| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Attacked by Trinamool activists, say officials; EC seeks report | | | Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Election Commission Tuesday sought a report from the district magistrate following allegations by a election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) team that they were roughed up by Trinamool Congress activists after posters and festoons of the ruling party were removed in West Bengal's Howrah district. "We have asked the district magistrate to submit a action-taken report in the incident immediately," Amit Roy Chaudhury, officer on special duty and ex-officio joint secretary in the chief electoral officer's department, told reporters here. The incident in Howrah's Vivekananda Road comes days after a block development officer in North 24 Parganas district lodged a police complaint alleging he was assaulted by Trinamool activists for removing party banners and posters. "Trinamool posters and festoons were put up inside a school which goes against the MCC. |
| Rapist jailed for 30 years | | | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A court here has sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for repeatedly raping a woman by confining her for nine months. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, in a recently delivered order, held Uttar Pradesh resident Shiva guilty of gang rape, rape and wrongfully confining the 30-year-old woman. Shiva will first undergo a jail term of 10 years for rape, criminal intimidation, wrongful confinement and causing hurt, and thereafter the sentence of 20 years rigorous imprisonment for gang rape will begin. He made her unconscious and took her to a room in Delhi where he raped her for nine months and also did not allow her to go anywhere. |
| 147 FIRs filed against political parties in Delhi | | | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A total of 147 FIRs have been registered against political parties for violating the model code of conduct here, said an Election Commission official Tuesday. The model code of conduct came into force March 5 with the Lok Sabha election scheduled in the national capital April 10. "A total of 20 FIRs have been registered against the Bharatiya Janata Party, 15 against the Congress and 14 have been lodged against the Aam Aadmi Party," said the official. Poll panel officials have also seized 47 unlicenced arms from members of political parties. |
| Death toll in Syria's civil war above 150,000 - monitor | | | At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The UK-based Observatory, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists and medical or security sources, said that real toll was likely to be significantly higher at around 220,000 deaths. Efforts to end the conflict by bringing together representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition have so far failed. The United Nations peace mediator for Syria said last week that talks were unlikely to resume soon. |
| Trial in rape case against BSP MP to begin April 4 | | | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A court here Tuesday fixed April 4 to begin recording of evidence in a case against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused for allegedly raping a woman over nearly four years. The commencement of the trial was scheduled Tuesday but Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal fixed it for Friday. Dhananjay Singh, member from from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, had been charge sheeted Jan 31 for allegedly repeatedly raping a 42-year-old married railway employee between July 2005 and March 2009. Dhananjay Singh's defence counsel S.P.M. Tripathi has denied the charges. |
| Humanitarian crisis looms in western Myanmar as foreign aid workers leave | | | With food stocks dwindling and prices rising by the hour in his camp for displaced Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state, Hla Maung decided to ask a friend in the neighbouring village for food. The situation is about to get dramatically worse for Hla Maung and tens of thousands of others dependent on food and water rations, said humanitarian workers evacuated after recent riots in the state capital, Sittwe. At least 20,000 people in displacement camps around Sittwe will run out of drinking water within 10 days, while food stocks will run out within two weeks, imperilling thousands more. The overall numbers of people facing shortages are likely much higher, because the aid workers were referring only to communities in the Sittwe area. |
| Attacked by Trinamool activists, say poll officials | | | Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Members of a election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) team Tuesday alleged they were roughed up by Trinamool Congress activists after posters and festoons of the ruling party were removed in West Bengal's Howrah district. The incident which happened in Howrah Vivekananda Road comes days after a block development officer in North 24 Parganas district lodged a police complaint alleging he was assaulted by Trinamool activists for removing party banners and posters. "Trinamool posters and festoons were put up inside a school which goes against the MCC. When we tried to remove them, a large number of party activists attacked and assaulted us," said a MCC team member. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment