New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) As many as 2,873 people with criminal antecedents were present between July 20 and 25 during the students’ protest site at Jantar Mantar, a Delhi Police source said on Monday.These criminals were identified using Facial Recognition System (FRS) and through technical means, said a senior police official.Most of the identified persons were seen in FRS cameras in North-East Delhi, including Seelampur, Chand Bagh, Jafrabad and some colonies in South -East Delhi like Jamia…
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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) A 40-year-old man was arrested in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl after luring her with a mobile phone, police said on Monday.The husband of a former Trinamool Congress councillor has also come under the scanner after allegations surfaced that he tried to shield the accused. The incident has triggered a huge uproar in Ward No 2 of Dum Dum Municipality in North 24 Parganas district. The victim’s mother and local resid…
Kalaburagi, July 15 (IANS) One of the three convicts who escaped from the Kalaburagi Central Prison in Karnataka by scaling the 20-foot-high compound wall was apprehended after a police encounter in the early hours of Wednesday, while an intensive search operation is underway to trace the remaining two fugitives.The escaped convict, identified as Santhosh Basappa Metre (28) of Bidar district, sustained a gunshot injury to his right leg after allegedly attempting to attack police personnel during…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 5 (IANS) Even as Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala is attempting to cleanse the state of the drug menace, the police force under his control has come under serious criticism after a young man who had undergone bypass surgery alleged that he was brutally assaulted while in custody in connection with a POCSO case that police now believe was based on a fabricated complaint. The controversy has raised fresh questions over alleged police excesses and the handling of sen…
Gandhinagar, July 2 (IANS) Gujarat’s network of Mobile Forensic Vans (MFVs) has attended more than 37,000 crime scenes over the past two years, providing on-site scientific support to police investigations as forensic evidence assumes greater importance under India’s new criminal laws. According to information released by the state government on Thursday, the 47 MFVs operating across Gujarat function as mini forensic laboratories, allowing investigators to preserve evidence at crime scenes, cond…
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Tuesday hailed the Special Court’s judgement sentencing the prime accused in the horrific Nasrapur minor assault and murder case to death. It has triggered a massive debate across the state regarding the breakdown of law and order and the growing atmosphere of insecurity for women and children in Maharashtra.The Thackeray camp, in an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, said that the verdict provides closure to the v…
Bhubaneswar, June 23 (IANS) The Commissionerate Police has arrested a 38-year-old man on charges of sexually abusing a minor student in Bhubaneswar, said a police official on Tuesday. The accused was identified as Niranjan Mishra of the Mancheswar police station area of Bhubaneswar city. The victim, an undergraduate student at a local college, allegedly came into contact with the accused, who runs a coaching centre in the Saheed Nagar area of the city, a couple of months ago.According to the com…
Jaipur, May 30 (IANS) For years, delays in the investigation and disposal of rape and POCSO cases have remained one of the biggest concerns in India’s criminal justice system. Long investigations often add more to the trauma of survivors and weaken public confidence in the trial process.Rajasthan, however, is now presenting a different story, one where speed, sensitivity and accountability are increasingly shaping the justice framework.Recent crime review figures suggest that the state has made …
Jodhpur/New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court has granted bail to a man accused of sexually harassing and stalking a minor girl, while imposing stringent conditions including a one-year ban on the use of all social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.A single-judge Bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the Jodhpur Bench passed the order while allowing the bail plea of the accused in a case registered at Mukta Prasad Nagar police station in Bikaner under Sections 7…
Hyderabad, May 22 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Friday alleged that Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy conspired with Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay to save the latter’s son Bandi Bhageerath in the POCSO case. Addressing a press conference, he said that the crime of shielding a POCSO accused for nine days squarely lies with Revanth Reddy, who is also the home minister.Rama Rao hit back at the Chief Minister for the remarks…