A girl’s charge against her lover of illegal detention and sexual assault turns out false. Hyderabad: City police commissioner Anurag Sharma faces an unenviable situation. A teenage girl approached him a while ago and sobbed out a story of her lover and his two friends kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her for 10 days. Investigation [...]
A five-year-old boy, Nagoor, was kidnapped by unidentified people from his home on Wednesday. The incident came to light on Thursday night, when the boy’s father Soti Baji, a vendor, lodged a complaint with the police. The incident took place at Lalaguda in Secunderabad. According to the police, Soti Baji and his wife, who works [...]
Rio De Janeiro: Brazilian prosecutors have charged four men in connection with last month’s kidnapping of the sister of Brazil international footballer Hulk. Restaurateur Elio Pereira da Silva, security guard Jose Eliton de Melo Santos and students Victor Hugo Henrique da Silva and Rodolfo Bruno Barbosa Souza are in custody and awaiting trial in the [...]
For $50,000, a 26-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh kidnapped and killed his family friend’s 10-month-old baby Saanvi, whose body he stuffed in a suitcase, but nicknames used by him in the ransom note provided critical clues that helped police nab him.
The victim’s family alleged that Iqbal had repaid the entire amount that he had borrowed from three financiers, but the lenders insisted that it was still outstanding.
In February 2011, it was R Vineel Krishna, the collector of Malkangiri district in Odisha, who was kidnapped by Maoists; in April 2012, Alex Paul Menon, the collector of Sukuma district in Chattisgarh, was kidnapped by Naxals. The increasing frequency of these incidents is alarming for the reason that a collector of a district, the [...]
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As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
Instigated or inspired suicide?
The reel-like sequences following the real-life suicide of actress Jiah Khan has invoked a debate on abetment of suicide. What is abetment? Is there a clear definition? Does a letter left behind by the victim like in the case of Geetika Sharma against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda amount to abetment or will it [...]
Social networking is the order of the day. The world is a global village. As Marshall McLuhan believed the Internet has made us participants of this worldwide village. It’s surprising how forest communities and young Adivasis have started navigating in the social media to highlight problems such as displacement faced by tribal communities all over India. [...]
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