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Class 10 student gang raped in Dehradun boarding school

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The principal and two other officials of a boarding school here in Uttarakhand were arrested on Tuesday after a Class 10 girl student accused them of suppressing the matter of her gang rape by senior students in August, police said.

Four students of the school have also been detained for questioning. The two other school officials arrested are the administrator and the hostel warden.

The victim, who lives with her elder sister in the girls hostel, has alleged that a school official tried to spike her drink with medicines to terminate her pregnancy after the rape.

The 16-year-old has said that on the eve of Independence Day, on the pretext of preparations for an August 15 event, the four senior boys sexually assaulted her.

The police said the matter came to light after the victim complained to her sister.

The school has been accused of trying to suppress the matter, first by requesting the girl not to take the matter ahead and then by trying to mix drugs into her drinks for abortion, an officer said.

The girl has since recorded her statement before a Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in the presence of officials of the Child Welfare Department of the Uttarakhand government.

The girl has named four students of Class 12 who allegedly raped her.

(IANS)

Rewari gangrape case : SI suspended for delay in registering FIR.

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A sub-inspector, Hiramani of a women’s police station in Rewari was on Monday suspended for delaying action in registering the 19-year-old Rewari gangrape survivor’s FIR, which could have aided the escape of the accused. Hiramani was pulled up for not registering the complaint and making the family rush from pillar to post.

According to reports, a departmental inquiry has been ordered against her. Hiramani’s suspension comes soon after Rewari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Duggal was transferred. The Times of India reported that the sub-inspectors suspension was recommended by Duggal before his transfer.

Representational image. PTIRepresentational image. PTI
“The orders to suspend Hiramani from the Women’s Police Station, Rewari were issued on Monday. She has been suspended over allegations of delay in taking action on the complaint and negligence in handling the case,” a Rewari district police official said on Tuesday.

Rahul Sharma, who assumed charge as new district police chief of Rewari after Rajesh Duggal was moved out as SP, said arresting the absconding accused was a priority. “However, it (the case) doesn’t end with the arrest of the accused, but it ends with their conviction. So, securing evidence and ensuring they get convicted, through a fast track court, would be the next step,” he said.

PTI

Controversy over cash shower on Congress MLA in Mumbai

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Senior Congress legislator Naseem Khan on Tuesday courted controversy as a video clip showing him being showered with currency notes at a religious event here went viral.

During a visit to a ‘bhajan’ event organised by the Bhanushali community, Khan was welcomed by several people by showering currency notes on him. The Congress leader is seen smiling as he entered the venue in Chandivali in Andheri East last week.

BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari demanded to know how so much cash was thrown around freely and demanded a probe. Khan claimed a political conspiracy behind the clipping.

Congress sources claim the clipping could be the handiwork of a faction within the party’s Mumbai unit, especially as attempts are on to dislodge Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam from the post.

The clipping surfaced the day Nirupam met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and demanded reservation in education and jobs for over 30 north Indian communities living in Maharashtra for decades.

Khan and Nirupam are from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar respectively and are wooing north Indian voters in Mumbai.

Khan maintained it is a custom with the community to welcome their guests in this manner and that all the cash thus collected is donated for religious activities like constructing or maintaining cow shelters.

“Every community has different traditions or customs. How can I challenge these? It is all the more surprising as even leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena from the community were openly showering cash to welcome the guests,” Khan told IANS.

(IANS)

Rewari gang-rape: Rahul says PM’s silence is unacceptable

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Six days after the Rewari gang-rape, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his “silence is unacceptable” and added “India hangs its head in shame as another one of its daughters is brutally gang-raped”.

“India hangs its head in shame as another one of its daughters is brutally gang raped,” said Gandhi on Twitter.

“Prime Minister, your silence is unacceptable. Shame on a government that leaves India’s women unprotected and afraid and allows rapists to walk free,” he added.

Even though two of the three main accused in Rewari gang-rape case continued to evade arrest, a Haryana court had sent three arrested men, including one main accused, to five-day police custody.

