Apart from the kidnapping and murder, the convicts had even resorted to theft to support their lavish lifestyle.
September 7, 2018After local court convicted three accused in the Yug kidnapping and murder case on 6 August, the in-camera proceeding in the Yug murder case was held on Monday. The three convicts Chander Sharma, Tejinder Singh and Vikrant were brought to the district court amidst tight security. According to Shimla District Attorney R S Parmar the …
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August 14, 2018The accused thought since the victim was an LIC agent, he would have enough money and was an easy target.
July 23, 2018A local court has awarded 10 years of imprisonment to a man for kidnapping and raping a minor girl here three years ago.
April 22, 2018The Nagavali-Ghumsar division of the ultras is said to be behind the crime.
April 20, 2018A 27-year-old UPSC aspirant, who was reportedly inspired by some Bollywood films to kidnap a five-year-old boy and seek a ransom of Rs 20 lakh, was nabbed on Wednesday. Police claimed within nine hours it managed to trace the kidnapper and subsequently rescue the child. The accused, according to police, had to repay a loan …
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March 15, 2018Suspecting his 13-year-old daughter having an affair with a boy, a man allegedly killed her in North East’s Karawal Nagar area. Sudesh Kumar, the accused father was arrested and has confessed his crime, police said. According to police, the victim went missing on Wednesday and her father lodged a complaint of kidnapping at Karawal Nagar …
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March 11, 2018Not particularly poetic, but effective enough for the Delhi High Court to drive the point home that ~ in some contrast to the clichéd “justice delayed is justice denied” – there must be no rushing through the judicial process. A valid point in an era when popular sentiment tends to favour “instant” justice ~ at …
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March 4, 2018Delhi Police arrested two men for kidnapping a teenager from here for a ransom of Rs one crore, a police officer said on Wednesday. The victim was rescued. One of the kidnappers claimed that a family member was involved in the crime as well. Both men have been employed with the boy’s father, a businessman, …
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January 31, 2018Even as Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar seeks participation of children in large numbers in state government’s human chain, the killing of three school children and kidnapping of another three in the past 24 hours have raised a question mark over the success of the programme and have exposed the deteriorating law and order situation …
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January 20, 2018A Pakistani reporter working with an Indian English news channel on Wednesday alleged that 10-12 armed men tried to abduct him when he was on way to Islamabad airport but managed to escape. The winner of France’s highest journalism award the Albert Londres prize in 2014, Taha Siddiqui said he suffered minor injuries in the …
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January 10, 2018Two women have been arrested from Uttar Pradesh for kidnapping a 13-day-old infant and the child rescued, police said on Tuesday. Police said the accused women, who are close relatives of victim, were arrested from their hideout at Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad in a raid on Monday night. The victim’s father had on December …
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January 3, 2018A federal grand jury has charged Brendt A. Christensen, the suspect in the kidnapping of visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying, with kidnapping resulting in death, the media reported. The US Justice Department said Christensen, if convicted, could face mandatory life in prison or even death penalty. The grand jury on Tuesday said Christensen committed the …
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October 4, 2017Ten days after a 19-year-old Bengaluru youth was kidnapped, his body was recovered from near a Bengaluru lake on Friday. Earlier in the week, the victim, Sharath, was seen in a video asking his parents to pay Rs. 50 lakh as ransom to his kidnappers for his safe release. Six men arrested by the police …
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September 22, 2017