Nasheman News :The Supreme Court on Tuesday entrusted the Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT) – which is investigating the Gauri Lankesh murder case – to probe into the murder of rationalist M. M. Kalburgi.

The bench, headed by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, said the probe would be monitored by the Dharwad bench of Karnataka High Court. 

Kalburgi’s widow Uma Mallinath Devi had moved the top court in 2017, seeking an SIT probe into his murder.

The top court had on November 26, 2018, pulled up the Karnataka Police for not taking steps to unearth the murder of Kalburgi outside his home in Dharwad on August 30, 2015.

“What have you done so far? You are just fooling around,” the court had said, taking a dim view of the investigation by Karnataka Police. 

Nasheman News : A man was arrested in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district with a large haul of arms and ammunition including 20 semi-finished pistols on Sunday, police said.

Humayun Sheikh was arrested from a North Bengal State Transport Corporation bus on its way from Kolkata to Malda on Sunday afternoon.

“Sheikh, a resident of Malda district, was arrested with 20 semi-finished 9mm pistols, four 7 mm pistols, 10 bullets and eight magazines. According to primary interrogation, he was delivering the consignment from Howrah to Malda’s Kaliachawk,” Murshidabad’s Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar said.

He said the accused was supplying the semi-finished guns to Malda where they were to be fully assembled.

“Our men were following Sheikh from Howrah after getting information about him from two arms smugglers, who were arrested on January 31,” the officer added.

Nasheman News :  A man hacked five of his extended family members to death, including three teenage nephews on Saturday in Jharkhand’s Seraikela district, police said.

The incident took place at Purisilli village earlier, when Chinnu Soren, 40, first attacked his elder brother Rabi Manjhi, 45, and then his family and hacked them to death with a sharp edged weapon. 

Soren also tried to kill another of his brother and even his mother, who have been admitted to hospital.

After killing Rabi Manjhi and his family, Soren set their house on fire, Seraikela Superintendent of Police Chandan Kumar Sinha told reporters.

Besides Manjhi, those who lost their lives were his wife Parvati, 30, and their three children — Jeetan, 15, Suresh, 13, and Paresh, 11. 

The villagers informed the police that Soren, who was then arrested, is mentally ill. The reason for the mass killing was still not clear.

Soren consumed liquor on Friday night and slept in a neighbour’s house. He returned home early on Saturday morning and attacked the family, the police was told media.

Nasheman News : A CBI team was on Saturday attacked here in Uttar Pradesh when it tried to accost an accused in a bribery case, officials said.

Some of the Central Bureau of Investigation officers suffered minor injuries, a police officer said.

The probe team was attacked upon reaching a farmhouse adjacent to the national capital, where the accused Sunil Dutt was said to be hiding. 

“The team was attacked by the family members of the accused to help him escape from the spot,” he said, adding that the CBI action had come following specific input about the presence of Dutt.

Noida police personnel rushed to the spot to rescue the CBI men after receiving a call.

Nasheman News :  Two terror suspects, owing allegiance to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant outfit, have been nabbed from Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Director General of Police (DGP) O.P. Singh said on Friday.

Singh said, based on intelligence inputs, the two suspects were caught by the Anti-Terror Squad of the state police.

Nasheman News : The Rajasthan government has suspended two jail officials and acted against two others after a Pakistani prisoner was murdered by Indian inmates in the Jaipur Central Jail, officials said on Thursday.

The government has put Jail Superintendent Sanjay Yadav and Jailor Jagdish Sharma under Awaiting Posting Orders (APO) category and suspended two officials with immediate effect, Inspector General of Police Rupinder Singh said.

Rakesh Mohan Sharma has been appointed the new jail Superintendent.

Singh said that Vaidhyanath Sharma, in charge of cell number 10 where the Pakistani, Shakarulla, was lodged and murdered, has been suspended along with the warder of the cell, Ramswaroop.

Security has also been enhanced in other prisons in Rajasthan where Pakistanis are jailed, an official said.

The Pakistani prisoner was allegedly murdered by group of fellow prisoners on Wednesday after an argument over a TV programme, officials said.

The incident comes in wake of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over the terror attack in Kashmir which left 40 CRPF troopers dead.

