| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section. | Syria talks in disarray before they begin | |  Opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, pressured to attend Wednesday's first direct negotiations by their Western backers, cited new, photographic evidence of widespread torture and killing by Syria's government in renewing their demand that Assad must quit and face an international war crimes trial. One of three former international war crimes prosecutors who signed the report compared the images from Syria with the "industrial-scale killing" of Nazi death camps. The United Nations, along with co-sponsors Russia and the United States, may at least be relieved if and when the two sides sit down at the Montreux Palace hotel on Lake Geneva. A day of diplomatic chaos on Monday had threatened to scupper the event, after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave a last-minute invitation to Iran, Assad's main foreign supporter.
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| SC frames guidelines for death row convicts, their mercy petitions | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Holding the action and procedure adopted to deprive a person of life or liberty must be fair, just and reasonable, the Supreme Court Tuesday framed guidelines for removing the disparities in implementation of existing laws for death row convicts. "It is well-settled law that executive action and legal procedure adopted to deprive a person of his life or liberty must be fair, just and reasonable and the protection of article 21 of the constitution of India inheres in every person, even death-row prisoners, till the very last breath of their lives," said a bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh in their judgment. Taking note of the disparities in implementing the already existing laws, the court framed the guidelines to be followed for safeguarding the interest of the death row convicts. ** Solitary Confinement: The court held solitary or single cell confinement prior to rejection of the mercy petition by the president unconstitutional. |
| Kolkata gang rape: Accused knew victim, say police | | | Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) The 24-year-old man arrested for alleged involvement in the gang rape of a 21-year-old woman in the city was acquainted with the victim since the past few days, police said Tuesday. Mohammad Hamid, who was arrested Monday, was remanded to police custody till Feb 3 by a court during the day. "Hamid has claimed that he was familiar with the victim for the last 14 to 15 days," said Joint Commissioner (Crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh adding that the vehicle inside which the girl was raped has been seized. |
| Arvind Kejriwal ends his anti-police protest after clashes | |  Sleeping on the pavement, conducting official duties from a parked car and calling himself an anarchist in a sit-in protest against the police, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has taken an unconventional approach to governing the capital. On Tuesday, a shivering Kejriwal emerged from under a blanket after sleeping outside in the cold January weather. "I am of the opinion and perhaps the public is also of the opinion that in any given area, at least 90 percent of the crime happens in connivance with the police," he told supporters on the second day of the sit-in. His one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man Party, is now using its success in Delhi to build a national presence ahead of a general election due by May. But he has been criticised for his style of governing, after a near stampede blighted a meeting where he called on Delhi residents to air their grievances and one of his ministers was filmed shouting at police.
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| Violence rattles Rio slums as World Cup looms | |  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Daily shootouts and recent police slayings of two alleged drug traffickers are rattling two of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent slums, communities that until recently showcased attempts to pacify historically violent shantytowns. Just five months before Rio welcomes visitors for the soccer World Cup, and two years before it hosts the Olympics, the communities of Pavão-Pavãozinho and Cantagalo are bracing for what residents and richer neighbors fear is the return of a decades-old turf war between armed drug gangs and police. The communities, sprawls of bare brick on hills over the prosperous beachside districts of Ipanema and Copacabana, are among the most emblematic of Rio's favelas, as the slums are known.
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| Iraq executes 26 people for "terrorism" offences | | | Iraq has hanged 26 people convicted of "terrorism" offences, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, pursuing what a U.N. official criticised as a "conveyor-belt of executions". Sahwa (Awakening) militias are formed mostly of Sunni Muslim tribesmen who helped U.S. troops roll back an al Qaeda-led insurgency in Iraq from 2006 onwards. Violence in Iraq has surged in the past year to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian bloodshed that peaked in 2006 and 2007 when tens of thousands of people were killed. Iraq hanged at least 151 people in 2013, up from 129 in 2012 and 68 in 2011, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in its annual world report published on Tuesday. |
| Two arms dealers charged with Dabholkar killing | | | Pune, Jan 21 (IANS) Two suspected arms dealers, already in custody since August 2013 for involvement in various crimes, were Tuesday charged with the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, officials said here. Manish Nagori (24) and Vilas Khandelwal (23), both hailing from Ichalkaranji town in Kolhapur, were presented before a magistrate in the afternoon and were sent to police custody till Jan 28. Anti-superstition activist Dabholkar was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants Aug 20 near the Omkareshwar temple. Nagori and Khandelwal were charged with the killing on the basis of a ballistics report of a gun found in their possession when they were arrested in August 2013. |
