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3 Chandigarh cops arrested for harbouring UP ATM heist accused

The crime branch of Chandigarh Police arrested inspector Jasminder Singh, head constable Satish Kumar and senior constable Samunder on the charges of “destruction of evidence, suppression of facts, harbouring the accused, forgery of documents and criminal conspiracy”

The arrested trio will be produced in court in Chandigarh on Thursday. (HT File)

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Published on Mar 27, 2025 10:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Porsche crash: Juvenile’s parents, another accused to stay in police custody

Porsche crash: The teen’s mother was arrested on June 1 after revelation that the boy’s blood samples were replaced with hers

The prosecution sought extension of the police custody of the trio arguing that they want to find out where the blood samples of the juvenile were disposed of. (HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Jun 10, 2024 11:32 PM IST

ByShrinivas Deshpande

Pune car crash: Minor's parents sent in police custody till June 5 in evidence destruction case

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Updated on Jun 02, 2024 02:29 PM IST

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1994 fake encounter: SIT adds charges of murder, evidence destruction to FIR

The SIT is probing allegations of fake encounter against cops including, former IGP Paramraj Singh Umranangal, who was an SP-rank officer then

The SIT was constituted on a 2013 plea of Dalbir Kaur whose husband Sukhpal Singh was killed allegedly in a fake encounter by Punjab Police.

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Updated on Oct 07, 2023 07:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Three years on, Ghaziabad police establish identity of murdered man

The police said after a prolonged and thorough investigation, they established the identity of the deceased man as Bablu Kumar, 35, a native of Lakhimpur

The suspect in custody. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)

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Updated on May 04, 2023 11:37 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Ragpicker crushed by excavator in Delhi’s Ranhola, driver nabbed

Police said the excavator driver tried to get rid of the body by stuffing it in a sack and attempting to bury it in the same plot of land where it was working, police said

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Updated on Apr 13, 2023 11:33 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

IAS officer must face culpable homicide trial for road accident that killed journalist: Kerala high court

Setting aside a sessions court order that dropped the charge under section 304 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against Venkitaraman last year, a single bench of justice Bechhu Kurian Thomas said: “Prima facie, it is assumed that that the first accused was overspeeding and was driving the vehicle after consuming alcohol and had even caused destruction of evidence relating to the offence.”

The Kerala high court said IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman should be tried for culpable homicide in a 2019 accident case (Agencies/Representative use)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2023 11:07 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala HC restores culpable homicide charge against IAS officer for journo’s death

The Kerala government last year appealed against the sessions court’s order, insisting that the judge passed the order without considering the materials produced before it in the case against IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman

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Updated on Apr 13, 2023 01:55 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Delhi: Murder convict jumps Covid parole, murders girlfriend; nabbed after two years

Special commissioner of police (crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that Deepak had earlier been arrested in a kidnapping and murder case of April 2010

Deepak killed his girlfriend, Chanchal, at a hotel room in Sultanpur and stabbed her to death. He had been convicted in a 2010 kidnapping and murder case. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 08, 2023 11:02 PM IST

ByKarn Pratap Singh

Delhi's Sultanpuri hit-and-drag case: Chargesheet cites 117 witnesses

The Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on January 12 directed Delhi Police to book all the suspects for murder

Protests over the case at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 02, 2023 02:36 AM IST

ByDeepankar Malviya, New Delhi

Kerala nun murder case: Witness says she was forced to retract her statement

Sister Abhaya, a Class 12 student, was found dead in a well on the premises of the Pious X Convent in Kottayam on March 27, 1992.

One of the witnesses in the 27-year-old case of the murder of Catholic nun Sister Abhaya said in a court on Tuesday she was forced by church authorities and others to not to depose against the accused.(HT File (Representative Image))

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Published on Sep 17, 2019 05:07 PM IST

Thiruvananthapuram | ByRamesh Babu

Didn’t kill son, Oshiwara murderaccused tells court

Father claims he got gun from Prayagraj for protection, hid it in scooter fearing cops; says son killed self

After being charged with murdering his son on Tuesday night, Srinivas Ganji maintained he was innocent when produced in court on Wednesday.

