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| Pope tells Mafia to stop evil or prepare for hell | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else "end up in hell". The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit. At the end of an emotional ceremony in Rome in which the relatives of those murdered read the names of about 900 innocent mafia victims, the pope said the mafia "has no pity even for a child". That's what's waiting for you if you stay on this path." Francis's words recalled those of Pope John Paul, who in 1993 angrily called on mafiosi to "repent, because one day you will face the judgment of God".
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| India dispatches two military aircraft for missing plane's search | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) India Friday dispatched a long endurance transport aircraft of Indian Air Force and a maritime surveillance aircraft of the navy to augment the search and rescue operations for the missing Malaysian airliner MH 370. An defence ministry release said that the government has pledged its full support to the Malaysian government in the ongoing multi-national search and rescue effort for the missing airliner. "The ministry of defence approved the deployment of Indian Armed Forces assets for the purpose. Accordingly a C-130 Hercules of the Indian Air Force and a long range Maritime Surveillance Aircraft P8 I of the Indian Navy have been dispatched to augment the search and rescue operations today (Friday)," the release said. |
| Three priests arrested for murder in Bangalore seminary | | | Bangalore, March 21 (IANS) Police Friday achieved a breakthrough in the murder of rector Father Thomas last year at the St Peter's seminary here by arresting three priests for their alleged involvement in the crime. "It appears the accused have fatally assaulted the 65-year-old rector who caught them stealing documents from the seminary at Malleswaram (in the northwest suburbs)," Additional Police Commissioner (Crime) Pronob Mohanty told reporters here. "Arrest and sustained interrogation of seminary priest William Patrick, who was asleep in the adjacent room when the murder happened March 31 night, led us to other two priests - Ilyas and Peter - in the seminary for their involvement in the crime," Mohanty said. |
| CBI registers preliminary enquiry in Rolls Royce bribery case | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation Friday registered a Preliminary Enquiry into the alleged bribery in the Rs. 18.8 crore deal for supply of aircraft engines to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) by Britain's Rolls Royce. |
| Woman raped, murdered in Rajasthan | | | Jaipur, March 21 (IANS) A man raped a woman and then killed her by throwing her into a water tank in Rajasthan Friday, police said. She was alone when Ramdev Jat barged into her house and repeatedly raped her," said a police officer. The office said that Ramdev threw her body into a water tank and escaped. |
| Bank employee's relative killed in Delhi house | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A woman relative of a private bank employee was battered to death with a blunt object and his two-year-old son injured by some unidentified assailants at a house here, police said Friday. The incident came to light around 8 p.m. Thursday when Arvinder Singh, 32, returned to his Uttam Nagar house in west Delhi with his wife Amarpreet Kaur, 27. The deceased, identified as Inderjeet Kaur, 45, was a distant relative and used to come to his house to take care of his son when the couple were away. Arvinder works in a private bank in Gurgaon, Haryana. |
| Argument on charges against BSP MP to be heard Saturday | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A court here fixed Saturday to hear argument on charges in a case against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Dhananjay Singh and his wife for torturing their maid, leading to her death. Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma Friday posted the argument on charges for Saturday. The MP's counsel S.P.M. Tripathi, while requesting the court to release his client on bail, has told the court last month that the witnesses were already granted protection by police and there was no chance for his client to influence them. The court had however rejected the bail plea of the MP, accused of destroying evidence to shield his wife, who was arrested for torturing her maid leading to her death. |
| Park Street gang rape victim hopes for justice too | | | Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Elated at the verdicts in the Mumbai gangrape incidents, the Park Street rape victim Friday hoped justice would also prevail in her case. "Its amazing that the verdict in the Mumbai case has come through. With prayers in my heart and hope...that is all that keeps me going," the victim told IANS here, urging her name be used. A Mumbai court Friday awarded life sentences to four men convicted for gang-raping a 19-year-old call centre employee in the Shakti Mills Complex on July 31, 2013. |
| Ten women labourers drown in Rajasthan | | | Jaipur, March 21 (IANS) Ten women drowned when a boat they had boarded to cross a river capsized in Rajasthan Friday, police said. The mishap occurred in Tonk district's Deoli town, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The victims were labourers who were crossing Banas river on a boat to reach a construction site. The boat capsized following which all the women and the boatman fell into the river," said a police officer. |
| Realtor officials booked for destroying crop, thrashing farmer | | | Gurgaon, March 21 (IANS) Senior officials of realtor Vatika India Next here were booked for damaging ready-to-harvest mustard crop and beating up a farmer, police said Friday. Company officers Jamal Khan and Rajbir Singh along with 15-20 unidentified people were booked under sections 447 (mischief with property), 427 (causing damage to property), 323 (thrashing, beating), 506 (threatening with life) and 34 (common intent) of the Indian Penal Code. Rajesh of Shikohpur village here had complained to the police that employees of Vatika India Next company destroyed his mustard crop cultivated on more than half an acre of land in Sikanderpur village. "Company officers Jamal Khan and Rajbir Singh came with three policemen and 15-20 bouncers and crushed the crop with four JCB machines," Rajesh said in his complaint. |
| High court orders retrial against Himachal CM | | | Shimla, March 21 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday ordered the retrial in the criminal defamation case against Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Hearing petitions of state Subordinate Services Selection Board former chairman S.M. Katwal, Justice D.C. Chaudhary directed the judicial magistrate in Una town for retrial. He challenged the judgment of sessions court which quashed the judicial magistrate's order to issue summons to Virbhadra Singh in two defamation cases. Katwal, who remained chairman of the board from 2000 to 2003, had filed criminal defamation cases alleging he was defamed by the speeches made by Virbhadra Singh at public meetings. |
| Congo national allegedly raped in Delhi | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A 20-year-old Congolese national was allegedly raped here by two cloth merchants inside her house Friday afternoon, police said. She opened the gate and was busy in choosing the clothes when the men overpowered her and dragged her inside where she was raped," said a police officer as per the victim's statement. Deputy Commissioner of Police B.S. Jaiswal told IANS the police scrutinised the CCTV camera installed at the entrance of the building where the woman resides but no cloth merchants was seen in the footage available from Friday morning to 2 p.m. "As the woman is changing her statements, we are yet to ascertain if her allegation is right or wrong," said Jaiswal. |
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