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Childless woman who killed neighbour’s 10-year-old son and drank his blood as part of tantrik ritual gets life term

A court in Bareilly has awarded a life sentence to a 33-year-old childless woman, who had killed her neighbour’s 10-year-old son and drank his blood as part of a tantrik ritual.The woman believed that it would help her conceive a child. The woman’s paramour and her cousin, who helped her in the crime, have also […]

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Rats ate 581kg marijuana, says Mathura Police

Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura Police submitted a report to a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) court saying that rats ate about 581 kilogrammes of marijuana that was stored in the warehouses of Shergarh and Highway police stations. The report was submitted in response to a court order which had asked the officials to […]

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Aaftab Poonawala’s lie detector test likely to be held todayA pre-medical session to

The polygraph test of Aaftab Poonawalla will be conducted on Wednesday at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini.Official sources said a pre-medical session to gain preliminary information which will be later used to develop diagnostic questions, as well as a scientific session was conducted on Aaftab at the FSL office on Tuesday evening. “However, the […]

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Indian Army ready to execute orders on taking back PoK, says top general

Northern Army Commander Lt General Upendra Dwivedi said the Indian Army is ready to execute orders like taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “As far as the Indian Army is concerned, it will carry out any order given by the Government of India. Whenever such orders are given, we will always be ready for it,” said Lt […]

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Masseur in Satyendar Jain video not a physiotherapist, but a prisoner in a rape case: Sources

The masseur who was seen in video footage giving a massage to jailed Delhi minister Satyendar Jain is not a physiotherapist, but an inmate who is lodged in the Tihar Jail in a rape case, sources said on Tuesday. The claims come days after the Aam Aadmi Party, which had drawn flak over the videos, […]

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Delhi Police get court permission to conduct polygraph test on Aaftab Poonawala besides getting his custody for 4 more days

A court on Tuesday gave Delhi Police permission to conduct a polygraph test on Aaftab Poonawala. who allegedly killed and dismembered the body of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, police sources said on Tuesday.Delhi Police had moved an application in court on Monday. “Yes. We have received permission from the Delhi court to conduct a […]

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Aaftab paid ₹20,000 to move belongings from Maha flat to Delhi in June; police probing transaction

Aaftab Poonawala, the accused in the case of brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in May this year, shifted belongings from his flat in Maharashtra’s Palghar district to Delhi in 37 boxes in June and paid ₹20,000 for it, a police official said on Monday. Poonawala had told Delhi Police that before moving […]

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At least 44 dead, many injured in Indonesia earthquake: Official

At least 44 people have been killed in an earthquake that rattled Indonesia’s main island Java on Monday, a local spokesperson told AFP. “There have been dozens of people killed. Hundreds, even maybe thousands of houses are damaged. So far, 44 people have died,” Adam, spokesman for the local administration in Cianjur town in West […]

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Shraddha murder case: Delhi Police files plea for Aaftab’s polygraph test, hearing likely tomorrow

The Delhi Police on Monday filed an application in the city court for the polygraph test of Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of killing his partner Shraddha Walkar. The hearing is likely to take place tomorrow before the metropolitan magistrate Vijayshree Rathore.The Delhi Police in its application alleged that Poonawala is misleading the investigation agency and […]

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Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Cong to file plea challenging convicts’ release

The Congress is set to file a fresh review plea in Supreme Court challenging the decision to release six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. According to a senior Congress leader, the petition will be filed in the next 3-4 days. The Congress had termed the top court order ‘totally unacceptable’ and ‘completely erroneous’. […]