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Published on Jul 25, 2019 12:50 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFarhan Shaikh, Mumbai

Dr Payal Tadvi suicide case: Doctors destroyed suicide note, cops say in charge sheet

The crime branch has charged the three senior doctors arrested in the case with destruction of evidence — apart from abetment to suicide and ragging

Dr Payal Tadvi, a postgraduate student at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room on May 22 this year.(Ht FILE)

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Updated on Jul 24, 2019 01:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByCharul Shah, Mumbai

Convict in Scarlett Keeling case sentenced to 10-yr jail

The former beach shack worker was convicted of culpable homicide for the 2008 death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, whom he drugged and sexually assaulted before leaving her to die.

Samson D'Souza, accused in the Scarlett Keeling murder case, leaves surrounded by policemen after being sentenced to ten year imprisonment by the Bombay High Court in Goa on July 19, 2019. - An Indian court on July 19 sent a bartender to jail for 10 years over the sexual assault and killing of British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach in 2008.(AFP)

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Published on Jul 20, 2019 01:55 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Panaji | ByHT Correspondent

50-year-old teacher held for raping 4-year-old in Punjab school

Besides the teacher, a school maid has also been arrested for destruction of evidence, said police said.

A 50-year-old school teacher was arrested for allegedly raping a 4-year-old girl on the school campus(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Jul 14, 2019 01:35 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Amritsar | ByHT Correspondent

Kathua rape, murder case: Family of girl to move court for stiffer punishment to convicts

A district court in Punjab’s Pathankot had in June this year convicted six men for the gang rape and murder of the nomadic Muslim girl, crime which stirred nationwide outrage and pushed the central government to introduce the death penalty for convicted child rapists.

Activists-hold-placards-during-a-rally-organised-by-The-Red-Brigade-Bring-Bangalore-Back-to-protest-against-the-recent-incidents-of-sexual-abuse-molestation-and-rapes-against-women-in-Bangalore-AFP-photo(AFP Representative Image)

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Updated on Jul 10, 2019 06:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Alwar man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 5-year-old

According to the police chargesheet, the man mutilated the five-year-old’s private parts and hid her body under a hay stack.

A court in Rajasthan’s Alwar sentenced a man to death on Tuesday for raping a 5-year-old and killing the girl by crushing her head with stone.(AP File Photo)

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Updated on Jun 12, 2019 07:08 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Alwar | ByHT Correspondent

After Kathua case acquittal, Jangotra plans counter suit

A court in Punjab’s Pathankot on Monday acquitted Vishal Jangotra and sentenced three others including his father, Sanji Ram, to life imprisonment for raping and murdering the girl in January 2018.

The family of one of the accused acquitted in the rape and the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua has said they were planning to file a malicious prosecution suit over his “false implication”.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)

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Published on Jun 12, 2019 12:10 AM IST

Jammu | ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

NCW chairperson demands death penalty for Kathua gang rape-murder case convicts

A court in Pathankot on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment the three main accused in the gang rape and murder of an 8-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua.

NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma Monday demanded capital punishment for the six convicts in the sensational Kathua gang rape-murder case(Twitter/Rekha Sharma)

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Published on Jun 11, 2019 12:04 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

3 men sentenced to life for rape, murder of 8-year-old Kathua girl

Sanji Ram, a retired revenue department official, Deepak Khajuria, a special police officer and Parvesh Kumar have been awarded the life imprisonment.

Sanji Ram, one of the six men convicted in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.(Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jun 11, 2019 06:56 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

HC strikes down 26-yr-old’s death sentence for rape, murder of minor

The four-year-old’s father, Varisali Chowdhry filed a missing complaint on January 1, 2012, after the girl disappeared. The next day, her body was found dumped at Vile Parle and police arrested an employee of a local godown owner and his purported accomplice.

The judges noted that the post mortem report cited traumatic asphyxia as the reason for her death which could have been caused by an accident.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 04, 2019 03:24 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByKanchan Chaudhari

Supreme Court asks CBI to give evidence for interrogation of Kolkata ex-top cop

The court said the Central Bureau of Investigation has to prove before the court that Kumar has a role to play in either suppression or disappearance of the evidence in the case.

The court directed the CBI to submit an affidavit with all the details in the court by Wednesday.(PTI)

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Updated on Apr 30, 2019 11:41 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

15-year-old killed by mother, brother over relationship

The police said that locals of Sangam Vihar in Ghaziabad’s Loni spotted the duo carrying the girl’s body on a two-wheeler and informed them.

The locals said that the family had moved to their newly rented house in Sangam Vihar three days ago.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Apr 19, 2019 05:55 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Nithari killings: Surinder Koli given death penalty in 10th case

The CBI court in Ghaziabad had, on Friday, found him guilty of murder, attempted rape, abduction and destruction of evidence. It also said that the murder was one of the “rarest of rare” cases, qualifying it for the death penalty.

A CBI court on Saturday awarded the death penalty to Surinder Koli for murdering and then dismembering the body of a 14-year-old girl, one of the victims in the infamous Nithari killing case. sakib ali/ ht file(HT Photo)

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Published on Mar 03, 2019 01:25 AM IST

Ghaziabad | ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Surinder Koli convicted in 10th Nithari rape-murder case, sentencing today

Koli is accused of having lured 16 children and women into the house of his employer Moninder Singh Pandher in Noida Sector 31.

Surinder Koli has been so far chargesheeted and convicted of rape and murder in 10 out of 16 cases. The hearing on the quantum of punishment is scheduled to take place on Saturday. . (Photo by Sakib Ali /Hindustan Times)(HT Photo)

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Published on Mar 02, 2019 01:37 AM IST

Ghaziabad | ByHT Correspondent

Dehradun school officials ‘tried to’ make student undergo abortion after gangrape

Five persons arrested for rape of 16-year-old girl by her classmates in boarding school.

A protestor stands with a placard during a protest near parliament in New Delhi in this file photo.(AP)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2018 07:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | ByHT Correspondent

Four students held for alleged gang-rape of classmate in Dehradun residential school

Four classmates of a 16-year-old student allegedly raped her at a Dehradun boarding school last month (on August 14), police said on Monday.

The school’s director, principal, administration officer, his wife and hostel caretaker were arrested for alleged destruction of evidence.(AFP/Picture for representation)

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Updated on Oct 18, 2018 05:44 PM IST

Dehradun | ByHT Correspondent

Bihar opposition MPs create ruckus in Lok Sabha over Muzaffarpur issue

Congress’ Ranjeet Ranjan threw a book and some papers after storming into the Lok Sabha’s well on Monday to protest “destruction of evidence” related to sexual abuse of girls at the Muzaffarpur shelter home. RJD MP Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav also raised the issue.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan allowed Opposition MPs to raise the Muzaffarpur matter but underlined that there cannot be a discussion on the issue as the CBI is probing it.(PTI)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2018 03:06 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

CBI files charge sheet against industrialist AC Muthiah in graft case

The promoters of First Leasing Company of India (FLCI) AC Muthiah, then chairman, and Farouk Irani, then managing director, have been charged by the agency with criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and destruction of evidence in the document filed before a Chennai special court

CBI said the company allegedly siphoned off the funds for extraneous uses and caused wrongful loss of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>102.87 crore (approx.) to the bank.(Bloomberg)

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Published on Jun 08, 2018 09:29 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India, New Delhi

Two woman found dead in a day in Pune

While one woman was found inside a white rucksack in the valley before Tamhini ghat section, the other woman was found atop Hanuman hillock.

