Coimbatore, June 10 (IANS) The Coimbatore District Police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet before a special court in the case relating to the abduction, sexual assault and murder of a 10-year-old girl near Sulur last month. The 819-page chargesheet, containing 104 prosecution witnesses and 215 documents, was submitted before the Special Court for trial of cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The document was e-filed on Tuesday by the investigating team headed …
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Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The Bengal Police on Sunday arrested Mohammad Jasimuddin, a Trinamool Congress councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on charges of molestation and harassment of a minor girl. With this, a total of eight Trinamool Congress councillors of KMC have been arrested over various charges since the change of government in the state.Jasimuddin is a Trinamool councillor of ward number 39 in Jorasanko area in central Kolkata. He was arrested from his house in the afternoo…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The police have raided the residence of Trinamool Congress councillor Mohammad Jasimuddin in Jorasanko in central Kolkata, officials said on Sunday.The officers of the Jorasanko police station reached his house adjacent to College Street along with Central forces. While the Central force jawans were standing outside the house, police officers tried to enter the house to question the councillor.However, it was reported that the Trinamool leader had not opened the door. The …
Chandigarh, June 1 (IANS) A sexual assault of a minor by a retired but re-employed doctor has been reported at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash District Civil Hospital (LNJP) in Haryana’s Kurukshetra.The accused, Dr Shailender Kumar Shally, who is absconding, had retired as Principal Medical Officer from the hospital but was re-employed as a consultant at the government hospital.The victim has been admitted after complaining of stomach pain. It is alleged that Shailendra Shally, a consultant doctor a…
Hyderabad, May 29 (IANS) Cyberabad police continued questioning Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son Bandi Bhageerath in a POCSO case for the third day on Friday. MoS Bandi Sanjay’s son will be produced before a trial court at Malkajgiri later in the day today.A Special Investigation Team (SIT) was questioning him at Pet Basheerabad Police Station, where the case was registered against him on May 8.The SIT, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Ritiraj, is reported…
Hyderabad, May 27 (IANS) Cyberabad police on Wednesday began interrogating Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son Bandi Bhageerath in a POCSO case.The day after the trial court granted police custody of Bhageerath for three days, a police team from Pet Basheerabad Police Station took him into custody from Cherlapalli Prison.After the medical examination, the police shifted him to the police station for questioning.Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kukatpally, Ritiraj, w…
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…
Chennai, May 24 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Industries Minister S. Keerthana on Sunday sought to address the controversy surrounding her response to questions on the brutal rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in Coimbatore’s Sulur area, stating that her body language had been misinterpreted and unnecessarily politicised by opposition parties on social media. The controversy erupted after visuals of the minister smiling while interacting with reporters in Virudhunagar during a media interaction were ci…
Hyderabad, May 17 (IANS) Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son Bandi Bhageerath was sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Magistrate in a POCSO case. Bhageerath, who was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday night, was produced before a Magistrate at his residence at Medchal around midnight.The Magistrate remanded him to judicial custody till May 29.The accused was subsequently shifted to the Cherlapalli Jail.The SIT arrested the accus…
Hyderabad, May 16 (IANS) The Telangana High Court has refused to grant interim protection from arrest to Bandi Bhageerath, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The single-judge vacation bench heard arguments on the petition till around midnight and refused to grant interim protection to the petitioner.Justice T. Madhavi Devi made it clear that she was not inclined to grant any interim order after …