Dutch woman found dead under mysterious circumstances

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Headless body found in train in Chennai

Chennai:  A headless body of a man was found in the Grand Trunk Express in Chennai on Saturday.

The body was packed in a steel trunk which was found in the general compartment of the train.

The police has started a probe into the matter.

More details are awaited.

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Pune BPO girl rape and murder case: Cab driver, accomplice found guilty

Pune:  A cab driver and his accomplice, accused of rape and murder of a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune, were pronounced guilty of both charges by a Pune Court on Saturday. The sentence for the duo would be given by the court on Monday.

Jyoti Kumari Chowdhari, a BPO employee in a multinational company, was allegedly raped and murdered by the driver of company's pick-up car on November 1, 2007.

The driver Purushottam Borate had reportedly picked Ms Jyoti at 10 pm for her night shift in the BPO, situated at Hinjweadi area in Pune. According to reports, the driver was joined by his friend Pradeep Kokate in the cab. Ms Jyoti was talking on the phone with her boyfriend and did not realise where they were headed. At 11 pm Ms Jyoti's boyfriend heard her ask the driver why had he stopped the car after which the phone was disconnected and was unreachable, say reports.

Ms Jyoti's body was found next day at Gahunje village. She was raped and had been strangulated to death.

Ms Jyoti, who was from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, was a Science graduate from the University of Pune. She was staying with her sister and brother-in-law in Panchavati area of Pashan and had joined a call centre as an associate in December 2006.

The case had sent shock waves in the IT and BPO industry in Pune and had exposed the vulnerability and lack of safety of women employees working in BPO units and call centres.

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Woman's headless body found chopped, stuffed in a bag

New Delhi:  A woman's headless dismembered body was found on Saturday stuffed in a bag near a park in north Delhi, police said.

"The body was found chopped in seven pieces, stuffed in a bag. The woman was around 25-years-old," a police official told IANS.

According to police, a case of murder has been registered at Sarai Rohilla police station and investigation has been taken up.

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3-year-old kills himself with gun he found in the car

Tacoma, Washington:  A 3-year-old boy shot and killed himself with a gun he found in a car as a family made a stop early on Wednesday at a gas station, police said.

It was the third recent shooting of a child in western Washington.

"It is incredible in light of the other ones," said Tacoma police Officer Naveed Benjamin. "You would think people would take more care, not less."

The family was traveling and had stopped for gas about 12:30 a.m. at the Tacoma station off Interstate 5. The man put his pistol under the seat and got out to pump gas while the boy's mother went inside the station, Mr Benjamin said.

They left her son and her boyfriend's 4- or 5-year-old daughter in the car, Mr Benjamin said.

The boy climbed out of his child seat, found the gun and shot himself. He was declared dead at a hospital.

The girl was not injured.

Detectives questioned the parents and have called the shooting a tragic accident, Mr Benjamin said.

The family has not been named. They are not from Tacoma and their car has Oregon plates.

The shooting follows the death of the 7-year-old daughter of a Marysville police officer in Stanwood on Saturday when a sibling found a gun and fired while the parents were out of their car. And on February 22, an 8-year-old girl was critically wounded in a Bremerton classroom when a gun fired from the backpack of a 9-year-old boy as he put it on a desk.

"It's another tragedy in a very short period of time," Mr Benjamin said.

It highlights the need for people to secure guns, he said.

"You can't predict what children are going to do," he said. "You need to unload and lock it up if you're not carrying it."

"And keep it out of the hands of children," Mr Benjamin said. "It's really not that hard to practice firearm safety."

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After man spends 7 months in jail, real killers found

Mumbai:  Seven months after Deepak Pawar (32) was arrested for scripting a robbery at his employers' shop, in which two people were shot dead, Crime Branch officers allege that VP Road police made a wrongful arrest.

According to the Crime Branch, a different group, who were arrested while attempting to commit a crime yesterday, were responsible for the murder of the owner of Bharat Steel Yard, Lalchand Vishnoi, and his cousin, Ratna Ram on July 6, 2011.

"The accused were arrested with firearms in their possession from Sane Guruji circle, Tardeo. The dacoits were meeting to commit a crime, when we arrested them.

During interrogation, they have revealed that they were involved in firing at Vishnoi and Ram," said an officer from the Mumbai Crime Branch. The individuals arrested have been identified as Govindutta Rajput (28), Nauseb Khan (26), Mohmmad Alam (28), Rabiullah Khan (30) and Mohmmad Shakeel Khan (20).

Arrest in haste?
VP Road police had then claimed to have solved the double murder case within 24 hours of the incident with the arrest of Pawar, who had been working in Bharat Steel Yard, an iron-and-steel trading firm, for the past seven years.

On learning of the fresh arrests, Senior PI Rajendra Chavan of VP Road police station said, "Two robbers who acted on the behest of Pawar are yet to be arrested and this is the reason why we have not been able to file a chargesheet.

There is a possibility that those arrested by the Crime Branch are the attackers who acted on Pawar's instructions.

Once we get the custody of the accused we will be able to get a clearer picture." However, when Crime branch officials were informed about the VP Road police comments, they claimed that these dacoits were not familiar with Pawar.

The incident
On July 6, 2011, two men entered the shop in the 7th Lane of Khetwadi, V P Road. Pawar asked them what they wanted. One of the robbers slapped him and he fell down.

When manager Lalchand Vishnoi intervened, one of the robbers fired at him. Later, they fired at his cousin, Ratna Ram. Both were declared dead before they were admitted to the hospital.

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Newly-wed couple in Agra found dead in bathroom after playing Holi

A newly-wed couple from Agra was found lying dead in the bathroom of their home on Thursday evening, police said.
Newly-wed Puneet Gupta, 26 and Varsha, 25 of Kunwar Colony had returned after playing Holi at the bride's home and were in the bathroom cleaning up the colours.
When the two did not come out after more than one and a half hours, family members got suspicious. They called neighbours and the police when the couple did not open the bathroom door.
The two were taken in an unconscious state to a nearby nursing home, where doctors declared them brought dead.
The two were cremated Friday morning.
The cause of the death is not clear and the primary post-mortem examination report too has failed in yielding a reason for the death.
The New Agra thana police are investigating the deaths.

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