Zahur Haider Zaidi (left) NEW DELHI: A CBI court in Chandigarh sentenced Himachal Pradesh inspector general (IG) of Police Zahur Haider Zaidi and seven other police personnel to life imprisonment on Monday. The sentence follows their involvement in the custodial death of an accused in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Shimla‘s…
NEW DELHI: Parbhani in Maharashtra turned into a political battleground on Monday as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the city to meet the family of Somnath Suryawanshi, who died in judicial custody on December 15. The ruling BJP called Rahul’s visit an “attempt to create hatred among people on caste lines”.Somnath, a 35-year-old law student,…
AYODHAYA: A court in UP’s Ambedkar Nagar has ordered reopening of a murder case against eight policemen in connection with the custodial death of a 37-year-old man in 2021. Chief judicial magistrate Sudha Yadav based her order on injury marks documented in the postmortem report, rejecting the police’s final report, which claimed that Ziauddin died…
In a major embarrassment to the city crime branch, an alleged weapons supplier in the actor Salman Khan firing case, Anuj Thapan (32), was found dead in the lockup of the police headquarters at Crawford Market on Wednesday.A senior police officer said it is suspected that he died by suicide, but his family alleged foul…
