NEW DELHI: The Kolkata doctor rape-murder case has snowballed into a political showdown between the ruling TMC and the Bengal unit of the BJP, which has accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “endorsing” revenge politics.Highlighting it before Union home minister Amit Shah, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, who also happens to be a Union minister,…
The man who recently filed a murder case against former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received a death threat over the phone, Dhaka Tribune reported. The case involves the police shooting that killed grocery store owner Abu Sayed in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on July 19.The threat was made shortly after the case was filed, with…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the investigation on Tuesday into the rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run medical college in Kolkata, as per officials. The agency promptly completed all necessary formalities within hours of the Calcutta High Court‘s order instructing the state police to transfer…
Yashashri Shinde (Left), Dawood Shaikh in centre with crime branch cops (Right) NAVI MUMBAI: The Maharashtra crime branch on Tuesday arrested Dawood Shaikh, who allegedly stabbed 20-year-old Yashashri Shinde to death and dumped her body on the roadside in Navi Mumbai’s Uran area.He was arrested from his hometown Gulbarga in Karnataka. The police had formed…
Sridhar, the manager of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, was found dead by suicide at the actor’s farmhouse in Bengaluru. Sridhar, who was responsible for overseeing the property, left behind a suicide note and a video message explaining his actions.In his note, Sridhar expressed deep feelings of loneliness, which he cited as the main reason for…
NEW DELHI: A day after the prosecution informed a CBI court about the untraceable bones and remains — allegedly of Sheena Bora, Indrani Mukerjea‘s lawyer on Saturday said he would “take whatever legal advantage or legal mileage” the development provides, and called the untracebility a “big blunder” committed by the central agency. “From the investigation…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday acquitted the Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder case of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.Division bench comprising Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra of the HC has passed these orders while allowing an appeal filed by Dera chief against…
HUBBALLI: Mumtaz, the mother of accused Fayaz in the Neha Hiremath murder case, has offered a heartfelt apology to the victim‘s family. Expressing remorse and acknowledging the severity of her son’s crime, Mumtaz sought punishment for her son.“What my son has done is a crime. He should be punished severely,” she said.She also claimed that…
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man identified as Nicholas Metson, from Shuttleworth House in Lincoln, stabbed his wife, Holly Bramley to death, cut her body into more than 200 pieces and dumps her remains in a river days later, with the help of a friend, Joshua Hancock.Nicholas pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife, whose…
RANCHI: The special MP/MLA court here on Saturday convicted former JMM MLA Paulus Surin and extremist Jaitha Kachhap in a double-murder case, which was registered with the Karra police station in Jharkhand’s Khunti district on May 25, 2013. Surin also had allegiance with the left-wing extremists before joining politics.The court of additional judicial commissioner Dinesh…
