| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| U.N. council OKs U.N. peacekeepers for Central African Republic | |  The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved on Thursday the creation of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic to try to stop violence between Christians and Muslims that has threatened to spiral into genocide. The 15-member council authorized a U.N. force, to be known as MINUSCA, of up to 10,000 troops, 1,800 police and 20 corrections officers. It also authorizes French troops in the landlocked former French colony to support U.N. peacekeepers. The U.N. operation will assume authority on September 15 from the African Union's 5,600-strong MISCA force, which was deployed in December.
|
| Prosecutor tells Pistorius: "Your version is a lie" | |  By Ed Cropley PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor accused Oscar Pistorius on Thursday of lying and altering his story when the Olympic and Paralympic athlete described the night he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. The double amputee sprinter, once revered across the world for his triumph over physical adversity, faces life in prison if convicted in the Pretoria High Court of the murder of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law graduate and model. Pistorius, known as 'Blade Runner' due to the prosthetics he wears on the track, says he shot Steenkamp in a tragic accident, firing at what he thought was an intruder hiding behind a toilet door in his luxury Pretoria home on February 14 last year. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel, whose reputation as one of South Africa's toughest attorneys has earned him the nickname 'The Pitbull', cross-examined Pistorius while looking through photographs of the couple's bedroom taken after the shooting.
|
| Former household staffer says was insulted by Netanyahu's wife | |  A former maintenance man at Benjamin Netanyahu's residence has filed a lawsuit alleging abusive conduct by the prime minister's wife, Sara, another in a series of complaints faced by Israel's first lady. Aides to the Netanyahu family issued a statement denying Guy Eliahu's allegations, calling his lawsuit "a continuation of an organised and orchestrated campaign to recruit embittered former employees" to sue the Israeli leader and damage him politically. A copy of the lawsuit provided on Thursday to Reuters by Eliahu's attorneys, said Sara Netanyahu had chided him with the remark "you're not elegant" and once summoned him back to the residence after midnight to complain that he had not said "goodnight" to the family and demand he heat up some soup. Eliahu, the court papers said, was forced to work "inhuman hours and endure extreme mood changes and inappropriate behaviour" by Sara Netanyahu.
|
| Rapists do not deserve death, boys commit mistakes: Mulayam | | | Moradabad, April 10 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday said death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". Speaking at an election rally in Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh, the former chief minister told the gathering that death for rapists was not okay and if voted to power at the Centre, he will change the law. "Ladkon se aisi galtiyan ho jaati hain to iska ye matlab nahin ki phaansi de di jaye (Boys do make such mistakes but that does not mean that they should be sent to the gallows)," he told the gathering. |
| Trinamool activists attack poll officials, under EC scanner | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) Trinamool Congress activists Thursday allegedly assaulted Election Commission officials in West Bengal's Malda district for objecting to a party candidate's rally, the district authorities said. The incident happened in Manikchak area in the district, when the officials objected to a motorbike rally being taken out in support of the party's candidate from Malda South, Moajjim Hussain as such rallies are prohibited. As soon as the officials protested, several Trinamool activists assaulted them. Malda District Magistrate S.K. Dwivedi told IANS: "A report in this regard has been sought from the block development officer, and whoever is found guilty will be punished." "The party workers had not taken any police permission for the rally and there were about 250-300 bikes in the rally despite this being prohibited. |
| Death sentence unfair punishment for rape: Mulayam Singh | | | Moradabad, April 10 (IANS) SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday said death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". At an election rally in Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief also said that if his party leads the government at the Centre, he would change the law. "Death penalty for rape is unfair, boys make mistakes... will change rape laws when we come to power," Mulayam Singh said. |
| FIR against Congress' Bengal chief in murder case | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) A first information report (FIR) has been filed against West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in connection with the murder of a Trinamool Congress supporter in the state's Murshidabad district, police said Thursday. "The FIR was filed late Wednesday night in connection with the murder of Badal Sheikh. 28 people have been named including Chowdhury. So far we have arrested two people," said an officer of Jalangi police station before which the FIR was filed. |
| Seven killed in Himachal accident | | | Shimla, April 10 (IANS) Seven people, including five of a family from Jharkhand, were killed Thursday when their vehicle skidded off the road in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, police said. The people were travelling in a pick-up vehicle when it rolled down 1,200 feet near Jangi village, some 40 km from district headquarters Rekong Peo, Deputy Superintendent of Police Kushal Kumar told IANS over phone. |
| Trinamool leader's hate speech: Calcutta HC questions police inaction | | | Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Thursday directed the West Bengal DGP to personally appear before it Friday and explain police inaction against a Trinamool Congress leader for a hate speech. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment