Indian natl hurt in Nepal Armed Force firing
Kishanganj (Bihar): An Indian national has been injured in firing by the Nepal Armed Police Force (NAPF) in the ‘no man’s land’ on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihars Kishanganj district, a senior police officer said on Sunday. The incident occurred around 9:30 pm on Saturday near pillar number 152 when Jitendra Kumar Singh and three others had gone there to bring back their cattle that had strayed into the ‘no man’s land’, Superintendent of Police Kumar Ashish said. The victim is a resident of Mafia Tola village under Fatehpur police station of the district. The family members rushed the injured man, who received a bullet injury on his left arm, to Kishanganj sadar hospital from where doctors referred him to Purnea for better treatment. (PTI)
Pak shells forward areas
Jammu: Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked firing and shelling on forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir Sunday evening, a defence spokesman said. Indian Army retaliated befittingly and the cross-border shelling between the two sides in Sunderbani sector was continuing when the last reporters were received, he said. “At about 7.15 pm, Pakistan initiated the unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars in Sunderbani sector (Rajouri),” the spokesman said. However, he said there was no immediate report of any casualty on the Indian side. (PTI)
1 held for stating talaq thrice
Hyderabad: A case has been registered under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act-2019, which prohibits divorce by pronouncing talaq by husbands of married Muslim women, over a complaint by a woman that her husband allegedly harassed her and also stated talaq thrice, police said on Sunday. The accused has been arrested. The case was registered on July 13. In the complaint, the woman stated that her marriage took place in September 2017 and her husband belongs to Mahabubnagar district. The woman said she and her husband later shifted to Hyderabad and that he and his family started harassing her mentally and physically two months after the marriage. Her parents-in-law tortured her for additional dowry and gold, she alleged. In 2018, she gave birth to a baby boy in a critical and emergency situation and she lived at her mothers home for some months. (PTI)
Five-year-old girl raped by 3 boys
Kota (Rajasthan): A five-year-old girl was left bleeding after she was allegedly raped by three boys in a village in Rajasthan’s Baran district, police said on Sunday. While the five-year-old girl was playing outside her house at Tanki Mohalla in Nahargarh town on Friday evening, the three minor boys of the neighbourhood promised to give her a Rs 5 coin and later took turns to rape her in a nearby field, SHO at Nahargarh police station, Dalpat Singh said. The mother was cooking inside the house at the time of the incident, he added. The family members found the girl missing and began searching for her. The mother, then, spotted the girl crying and bleeding on Gogacha Road near their home, police said. (PTI)