The Electronics City police have arrested two cab drivers for the murder of a 28-year-old man. The deceased was allegedly having an illicit affair with the wife of one of the accused.
The accused are Gangaraju (27), a resident of Doddathoguru, and his cousin Krishna (30), a resident of Pragathinagar. The victim is Chakradhar (28), also a resident of Doddathoguru, on October 23.

Police said Chakradhar’s semi-naked body was found at an isolated place on October 24 and a murder case was registered. Based on the photograph of a woman found in his pocket, the probe was started and it was found that he and the woman lived in the same area. His call records revealed the last call and message to him was from the woman.

“The woman and her husband, Gangaraju were traced to Doddaballapura. Gangaraju said that he had killed Chakradhar. He revealed that his wife and the deceased were working as house keeping staff in a firm and they were leaving for office and returning together for the past few months. One day Chakradhar sent a message to Gangaraju’s wife saying ‘I love you’. Angered, he sent a message from his wife’s phone to Chakradhar asking him to come home on October 23 and killed him.

A man in Delhi has been allegedly been duped of more than Rs. 91,000 from his Paytm account after he gave his phone to a service centre without deleting his mobile wallet.

Yusuf Karim, 28, a resident of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji, has alleged that Rs. 91,000 was withdrawn from his Paytm account allegedly by the staff of a service centre where he had given his mobile phone for repairing.

In his complaint filed, Karim said that when he got back his phone from the service centre, he received an email from Paytm that somebody else had logged into his account.

Later, he received another message that his registered email address on Paytm was changed and Rs. 19,999 were transferred to an unknown account from a different number which was fraudulently registered in his name, police said.

After that, seven transactions were made from the victim’s account and Rs. 80,498 was withdrawn, they said.

The victim alleged the engineers of the mobile service company who were repairing his phone have done such fraudulent transactions. He also claimed that despite several requests, Paytm did not block his account.

A response from the mobile wallet giant is awaited.

PTI

A man and two others have been arrested for allegedly killing his wife — a 38-year-old school teacher — in northwest Delhi’s Bawana area, police said Thursday.

The accused were identified as Manjeet (38), husband of the deceased, his girlfriend Angel Gupta alias Shashi Prabha (26) and Rajeev (40), they added.

Manjeet was in a relationship with Angel and his wife, Sunita, objected to it, so they conspired to eliminate her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) Rajneesh Gupta said.

Sunita was shot dead on Monday morning by unknown assailants while she was on the way to her school. She was shot thrice and was declared brought dead at the hospital, police said.

She is survived by a 16-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son, they said.

A manhunt is underway to arrest the persons who were hired for the murder, DCP Gupta said.

PTI

Former Union Minister M.J. Akbar on Friday termed allegations of rape by US-based journalist Pallavi Gogoi a “lie” and claimed they had entered into a “consensual relationship”.

Akbar in a statement to ANI said Gogoi’s November 2 article in the Washington Post had detailed “false allegations of rape and violence against me”.

“I have had occasion to read this article and it has become necessary, at this point in time, to bring certain facts to light. Somewhere around 1994, Pallavi Gogoi and I entered into consensual relationship that spanned several months.

“This relationship gave rise to talk and would later cause strife in my home life as well. This consensual relationship ended, perhaps not on best note,” he said.

“People who worked with me and knew both of us have indicated that they would be happy to bear testimony to what is stated above and at no stage did the behaviour of Pallavi Gogoi give any one of them impression that she was working under duress,” he said.

Akbar also said on October 29 the Washington Post forwarded to his lawyers a “series of cryptic and non-specific questions, regarding incidents alleged to have taken place approximately 23 years ago”.

“These allegations were false and were consequently denied,” he added.

IANS

After several women accused former Union Minister M.J. Akbar of sexual harassment in the wake of the #MeToo campaign, an allegation of rape has now surfaced with a US-based journalist narrating her ordeal of working under him when he was the editor of The Asian Age.

Pallavi Gogoi, Chief Business Editor at National Public Radio, in an article written under her byline for The Washington Post published on Friday (Thursday, India time), narrated her detailed account and described the incident of rape and various others incidents of sexual assault on her 23 years ago as “the most painful memories of my life”.

Akbar’s lawyer, Sandeep Kapur, told the Washington Post that his client “states these (incidents and allegation) are false and expressly denied.” When contacted by IANS, Kapur said the same thing adding that “any further course of action would be decided by the evening.”

After two incidents in Delhi and Bombay where Akbar had sexually molested and assaulted her, she said, one news story took her to a remote village a few hundred miles from Delhi.

“The assignment was to end in Jaipur. When I checked back, Akbar said I could come discuss the story in his hotel in Jaipur, far from Delhi.”

“In his hotel room, even though I fought him, he was physically more powerful. He ripped off my clothes and raped me. Instead of reporting him to the police, I was filled with shame,” said Gogoi.

