18-year-old girl shot dead
Bengaluru: An 18-year-old girl was gunned down and her friend injured by an attender of a private college after storming into their hostel room here.The man, identified as Mahesh, last night barged into the hostel room on the third floor in which the two girls, studying second year Pre-University course (standard 12) in Pragathi college at Kadugodi on city outskirts, were residing and fired, killing Gautami instantly and injuring her friend, Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi told reporters.The injured girl is “out of danger” and is being treated at a private hospital here, he said.Reddi said the attender working with the institution for the last two years was absconding and the motive behind the killing was not yet known.”The culprit has to be nabbed, we have constituted two to three teams to find him and they have already been sent to different parts of the state. We will find him soon,” he said.On the motive of the attack, Reddi said, “We can’t say anything as of now, we will get to know about things only after the investigations.””….our officials including DCP (South East) Rohini Katoch have also come here last night and have started the investigations,” the police chief said.Describing it as “an unfortunate incident”, Home Minister K J George, who visited the college, said the two students were at the hostel last night when the attender “shot at one girl and has killed her.” (PTI)
Godman involve sex trade case
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate has attached assets, including over a dozen bank accounts and cars, of a self-styled godman ‘Icchadhari baba’ in connection with its money laundering probe against him and his associates for allegedly running a sex racket in Delhi. The case dates back to 2010 when a Delhi Police team nabbed the alleged kingpin of a flourishing sex racket in the national capital, Shiv Murat Dwivedi alias Shiva alias Rajeev alias Swami alias ‘Icchadhari baba’ when he was allegedly conducting a flesh trade deal near PVR Saket cinema along with his accomplices. The police subsequently pressed charges under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act against Dwivedi and his associate Praveen along with half-a-dozen girls who were apprehended from the same spot. The ED subsequently slapped criminal charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against the two males. “The total amount of attachment has not been quantified as there are many transactions connected and hence the accounts have been seized,” sources said. Also, sources said, the agency had filed a charge sheet in the case before a special court here. A Delhi Police charge sheet in the case in 2010 had said that Dwivedi had amassed wealth running into crores of rupees by running the flesh trade for over a decade in the national capital. The kingpin hails from the Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh and had come to Delhi in search of job. Sources said he had also built a temple in the said district. A second case under the stringent MCOCA had been slapped by the Delhi Police against Dwivedi and is under trial. (PTI)
Fraudster IAS flees IAS academy
Dehradun: A woman fraudster allegedly from Muzzafarnagar, has disappeared after living in Lal Bahadur Shastri IAS Academy in Mussoorie, raising serious questions about the security of the prestigious academy that trains civil servants.
Mussoorie police in-charge Chandan Singh Bisht said an FIR had been lodged by the security officer of LBS IAS Academy Satbir Singh in Mussoorie against the woman who called herself Rubi Chaudhary, a resident of Muzzafarnagar and lived in the academy for about six months before disappearing mysteriously recently.
Upon investigations, her identity, certificates and other details were found counterfeit.SHO Bisht, who visited the Academy today said in view of the importance of the institution, all angles would be seriously probed and teams had been constituted to nab the woman.Since the woman managed to infiltrate the high security institution and even resided there for several months, a serious concern has been raised over the safety of the institution and its occupants and apprehensions were raised that she may have carried out the reconnaissance with nefarious intents. (UNI)