at the Fountain Medical Centre, in Ewell, where Shareef moved to in 2004.
They were said to have included one occasion in 2008 when the doctor allegedly touched a woman’s private parts on the pretext of putting ointment on some lesions she was suffering from.
The court heard that bosses of the medical practice logged the incident on Shareef’s record and agreed to install video equipment to monitor all his future medical examinations.
Shareef was arrested on 19 November 2008, leading to his conviction in 2010.
New Delhi, April 19 : A 65-year-old man will have to pay maintenance of Rs.3,000 per month to his domestic help as she was living with him like a wife, the Delhi High Court has ruled, upholding the order of a family court.
The 30-year-old woman used to live with the petitioner with her three minor children. She stayed with him for three years before he turned her out in December 2009, prompting her to move the family court.
High court judge Hima Kohli said: "The trial court has on a prima facie view of the matter reached the conclusion that as per settled legal principles, in proceedings under Section 125 (order for maintenance of wives, children and parents) CrPC, the standard of proof required to prove the validity of a marriage is not very stringent, and if it can be shown that the parties living as husband and wife, were being treated as married, then the same would be considered a valid marriage, sufficient to award interim maintenance to the dependants."
"This court finds no illegality, arbitrariness or infirmity in the aforesaid finding reached by the trial court. Further, this court is inclined to agree with the trial court that the determination of the validity of a marriage can only be made in the course of the trial, after evidence has been led by both the parties.
"In this view of the matter, the submission of the petitioner that as he is not married to the respondent, he is not liable to pay any maintenance, is turned down," Justice Kohli said in the order last week.
Mahender, who was a widower, filed a petition in the high court Feb 4 against Aarti (name changed), pleading for setting aside the December 2010 order passed by the additional principal judge, Family Courts, Rohini.
The counsel for the petitioner stated that the respondents' petition was not maintainable and should be dismissed, as there exists no valid marriage between the petitioner and respondent.
He said the petitioner was a man of 65 years whereas the respondent was 30 years old, and it seemed improbable that a marriage would have taken place between them.
He said Aarti was a maid servant in the house of the petitioner and she was a widow who had three children from her marriage, "therefore my client allowed her to live in his house".
He said payment of interim maintenance of Rs.3,000 per month was highly onerous as the petitioner was a poor man, with insufficient resources.
As for the contention of the counsel that the petitioner did not have sufficient monthly income to pay maintenance, the court said that could not be accepted, as the sum of Rs.3,000 per month was a paltry amount, especially in light of the fact that the petitioner has allegedly removed the respondents from his house and they had been forced to live with their relatives.
"Having regard to the fact that the petitioner has not been able to place on record any document to show that the respondent is gainfully employed, the finding of the court below - that the respondent has no source of income to support herself and her children - deserves no interference by this court at this stage," said Justice Kohli.
The principal judge, Family Courts, had granted interim maintenance of Rs.3,000 per month to the respondents from the date of the application and had directed the petitioner to clear the arrears of maintenance within a period of six months and pay the monthly maintenance amount regularly by the 10th of each month.
Beijing, April 19 : A man armed with a knife and a pair of scissors stabbed six people in China's Kashgar city and then committed suicide by thrice slashing his own neck, police said.
The man, in his 20s, stabbed six passers-by, including a middle school student, in Kashgar around 8.05 p.m., police said Tuesday.
Kashgar, an ancient oasis city on the northern Silk Road, close to Tajikistan in China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, has a population of 350,000.
The police surrounded him and fired warning shots. The man resisted arrest and committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife three times, said Xinhua.
Five bottles, suspected to contain marijuana, were found in the man's pocket.
All the six injured were taken to hospital, where the condition of the student was said to be serious.
A group of youths boarded the Amritsar Mail from Varanasi without tickets and forcibly occupied seats of 18 students in the reserved compartment. The youths molested four girls and tore the shirt of one of them before getting down at Patna station. KOLKATA, Apr 18 : Four girl students of Calcutta University were molested and another was beaten up allegedly by some youths inside an express train while they were returning from Varanasi, railway officials said here on Monday.
A group of youths boarded the Amritsar Mail from Varanasi without tickets late last night and forcibly occupied seats of 18 students in the reserved compartment.
When the students, doing post graduation in Human Rights, protested and sought intervention of RPF personnel, they were physically and verbally abused by the hoodlums who outnumbered them, the officials said.
The youths molested four girls and tore the shirt of one of them before getting down at Patna station, according to a complaint filed by the students with Howrah GRP.
When one of the male students protested, he was also attacked with sticks, the complaint stated.
"We pulled the chain twice at Patna and shouted for help but no one came to our rescue. We could not find any security personnel. None of the co-passengers protested when the girls were being molested inside the crowded train," 25-year-old Anamitra Dasgupta, one of the victims, said.
The students were returning to Howrah from Varanasi, where they had gone for a university study trip.
A FATHER is likely to be jailed when he fronts a Brisbane court for a single carnal act with his one-day future bride - which resulted in the conception of their daughter - almost 15 years ago.
What makes the couple's union a criminal act was the fact that at the time the future groom was aged 42 and the soon to be mother was his 11-year-old step-daughter, The Courier-Mail said.
A Brisbane District Court was last week told now convicted child sex offender, who is now raising the 14-year-old child who was the fruit of the illegal act, was facing a seven-year stint when he was originally charged by police in 1995.
But, he fled interstate after being twice given bail and jailed for several months and was able to elude police for 14 years, 18 months and three days.
During that time he returned to Brisbane undetected by authorities and married the girl, who by then had turned 18.
They produced a second child - a son - in 2005.
The man, now aged 58 and who until his recapture in March resided on Brisbane's northside and cannot be named to protect his "victim", pleaded guilty on Friday to an act of unlawful carnal knowledge with a girl in his care under 12 during the September 1995 school holidays.
Prosecutor Rebecca Britnell said the man was in a relationship with the child's mother and they produced a son - the girl's half brother about a year before the sexual assault.
Ms Britnell said the man had been asleep naked in his bed when the 11-year-old came into his bedroom, disrobed and they had sex.
The court was told the man told the girl the one-off incident - which he told police was the result of her being the "sexual aggressor" - was wrong and could never happen again.
However, when the girl revealed she was pregnant the pair fled interstate and remained in hiding until her disappearance and her mum's appeal for her safe return became a national media event.
Ms Britnell said the girl, by then 30 weeks pregnant, telephoned her mother shortly after and arrived at Brisbane's Roma Street Travel Centre in April 1996.
She said the girl made a statement to police, the man was charged, bailed by a magistrate, breached it by seeing the girl, was jailed for three months, again bailed and then fled.
The court was told the man remained on the run until police learned of his whereabouts in Brisbane on March 8 this year.
Police contacted the man, gave him 24-hours to sort out his affairs and he surrendered the following day and has been in custody since.
In a case presiding judge David Reid described as extraordinary, the Crown revealed the man returned to Brisbane, rekindled his relationship with the girl and they married, produced a son, separated in 2007 and remain good friends.
The woman was seated in court during the hearing and repeatedly shot looks of support to the man as lawyers from both sides made their submissions.
Ms Britnell submitted the man be jailed for 18-months, but his barrister, Josh Creamer, argued for his immediate release.
Mr Creamer said his client continued to have a very good relationship with the "complainant", who smiled when the comment was made, and was considered an "awesome dad" by their now 14-year-old daughter.
Judge Reid said: "My gut feeling with this one (is that any person would) recoil at the breach of trust (by this man)."
"(But) it was a one off event. It was not predatory and they have a (good) long time relationship (all these years later)."
Judge Reid said he wanted time to consider the facts and remanded the man in custody before sentence tomorrow morning.
Jack the Ripper was a German sailor, detective claims
Jack the Ripper was probably a German merchant seaman named Carl Feigenbaum. That’s the theory proposed by English former murder squad detective Trevor Marriott. He spoke to The Local.
They are history’s most notorious serial murders and among the world's most famous unsolved crimes.
Between August and November 1888, five prostitutes were killed and horribly mutilated in and around London’s crowded, impoverished Whitechapel area.
Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly had their throats slashed and – with the exception of Stride – their abdomens mutilated. Then the killings stopped abruptly. The murderer was never identified. And the Jack the Ripper phenomenon began.
In the 123 years since, countless suspects have been proposed – and rejected – from various poor Polish immigrants to Queen Victoria’s physician William Withey Gull and even Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale.
But according to English former homicide detective Trevor Marriott, Jack the Ripper was most likely a German merchant sailor from Karlsruhe named Carl Feigenbaum.
Marriott, author of "Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation" and "The Evil Within: The World’s Worst Serial Killers," aired his theory in Germany this week in a ZDF documentary co-produced by National Geographic.
