NEW DELHI: A 48-year-old woman has been arrested for killing her bedridden mother-in-law on April 28 by battering her with a frying pan and a pressure cooker in southwest Delhi. The octogenarian had 14 injuries on her body and was hit over a dozen times on her head and face.
Sharmishtha Som was allegedly exasperated at having to take care of her 86-year-old mother-in-law, Hashi Som. Her relationship with her husband had soured over the issue. After deciding to kill the octogenarian, she made it appear like she had fallen and sustained injuries. She almost succeeded, evading police for almost 11 days. But the post-mortem report and footage from a table cam installed in the house nailed her lie.
Sharmishtha lives with her husband, Surjeet Som, 51, and their 16-year-old daughter at Swastik Residency in Neb Sarai. Her mother-in-law lived in Kolkata but since she couldn’t walk and required care, Surjeet brought her to Delhi in March last year. Initially, she lived with the family, but on Sharmishtha’s constant protests, Surjeet moved her to a rented one-room flat opposite his house last October.
He installed a CCTV camera on the bedside table and monitored the feed on his mobile phone. On the day of murder, he was occupied with work and couldn’t check the feedback. He only discovered his mother’s body after reaching home.
The daughter informed the cops that relations between her mother and grandmother were not cordial. Surjeet corroborated this. The cops found the camera, but not the video storage. Surjeet then handed over the memory card of the CCTV camera that he had taken out. The footage showed that at 10.30am on April 28, Sharmishtha entered her mother-in-law’s flat with a pressure cooker and pan. Sounds of screams and of blows being inflicted on the aged woman can be heard. Sharmishtha is later seen cleaning the cooker and pan with a cloth.
“The autopsy report suggests 14 injuries on the victim’s head. The cause of death was haemorrhagic shock as a result of ante-mortem injuries caused by blunt force impact on the head, right hand, left upper limb and left lower limb,” said a police officer. “Sharmishtha was arrested and an FIR for murder registered. The son’s involvement has been ruled out.”
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In Delhi, 86-year-old killed with frying pan, cooker by daughter-in-law
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Hearing against Rahul and Kejriwal in Delhi High Court on August 7
New Delhi (IANS) | The Delhi High Court on Wednesday fixed August 7 for hearing on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). In this, a demand has been made to direct the CBI to investigate and prosecute Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Both the leaders have been accused of making misleading statements against the central government. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramaniam Prasad granted time to the petitioner to file certain documents.
The court has fixed the matter for further hearing on August 7.
Petitioner, social activist and farmer Surjit Singh Yadav, in a PIL filed through advocate Barun Kumar Sinha, has also sought the court’s direction to the news channels to remove false and misleading statements of the two leaders.
It has been said in the petition that both the leaders have made a false and misleading claim on the central government to forgive lakhs of crores of rupees to the capitalists. This has affected the prestige of the government.
–IANS
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The minor killed the man by stabbing him
New Delhi (IANS) | A minor stabbed a man to death after an argument in North Delhi’s Timarpur area. A police officer gave this information on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Kunal, a resident of Timarpur.
According to the police, at around 10 pm on Tuesday night, a police team reached the spot after receiving a call about a person being stabbed with a knife on Fateh Singh Road near the CPWD office in Timarpur police station.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said, “The injured Kunal was taken to the trauma center in a PCR van, but he was declared brought dead.” A case has been registered under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
During the investigation, the minor who executed the incident has been arrested. The knife used in the crime has also been recovered from the possession of the accused, the officer said.
–IANS
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Karnataka polls will be key for Congress’ revival ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections
By PTI
BENGALURU: Wresting power from the BJP will be a morale booster for the Congress, key for reviving its electoral fortunes and strengthening its credentials as the main opposition player against the saffron party, ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.By ensuring a win in Karnataka, the party also wants to bounce back after the recent losses in the North-Eastern states and give it a momentum of sorts to take on the battle-ready election machinery of the BJP, later this year in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
The Congress is by-and-large focused on local issues and its campaign also was run by its state leaders initially.
However, its central leaders such as AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pitched in subsequently.
This poll is also a prestige battle in a way for the grand old party with a Kannadiga Mallikarjun Kharge, who hails from Kalaburagi district, at its helm, as the national president.
The Congress that entered the campaign with the challenge of keeping at bay factionalism, especially between the camps of its two Chief Ministerial aspirants — Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar — who were often seen to be engaging in political one-upmanship, it somehow managed to put a united front and ensured that no rift came out in open and derail its prospects.
Though the campaign initially centered around its state leaders like Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, Kharge gave it momentum and thereby prepared the pitch for the party’s top leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi to join in.
The brother-sister duo extensively travelled across the state, challenging the BJP’s campaign machinery led by Modi, countering and challenging him on various issues, most importantly on the issue of corruption, while promising to provide a better alternative for Karnataka.
Their mother and former AICC president Sonia Gandhi addressed a party rally in Hubballi on Saturday.
The party held 99 public meetings and 33 roadshows by its top state and central leaders.