“I didn’t tell anyone about this then. Would anyone have believed me? I blamed myself. Why did I go to the hotel room?” she added.

She said after the Jaipur incident, “his grip over me got tighter”.

“I stopped fighting his advances because I felt so helpless. He continued to coerce me. For a few months, he continued to defile me sexually, verbally, emotionally,” she added.

After several women journalists charged Akbar with sexual harassment and assault in the past one month, he resigned as Minister of State for External Affairs on October 17. He has filed a defamation case against one of the first accusers.

In her 1,800 word article, Gogoi attacked the ruling BJP for letting Akbar continue as its member.

“He’s still today a member of the Indian Parliament and a member of the ruling party, which prides itself on advancing rights for young girls,” she wrote.

Gogoi added that he would burst into loud rages in the newsroom if he saw her talking to male colleagues of her age. “It was frightening.”

Later, when Gogoi was posted in London, she felt that the abuse would stop because she would be far away from Delhi office “except the truth was that he was sending me away so I could have no defenses and he could prey on me whenever he visited the city where I would be posted.”

She also alleged that Akbar was hit her when he saw her speaking to a male colleague in London office and “went on a rampage, throwing things from the desk at me — a pair of scissors, a paperweight, whatever he could get his hands on”, she said.

“I was in shreds — emotionally, physically, mentally…” she wrote

She said it was difficult to explain why she didn’t fight him back then.

“I cannot explain today how and why he had such power over me, why I succumbed. Was it because he was so much more powerful than I was?…”

She said over the years, she did not bring up Akbar in conversations as “I’ve always felt that Akbar is above the law and justice doesn’t apply to him. I felt he would never pay the price for what he had done to me.”

“But I am writing this because I know what it is like to be victimized by powerful men like Akbar. I am writing this to support the many women who have come out to tell their truth.”

IANS

By : Pramesh Jain

Inter-State robber arrested by Madiwala Police and recovered intact stolen property worth Rs.90 lakhs.

The Madiwala police have arrested a domestic help who had allegedly stolen gold and diamond jewels worth Rs.90 lakh from his employer’s house and hided it in a pit at the backyard of his house in his home town Madhubani in Bihar on October 16.

The accused,has been identified as Akhilesh Kumar Mato, 21,year old a resident of Madhubani in Bihar.

Bengaluru city police Commissioner, T.Suneel Kumar,told media persons that as,On October 16th,Satyaprash and his family went out of station.and on 17th October they returned to their house and found that someone has gained entry and burgled the house and took away the locker containing gold and diamond valuables and then he went on terrace to see the servant where in he found the door was locked and he tried his phone which was also switched off and he grew more doubt and suspicious on his servant and lodged a complaint against him

He stated in his complaint that the suspect identified as Akhilesh has broke open the locker, took away the valuables worth of Rs.90 lakhs and filed a complaint with the Madiwala police, who suspected Akhilesh,as he was missing and his phone was switched off.After registering the complaint the team led by DCP,Southeast,Dr.M.B.Boralingaiah,under the supervison of ACP, Madiwala Sub-division,Somegowda and Madiwala Police Inspector,Bharath.B,and his crime staff visited the spot and after checking the CCTV footage and analysing other CCTV cameras installed in the area they got a vital clues and the complainant suspect turned into real and after collecting all the information from the complainant a special team swung into action and with the investigation skills the team found the accused is in his native immediately a team was sent to Bihar and the team successfully nabbed the accused with the help of local police as the accused has confessed the crime and he revealed where he hided the gold and diamond jewels by digging a pit in his house premises at native and in presence of Witnesses and local police our team recovered intact stolen property from his possession and he was brought to Bengaluru and during interrogation a detailed investigation by the team

He revealed that he took away the locker and broken it in Indiranagar area and after taking all the valuables from it he has destroyed the locker and then returned to his home town by train without a ticket,with this the team was successful in recovering intact gold and diamonds ornaments from the accused worth of Rs.90,Lakhs,and it was found that the accused Akhilesh was employed as domestic help in the house of city-based industrialist Satyaprakash over a year ago,after working for a few months Akhilesh went to Mumbai to earn more money and returned six months back.Since then,he was working at Satyaprakash’s house and was staying in the outhouse and to lead a lavish lifestyle he has committed this offence

He said and with this the team has recovered,2 kg diamond studed gold ornaments,half a kg Silver articles,gold and silver case wrist watches altogether worth of Rs.90 lakhs from him,and finally Bengaluru Police commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar has appreciated,Addl CP East,Seemanth Kumar Singh,DCP Southeast,Dr.M.B.Boralingaiah,ACP, Madiwala Sub-division,Somegowda,PI,Bharath.B,PSI, Sanjeev Kumar and his whole crime staff who has successfully nabbed the notorious burglar and recovered the intact property from his possession who was hiding in his native and for their exemplary work and tremendous efforts shown in detecting the case a reward of Rs.1 Lakh will be given to the team he added.