In one of the cases, police suspect the woman was murdered around three days back.(HT REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

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Updated on Apr 16, 2018 05:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByHT Correspondent, Pune

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The crime branch of Chandigarh Police arrested inspector Jasminder Singh, head constable Satish Kumar and senior constable Samunder on the charges of “destruction of evidence, suppression of facts, harbouring the accused, forgery of documents and criminal conspiracy”

Porsche crash: The teen’s mother was arrested on June 1 after revelation that the boy’s blood samples were replaced with hers

Pune car crash: Minor's parents sent in police custody till June 5 in evidence destruction case

The SIT is probing allegations of fake encounter against cops including, former IGP Paramraj Singh Umranangal, who was an SP-rank officer then

The police said after a prolonged and thorough investigation, they established the identity of the deceased man as Bablu Kumar, 35, a native of Lakhimpur

Police said the excavator driver tried to get rid of the body by stuffing it in a sack and attempting to bury it in the same plot of land where it was working, police said

The Kerala government last year appealed against the sessions court’s order, insisting that the judge passed the order without considering the materials produced before it in the case against IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman

Special commissioner of police (crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that Deepak had earlier been arrested in a kidnapping and murder case of April 2010

The Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on January 12 directed Delhi Police to book all the suspects for murder

Sister Abhaya, a Class 12 student, was found dead in a well on the premises of the Pious X Convent in Kottayam on March 27, 1992.

Father claims he got gun from Prayagraj for protection, hid it in scooter fearing cops; says son killed self

The crime branch has charged the three senior doctors arrested in the case with destruction of evidence — apart from abetment to suicide and ragging

The former beach shack worker was convicted of culpable homicide for the 2008 death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, whom he drugged and sexually assaulted before leaving her to die.

Besides the teacher, a school maid has also been arrested for destruction of evidence, said police said.

A district court in Punjab’s Pathankot had in June this year convicted six men for the gang rape and murder of the nomadic Muslim girl, crime which stirred nationwide outrage and pushed the central government to introduce the death penalty for convicted child rapists.

According to the police chargesheet, the man mutilated the five-year-old’s private parts and hid her body under a hay stack.

A court in Punjab’s Pathankot on Monday acquitted Vishal Jangotra and sentenced three others including his father, Sanji Ram, to life imprisonment for raping and murdering the girl in January 2018.

A court in Pathankot on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment the three main accused in the gang rape and murder of an 8-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua.

Sanji Ram, a retired revenue department official, Deepak Khajuria, a special police officer and Parvesh Kumar have been awarded the life imprisonment.

The four-year-old’s father, Varisali Chowdhry filed a missing complaint on January 1, 2012, after the girl disappeared. The next day, her body was found dumped at Vile Parle and police arrested an employee of a local godown owner and his purported accomplice.

The court said the Central Bureau of Investigation has to prove before the court that Kumar has a role to play in either suppression or disappearance of the evidence in the case.

The police said that locals of Sangam Vihar in Ghaziabad’s Loni spotted the duo carrying the girl’s body on a two-wheeler and informed them.

The CBI court in Ghaziabad had, on Friday, found him guilty of murder, attempted rape, abduction and destruction of evidence. It also said that the murder was one of the “rarest of rare” cases, qualifying it for the death penalty.

Koli is accused of having lured 16 children and women into the house of his employer Moninder Singh Pandher in Noida Sector 31.

Five persons arrested for rape of 16-year-old girl by her classmates in boarding school.

Four classmates of a 16-year-old student allegedly raped her at a Dehradun boarding school last month (on August 14), police said on Monday.

Congress’ Ranjeet Ranjan threw a book and some papers after storming into the Lok Sabha’s well on Monday to protest “destruction of evidence” related to sexual abuse of girls at the Muzaffarpur shelter home. RJD MP Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav also raised the issue.

The promoters of First Leasing Company of India (FLCI) AC Muthiah, then chairman, and Farouk Irani, then managing director, have been charged by the agency with criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and destruction of evidence in the document filed before a Chennai special court

While one woman was found inside a white rucksack in the valley before Tamhini ghat section, the other woman was found atop Hanuman hillock.

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