Mumbai,  The Bombay High Court on Thursday confirmed the death penalty awarded by a lower court to Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap, convicted of the sensational 2014 rape-cum-murder of an Andhra Pradesh techie, Esther Anuhya in Mumbai.

A division bench comprising Justice Ranjit More and Justice Bharati Dangre, confirming a women’s court verdict of December 2015 observed that the case fell in the “rarest of rarea category” and had “shocked the conscience of society.”

The court further said that they had not seen any “remorse” on the (then) 28-year-old accused, did not see possibility of any reform, and “such a person remains a menace to society.”

It was on January 5, 2014 when Esther, a 23-year old software engineer with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), was offered a lift by Sanap on his motorcycle from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to her hostel in Andheri West.

Sanap raped and murdered Esther. Subsequently he burnt and disposed of her body at a desolate area on the Eastern Express Highway near Bhandup before driving away. Her half-burnt and decomposed body was found after 11 days when some pedestrians reported it.

Investigators who cracked the case nearly two months after she was reported missing said Sanap was a mobile phone thief and robbery was the main motive behind the crime.

That fateful morning around 5 a.m. Esther had returned by train to Mumbai by the Vishakhapatnam-LTT Express, after celebrating Christmas and New Year with her family in Machilipatnam.

En route, Sanap stopped the bike on the pretext that it had run out of petrol, then grabbed and dragged Esther to the bushes in the foggy darkness.

She strongly resisted him, but he repeatedly clobbered her with stones, raped and strangled her with a dupatta, took her two bags containing a laptop and other valuables and fled.

Later, he came back to search for her mobile phone but could not find it. He burnt her body and again left the crime scene.

Amid a series of protests and massive public support for Esther, the Mumbai Police and Railway Police succeeded in solving the case with the help of CCTV camera footages of that morning near the LTT premises and mobile call records.

Seven History-Sheeters House raided,Land records,Pistol seized by Bengaluru CCB Police :
Bengaluru CCB cops conducted a search operations on seven history sheeters houses and offices in and around the city on Wednesday morning. 
Eight teams carried out the simultaneous raids to keep the operation under wraps for as long as possible.
Documents, including property deeds, diaries,Pistol,Air gun and loan agreements worth several crores,were seized.
The CCB sleuths conducted raids in Yelahanka,Kodigehalli,K.R.Puram,K.G.Halli,Baiyappanahalli Police station limits and other areas.
During the raids,an airgun,found in Bharath’s house,was confiscated.The licensed pistol of Boxer Manja was also seized.

The raids were conducted on the houses of history sheeters such as,Rohit alias Vonte Rohit,Vediappan alias Market veddi,Sunil alias Silent Sunil,Manjunath alias Thodla Manja,Bharath alias Bangari and Nagaraj alias Boxer Naga’s and Jayakumar’s houses and offices were raided by CCB sleuths under ACPs as,Balaraj and Mohan Kumar and their team.
Alok Kumar,Addl CP Crime,told media persons that,Eight CCB teams under the leadership of DCP Crime,Girish S,under the supervision of ACPs as,Balaraj and Mohan Kumar and their team swung into action and a simultaneous raids were conducted on houses and offices of seven history sheeters in Northeast area and East Bengaluru,

The raids were conducted to keep a check on their criminal activities, especially land grabbing and illegal money lending operations.The properties belonged to Sunil,Rohit,Vediyappa, Manjunatha,Bharath,Nagaraja and Jaya Kumar.As majority of history sheeters in the city have shifted operations from conventional crime to the money lending business,and grabbing land through encroachments or force.