| Three guerrillas held for killing Kashmir policeman: Police | | | Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) The guerrillas involved in the killing of a station house officer (SHO) in Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district last month have been identified and three of them have been arrested, a police officer said Tuesday. Talking to media persons in Badgam town, Superintendent of Police Irshad Ahmed said that seven guerrillas belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had hatched a conspiracy in the third week of November last year to kill SHO of Chadura police station, Shabir Ahmad. "A Pakistani militant named Omar alias Zahid carried out the deadly attack killing the SHO in Chadura market on Dec 2 last year," he said, adding Omar was later killed in a gunfight with police and Rashtriya Rifles men in Hashoora village of Badgam district. |
| Kejriwal ends dramatic protest, two Delhi cops sent on leave | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Delhi's activist-turned-Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called off a dramatic 33-hour street protest Tuesday evening after Lt Governor Najeeb Jung intervened to defuse a major crisis for the central government ahead of Republic Day, acting partially on the AAP's demand for action against five policemen. "It is people's victory," Kejriwal declared and said he and his cabinet ministers were ending their protest begun Monday morning near Rail Bhavan, close to parliament, after Jung said that two of the police officers had been asked to go on leave. "People of Delhi have won the battle," added the visibly weak 45-year-old chief minister, speaking from atop a fountain at the foot of a Govind Ballabh Pant statue, his face wrapped with a woollen muffler. The Kejriwal-versus-police face-off ended five days before the annual Republic Day parade -- in which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the chief guest -- passes through the Rajpath boulevard near the protest site. |
| Odisha BJP seeks white paper on cyclone Phailin | | | Bhubaneswar, Jan 21 (IANS) The Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded a white paper on the damage caused by cyclone Phailin and subsequent floods in the state and the relief and restoration efforts carried out by the state government. Senior BJP leader Manmohan Samal said here the state government was yet to provide compensation to all those affected by the calamities. Accusing the government of not initiating any inquiry into the misappropriation of relief materials, reported at several places, Samal said: "The government must publish a white paper on all these matters". |
| Delhi man attempts to kill self, family; son dies | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Financial crisis forced a 35-year-old dance instructor to try to kill himself and his family by consuming a poisonous substance and using a sharp-edged weapon, police said Tuesday. Dance teacher Ajay drank milk mixed with alprax tablets and also gave it to his wife Ritu, 30, daughter Vedika, 9, and son Krishna, 8 around 11 p.m. Monday in his Bhola Nath Nagar house of Farsh Bazar area in east Delhi. "Around midnight, Ajay cut the throats of his wife, daughter and son and also slashed his left wrist and throat with the help of a dagger," said a police officer. They made a PCR call after finding the family lying on a bed," said the officer. |
| Bihar approves job for Bengal gangrape victim's father | | | Patna, Jan 21 (IANS) The Bihar cabinet Tuesday formally approved a proposal for a government job for the father of a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped and set ablaze in West Bengal, as also rehabilitation of her family in the state, officials said. "The state government has decided to provide a job to her father and to rehabilitate the family in Bihar," Cabinet Secretary Brajesh Mehrotra told mediapersons here. He said the decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "Nitish Kumar assured us to arrange for our rehabilitation in Bihar and provide me a job in the police department as a driver," the girl's father, a taxi driver, then said after he and his wife met the chief minister. |
| Bomb hits Pakistani bus full of Shi'ite pilgrims, 22 dead | | | A bomb ripped through a bus full of Shi'ite pilgrims in western Pakistan and killed at least 22 people on Tuesday, police said, extending a spate of sectarian attacks that have shaken the South Asian nation. The bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims returning from neighouring Iran to their home city of Quetta in Pakistan, officials said. At least 20 people were wounded, said the assistant police commissioner for Mastung district, Shafqat Anwar Shawani, and many of the victims were women and children. The attack occurred about 55 km (35 miles) southwest of Quetta, the provincial capital. |
| Yemeni president's term extended, Shi'ite Muslim leader killed | |  By Mohamed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's political factions extended the president's term by a year and approved a new federal system at the end of national reconciliation talks on Tuesday, a milestone in the troubled country's transition to democracy. Highlighting the security challenges facing Yemen, which borders major oil exporter Saudi Arabia and is home to one of al Qaeda's most active branches, unknown assailants shot dead a leader of the Yemeni Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group while he was driving to attend the final session of the talks. Yemen has been torn by rising violence and lawlessness as the U.S.-allied country struggles to overcome political turmoil after long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down following months of mass protests against his rule in 2011. The national reconciliation talks, launched in March 2013 as part of a Gulf-brokered power transfer deal, have been plagued by walk-outs by politicians.
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| Options narrow for Yanukovich as Kiev heaves with violence | |  By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - At one end of Kiev's protest zone, just inside a makeshift barricade, demonstrators have set up a mock jail with an effigy of President Viktor Yanukovich sitting in a striped convict's tunic, his arms raised above him in manacles. That Yanukovich could be brought down by the present spasm of street violence and face prosecution for his "crimes" in office might be wishful thinking by his most ardent opponents. Despite two months of unrest after pulling out of a trade deal with the European Union and moving closer to Russia, there is nothing to suggest that the 63-year-old former construction worker is in danger of falling from power. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday sounded a note of alarm when he admonished European governments for "interfering" in Ukraine's political crisis, a regular complaint of Moscow.