The city police are on the hunt for a 57-year-old man who claimed he was a close associate of former chief minister Siddaramaiah and promised government jobs to many people. The accused, identified as A D Yeshwantappa, who works as a first division assistant (FDA), cheated people to the tune of Rs 8.5 lakh. Yeshwantappa is a native of Kodderahalli in Honnalli taluk, Davanagere.

One of his victims, G D Mukundappa, filed a complaint with the Byatarayanapura police, alleging that the accused took over Rs 8 lakh from him, promising to get him a job as FDA in the Silk Board. However, Yeshwantappa did not get him a job even after four years and failed to return the money.

The Byatarayanapura police said Yeshwantappa has gone missing, since the complaint was filed against him. He faces a similar complaint at the Honnali police station. “We’re gathering information and (the accused) will be caught very soon,” police said.

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Terming bike-taxi services as illegal, the Karnataka transport department officials have impounded around 200 bikes, belonging to Ola and Rapido, operating as taxis in Bengaluru.

The owners of bikes have been booked as part of a crackdown against the operation of illegal bike taxis. They have been reportedly imposed fine of Rs 2K for using bikes with white number plates on them for commercial purposes.

“Several mobile app based aggregators, like Ola and Rapido, are illegally operating the bike taxi business. Bike owners are held responsible for using private bikes for commercial purposes,” Additional Transport Commissioner C.P. Narayana Swamy was quoted as saying to The Hindu report.

Transport Department has already issued notices to cap-hailing firm Ola and Rapido asking them to stop its bike-taxi services immediately.

Cab-hailing firms have been asked to explain why the services were introduced without bringing it to the transport department notice. The officials have been asked to seize bike-taxi and penalise them if found on the road.

According to Transport commissioner VP Ikkeri, the state is still working on policy and have asked for stakeholders view on the introduction on bike-taxi services. Until the complete policy is made, offering such services are illegal.

Ola had piloted bike-taxi service last week in Bengaluru whereas Rapido has been in operation for many days.

This is not the first time the Karnataka transport department has halted the bike taxis services. In March 2016, Uber and Ola both had to suspend its bike-taxi pilot after state government objected.

Nine months later, the government had issued draft guidelines asking state governments to draft their own transport regulations. States including Rajasthan, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Haryana have allowed bike-taxi operation.

Meanwhile, bike-taxi services have also faced opposition from cab and auto driver unions, who are now complaining of being threatened by services as they witness downfall in their earning.

Ola and Rapido have not yet reacted to the incident.

Nasheman News :  A 51-year-old Kerala Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery on Saturday was sentenced to 60 years in jail in three different cases of rape and abuse of minor girls.

Thalassery Judge P.N. Vinod also fined the priest from the Mananthavady diocese in Wayanad district Rs 3 lakh after it was established that he had raped and impregnated a minor girl in 2016.

He was tried under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Nasheman News :  A hacker who stole close to 620 million user records from 16 websites has struck again, this time breaking into 127 million more records from eight more websites.

According to a TechCrunch report late on Thursday, the hacker now has 18 million user records from travel booking site Ixigo and 40 million from live-video streaming site YouNow.

“Houzz, which recently disclosed a data breach, is listed with 57 million records stolen and Ge.tt had 1.8 million accounts stolen,” said the report.

According to the hacker’s listings, Ixigo used an outdated “MD5” hashing algorithm to scramble passwords, which these days is easy to unscramble. 

“YouNow doesn’t store passwords,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying.

Earlier, the same hacker claimed he had user records from several major sites like more than 151 million records from MyFitnessPal and 25 million records from Animoto. 

It has been claimed that databases, which are aimed at making “life easier” for hackers, can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network, for less than $20,000 in bitcoin. 

The stolen information mainly includes account holders’ names, email addresses and passwords, according to the report that appeared this week.

The price appears to be relatively cheap because the information is targeted at spammers and credential stuffers who could use the information to also get access to other sites for which the users use the same usernames and passwords.

While some of these websites – particularly MyHeritage, MyFitnessPal and Animoto – warned their customers last year that they had been compromised, several others have started notifying users about the hacks.