One of the main accused, Nishu, as also Deendayal and Sanjeev Kumar, were earlier presented in a court in Kanina on Monday. They will be presented in court again on September 21.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Haryana Police on Sunday evening announced the arrest of Nishu. SIT chief Nazneen Bhasin had said that raids were on to nab two other main accused — soldier Pankaj and Manish.

The three main accused had gang-raped the 19-year-old woman on September 12. Deendayal is the owner of a tubewell room where the crime took place in Mahendragarh district. Sanjay Kumar is the medical practitioner who had treated the victim. Both did not inform police despite in the know of the crime.

(IANS)

Jharkhand needs NRC: CM

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With BJP deciding to focus on identity issues in the coming elections, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das says there is need for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) in his state also to check infiltration from Bangladesh because Hindus have become a minority in some districts.

He also favours job reservations on the basis of economic backwardness and called for a consensus on the issue.

“We will take all Bangladeshis out one by one. There is no doubt about it. In Pakur, Hindus are now in a minority. Bangladeshis are more than 50 per cent in Pakur while the numbers have increased significantly in Sahebganj, Godda and Jamtara districts. We will implement NRC in Jharkhand,” Das told IANS in an interview during a visit organised by the BJP’s Good Governance Cell.

The Jharkhand government has approached the union Home Ministry in this regard and is waiting for its response for initiating the exercise.

The Chief Minister accused the political parties of patronising Bangladeshi infiltrators across the state and said the issue needs to addressed at the earliest.

“It is very unfortunate that Congress has been doing votebank politics even after 67 years of our independence. All these problems are due to Congress’ votebank politics. They did politics for breaking the country while we (BJP) are doing politics to unite the country,” he said.

He alleged that Sahebganj, Pakur, Godda and Jamtara are the worst-hit districts where hundreds of illegal migration of Bangladeshi infiltrators has taken place in Jharkhand.

Seeking job reservations on the basis of the economic criteria, the chief minister demanded a national-level discussion on the issue to evolve a consensus.

“I am in favour of reservation on the basis of economic condition. In society, everybody is not rich. It is not that all those belong to upper caste are rich. I am in favour of it. There are poor people in every society. The issue needs to be discussed and a consensus needs to be evolved, he said.

The Chief Minister also backed the idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’ but rejected any advancing of dates for the Assembly polls in Jharkhand along with the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Assembly polls are scheduled in Jharkhand six months after the Lok Sabha polls.

“I am also in favour of one nation, one election. The Prime Minister has given a call for debate on the issue. An atmosphere in its favour must be created by debate and discussion. It is not that we want and they want. It’s a matter of consensus. It needs to be passed by parliament. If a consensus is evolved, there may be simultaneous polls of Lok Sabha and Assemblies in 2024, he said.

Asked whether he would go for Assembly polls together with Lok Sabha polls, he said: our election will be at its scheduled time and Lok Sabha elections will be at its scheduled time. There are no ifs and buts. Why would I go for early polls. My condition is not bad.”

The Chief Minister said that there would be no impact of the grand alliance in 2019 and claimed that the BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi would again emerge victorious.

“Whether it is alliance or grand alliance (mahagathbandhan), we are not worried at all. Can oil and water mix together? Even when you mix oil and water together they will still separate. Our focus is on strengthening the organisation. We have a leadership like Modiji, on whom the people of the country have strong faith.”

(IANS)

Enforcement Directorate registered one more case against D K Shivakumar

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D K Shivakumar, water resources minister of Karnataka is in trouble again. Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered and FIR against him for possession of illegal currency to the tune of Rs eight crore in a flat in the city.

Shivakumar, who heaved a sigh of relief on Saturday, September 16 for having secured a bail from the special court of economic offences, is facing the possibility of an arrest in this fresh case registered by the ED.

In addition to Shivakumar, FIR is also registered against Anjaneya Hanumant, staff and Rajendra, former staff personnel of Karnataka Bhavan in the city.

Income Tax (IT) department had registered four cases against Shivakumar and others for evading tax with regards to the illegal currency that was found in a flat in the city. However, the court had granted conditional bail to all the accused in these four cases.

