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| Amanda Knox conviction in Italy could spur lengthy extradition fight | |  By Jonathan Kaminsky REUTERS - Italy's conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her British roommate when the two were exchange students together could spur a drawn-out fight over extradition in the United States, where supporters contend she is the victim of a faulty foreign justice system. If Knox's conviction is ultimately confirmed pending further appeals, her lawyers are expected to argue that the United States cannot send her to Italy in part because of U.S. constitutional guarantees against "double jeopardy," although some experts say that could be a tough case to prove. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty on Thursday for the second time in the 2007 stabbing death of Meredith Kercher, in a retrial that reversed an earlier appeal judgment that cleared her. Knox, who spent four years in an Italian jail before returning to the United States in 2011, was sentenced to 28 years and 6 months but will not face jail time pending further appeals in Italy.
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| Germany must publish list of artworks hoarded by recluse - court | | | By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany must publish the full list of artworks found in the flat of an elderly recluse last year which are mostly believed to have been looted or extorted by the Nazis, a German court ruled on Friday, citing the need for transparency in a case long hushed up. The stash of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings and sculptures includes works by Picasso, Matisse and German expressionists Otto Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Germany has faced criticism from around the world for failing to publish the full list of artworks, as well as for keeping silent for nearly two years about the trove. "The administrative court of Augsburg has ordered state prosecutors to give a list of the artworks ... to the reporter of a daily newspaper," the Bavarian court said in a statement, referring to the right to information under media law. |
| Amanda Knox defiant after second murder conviction | |  By Susan Heavey and Naomi O'Leary WASHINGTON/FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Amanda Knox vowed on Friday to fight her second conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 while the two were students together in the Italian university town of Perugia. Speaking on U.S. television a day after her conviction by a court in Florence, the 26-year-old American said she would never willingly return to Italy to serve the 28-1/2-year sentence handed down by judges. The family of the victim urged the United States to agree to extradite Knox if her conviction is upheld after a final appeal process expected to conclude in 2015. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were both found guilty of killing the 21-year-old Kercher, who was found stabbed to death in an apartment the two young women shared in Perugia.
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| Expedite child tracking system, government told | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday directed the central government to expedite operationalisation of the crime and criminal tracking network system (CCTNS) and TrackChild project after expressing displeasure on increasing cases of kidnapping and trafficking of children. A division bench of Justice P.K. Bhasin and Justice Indermeet Kaur directed the ministries of home affairs and women and child development to file a detailed status report on the projects. During the hearing, central government's counsel Jatan Singh told the court that CCTNS, which was being developed to facilitate sharing of data and information at various police stations across the country, "will be made fully operational by March 2015". "Memorandum of understanding (MoU) have been signed between central government and all 35 state and union territories (UTs) for implementation of CCTNS," he added. |
| Narcotics, weapons smuggling gang kingpin arrested in Bengal | | | Siliguri, Jan 31 (IANS) A kingpin of the inter-state weapons and narcotics smuggling gang, which has been carrying out its illegal dealings while dressed up in military fatigues, was arrested from Ranaghat in West Bengal's Nadia district Friday. Kartik Kundu was rounded up based on the interrogation of the nine people arrested from this town in Darjeeling district Wednesday night, said Siliguri Police Commissioner Jagmohan. Cananbis worth over Rs.5 crore, besides arms and ammunition including an AK 47 rifle, were seized in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Thursday from the nine arrested, who were all in military fatigues. |
| Arunachal legislator's son dies after Delhi beating, northeast enraged | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) A 19-year-old son of an Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator died here after being beaten up by two shopkeepers following a row over his appearance and clothing, police said Friday. The brutal attack on Nido Taniam took place at the crowded Lajpat Nagar I market in south Delhi Wednesday afternoon, leading to internal and other injuries that caused his death in a hospital Thursday. The Delhi government ordered a probe into the "murderous assault". It all began when Taniam, a student of Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, and his friend approached the shop seeking directions. |
| CORRECTED - Jewish leader says German museums turn blind eye to Nazi-looted art | |  (Corrects name to American Jewish Committee in graf 9) By Monica Raymunt BERLIN (Reuters) - German museums are wilfully ignoring their duty to come clean about works they hold that were looted from Jews by the Nazis, the head of the World Jewish Congress said on Thursday, and the government must do more to force them to act. Germany has faced heavy criticism over its handling of the discovery of 1,407 Nazi-plundered works in the flat of Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly recluse whose father took orders from Hitler to buy and sell so-called 'degenerate art' to fund Nazi activities. Since a magazine broke the story last November, debate over the rightful ownership of works stashed in the Munich apartment - including by masters such as Duerer, Delacroix, Picasso and Matisse - has grown into a wider controversy over thousands of paintings on open display in museums. "They know what's been stolen," WJC President Ronald Lauder told Reuters in an interview during a visit to Berlin.
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| Miami Beach officer investigated for trying to snap Bieber photo | |  A female Miami Beach police officer is under investigation for improperly attempting to take a photograph of teenage pop singer Justin Bieber after his arrest last week for alleged driving under the influence. The officer is alleged to have attempted to photograph Bieber while he was in a temporary holding facility, according to police spokesman, Bobby Hernandez. The woman faces possible disciplinary action for conduct unbecoming an officer, he added. Bieber, 19, was arrested on January 23 after police said he was caught drag racing with friends at the wheel of a Lamborghini in a residential area of Miami Beach.
