Here is what is making news on a Tuesday morning
Lt Col Purohit says did not break rules, seniors in loop
Responding to the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) charges of criminal activity and violating service rules, lieutenant colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit — a key conspirator in the 2008 Malegaon blast case — claimed his actions were carried out with his seniors in the know.
The NIA in its chargesheet has alleged Purohit floated the Abhinav Bharat in 2006 while he was serving in the army, thereby violating service rules. Naming him as one of the key conspirators, the agency claimed he along with the other accused procured weapons and explosives using funds collected for the trust.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Was pizza chef one of the 6 Dhaka attackers?
As Bangladesh tries to come to grips with the massacre at a hip cafe in Dhaka and fears rise of more attacks in the coming weeks and months, confusion about the identity of the sixth terrorist -the seventh is injured and in custody -has deepened.
The IS website showed five of the attackers, but Bangladesh authorities said there were seven, six of whom were killed. One of the pictures released by authorities was of an assistant pizza chef, Saiful Choukidar, but it's not yet clear if he was in any way connected to the terrorists. He had worked with the cafe for about a year.
(Reported by Times of India)
Ramzan a good time for killing: Islamic State
As the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan approached, jihadi propagandists told their followers that it was a good time to kill people.
The spokesman for the Islamic State said in late May that jihadis should “make it, with God’s permission, a month of pain for infidels everywhere.” Another extremist distributed a manual for using poisons, adding, in poor English: “Dont forget Ramadan is close, the month of victories.”
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Flood leaves 150 U'khand villages without electricity
Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the dark. Senior officials of the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) said on Monday that the scale of damage to transmission lines was “unprecedented“.
“The strong winds and continued rains snapped many poles and supply lines were also cut. The entire power infrastructure in fact took a hit,“ said a top-ranking UPCL official.
(Reported by Times of India)
Two techies arrested for credit card fraud
In what appears to be a multi-crore cyber fraud, two software professionals have been arrested for allegedly duping a number of people. The suspects, Jay Shankar (28) and Rajesh Rawat (28), are residents of Sarai Rohilla in north Delhi.
Cops said they fraudulently used credit card details of their “clients“ to carry out online transactions. The crime branch was hot on their trail after the duo had made some credit card transactions worth Rs 2.5 lakh on two ecommerce sites. They had used details of two credit cards belonging to a south Delhi businessman.
(Reported by Times of India)
Couple 'electrocuted' after rainwater floods room in Delhi’s Sangam Vihar
An elderly couple were electrocuted in the early hours of Monday morning after their house in southeast Delhi’s Sangam Vihar area was flooded after heavy rain Sunday night, said police.
The bodies of the couple — 75-year-old Deen Dayal and 70-year-old Dhanwanti — were discovered by their son-in-law Sanjay Monday morning. He rushed both of them to a hospital, where doctors declared them dead.
(Reported by The Indian Express)
UP khap bans mobiles for U-18 girls to 'foil sexploitation'
After a video showing a 15-year-old girl being forced to strip by her school director was widely circulated on WhatsApp, a khap panchayat in Etah district has banned the use of cell phones by girls below 18.
The diktat was issued at a gathering of around 4,000 people by a Lodhi Rajput community panchayat in Bhilaipur and was seen as a precautionary measure to protect girls from sexual abuse or exploitation.
(Reported by Times of India)
Paternity doubts make dna testing big biz in gujarat
Naran Vasoya was driven to desperation by a nagging suspicion that he had nursed for decades. Suspicious of his wife’s fidelity and the parentage of his 33-year-old son Dipesh, he finally hired two assassins for ` 5 lakh last month to kill his son.
His arrest on June 26 by the Rajkot police for the inexplicable crime sent shock waves across Gujarat. But experts say that though extreme, his angst over his child’s lineage was not entirely uncommon. Many parents in the state are silently battling such similar anguish, prompting many of them to approach laboratories for paternity checks of their children.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Man killed for splashing rain water on drunk passersby
A 33-year-old man was attacked with wooden sticks and killed in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat area on Sunday night. All for splashing rain water on two drunk men who were passing by when he was enjoying the late night showers.
Police said the attackers brutally beat up Radhey Shyam in front of his father, near their house. The attackers, Shashi Bhushan, 32, and Pankaj, 30, were arrested on Monday. Both of them are residents of Anand Parbat.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Mumbai Police drop Radhe Maa’s name from dowry case
Self-styled godwoman Radhe Maa has not been named as an accused in the cheating and dowry harassment case filed against her a year ago.
In the chargesheet filed before the Borivali magistrate’s court, Kandivali police have named six persons, including the complainant’s husband and parents-in-law, as accused and dropped the name of Sukhvinder Kaur alias Radhe Maa. Kaur is the only one among the seven persons named in the FIR to be dropped in the chargesheet.
(Reported by The Indian Express)
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