“We are ready to face any inquiry. We have got all the documents. We are ready to answer the questions of the ED within the framework of law,” said D K Suresh, MP and brother of Shivakumar.

PTI

Karnataka govt slashes fuel prices by Rs 2; new rates to be effected from Tuesday

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The State government, on Monday, September 17, lowered the price of petrol and diesel by Rs. 2. Three other states, namely Rajasthan, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, have already cut state taxes on fuel.

The CMO sources have said that on Sunday, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy had a meeting arranged with the Finance department to lower the fuel price by a decrease in the tax rates.

CM HDK has passed an order to the Finance department to find solutions in accumulating resources and taxes, which needs to be submitted by September 17.

On the same grounds, in the state budget that was announced on July 5, HDK had raised the tax percentage on petrol from 30 to 32 per cent and on diesel from 19 to 21 per cent. By this, the petrol rates were increased by Rs. 1.14 and diesel Rs. 1.12.

Two days ago, CM Kumaraswamy had a meet with the Excise, Transport, Mining and Geology, and Registration and Stamps departments to inspect on the developments. Each department has exceeded the goals set by the government in terms of tax collection. The Finance department has said that the treasury of the state government is stable and there should not be any shortcomings in farmers loan waive off as well as other government initiatives.

The department also said that this had become the reason for the CM to lower the taxation on the fuel price.

The CM had hinted at lowering the tax rates during his visit to Delhi recently.

Recently, petrol and diesel rates reached the mark of Rs. 84 and Rs. 73 respectively. The rates saw a sharp increase in spite of the ‘Bharath Bandh’ called by the Congress-led opposition.

(PTI)

US police ‘using Tiger Text app to conceal evidence’

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Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has discovered that a self-deleting messaging app called Tiger Text has been adopted by at least one US police department, which may have used it to share sensitive and potentially incriminating information that they wouldn’t want disclosed to a court.

Current and former officers from the Long Beach Police Department in Southern California have told Al Jazeera that their police-issued phones had Tiger Text installed on them.

The Tiger Text app is designed to erase text messages after a set time period. Once the messages have been deleted, they cannot be retrieved – even through forensic analysis of the phone.

The police officers who spoke with Al Jazeera said the confidential messaging system was used to share details of police operations and sensitive personnel issues.

Two of the officers claimed that they were also instructed by their superiors to use the app to “have conversations with other officers that wouldn’t be discoverable”.

They said they understood this to include exculpatory evidence that could be potentially helpful to attorneys in both civil and criminal proceedings against the department.

It’s a claim that the Long Beach Police Department denies.

But the officers say they were not surprised by the instructions, claiming that the discovery process within the police department was never on the “up and up”.

“I find it odd that we have a communication system that circumvents everything that we are supposed to be doing,” said one officer who is still with the department.

But “nothing surprises me working there”.

‘Institutional cover-up’
According to the research group Mapping Police Violence, the Long Beach Police Department ranked fifth in the nation for officer-involved shootings per capita in 2015.

Civil rights lawsuits have resulted in the city of Long Beach paying out tens of millions of dollars to the families of those shot.

One former police officer said he suspects this is what motivated the department to adopt the application.

“There have been a number of officer-involved shooting cases that have hurt the department,” he said.

“This is a way for them to conceal and get away with some of the negative things that affect their liability with these cases.”

Mohammed Tajsar, a lawyer with the ACLU, told Al Jazeera that he was shocked by the officers’ claims.

“If the department brass instructed members of the force to use Tiger Text to shield from the public the disclosure of sensitive messages about investigations into police killings, then this is an institutional cover-up of the highest order, designed to protect a department that is notorious for killing people,” Tajsar said.

Al Jazeera obtained financial records from the Long Beach Police Department that indicate that the Tiger Text system has been in place since at least 2014, with over 100 police personnel using the app.

More than 100 police personnel at the Long Beach Police Department have been using Tiger Text since 2014 [Al Jazeera]
One document from the City of Long Beach Purchasing Division describes the app as “a secure messaging platform for criminal investigations and confidential communications.”