The Congress has set a target of winning 150 seats, and has been urging voters to ensure that it gets an absolute majority, so that BJP doesn’t “steal” the mandate by managing defections of other party legislators and “manufacture” a majority in its favour.
The Congress’s main issues to attack the BJP government in this election was over corruption/ scams and the charge of 40 per cent commission, coupled with the Adani issue.
While extensively highlighting its five key poll ‘guarantees’, the party tried to inform the people about its charge against the BJP government of having “failed in fulfilling 90 per cent of its promises” made in its 2018 manifesto.
The Congress’ has promised to implement ‘guarantees’ 200 units of free power to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), 10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household (Anna Bhagya), Rs 3,000 every month for graduate youth and Rs 1,500 for diploma holders (both in the age group of 18-25) for two years (YuvaNidhi), and free travel for women in public transport buses (Shakti), on the very first day, on coming to power in the state.
At a time when it seemed like all was going well, the Congress itself waded into controversies with Siddaramaiah’s statement that “there’s already a Lingayat CM who is the most corrupt,” which the BJP turned into an “insult” to the entire Lingayat community.
Mallikarjun Kharge’s “venomous snake” barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then his son and Chittapur MLA Priyank Kharge ‘nalayak beta’ (incompetent son) remark against him, created a flutter in political circles, eliciting sharp reactions from the BJP.
Amid these back-to-back controversies, the Congress manifesto proposing to banning the Bajrang Dal caused some anxiety as it threatened to hurt the optics, as BJP and PM Modi aggressively picked up the issue to portray the grand old party as being against Lord Hanuman and the sentiments of Hindus.
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Third cheetah dies at MP’s Kuno National Park after ‘violent interaction’ during mating
BHOPAL: The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious project to reintroduce the cheetah in the wilds of India – 70 years after the fastest moving animal on earth officially became extinct in the country – has suffered the third jolt in less than 45 days.
An adult South African female cheetah, re-named Daksha last month, died at her enclosure at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) after sustaining grievous injuries in a “violent interaction” with two male South African cheetahs Vayu and Agni, reportedly during mating on Tuesday.
According to MP state forest department sources, “The SA female Daksha was found injured in the Boma-1 (big enclosure it was housed in) by the KNP monitoring team at around 10.48 am. A team of veterinary experts was rushed to treat Daksha, but the SA female died at 12 noon.”
With this, the KNP in Sheopur district is now left with 17 semi-adult and adult Namibian and South African cheetahs and three cubs born to one of the female Namibian cheetahs on March 29.
Tuesday’s casualty is the third African cheetah death at KNP since March 27, when a Namibian female Sasha reportedly died battling acute kidney problems. On April 23, a South African male cheetah Uday died following cardiopulmonary failure.
As per the MP Forest Department’s official statement, while Daksha was housed in Boma-1, the SA male coalition Vayu and Agni were housed in neighbouring Boma-7.
On April 30, a high-level meeting was held at the KNP in connection with the ongoing Project Cheetah. The meeting was attended among others by the National Tiger Conservation Authority director general Dr Amit Mallik, Wildlife Institute of India (WII-Dehradun) population management, capture and rehabilitation expert Dr Qamar Qureshi and two experts from the Cheetah Meta Population Initiative, South Africa.
The meeting resolved to initiate the process of interaction between SA female Daksha and SA male coalition Vayu and Agni, after which the gate between Enclosure-1 and Enclosure-7 was opened. Five days later, the male coalition entered into the Enclosure-1 housing female Daksha.
As per the official statement, the nature and magnitude of injuries on SA female Daksha’s body prima facie suggests that it sustained the wounds due to violent interaction while mating with the male coalition.
“Violent behaviour by male cheetah coalitions with females during the course of mating is normal, owing to which possibility of intervention by monitoring teams is nearly negligible,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, the autopsy of the SA female Daksha’s carcass is being performed by veterinary experts in accordance with established rules and procedures.
Seven decades after the big cat officially went extinct in India’s wilds owing to rampant hunting, eight cheetahs were flown to India from Namibia as part of the world’s first inter-continental cheetah translocation project on September 17, 2022. The same day, which also happened to be PM Narendra Modi’s birthday, the eight Namibian cheetahs were released by him into the KNP.
Five months later on February 18, 2023, 12 cheetahs from South Africa were released at the same national park, taking the total count of the big cat in the KNP to 20.
Last month, MP Forest Department officials had written to the NTCA to shift some of the African cheetahs to alternative sites, already listed in the Cheetah Reintroduction Action Plan.
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ASEAN-India naval exercise demonstrated to operate as integrated force: Navy
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Tuesday said its exercise with the ASEAN navies in the South China Sea demonstrated the ability of the two sides to operate as an integrated force to promote peace, stability and security in the region.The two-day sea phase of the ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise in the South China Sea that ended on Monday assumed significance as it came amid increasing concerns among leading global players including India over China’s increasing muscle-flexing in the region.
A number of Chinese surveillance ships kept a watch on the military exercise, people familiar with the matter said.
China claims sovereignty over all of the South China Sea, a huge source of hydrocarbons. However, several ASEAN member countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei, have counterclaims.
