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| 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. |
| Officer, three soldiers injured in Kashmir grenade blast | | | Jammu, March 21 (IANS) Four soldiers including an officer were injured in an accidental grenade explosion along the line of control (LoC) in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday, said defence sources. According to the sources, the soldiers were training in Keri area of Akhnoor sector when four of them including a major were injured in an accidental grenade explosion. "The explosion occurred when troopers of Gurkha Regiment were undergoing training practice of grenade firing," a defence source said. |
| Rs.14 lakh in fake currency seized | | | New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) recovered counterfeit Indian currency with a face value of Rs.13,99,500 near the Indo-Bangladesh border, an official said Friday. |
| BSF brings back farmer abducted by Bangladeshi criminals | | | Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) A two-month-long endeavour of the Border Security Force (BSF) bore fruit Friday when an Indian farmer, abducted and taken to Bangladesh by criminals, was brought back home, an official said. |
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