Crime & Justice

NEW DELHI: People’s Union for Democratic rights (PUDR) welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court to examine a plea filed by the family of five civilians killed in a fake encounter in Pathribal, Kashmir in 2000. The notice issued by SC follows the closure of the Pathribal case by the Army and the refusal of the J&K High Court last year in admitting the petition of the victims’ families challenging the closure of the case. The apex court has also given liberty to the petitioners to mention the matter for early hearing. The Union of India was represented by the Additional Solicitor General and the petitioners by Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan.

PHAGWARA: Eleven Persons including Nine Students One teacher of Ramgarhia School Phagwara and a Driver sustained serious injuries when an Students Loaded Auto Rickshaw overturned near Goal Chowk on National High Ways Phagwara on Saturday morning.

JALANDHAR: The Jalandhar police has arrested  two narcotic smugglers and recovered 02 Quintol 18 KG of Poppy Husk, Indian Currency of Rupees 40,000/- and 01 Motorcycle Baja Platina bearing registration No. PB-09-Y-2538.

ROPAR: The Ropar Police today claimed to have arrested three miscreants alongwith arms and ammunition who were planning to commit big crime.

ROPAR: The District and session Judge Rupnagar B.S.Sandhu today pronounced life imprisonment for three accused who kidnapped and murdered a local resident on September 19,2013.

NEW DELHI: A young woman thrown down in a semi-nude condition by a male friend from the fourth floor of an under-construction house in west Delhi's Begumpur remains critical while the accused has been arrested, police said on Sunday.

An Assam Village Tejpur Resident Young Woman identified as Munni(24) presently working in Nakodar reportedly murdered her two minor daughters Neha(3) and Meena(1) by throwing them in a village Fish Farm(Pond) and later attempted  to suicide herself by hanging herself with a tree in nearby village Kishanpura on Sunday evening.

 Two brothers died of suffocation while cleaning a 'septic tank' of a city mall on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The body of a 11-year-old boy, who was abducted two days ago for ransom, was found in an orchard in Bihar's Siwan district on Friday, triggering angry protests, police said.

Five persons were killed on Friday when two passenger buses coming from opposite direction collided in Uttar Pradesh's Agra city, police said.

The district police have arrested Daljit Singh, a Class-IV employee in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, and Gurjit Singh alais Gogi, a Congress sarpanch, for alleged links with Nabha jail escapee Vicky Gounder’s gang.

On a complaint lodged by Khalwara Gate Phagwara resident Rachanjit Singh, the City Police Phagwara has registered case under section 420/406 IPC against Jalandhar resident Baldev Raj former PA of Former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Avinash Chander on the charges of duping the complainant of Rs 20 Lac and a Car in the pretext of registration of an “Intaqal” of a land purchased in the year 2012.

State Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption today nabbed an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) red handed while accepting bribe of Rs. 7000/-.

The Jharkhand government on Tuesday ordered a probe into the stripping of a college student in Dumka district, an official release said.

An engineering student committed suicide after his parents refused to buy him a video game, police said on Tuesday.

An engineering student died of botched abortion at a private maternity hospital in Hyderabad's Vansthalipuram area on Monday, police said.

A 32-year-old woman was abducted by two young men in west Delhi but was rescued by alert passers-by who intercepted their vehicle in Rohini, police said on Sunday.

The Chiherru(Phagwara) Police has succeeded to bust a Gang of Inter-District Vehicles Thieves and arrested its main member identified as Harpreet Singh @ deepa of Village chack Hakim and recovered ten stolen motor cycles from his possession.

 A mother and her daughter were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Jharkhand's Latehar district early on Friday, police said.

Six women were killed and seven other persons injured when a jeep hit a truck near Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district on Friday, police said.