| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section. | Syrian 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 the Syrian government in renewing their demand that Assad must quit and face an international war crimes trial. War crimes lawyers said a vast, smuggled cache of images from a Syrian military police photographer gave clear evidence of systematic abuse and murder of about 11,000 detainees. 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. Assad has insisted he may be re-elected later this year and says the "Geneva 2" talks should focus on fighting "terrorism" - his term for his enemies.
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| Ugandan women record statement before magistrate | | | New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Four Ugandan women who were allegedly victimised by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and his party supporters in the intervening night of Jan 16 have recorded their statement before the magistrate Tuesday, police said. Their statement was recorded at the magistrate's office in south Delhi in the afternoon under section of 164 CrPC, a police official said. |
| 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. |
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