The frequent raids are meant to keep them in check,during the search operations the team seized the documents of illegal assets,Lethal weapons licenced pistol and Air Gun were seized in the raid.The team recovered an air gun from the house of Bharath and licenced pistol along with six rounds of ammunition from the house of Nagaraja. Accompanying documents showed that he had purchased 25 rounds of ammunition. Though the team found a valid licence, Gun licence was issued to him in 2011,as there were no cases against him since 2006.But he is not revealing information about the 19 rounds that are missing and so he has been detained for questioning.His licence will be cancelled if he is unable to give an account about them,as a Air gun was found in Bharath’s house too they both are been detained and has been taken into custody and further investigation is on,other than Boxer Naga and Jayakumar, the remaining five were not present at the house when the raids were going on and a special team is on job to nab the absconding history sheeters and once they are nabbed a detailed investigation will be conducted on them to ascertain the details of illegal assets and documents seized from their possession .

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,has appreciated,Additional CP Crime,Alok Kumar,DCP Crime,Girish.S,ACPs as,B.Balaraju,Mohan Kumar,PIs,as,M.R.Harish,Smt.Ayesha, Prakash Rathod,Mohammed Sheriff Ravuthur,Rajeev,Manjunath,R.Prakash, L.K.Ramesh,Keshavmurthy,K.G.Sathish, Ashwath Gowda.J,Niranjan Kumar,Anjan Kumar,PSIs,as,Praveen, K.C.Parameshwarappa,ASI,as,Devaraju and staff as,Shantharaju,Chandregowda,Arun Kumar,Sathish,Umesh,Gurushanth,Anand kumar,Beerappa,Satish Kumar,Srinivas,Anil,Narasimhamurthy, Shetty and Raghavendra with other staff has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them as to curb the illegal activities and bring crime rate down and rowdyism the raids will be continued he added.

Genpact 35-year-old AVP Swaroop Raj has committed suicide after facing sexual harassment charges by two women of the same company. Interestingly his wife also works in the same company. Wife also works in Genpact and found the body of her hubby hanging on the ceiling fan in their flat in Paramount Floraville society in Noida’s sector 137. She had returned from her work at 11.30 PM and found Swaroop’s body hanging from the ceiling fan.

Swaroop Raj got married just two years back and his wife was working in the same company. 

Two female employees from the company had accused Swaroop of sexual harassment on December 12 and the company had suspended him on December 18. The investigations are still on and he was to remain suspended till in the case were complete. In his purported suicide note, he denied the allegations. He said that it was difficult to work in the same office even if he was proven innocent. He felt his reputation had been tarnished for life and he wouldn’t be able to return to the office. He also added that he loved his wife dearly and that she should be strong and live with respect.

“The company in his suspension letter said he would be barred from participating in any official work until the investigation against him was completed. In his note, the man denied all allegations and wrote that even if he is proven innocent, his reputation has been tarnished,” Munish Chauhan, station house officer, Surajpur police station informed.

Patna, A constable of Bihar Military Police has been shot dead by a colleague with his service rifle in Muzaffarpur district, police said on Thursday.

Premchand Kumar, a BMP constable shot dead Manish Kumar late on Wednesday when he was sleeping in the barrack. 

The accused was depressed and mentally disturbed for the last few days, according to BMP officials. 

He was arrested soon after and his service rifle was also seized, Muzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said.

Agra,  A 15-year-old Dalit girl, who was set on fire by two unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh here, has succumbed to her injuries in a Delhi hospital after struggling for life for 36 hours, police said on Thursday.

The Class 10 student, identified as Sanjali, died late on Wednesday in Safdarjung Hospital, authorities said. 

On Tuesday afternoon, two bike-borne attackers stopped the student on her way home in Lalau village, 20 kms from here, and emptied a bottle of petrol on her and set her ablaze.

She was rushed to the SN Medical College with 75 per cent burns and then referred to the Safdarjang Hospital in the national capital.

The accused have not been traced yet, police said.

Kochi, The Kerala High Court here on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the eighth accused in the infamous actress abduction case, actor Dileep, for a CBI probe into the case.

In his petition, Dileep pleaded that he has been framed in the case by the police relying only on the statement of the prime accused, Pulsar Suni.

Meanwhile, the prosecution put up their defense by stating that an accused in a case has no right to decide on what sort of probe should take place and, moreover, this is nothing but a ploy to delay the trial in the case.

