Bangalore, April 11, 2012 Three-month-old baby Afreen, allegedly battered and abused by her father for being born a girl, died at a hospital here on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. Afreen had convulsions at 10.00 a.m. and later suffered a cardiac arrest, Dr. Somegowda, Resident Medical Superintendent of Vani Vilas Hospital, where the child was admitted two days ago said. The baby was in a semi-comatose state after her condition deteriorated on Wednesday following ...
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LONDON, March 14, 2012 In a dramatic turn, Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British media group News International, and — intriguingly — her husband Charlie, a racehorse trainer, were on Tuesday arrested with five others as part of the police investigations into the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The couple were arrested from their home in Oxfordshire while others were picked up from addresses in London, Hampshire and Hertfordshire. ...
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Mumbai:March 7, 2012 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four persons including its own counsel and a former Congress legislator on charges of criminal conspiracy for diluting the charges against the politician in the Adarsh case. The CBI said that the politician paid Rs 1.25 crores to a tax consultant to be given to the CBI officials for favours. A special CBI court on Tuesday remanded all the accused to police custody till ...
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New Delhi, February 11, 2012 Making a breakthrough in the battered baby case, Delhi Police has arrested the prime suspect who allegedly handed over the child to his 14-year-old girlfriend here. Taxi driver Raj Kumar was arrested early this morning here after weeks of manhunt. Delhi Police have been on the look out for Kumar since January 18 when the minor girl got the baby admitted to AIIMS. Prathima, who is allegedly involved in a prostitution racket, was also ...
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MALE, February 9, 2012 A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for former President Mohamed Nasheed, a police official said on Thursday. Mr. Nasheed stepped down from power earlier this week but later insisted he had been ousted in a coup. Police spokesman Abdul Mannan Yusuf refused to disclose the grounds for the warrant, or say when Mr. Nasheed, who is living at his Male home surrounded by supporters, would be arrested. Later, Police Commissioner Abdullah ...
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Islamabad, January 24, 2012 (Tehelkanews) The upper house of Pakistan’s parliament on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution that demanded the arrest of former President Pervez Musharraf on his arrival in the country and the registration of a case of high treason against him. The resolution was moved in the Senate by Raza Rabbani, a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party. Mr. Rabbani accused Mr. Musharraf, currently living in self-exile in London and Dubai, ...
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New Delhi, January 14,2012 (Tehelkanews) The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the Delhi Police not to arrest Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy till January 30 in a case of his writing an alleged inflammatory article in a daily. Justice M.L. Mehta granted the protection subject to Dr. Swamy filing an affidavit saying that he would not write such an article in future. “We are a secular country and we should respect the system which we have. It is not a ...
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Lahore, May 30, 2011 (PTI) Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel. Kamran Ahmed, a former personnel of the elite Special Service Group-Navy, was picked up with his younger brother and a friend from Gulberg area of Lahore on Friday, sources said. Mr. Ahmed was posted at the ...
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Belgrade, May 26, 2011 (AP) Croatian media, which first broke the story, said police there got confirmation from their Serbian colleagues that DNA analysis confirmed Gen. Mladic’s identity. Belgrade’s B92 radio said Gen. Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village close to the northern Serbian town of Zrenjanin. Ratko Mladic, Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested, Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Thursday. Gen. Mladic has been on the run since 1995 ...
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New York, May 26, 2011 (PTI) An Indian diplomat's daughter is suing New York City's government for $1.5 million over a wrongful arrest on suspicion of sending obscene e-mails to her teacher in Queens' John Browne High School. She was subsequently cleared of the offence. Krittika Biswas, daughter of the vice-counsel at the Indian Consulate in Manhattan, Debashish Biswas, also claims she was ill-treated in prison and was forced to go to the toilet in front of other prisoners. Her ...
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NEW YORK, May 21, 2011 (AP) Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail on Friday to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy. Prosecutors said he would stay temporarily in lower Manhattan while his family and lawyers look for more permanent housing for him to await trial on charges he tried to rape a hotel maid. Mr. ...
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New Delhi, May 20, 2011 A Delhi court on Friday ordered “forthwith” arrest of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar after rejecting their bail pleas in the 2G spectrum case. “The bail applications are dismissed. Both the accused be taken into custody forthwith,” Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini said. The court directed that Ms. Kanimozhi and Mr. Kumar should be produced before it at 10 a.m. on Saturday, when the case comes up for hearing. DMK leaders, including ...
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Hyderabad, May 12, 2011 (PTI) Congress leaders here held protests against the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh over the arrest of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi. State Congress president D Srinivas and other leaders organised the protest at the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Gandhi Bhavan, the state Congress headquarters. A group of party workers raised slogans against the Mayawati government and burnt her effigy. Condemning the arrest of Mr. Gandhi, Mr. Srinivas hit out ...
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Lucknow, May 12, 2011 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was arrested in a dramatic manner at Bhatta-Parsaul villages in Greater Noida late on Wednesday night after the Mayawati government decided to act against him. Mr. Gandhi, who had earlier staged an indefinite dharna in support of the farmers' demand, spent almost 20 hours at the villages. Mr. Gandhi said he would continue to wage a struggle for the common man. AICC general secretary in charge of U.P. Digvijay Singh, PCC ...
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LUCKNOW, May 11, 2011 He is facing the charge of inciting farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul and Achheypur to violence The Noida police conducted raids in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, Faridabad in Haryana and Delhi to arrest farmers' leader Manveer Singh Tewatia, facing the charge of inciting farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul and Achheypur villages in Greater Noida to violence. Special Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters that 19 cases of “serious nature” were pending ...
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New Delhi, April 20, 2011 Another pilot working with a private airline has been arrested by the Delhi Police for procuring a commercial pilot license by allegedly submitting fake marksheets. With the arrest of Swarn Singh, the police has arrested a total of seven pilots for procuring commercial pilot licence or Air Transport Pilot Licence by allegedly submitting fake marksheets. A total of 15 people have been arrested in Delhi and Jaipur since March seven after the fake pilot scam ...
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader on Monday arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave the presidency despite losing elections more than four months earlier. The dispute over the presidency had pushed the world's largest cocoa producer to the brink of a renewed civil war, with hundreds of civilians slain in postelection violence. An eyewitness at the Golf Hotel where election winner ...
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PARIS: Police in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils on Monday as a ban on full-face coverings went into effect. The women, part of a demonstration that erupted in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, were detained for taking part in an unauthorised protest rather than for wearing their veils. But, in theory at least, French officials can now slap fines on Muslim women who refuse orders to expose their faces when in public. ...
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Mumbai, March 24, 2011 The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuria, an associate of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of money-laundering and huge tax evasion. Mr. Tapuria was arrested here after three days of questioning, ED sources said. Meanwhile, Mr. Khan’s chartered accountant, Sunil Shinde, has been asked to appear before the ED for questioning. The ED had conducted searches at his residence in Pune on ...
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Mumbai, March 21, 2011 Two British nationals, convicted on charges of sexual abuse of minor boys living in shelters run by them in Mumbai, were arrested on Monday, three days after the Supreme Court overturned their acquittal by the Bombay High Court. Duncan Grant, 67, and Allan Waters, 63, were arrested from Mahatma Phule Nagar slum in Cuff Parade of South Mumbai, senior Inspector at Colaba police station Vinod Sawant said. The duo, accused of sexually abusing minor boys living in ...
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