Crime - The Purbottar

29 Jan

Kolkata: Disabled woman abducted, raped in car in Pragati Maidan area

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A man was arrested here for allegedly raping a hearing-and-speech-impaired woman in a moving car, a police officer said on Friday.Kamre Alam alias Raja, a resident of Panchannagram, was arrested for allegedly being involved in the incident. She was kidnapped from the city’s Pragati Maidan area late on Tuesday by the accused, who then raped her, according to the police complaint. Commenting further on the case, a police source said that the woman knew the accused from work. It was on January 27 when the accused stopped the woman outside the station when she was returning home. He later managed…

22 Jan

Bail plea of Bulli Bai accused Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha rejected by court

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The Patiala House Court's Session Court on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail petition of accused Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha in connection with the 'Bulli Bai' app matter. The court while passing the order said that the allegations against the applicant are grave in nature as it is a direct onslaught upon the dignity and modesty of the women of a particular community. The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested another person from Odisha's Jharsuguda in connection with the 'Bulli Bai' case. The cyber police of the Mumbai crime branch today intercepted Niraj Singh a 28-year-old MBA graduate from the Lamtibahal area under…

14 Jan

BSF rescues 140 parrots from clutches of smugglers on India-Bangladesh border

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The Border Security Force (BSF) has rescued 140 green parrots from clutches of smugglers and foiled wildlife smuggling along the Indo-Bangladesh border.On the basis of specific information, the BSF troops in the South Bengal frontier nabbed a smuggler on Thursday along with these parrots in the North 24 Parganas district. “All these birds were being smuggled from India to Bangladesh through the area of Border Out Post Tarali, North 24 Parganas district in Bangladesh,” the BSF said. In a detailed note, the BSF said its 122 Battalion troops of Border Out Post Tarali in the Kolkata Sector laid an ambush…

13 Dec

Actress arrested by Mumbai Police for assaulting her minor domestic help

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The Versova Police arrested a 25-year-old actress for assaulting her domestic help for not finishing the work on time. According to ANI, the accused is a resident of Versova and was residing alone in a flat. The woman used to beat the domestic help with sandals. The victim told the police that she was assaulted on several occasions after she claimed that she didn’t work properly. As per reports in ETimes, the victim reportedly told the police that the accused assaulted and tortured her in the past citing that she has not done her work properly. This time, the girl…

24 Nov

Gautam Gambhir receives death threats from ‘ISIS Kashmir’; approaches police

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Delhi and former cricketer Gautam Gambhir claimed that he has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir', according to news agency ANI on Wednesday. Shweta Chauhan, DCP central, told ANI that Gambhir has approached the Delhi Police in this regard. “Gautam Gambhir has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir' through e-mail. Security has been beefed up outside Gambhir's residence,” Chauhan added. DCP (Central) Shweta Chauhan has said that an investigation is underway to probe the death threats. "Gautam Gambhir has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir' through e-mail. In 2019, Gambhir was elected as a…

11 Nov

22 year old boy dies in police custody in Kasganj; police calls it suicide

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Boy called for questioning at Kasganj police station in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh in a kidnapping case died in custody. According to police, Altaf aged 22 hanged himself using a string from his jacket hood in the washroom of the police lock-up. "One Altaf was called for questioning in Kasganj police station in a case related to IPC kidnapping and kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her marriage on Tuesday morning," narrating the sequence of events, Superintendent of Police, Kasganj, Rohan Pramod Botre said on Wednesday. During interrogation, he requested the policemen to go to the washroom and was allowed to use the washroom inside the lock-up. "He was wearing…

05 Nov

Tiffin bomb recovered in Punjab’s Ferozepu, 3 held captive

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Punjab Police arrested three people as captive in connection with the recovery of tiffin bomb in Ferozepur on Thursday. On Diwali eve, Police recovered a tiffin bomb which was kept concealed in the agriculture field at village Ali Ke in Ferozepur district. Punjab Police arrested the accused and his two associates who provided shelter and logistical support. The investigation is underway. Further details are awaited in this regard.

22 Oct

Nawab Malik says he received threat call for targeting NCB’s Sameer Wankhede

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NCP leader Nawab Malik claimed on Friday that he received a threat call from a person who warned him against targeting Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede. Nawab Malik said a complaint has been filed over the threat call. The call was made from Rajasthan, he claimed. The NCP leader, who had been launching attacks on Sameer Wankhede over the Mumbai drug bust case, had even targeted the latter's family. He earlier questioned, "During the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire film industry was in the Maldives. What were the officer [Sameer Wankhede] and his family doing in the Maldives…

06 Oct

‘Won’t cry, my father will never die’: Daughter of pharmacist shot dead in Srinagar challenges his killers

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Mourners are visiting the home of Makhan Lal Bindroo, a pharmacist who was among the three civilians shot dead by militants in the late hours of 5 October, as per Jammu and Kashmir Police. The pharmacy of the 65-year-old Kashmiri Pandit in Srinagar is a familiar place to the majority of people in Kashmir looking for quality medicine. Bindroo Medicate is known for being one of the only medical shops in the Valley that does not sell counterfeit medicine. The police said the attack occurred around 7:15 pm on Tuesday. “Bindroo received grievous gunshot injuries in this terror incident and…

29 Sep

UP Businessman Dies In Police Raid At Gorakhpur Hotel, 6 Cops Suspended

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Six Gorakhpur policemen were suspended on Tuesday after a businessman from Kanpur was found dead following a police raid at a city hotel where he was staying with two friends from Gurugram. Gorakhpur police said the man, identified as 36-year-old Manish Gupta, slipped during the routine police checking and injured himself. However, one of Gupta’s friends, Hardeep Singh Chauhan, who was staying with him in the hotel, alleged police brutally thrashed Gupta. Talking to reporters, Gupta’s wife Meenakshi and his father Nand Kishore, accused police of beating him. Six policemen, including a station house officer, a chowki in-charge and four…