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| Overdose likely killed Sunanda Pushkar - autopsy | | | By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An overdose of anti-depressant drugs likely killed the wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, according to an autopsy released days after she accused him of having an extramarital affair. Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Junior Human Resource Development Minister and former top U.N. diplomat Tharoor, was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room after she sent out tweets suggesting he was involved with a Pakistan-based journalist. Pushkar, 52, probably died of drug poisoning, two officials said on Tuesday, citing the post mortem report submitted to a magistrate leading an inquest into the death on Friday. "The conclusion of the post mortem report was death likely due to drug poisoning," said an official at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where the autopsy was conducted. |
| Delhi HC upholds life term for young boy's sodomy, murder | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Taking a serious view of the sodomy and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, the Delhi High Court Tuesday upheld the life sentence given to the convict and ordered that the term of sentence will remain "till the rest of his life". A bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta rejected the appeal of Ilyasuddin who moved the high court against the trial court order which sentenced him to life imprisonment along with a condition that he shall not be released before 25 years. The high court enhanced Ilyasuddin's sentence saying the case was an example of "human lust". |
| 30 hurt in AAP-police clash; Kejriwal ends protest | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) At least 30 people, including 19 policemen, were injured Tuesday when Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supporters clashed with the police during a sit-in here. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday evening called off his street protest followed an appeal by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung. Over 100 AAP protesters Tuesday forcefully entered Rafi Marg that leads to the protest site after pushing through barricades, resulting in a clash with the police. Earlier, Kejriwal said he was determined to continue the protest near the Rail Bhavan, where he and his cabinet members were stopped Monday while on their way to the union home ministry to demand that the Delhi Police be brought under their control and action taken against five police officers. |
| Government bows, Kejriwal ends protest | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday evening ended his dramatic street protest here following an appeal by Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, who partially acted on the AAP leader's demand for action against five policemen. His head wrapped with a woollen muffler, Kejriwal told the media and an army of supporters in the heart of the city that he and his ministers were ending the protest begun Monday "right here" -- outside Rail Bhavan, near the Rajpath boulevard where the Republic Day parade takes place. The announcement sparked off full-throated cries of "Inquilab Zindabad" and "Vande Mataram" from the mass of supporters. |
| Kejriwal calls off protest | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday evening called off his street protest followed an appeal by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung. |
| Pakistan bombs militant hideouts in tribal area after Taliban attacks | | | By Haji Mujtaba and Jibran Ahmad MIRANSHAH/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani fighter jets and helcopters attacked suspected Taliban hideouts in a tribal area on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing up to 40 people, military sources and residents said, after a wave of insurgent attacks against security forces. It was the first time the air force has resorted to fighter jets in the volatile region since it struck a ceasefire agreement with local Taliban chiefs in 2007. They are just over our heads," resident Haji Jamaludin told Reuters by telephone. "Everyone in the village is running around with children and women looking for a safe place to hide." Sparking speculation that a military operation was imminent, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Sunday following a Taliban attack on an army convoy in which 20 soldiers were killed. |
| Please end protest, Jung tells Kejriwal | | | New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Tuesday urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to end his street protest in view of the upcoming Republic Day. Jung called upon Kejriwal to call off his sit-in protest in the heart of the capital "in view of the sacrosanct occasion of the Republic Day and the perceived security situation". |
| UAE convicts 30 Emiratis, Egyptians over Brotherhood ties | | | By Rania El Gamal DUBAI (Reuters) - Thirty Emiratis and Egyptians were convicted of setting up an illegal branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced to up to five years in jail in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, in a case reflecting the state's deep mistrust of political Islam. The UAE, a U.S. ally and major oil exporter, was rattled by the rise of Islamists in the aftermath of the uprisings that rocked the Arab world from 2011. It watched with relief as Egypt's army toppled Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, who is from the Brotherhood, in July after mass protests against his rule and has poured in billions of dollars to support the army chief who deposed him. The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi handed the men sentences ranging from three months and five years in prison, state news agency WAM said on Tuesday, without elaborating. |
| Ireland reopens Vatican embassy as relations thaw | |  Ireland is reopening its embassy to the Vatican more than two years after shutting it down in the wake of sex abuse cases, in a sign relations may be thawing. In a huge blow to the Holy See's prestige, staunchly Catholic Ireland closed its embassy to the Vatican in 2011, when relations soured over Church handling of sex abuse cases. The Church's once dominant role has faded in Ireland since revelations of rape and beatings by members of religious orders and the priesthood.
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