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Shimla:
Known otherwise as a pristine and peaceful state, Himachal Pradesh
has now suprisingly become unsafe for women. Two such incidents that
recently came to light, have led the state's police to conclude that
crime against women is on the rise and that steps need to be taken urgently
to curb it. The state police has launched an awareness campaign with
a focus on educating the masses about how to put a halt to such crimes.
"Police is cautioning the public against such crimes. We are educating
the masses. We go to schools, villages and various places to educate
them," Sushil Negi, the station house officer of the Dhalli Police Station
was quoted as saying. "Due to the media, people are getting aware that
we are not to hide the things now. We've to express, we have to approach.
National Women Commission is there, State Commission is there. There
are other NGOs and many other people who are working for these things.
So people are becoming aware and they are reporting it (crimes)," said
Viplove Thakur, the Chairperson of Himachal Pradesh Commission for Women.
According to the National Crime Record Bureau figures, the small hill
state is placed fourth in the list of states with highest incidents
of crime against women in the country. Punjab police busts foreign job racket (Go to Top) Ludhiana:
Punjab police today said a two-member gang had duped several unemployed
youth by promising them jobs in Japan. Police said Kulbeer Singh Dhillion
and Navjot Jyoti, Ludhiana- based travel agents, collected Rs. 10,000
each from at least 11 job aspirants and sent them to northern Leh, saying
they would be granted visas from the embassy there. H.S.Brar, Deputy
Superintendent of Police, said the duo were absconding. "This office
was opened in August. He was duping young people and took Rs. 10,000-45,000.
He had brought people to Delhi. On September 15th they were sent to
Leh. And army told them that there was no flight from Japan from here.
Some of them are also ill now but he is absconding," said Brar. Brar
said the duped men, who belonged to poor families, were promised Rs.
90,000 per month as salaries along with a plush apartment in Tokyo. Six-day police custody for Briton accused of child sex abuse (Go to Top) Mumbai:
A British man, arrested on charges of sexual abuse of boys at a
juvenile shelter in Mumbai, was today remanded to police custody for
six days. Allan John Waters (56), the accused, was extradited from the
US last week. Waters had been arrested at New York's JFK airport last
year following an alert by the world police body, Interpol. Waters denied
the charges saying he was falsely implicated. "I deny the charges emphatically,
absolutely, I refute the allegations. It is quite complicated, I can
see perhaps. I don't think it is for me to say to the media at this
point beacuse it implicates to the people," Waters told reporters. The
Anchorage Shelter for homeless boys was established nine years ago in
South Bombay by Duncan Alexander Grant, another Britisher who is the
main accused in the case. Grant was arrested in Tanzania last month
following an interpol alert, and police said they were confident he
would also be extradited to India soon. Police detain Pakistani family for staying illegally in Meerut (Go to Top) Meerut:
Police in Meerut have arrested an Indian woman married to a Pakistani
national for staying illegally for the last more than six years.Police
said Reshma Safdar arrived in India six years ago on a Pakistani passport.
But she alongwith her two daughters and a son were staying in Meerut
despite informing immigration authorities that she was going back to
Pakistan. Reshma is married to Safdar, a citizen of Pakistan's Karachi
city. Police said they suspected her husband was also staying in India.
"They were hiding at different places, her husband has been absconding.
He has met them in disguise a few times, we are inquiring about him,"
said Antariksh Nirbhay, a senior police official in Meerut. Reshma said
she was forced to return to India as her husband was jobless. "My in-laws
had taken me to Pakistan and said that once I go there my husband will
start working but he did not do anything and I worked for a living.
I got ill and I decided to come back to India," she said. Police said
they planned to deport her to Pakistan after interrogation. Hannah Foster killer Kohli may be extradited to UK soon (Go to Top) New Delhi: Extradition proceedings have begun against Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, the prime accused in the rape and murder of British teenager Hannah Foster. A Delhi Court today sent him to judicial custody till September 17. Until then, the court will examine all the documents submitted by British police seeking Kohli's extradition to Britain where he will face a trial in the case. West Bengal police arrested Kohli on July 15. Chief Judicial Magistrate Paramvir Kaur Nirrjar has allowed CBI's plea to extend Kohli's judicial custody by two days and take him to the national capital to be produced before the extradition court. The CBI had earlier informed the court that the Centre has set up an extradition court with Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Dudeja as the Inquiry Magistrate after the Ministry of External Affairs received a plea from Britain for Kohli's extradition. -Sept 10, 2004 125 kg cache of explosives seized in Kashmir (Go to Top) Pattan:
The security forces on Thursday recovered a large cache of explosives
from a forest area in Kashmir. The 125 kilograms explosives were hidden
in a forest hideout in the Pattan township, 27 km north of Srinagar.
Colonel G.C.Yadav, Commanding Officer of 29 Rashtriya Rifles, said the
explosives were to be taken to Srinagar. Yadav said different units
of security forces were working on the leads for the past one month.
"We got information last evening about explosives being hidden in the
forest area. We have been searching the area since morning and have
recoverd 1.25 quintal of explosives and RDX. Alongwith this we have
also recovered IEDs," he said. Innocent terror law victim released after serving 11-years in jail (Go to Top) Nagpur:
Dadarao Sambhaji Karade from Maharashtra is a shattered man today.
All he has is a past whose ghosts will haunt him for the rest of his
life. Booked under the lapsed anti-terror law, the Terrorist and Disruptive
Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), Karade has served 11 years in jail,
charged with nine cases including rioting and murder. A court recently
acquitted Karade from all the charges and set him free, but not only
has he lost more than a decade of his life, but his entire family who
died of shock after news of his arrest. Karade now says he would sue
the government for framing him and seek compensation. "After spending
11 years in jail there is nothing left for me. I had everything before.
Now, I have no family. I shall file a case of compensation against the
government for all the troubles I faced all these years," he said. Karade
has not even seen his daughter, who was just two years old when he was
arrested. Karade says she wrote him just two letters in prison and was
shifted to live with various relatives before finally being sent to
his sister-in-law in a remote village. Karade says his relatives sold
his entire land and now he does not even have any means of survival.
His lawyer Surendra Gadling says there are many other innocent detainees
who have suffered under the law. "He has been acquitted in all the nine
cases. If somebody is arrested under a law like TADA and acquitted in
all of them then why did the government admit so many cases against
him? It means that the cases were all bogus. Whatever I have seen during
the trial and read his case, I am sure that he has been framed. Dadarao
is a not the sole case in Vidharbha region. When he was arrested, there
were 400-500 people along with him. There was no case proven against
them. There has been a 100 percent acquittal rate for TADA detainees,"
he said. |
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