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| Delhi's racism caused Arunachal student's death, cries northeast | | | Guwahati, Jan 31 (IANS) From downright shock to a seething anger, people from the country's northeast, and especially its youth, reacted strongly at the death Thursday of a 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh student who was allegedly severely assaulted by shopkeepers in a busy south Delhi market. "There were such large scale protests against discrimination of South African students in Delhi after the Somnath Bharti (of Aam Aadmi Party) incident in south Delhi. Without undermining their case, why are there no voices outside the northeast community condemning incidents of racism against people of India's northeast?" "Day after day, and year after year, when helpless students of the northeast are meted out worse behaviour by residents of the city, no one speaks out. Nido Taniem's death was a case of downright discrimination and racism, but who, other than us from the northeast, are going to speak out against it?" asks an agitated Saurav Barman, a second year graduation student in Guwahati. |
| Charge sheet filed against BSP MP for rape | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Delhi Police Friday filed a charge sheet in a court here against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh for allegedly repeatedly raping a 42-year-old married railway employee for nearly four years. The charge sheet was filed in a complaint by the woman accusing Singh, the Lok Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur constituency, of repeatedly raping her. The charge sheet was filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sonu Agnihotri. |
| Arunachal MP demands arrest of culprits in student's death | | | Itanagar, Jan 31 (IANS) Congress Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh Takam Sanjoy Friday criticised Delhi Police for their failure to arrest those involved in the murder of an Arunachal student in New Delhi. The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union and the All Nyishi Students Union also condemned the incident and demanded the Delhi government to arrest the culprits immediately and to punish them severely. Nido Taniam, son of Arunachal Pradesh Parliamentary Secretary in-charge of health and family welfare Nido Pavitra, was severely assaulted by shopkeepers in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar I area Wednesday. |
| Meghalaya varsity asked not to admit students in Delhi | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has prohibited Mahatma Gandhi University, Meghalaya, from admitting any student to a fashion institute in Delhi for any of its courses. Justice Manmohan Thursday directed the university not to admit students in degree, diploma and certificate courses in fashion institute Fashionista on a plea of a student, Mohammad Sajid, who alleged the institute was running illegally and playing with the careers of innocent students. |
| Two detained for Delhi heist | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Two people have been detained and five others identified in connection with Delhi's biggest Rs.7.69-crore heist, police said Friday. "The two detained are in their early 20s," a police officer told IANS, adding one was an employee of the businessman whose cash was looted in a rush-hour armed robbery on an arterial road Jan 28 morning. Six people robbed a businessman of Rs.7.69 crore in cash near Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi and hijacked the car in which he was going with four other employees Jan 28 morning. Police said that businessman Rajesh Kalra was arrested in 2000 for his links with bookies and was charged in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing case. |
| Police did not file case initially, says minister | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Minister of State for Minority Affairs Ninong Ering Friday alleged that police did not file a complaint initially and said there was a compromise reached between the Arunachal Pradesh student and the shopkeepers who assaulted him. Nido Taniam, 19, son of Nido Pavitra, a Congress legislator from Arunachal Pradesh, was assaulted by shopkeepers in what is being termed as a "racial attack" in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar I area Wednesday. "I went to the police station with chief resident commissioner and other officers. "They took the case in a very casual way and said there was a compromise reached between the boy and the shopkeepers," Ering said. |
| Arunachal student killed, northeast MPs to meet PM | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) A 19-year-old son of an Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator died here after being beaten up by two shopkeepers following a row over his appearance and clothing, police said Friday. The brutal attack on Nido Taniam took place at the crowded Lajpat Nagar I market in south Delhi Wednesday afternoon, leading to internal and other injuries that caused his death in a hospital Thursday. It all began when Taniam, a student of Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, and a friend approached the shop seeking directions. Police said the furious Taniam, son of Arunachal Pradesh legislator Nido Pavitra, entered the shop and hit a glass-topped table, shattering it. |
| Delhi government to probe Arunachal student's death | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday "strongly condemned" the death of a 19-year-old youngster, son of an Arunachal Pradesh legislator, and said a magisterial inquiry would be initiated into it. Delhi is a city where people from all over the country come and live together. In a statement issued earlier, the Delhi government, describing the incident as a "murderous assault", promised to order a magisterial inquiry into the death. "We are working on ordering a magisterial inquiry into this death, which is not only tragic but raises serious questions on the alleged beating reportedly in public view," said the statement. |
| Birbhum gang rape: SC asks Bengal chief secretary to send report | | | New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday directed West Bengal's chief secretary to submit a detailed report on the gang rape of a 19-year-old tribal girl in the state's Birbhum district. A bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice M.Y. Eqbal said that they were not satisfied with the report sent by the Birbhum district judge as it had no information on action taken by the authorities. The court said that on its Jan 24 order, Birbhum's district judge, along with the chief judicial magistrate and a team of people inspected the place in question and submitted a report to the apex court. It accordingly directed the apex court's registrar to forward a copy of the district judge's report to the state chief secretary, who, in turn, was asked to submit a detailed report and the follow up action by police within a period of two weeks. |
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