The police probe team has already filed the detailed charge sheet in the case and the court on March 14 summoned all the accused. 

Dileep was arrested after two rounds of questioning on July 10, 2017, for his alleged role in the conspiracy behind the abduction of the young actress.

Dileep’s former wife Manju Warrier is one of the witnesses in the case.

After being in jail for 85 days, Dileep secured bail.

The actress was allegedly abducted on February 17 last year while she was on her way to Kochi from Thrissur.

Pulsar Suni, the prime accused, drove her around for two hours before she was dropped near the home of director-actor Lal, who later called the police.

Washington, A US man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a brutal attack on a Sikh American taxi driver in Seattle city last year.

Swarn Singh, 53, was assaulted with a hammer by Rory Benson on December 16, 2017. The accused pleaded guilty to the attack and was given the sentence by a court in Seattle late last week, the community’s civil rights group — Sikh Coalition — tweeted on Tuesday. 

During the incident, Singh who maintains Sikh articles of faith including unshorn hair and a turban, had parked outside an apartment building to drop Benson and his mother, the group said in a statement. 

It was then that Benson, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, brutally attacked Singh. He grabbed a piece of cloth and attempted to suffocate the victim with it. 

Singh managed to get out of the taxi but Benson grabbed a hammer from his bag and chased the victim on-foot. 

Benson hit Singh in the head repeatedly, specifically targeting his turban and knocking it to the ground. The victim suffered a scalp laceration and a skull fracture and was taken to hospital, the statement said.

Benson was later arrested.

The Sikh Coalition said it worked with Singh for 11 months to make sure the Bellevue Police Department and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office were properly investigating the incident and reviewing appropriate charges.

Singh submitted a statement to the King County Superior Court, urging his attacker to recognize the damage caused, detailing his injuries and the impact of the assault on the Sikh community, the group said.

Agra, A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Fatehpur Sikri assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh has stirred a controversy after a video in which he can be seen threatening a Sub Divisional Magistrate in public went viral on social media.

“You don’t know how powerful I am, I am an MLA,” BJP MLA Chaudhary Uday Bhan Singh is seen threatening Kiraoli SDM Garima Singh in the video. 

Chaudhary had gone to Agra to meet the SDM over issues faced by farmers demanding compensation over loss of crops due to a hailstorm earlier this year in April. 

District magistrate N.G. Ravi Kumar told mediapersons that an inquiry has been ordered. ADM administration Nidhi Srivastav will conduct the inquiry and submit a report soon.

New Delhi,  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three Income Tax officials and an Indian Oil employee in three separate bribery cases, the agency said on Tuesday.

Income Tax Inspector Seema, who was posted in Delhi, was arrested on Monday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 60,000 from the complainant.

“A case was registered on a complaint. It has been alleged that the complainant received notices from Income Tax officer, Ward No. 42(3), for not showing the cash in his account in the returns filed by him and also had not deposited the tax related to a contract of wine shop taken by him in Jaipur,” CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.

“Both these issues are under scrutiny in the Income Tax Department Ward No. 42(3), Income Tax Office, Civic Centre, New Delhi.”

It was further alleged that in lieu of settlement of the matter, the Inspector demanded bribe from the complainant, said Dayal. The CBI laid a trap and caught her while accepting the bribe.

Searches were conducted at the official and residential premise of the accused which led to recovery of incriminating documents, he said.

In another case, the CBI arrested an Income Tax Inspector Abhishek Kumar, who is posted in Jaipur, and another official of the department Surendra Pal for demanding Rs 2-lakh bribery.

“The CBI had registered the case against the Inspector, Income Tax, Ward No. 6 (2), Jaipur on a complaint alleging that the accused had demanded a bribe of Rs 2 lakh and after negotiation agreed to accept Rs 40,000 from the complainant for not taking action on notice issued to him by the Income Tax Department. 

“The accused directed the complainant to deliver the amount to his subordinate official. The CBI laid a trap and caught the said official red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant on behalf of the Income Tax Inspector,” said the official.