All the officers Al Jazeera spoke to asked that their identity be kept confidential for fear of reprisals from the police department.

They say that the Tiger Text app was set to delete messages after a few days and that it was distributed to officers in specialised details and to all senior officers above the rank of lieutenant.

The ACLU believe that by using the app, the Long Beach Police Department could be breaking laws that require the preservation of records and the rules that require their disclosure during legal cases, potentially putting thousands of court verdicts at risk.

Al Jazeera’s investigation into the use of Tiger Text found that the Georgia Department of Corrections also began using the application in 2013.

But lawyers for the department quickly decided that its use would likely violate Georgia law, possibly breaching the state’s records retention legislation and most likely leading to court discovery violations.

Insufficient evidence
One Long Beach police officer told Al Jazeera that while he was working within the Department, he witnessed Tiger Text being used during an investigation into the police shooting of Jason Conoscenti in the Alamitos Beach neighbourhood in 2014.

The officers involved in the shooting were cleared of any wrongdoing after prosecutors found insufficient evidence to bring charges.

Al Jazeera spoke to several lawyers who have litigated against Long Beach. None were aware of the police department’s use of the Tiger Text app.

Nikhil Ramnaney, a deputy public defender with the Law Offices of the Los Angeles County Public Defender said his office might now be forced to review all Long Beach cases since 2014, adding: “I don’t know what information is in those Tiger Texts, it could be exculpatory, it could lend to practices that are unconstitutional or even illegal.”

In response to AJ Jazeera’s investigation, Long Beach Police Department said it “complies with all laws related to discovery, and any information relevant to a specific investigation would be documented and provided according to legal requirements”.

The department said it uses the Tiger Text application “to communicate confidential crime scene information, victim information, and personnel matters between department management personnel, as well as employees in specialised details”.

Joanna Schwartz, an expert on police litigation at the UCLA School of Law believes it is difficult to predict the legal problems that the use of a self-deleting app will bring for the Long Beach Police Department.

“The use of Tiger Text by the police makes it more difficult to bring winning civil cases against them and effectively to defend criminal cases. The immediate question is; is this the kind of police department that the City of Long Beach wants to have?”

Aljazeera

PKL: Puneri Paltan announces online ticket sales for home leg

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Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) franchise Puneri Paltan on Monday announced opening of online ticket sales for their home leg, starting from October 18 for the upcoming season.

The tickets can be obtained from BookMyShow and franchise’s official website. The offline ticket sales counter will start their sales two days prior to the beginning of the matches at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, according to a statement.

The first match in the home leg will be against Gujarat Fortune Giants.

Commenting on the occasion, CEO of Puneri Paltan Kailash Kandpal said: “We are privileged that we have such strong fan base who turn up in the stadium, in huge numbers, season after season.

“Puneri Paltan is ‘their’ team and we are a family of 1 million plus and growing. Last season, all the matches in Pune were houseful.

“We recognise their love and thank them for the unrivalled and solid support. As Vivo PKL has grown bigger and grander, the Paltan’s home matches would be one of the major sporting events that Pune would witness this year,” he added.

The sixth edition of the league will begin from October 7 in Chennai.

(IANS)

Asia Cup — India-Pakistan will be a 50-50 contest: Ganguly

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Monday predicted that the high-voltage Asia Cup clash between India and Pakistan would be an even contest.

“It will be a 50-50 contest between India and Pakistan,” Ganguly said on the sidelines of a promotional event here.

India have a 6-5 win loss ratio at the Asia Cup and on Wednesday the Rohit Sharma led side would look to continue the momentum.

Asked if regular captain and star batsman Virat Kohli’s absence would be a factor, Ganguly said, “Virat Kohli’s absence won’t be a factor, they are a better side.”

India are the most successful side in the Asia Cup, having won the title a total of six times, while Pakistan have won twice.

The men in blue begin their campaign against Hong Kong on Tuesday, while Pakistan beat the same opponents by eight wickets on Sunday.

(IANS)

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