Officials said approximately 1400 personnel manning nine ships participated in the sea phase of the multilateral naval exercise. Indian Navy deployed indigenously designed and built destroyer INS Delhi, stealth frigate INS Satpura, maritime patrol aircraft P-8I and integral helicopters for the exercise.
Naval ships from ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states such as Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam were part of the mega wargame, the officials said.
The Indian Navy in a statement said, “The two-day sea phase witnessed a wide spectrum of evolutions at sea including tactical manoeuvres, cross-deck landings by helicopters, seamanship evolutions and other maritime operations.”
“Apart from honing skills in the maritime domain the exercise enhanced interoperability and demonstrated the ability of Indian & ASEAN navies to operate as an integrated force to promote peace, stability and security in the region,” it said.
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Number of devotees increased in Kedarnath Yatra
Uttarakhand. The Chardham Yatra which began on April 22 is going on smoothly in Uttarakhand. So far more than 5 lakh 50 thousand devotees have visited Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham. Maximum 2 lakh 52 thousand pilgrims have visited Kedarnath.
Number of visitors to Kedarnath
Male – 5902
Female – 3592
Children – 151
Foreign Male – NIL
Foreign Female – NIL
Foreign children – Nil
*Daily Total – 9645
Total Total-*205260
Travel Control Room Rudraprayag.
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Head Clerk Of Office Of Sub-Registrar Arrested By Odisha Vigilance
Sonepur: Odisha Vigilance today arrested a Head Clerk along with another person for demanding and accepting undue advantage (bribe). The arrested persons have been identified as Siba Prasad Guru alias Bhikari Guru, the Head Clerk of the office of Sub-Registrar in Tarva of Sonepur district and Hemakanta Bishi.
The vigilance sleuths arrested the duo for demanding and accepting undue advantage (bribe) of Rs 24,000 from a complainant through Bishi in order to process 6 nos. of sale deeds for registration of land of complainant and 5 others.
Based on the complaint, a trap was laid today, wherein the accused were were caught by the team of Odisha Vigilance in the office room of Head Clerk while demanding and accepting the bribe.
As per the direction of Guru, Bishi received the bribe amount from the complainant. The entire bribe money was recovered from the possession of Bishi and seized in presence of witnesses.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches have been launched on the residential house of Guru located at Ghodaghatpada, Subarnapur and his office room.
Both the accused persons were arrested and are being forwarded to the Court, said sources adding that in this connection, Sambalpur Vigilance PS Case No.11 dated 08.05.2023 U/s 7/12 Prevention of Corruption Amendment Act, 2018 has been registered and is under investigation.
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Bus drags girl for 1km in Odisha, man-wife critical
Bolangir: In a shocking incident, a girl has been dragged for as long as one kilometer in Bolangir district of Odisha on Tuesday, said reliable reports.
According to reports, the man and his wife have been critically injured in the accident. The incident has been reported from Gaintala in Bolangir.
Reports say that, a man, his wife and his daughter were traveling on a bike when a bus hit them near Gaintala in Bolangir.
The daughter was allegedly run over by the bus and reportedly dragged by the vehicle for nearly one a kilometre. The man and his wife are said to be critical and have been rushed to the nearby hospital, said reports.
Furthermore, the irate locals have staged a stage road blockade and vandalised the bus. The local police have reached the spot and detain the driver.
In a shocking incident on May 1 in Delhi, a SUV was caught being driven with a man clinging on to the bonnet for around three kilometres here, police said on Monday.
The incident, which was caught on camera, took place around 11 p.m. when the car was en route to Nizamuddin Dargah from Ashram Chowk. The victim, Chetan (30), a resident of Govindpuri, however, did not suffer any injuries.
The video of the incident is also doing rounds on social media.
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Man arrested in Odisha for cheating in defence exam
Berhampur: In a shocking incident, a man from Haryana has been arrested for cheating in the defence exams in Gopalpur of Odisha, said reports.
Reports say that, a 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly using a Bluetooth device in an army recruitment examination in Odisha’s Gopalpur, police said.
The accused has been identified as Vijay, a resident of Jind district of Haryana. Berhampur Superintendent of Police Saravana Vivek M said a Bluetooth device and SIM cards were seized from his possession.
The exam was being held at Army Air Defence Centre at Gopalpur military station on Sunday. Reports say, he was caught by the invigilator and handed over to the police.
Earlier in the year 2020 the Delhi High Court, while dismissing a petition filed by Delhi University student allegedly caught cheating during the examination, observed that “copying and cheating” in examinations is like a “pandemic which can ruin society and the educational system of any country”.
“Copying and cheating in examinations is like the plague. It is a pandemic which can ruin society and the educational system of any country. If the same is left unchecked or if leniency is shown, the same can have a deleterious effect.
For any country’s progress, the integrity of the educational system has to be infallible,” observed a single judge bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh.
The observation came in while the court was hearing a petition filed by Aarzoo Aggarwal, a final year student of B.A. (H) Economics at DU’s Daulat Ram College challenging the University’s order cancelling her examinations for the entire semester.