In yet another case, the CBI has arrested an Indian Oil Corporation Ltd officer (Admin and Welfare) from Bihar’s Begusarai for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 20,000 from the complainant for clearing his bills pertaining to vehicle given on hire to IOCL, Barauni.

The arrested accused were produced before the designated court and remanded to judicial Custody.

By : Pramesh S Jain

Notorious Most Wanted Dreaded  Criminal Murder Accused nabbed after shootout by Bytarayanapura Police 

As recently Deputy Chief and Home Minister of karnataka state ,Dr.G.Parameshwara, at the innaugration function of DJ Halli Police station addressing the gathering has warned criminals to stop all their illegal activities if not cops will break your leg shooting at your leg to teach you people a lesson and to curb crime rate in the city I have asked them to open fire on criminals and based on that only in last one year around 25 Shootout has took place by the Bengaluru city police in which notorious dreaded criminals has been nabbed and arrested he added.

The West Division police of Bytarayanapura Police has opened fire on notorious dreaded criminal rowdy sheeter Waseem alias Bodka waseem a most wanted criminal who was on the run from past many years. 
The accused has been identified as Waseem alias Bodka Waseem,27,year old resident of J J Nagar. 
He is a prime accused in Zabiulla murder case which took place on last Sunday. 

DCP North,R.Chethan Singh Rathore,told media persons that,A murder of rowdy sheeter took place as on December 9th in which the accused waseem killed his own alloy Syed Zabiulla on Mysore Road.Syed Zabiulla and Syed waseem used to rob together but Zabiulla formed his own gang and started to rob people with his gang and getting enriged by this Syed waseem along with his gang attacked Zabiulla with sharp weapons and later they fled the crime spot and the cops gathered vital clues about the miscreants from the crime spot who has killed Zabiulla and based on credible Information the team nabbed his associates and were waiting for right opportunity to nab the prime accused in the case and 2 special teams were formed by

ACP,Kengerigate,S.Manjunath under the supervision of PIs as,Veerendra Prasad and Shivareddy and two teams swung into action to nab the criminals.Police inspector and his team swung into action and team received a tipped off that the accused waseem would pass via Nagarbhavi to Doddabasti our inspector and his team were waiting for him and when they spotted his car they chased him and Cordoned him and when they tried to arrest him he attacked the constable Harish Kumar with the lethal weapons and tried to evade arrest and even tried to escape and in the meanwhile the Bytarayanapura police inspector Veerendra Prasad opened one round fire in Air and asked him to surrender as he again tried to attack the cop and to protect the cop the inspector Veerendra Prasad opened fire on his leg in self defence in which he suffered bullet injuries on his leg and they both were rushed to hospital for the treatment and are undergoing treatment.

The accused is most wanted criminal who is wanted in more than 8 cases registered against him including two murders,three attempt to murders,two assaults and one Robbery cases in several police stations like,Bytarayanapura,Chandra layout,Kengeri,and J J Nagar police station         and after his recovery we will conduct a thorough enquiry against him to recover the stolen property and a case has been registered in Bytarayanapura police station and further investigation is on under the supervision of ACP,Manjunath,and finally Bengaluru Police commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,has appreciated,Addl CP,West,B.K.Singh,DCPs,as,R.Chethan Singh Rathore,Ravi.D. Channannavar,ACP,Kengerigate Sub-division,S.Manjunath,PIs,Veerendra Prasad and Shivareddy,with brave constable Harish Kumar who has played on his life to nab the notorious dreaded criminal he added.

Bytarayanapura police station and further investigation is on under the supervision of ACP,Manjunath,and finally Bengaluru Police commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,has appreciated,Addl CP,West,B.K.Singh,DCPs,as,R.Chethan Singh Rathore,Ravi.D. Channannavar,ACP,Kengerigate Sub-division,S.Manjunath,PIs,Veerendra Prasad and Shivareddy,with brave constable Harish Kumar who has played on his life to nab the notorious dreaded criminal he added.