Brave heart girl chases away robbers with sword
Bhopal: A 21-year-old girl brandished a sword to chase away five unidentified armed robbers from her house and thwarted their robbery bid. Acknowledging her courageous act, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur, who visited the girl’s residence on Thursday, said he would recommend her name for bravery award. The brave heart, Charanpreet Kaur (21), was studying for her second-year engineering examinations on the second floor of their Ansal Pradhan enclave residence, when she heard some noise in the early hours on Wednesday. She saw some masked men downstairs who had sneaked into their house. While all her family members were asleep on the first floor, Charanpreet applied presence of mind and immediately whipped out an over 4-feet long sword from its sheath. She screamed at the robbers with the sword in her hand and started rushing down while calling her father, Harvinder Singh Dheer (51), a civil contractor, to bring another sword. The robbers got scared seeing the sword in her hand and fled from there. After the girl narrated the incident to Gaur, he patted her for the brave act and likened her to “Jhansi ki Rani.”(PTI)
CISF constable shoots himself dead in Delhi Metro
New Delhi: A CISF constable on Thursday allegedly shot himself dead with his service rifle at a Metro station of the Airport Express line here. Officials said the incident occurred around 3 AM when the deceased trooper Mukesh Kumar (40) was returning after a routine patrol with his colleague. “On return, Mukesh put his AK-47 rifle on his head and shot himself. His colleague was just ahead of him and did not get time to stop him,” a senior official said. He said Mukesh received three bullets on his temple and was rushed to the nearby LNJP Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has ordered an inquiry into the incident as senior officials have reached the spot. Singh was a resident of Alipur in Delhi and had returned from leave on December 28. No immediate cause could be ascertained for him taking this step, the official said. (PTI)
2 cops, doctor held for raping college student
Raipur: A doctor working in a government hospital and two police constables were on Thursday arrested for allegedly raping a 22-year-old college student in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district. Dr Gautam Pandit, working at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital under Durg’s Supela police station limits, and two constables – Chandraprakash Pandey and Saurabh Bhakta – were arrested for raping the girl, Durg district’s Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Agarwal told PTI over phone. Quoting a complaint filed by the girl and her family members, Agarwal said the girl was injured in a road accident on June 19 last year, following which she was admitted to Lal Bahadur Shastri hospital. The girl alleged that she was raped by the doctor and the two policemen when she was in the hospital, he said. After she was discharged from the hospital, the two constables allegedly started harassing her and later sexually exploited her while threatening that they were in possession of an obscene video of her recorded in the hospital. (PTI)
Police arrests 2 with explosives in large quantity
Dholpur:Two persons have been arrested here for allegedly possessing large quantity of illegal explosives, police said on Thursday. Among the seized explosives include 318 bags of ammonium nitrate, 1350 gelatin rods, detonators and fuse wire in large quantity were recovered from the spot, SP Rajesh Singh said. Following a tip-off, police party raided a house yesterday and caught the accused while they were offloading the explosives from vehicles, Singh said. The explosives are generally used for mining purposes, and the police is investigating if the accused were involved mining activities, he said. The vehicles and the explosives have been seized, while the two accused – Mahaveer Singh and Pappu Singh – have been arrested, he said. (PTI)