Marriott says he has used modern policing methods to overturn many of the old assumptions about the Ripper murders and gathered evidence that points to Feigenbaum, who was eventually convicted and executed for murdering Juliana Hoffmann in New York in 1894.
“There is a case for suggesting he might have been the first trans-continental serial killer,” Marriott says.
In 2002, the retired Bedfordshire policeman – who’d had a long-running interest in the Ripper case – decided to sift through the evidence, see what could be discounted, and determine what facts remained.
"When I looked through it, I thought, 'There are lots of things here that are not right, that are not factually correct'," he says. "The Ripper mystery is based on many wild, speculative, uncorroborated theories.'"
The police at the time believed the Ripper was a local man – and subsequent theories have generally assumed that he was at least a Londoner. But Marriot takes a novel approach, alleging that the murderer might have been a sailor.
“There were two merchant docks close to Whitechapel, and Whitechapel had hundreds of prostitutes and we all know that where seamen are, there are prostitutes as well,” he says. “It’s an area that hadn’t been explored by the police at the time back in Victorian times, so it was a totally new lead really.”
Hundreds of vessels came in and out of London every day. It was a “mammoth task,” he says, but he went through thousands of shipping records and found that there was a vessel, the Reiher, that was docked on all the dates of the murders save one. On that date, another vessel from the same line was docked. The plot thickens
Around the same time, Marriott learned that what he calls a “Ripper-like murder” – of a woman named Juliana Hoffmann – had taken place in New York in 1894, six years after the five women in Whitechapel. The man convicted for that murder was German Carl Feigenbaum, who was also using aliases including Anton Zahn and Carl Zahn.
“He was bang to rights on that murder. He was arrested leaving the scene of the crime and the police found a long-bladed knife outside which was obviously attributed to him. When they searched his property, they found a kind of sheath and sharpening stone which indicates he’d been carrying it around for some time.”
Marriott’s research revealed Feigenbaum had been a merchant seaman and had worked for the Norddeutsche Line, which owned the Reiher.
“There was a strong connection there ... Once I started to widen the net, I found there was a number of unsolved, Ripper-like murders in Germany between 1889 and 1894 in addition to others in and around Whitechapel - outside of the original five women who everybody believed were the only victims, and other Ripper-like murders in and around the New York area,” he says.
He went to the Bremen archives to check crew lists for the Norddeutsche vessels – and was frustrated to discover that the key records had gone missing.
“All the other records were there, but the crew lists for this vessel that relate to the three months of the Ripper murders in the UK were all missing.”
However, he did find records showing that Feigenbaum had been working for the Norddeutsche Line for “many, many years,” he says.
William Sanford Lawton, the New York lawyer who defended Feigenbaum in the Hoffmann murder, later said that while on death row, Feigenbaum admitted being a pathological killer and mutilator of women. Lawton made the connection with the Ripper, conducted some inquiries and was quoted in newspapers in 1896 saying he could put Feigenbaum in Whitechapel at the times of the five murders. The unasked question
“Sadly, the press never asked the $64,000 question, ‘What were those inquiries?’” Marriott says.
One possibility is that Lawton found the Bremen maritime records for the Reiher and removed them, he says.
Marriott had an advantage over other Ripper sleuths in that he started with a genuinely open mind and approached the case like any modern murder inquiry. He eliminated suspects considered “prime” and broadened the inquiry to consider others who fit the facts, he says.
This even included eliminating at least one of the five murders assumed to be the Ripper, based on the characteristics of the crimes.
“One, the murder of Elizabeth Stride, was definitely not the work of the Ripper and there are major question marks surrounding the murder of Mary Kelly as well,” he said.
Of course the debate will go on. Marriott admits that no theory is watertight, but had the police considered the merchant seaman theory, they would have come to the same conclusion as Marriott and would have been in a better position to solve the crime. Modern police would, for instance, have established a similarity with the New York murders and sent somebody over to interview Feigenbaum before he was executed.
He also says he has found new documentary evidence that he is still examining, and hopes that publicity in Germany may encourage descendants of Feigenbaum’s to come forward with information.
“This has always had a worldwide following and it will continue to do so,” he says.
“There’s quite a lot to suggest Feigenbaum was involved in these murders. We can’t say 100 percent. But Feigenbaum is the prime suspect for these murders because there is more evidence that points to him than to any other suspect.” The English-language documentary Finding Jack the Ripper screens in the US on Saturday April 7 on the National Geographic Channel. David Wroe (david.wroe@thelocal.de)
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