Student offered lift, raped while returning home from restaurant

February 20, 2017

New Delhi, Feb 20: A man allegedly raped a 24-year-old student from a northeastern state at south Delhi’s popular Deer Park around 2.30am on Sunday when she was returning home with a cousin after dinner at a restaurant in Hauz Khas Village.

HauzKhasThe woman said in her complaint that the man, who she couldn’t identify, raped her twice at the park adjacent to the Capital’s signature hang-out with 48 restaurants, art galleries and designer boutiques.

The two cousins, who stay at a rented flat in Munirka, had gone to Hauz Khas with friends on Saturday night. After dinner, around 1am, the two women were trying to hail a cab to return home when two men approached them.

They struck a conversation and offered to drop them home, saying have a car parked at a distance. The two women accepted the offer and walked with the men towards the car.

“In the meantime, the suspect offered to show his target a dry lake inside the park,” a police officer said.

The park — a sprawling green space and popular for family outings — is closed for the public at night.

“The duo scaled a wall to get in as the gates were locked,” the officer said.

The cousin, meanwhile, was walking towards the car with the other guy, unaware of her sister’s detour.

When the suspect and the student reached an isolated stretch, the man allegedly tried to grope her.

Angry over the man’s shock assault, the woman tried to put up a fight and hit him with a stone. But he was too strong for her.

“He slapped her and then raped her twice,” the officer said.

After the crime, the man bolted taking away with him the student’s mobile phone and wallet.

The traumatised woman got out of the park a while later and ran towards a police picket outside the market around 2.45am. When she finished recounting her ordeal, the policemen searched the area for the man fitting her description of the rapist.

They recovered the wallet near the spot where the woman was allegedly raped. The contents of the purse were untouched, but for a R500 note.

Her phone was not found, though. It was switched off. “Our electronic surveillance shows the phone is somewhere in the Hauz Khas area,” the officer said.

The phone’s location could lead investigators to the suspect whose sketch has been prepared, based on the woman’s description. Police have other “definite leads” as well, DCP (South) Ishwar Singh said.

A CCTV camera installed near the market had caught the suspect’s friend chatting with the cousin, who went home leaving her sister behind.

The woman, doing a part-time job and a course in spoken English, was sent for a medical examination and counselled to help her overcome the trauma. Her statement was recorded to register a case of rape.

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shaji
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Wednesday, 22 Feb 2017

I could not understand why these girls are giving a chance to rapists. They are also to be blamed for this. Why are they so much interested in roaming on the road at mid night. Also, why are they trusting strangers in spite of having knowledge of such incidents. Are they fool and trying to be over smart to show their sexy figure? Why cant they be at home in the night. Are they following western country woman who likes free sex.

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May 12,2020

May 12: A Madhya Pradesh Police sub-inspector was fined Rs 5,000 after he performed a daredevil act of balancing himself on two moving cars, copying the famous stunt from Ajay Devgn-starrer 'Singham'.

Manoj Yadav, the in-charge of Narsinghgarh police post in Damoh district, was also warned against any such daredevilry in future, police sources said on Monday.

Sporting shades as the hero of the cop drama film and wearing his police uniform, Yadav got the entire episode video-graphed, they said.

As the video of the stunt went viral on social media, senior police officials took serious note of it as it will send wrong signals to youngsters, the sources said.

Inspector General, Sagar range, Anil Sharma directed Damoh Superintendent of Police Hemant Chauhan to probe the matter.

After an investigation, Chauhan imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the sub-inspector and warned him not to repeat such mistakes.

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May 25,2020

Hyderabad, May 25: Indicating foul play in the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were fished out from a well near Warangal, a forensic expert on Sunday virtually ruled out suicide theory, saying it appeared seven of them had been dragged and thrown into the water body.

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday and four on Thursday, on the outskirts of Warangal in Telangana.

Police stepped up the probe and forensic analysis was also underway in the case.

The forensic expert, who visited the crime scene as part of the investigation citing preliminary tests, said that the seven of nine people had scratch injuries and appeared to have been "dragged" and "thrown" into the well.

Forensic reports are expected in 10 days, the forensic expert told media on Sunday adding after examining the crime scene it appears that the deaths were not suicides.

"We have preserved all organs and the same were sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for examination... some two or three persons might have been involved in the crime. There are scratch injuries on the bodies," he said.

"It appears that they were thrown into the water... There were no injuries on the child's body. We are awaiting the forensic report (to ascertain) whether they were poisoned. It didn't appear as if they committed suicide," the expert, who performed the post-mortem said.

Police sources said at least two people were picked up for questioning.

Bodies of the head of the family, wife, daughter and three-year old grandson were found floating and fished out on Thursday.

On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which police pumped out the water from the well and found others.

The 48-year old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here. His family had been staying in two rooms on the premises of the unit, police had earlier said.

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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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