Hundreds of Google employees in the city here walked out of the company’s Big Apple offices on Thursday as part of a global protest against the tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment cases.

The mobilisation followed a report in The New York Times saying that Android creator Andy Rubin received $90 million in severance when Google fired him in 2014 over accusations of sexual misconduct that the company deemed credible.

Thursday’s first protests took place at Google offices in Singapore, Tokyo and other Asian locations, spreading to European cities such as London, Berlin and Zurich as the day wore on, reports Efe.

After the reaction to the story in The Times, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sought to reassure employees about the company’s stand against sexual harassment.

“Over the past two years, we have terminated 48 people, including 13 senior managers and above for sexual harassment,” Pichai said.

“None of these people received an exit package. And to clarify: in that time, we have also not provided any exit packages to executives who departed voluntarily in the course of a sexual harassment investigation,” he added.

Organisers of #GoogleWalkout published a list of demands for management, including an “end to Forced Arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination for all current and future employees” and a “clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously.”

Two militants including nephew of Jash-e-Mohammad chief Moulana Masood Azhar have been confirmed dead in the gunfight with security forces at Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

While police said that it was establishing the identity of the slain, the Jash-e-Mohammad militant outfit in a statement issued here to India Today confirmed one of the slain to be the nephew of the outfit’s chief Masood Azhar.

Identified as Mohammad Usman Hyder, the JeM also paid tributes to him as well as the second militant whom it identified as Showkat Ahmad, a local.

A police officer told India Today that two charred bodies of the militants have been recovered from the encounter site and searches in the area are cngoing.

An UBGL-barrel rifle has been recovered from the encounter site, the officer said.

Asked about the recovery of the sniper rifle, he said that so far it has not been recovered but “chances of its recovery cannot be ruled out”.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, Swayam Prakash Pani confirmed that two militant bodies have been recovered and said that “this was the module responsible for recent stand-off attacks” in area.

The gunfight ensued Chankitar village of Mandoora area of Tral on Tuesday afternoon, soon after a joint team of army’s 42RR, SOG and 180 BN CRPF launched a cordon and search operation following specific information about the presence of some militants there.

As the joint team of security forces intensified searches, the militants hiding in the area fired upon at forces, triggering off an encounter.

During the course of the gunfight, sources said, the house was razed to rubble after a blast and massive searches were launched. Two charred bodies of the militants were recovered, they said.

During last 10 days, security forces in Kashmir were concerned about sniper attacks in which at least three forces personal were killed and 5 got injured.

As per security sources, 4 sniper shooters with sniper riffles are believed to have managed infiltration in early September and are spread in different parts of south Kashmir with Jaish outfit. Usmaan Haider was heading the group.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment 16 personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) for killing 42 people in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre in Meerut.

In doing so, the court set aside a March 2015 the trial court verdict giving the 16 PAC personnel the benefit of doubt and acquiting them.

There were originally 19 accused but three had died during the trial.

The killings took place during a riot in Meerut when the victims were picked up from the Hashimpura neighbourhood by the 41st Battalion of the PAC during a search operation.

The charge sheet was filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Ghaziabad in 1996.

The case was transferred to Delhi in September 2002 on the order of the Supreme Court following a petition by the families of the massacre victims and survivors.

A sessions court here in July 2006 framed charges of murder, attempt to murder, tampering with evidence and conspiracy against all the accused.

IANS

Hours after Maoists killed two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraman, Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday said it would not allow the rebels to disrupt the coming Assembly elections.

“Over 2,000 extra police personnel have been deputed in five districts where the first round of polling will take place in the first phase. The police personnel coming from outside to provide assistance are being trained to deal with Maoists,” Special Director General of Police D.M. Awasthi told the media.

“All Inspectors General and Deputy Inspectors General are determined not to allow any disruption during the polls,” he added.

Awasthi said the police had been successful in locating several land mines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in search operations.

He said all police personnel had been told to use lease number of vehicles during the operations to escape IED blasts — an old and effective method used by the Maoists to attack security personnel.

“All police personnel have been asked to go on foot during their operations,” the officer said.

Explaining the sequence of events leading to the incident, Awasthi, in a media briefing, refuted the apprehensions that the Maoist ambush was an attempt to disrupt the coming polls and said the act was to stop the construction of a road between Sameli and Nilaya.

“A team of CRPF’s 111 battalion had gone to the incident site to provide security to the persons involved in road construction between Sameli and Nilaya in Dantewada district. In the meantime, a Doordarshan team covering the construction work and poll-related developments in the area and a police team reached there.

“The Maoists opened fired at the police personnel and the media crew. Doordarshan cameraman and the two police personnel were hit by the Maoists’ bullets. The ambush was an attempt to scare away the contractor involved in the road construction. The incident has no relation with the upcoming polls.”

DD cameraman Achyuta Nanda Sahu, Assistant Sub-Inspector Rudra Pratap Singh and Constable Mangal Ram died in the ambush.

IANS