| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section. | Shooting at Indiana's Purdue University leaves one dead, man in custody | |  By Carey Gillam REUTERS - One person was shot to death on the campus of Indiana's Purdue University on Tuesday, and a male suspect was in custody, authorities said. The shooting took place around noon local time (1800 GMT) in a basement classroom of the university's electrical engineering building. The shooter seemed to have had only the victim as his intended target, leaving the building immediately after the shooting, said Purdue University Police Chief John Cox. University officials said classes had resumed and the campus was considered safe, though the electrical engineering building remained closed.
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| 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. |
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