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  • Murder accused Singaporean Chinese jailed for possessing knife

    By PTI
    SINGAPORE: A Chinese-origin Singaporean, originally accused of murdering an Indian-origin man following a brawl at a nightclub, was sentenced on Friday for up to five years after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of being in the company of someone who had a weapon in his possession.

    Tan Hong Sheng, now 24, was the sixth person linked to the case who was dealt with in a district court.

    He was sentenced following the brawl in 2019 to four years and nine months’ with 12 strokes of the cane, The Straits Times reported.

    On February 5, he pleaded guilty to being in the company of Tan Sen Yang, now 29, who had a kerambit knife at Orchard Towers on the day Satheesh Noel Gobidass, 31, was killed.

    The younger man also admitted last month to two unrelated rioting charges. Tan Hong Sheng was one of seven people initially charged with Satheesh’s murder on July 2, 2019.

    Tan Sen Yang still faces a murder charge and will be dealt with in the High Court.

    The other six have had their murder charges reduced to less serious ones such as assault.

    Tan Hong Sheng’s lawyers, Josephus Tan and Cory Wong, had earlier said that their client did not participate in the attack on Satheesh and instead tried to stop it.

    The court heard that Tan Hong Sheng and his group were at the Naughty Girl Club (night club) on the second storey of Orchard Towers in the tourist-belt of Orchard Road when a dispute broke out at the entrance.

    He was walking out of the mall in the early hours of that day when Satheesh confronted a member of his group.

    Deputy Public Prosecutors Ang Feng Qian, Dora Tay and Benedict Teong had stated in court documents: “During this time, the accused had noticed that (Tan Sen Yang) had the kerambit knife in his right hand when he went towards Satheesh and started punching him with the said knife in his right hand.

    “During this assault, (Tan Sen Yang) injured Satheesh fatally when he used the kerambit knife to inflict multiple injures to Satheesh’s head and neck area.

    ” Satheesh collapsed and was pronounced dead at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

    Tan Hong Sheng had committed earlier acts of rioting and was on bail for one of them when he went to Orchard Towers on the day of the fatal attack, according to the newspaper report.

  • UP man kills 17-year-old daughter over love affair, carries severed head to police station

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: In a shocking incident of alleged honour killing, a man beheaded his minor daughter and reached the police station with her severed head to surrender before cops in Hardoi district late on Wednesday night.

    As per police sources, the man got infuriated over his daughter’s alleged love affair with a youth whom he detested.

    According to Hardoi SP Anurag Vats, the accused, Sarvesh Kumar of Pandeytara village under Majhila police station, was arrested.

    Police sources claimed that Sarvesh, a vegetable vendor, had spotted his daughter, 17, in a compromising position with a youth Adesh, a distant cousin of the victim, a few days back. He had then made up his mind to kill both. “Sarvesh’s wife has also testified this in her statement to the police,” the SP said.

    According to police, Sarvesh reached home around 3 pm on Wednesday and beheaded his daughter with a chopper.

    Panic gripped the area when the vegetable vendor walked down to Majhila police station, about 2 km away from his village, holding the girl’s severed head in his hand with blood trickling down. He had left the body of his daughter bleeding at home.

    But before he could reach the police station, a policeman stopped him and was shocked to see him carrying a severed head in his hands. On being asked, Sarvesh told the cop that he had beheaded his daughter and was going to the police station to surrender. “We have recovered the beheaded body and weapon used in the crime. The accused has been arrested for the murder of his daughter,” said the Superintendent of Police Anurag Vats.

    The cops added that the girl was studying in Class 12 and was the eldest among her four siblings– three sisters and a brother.

    Meanwhile, a video of a police constable holding the head of the girl went viral on social media, following which IG Lucknow range, Laxmi Singh took cognisance and suspended the constable deployed at Mahila police station. She said that the responsibility of the police was to maintain law and order and they also must carry themselves in a disciplined manner. “The constable was holding the beheaded girl’s head and taking a stroll in the police station,” she said.

  • Suspecting wife of infidelity, man kills minor daughter in Gujarat

    By PTI
    AHMEDABAD: A 23-year-old man allegedly killed his five-year-old daughter suspecting his wife of infidelity in Gujarat’s Anand district, police said on Thursday.

    The Anklav taluka police on Wednesday arrested Shailesh Padhiyar, a farmer, for strangling his daughter at a field near his house in Mujkuva village, sub-inspector P K Sodha said.

    Investigations have revealed that the accused quarrelled with his wife frequently and suspected that his daughter was born out of an extramarital affair, he said.

    “On January 26, Padhiyar approached the police claiming that someone had killed his daughter by strangling her,” the official said.

    The police found something amiss and on interrogation, the accused broke down and admitted to the crime, he said.

    Padhiyar took the child to a field and strangled her, following which he returned home and started looking for her, before approaching the police, the official added.

  • Man held for bludgeoning woman to death in Palghar

    By PTI
    PALGHAR: The owner of a coaching class has been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning to death a 57- year-old woman from his neighbourhood in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Wednesday.

    The Palghar police on Tuesday arrested the 37-year-old accused for allegedly killing Sadhana Chowdhary, an employee of a credit society, at her office on January 9, Palghar superintendent of police Dattatreya Shinde said.

    According to the police, the victim’s family had sought the accused’s help when she failed to return home from work.

    The accused had allegedly informed the victim’s family about finding her dead and later misled the police during the probe, the official said.

    When the police found something suspicious about the accused’s movements, they interrogated him and found out that he had allegedly bludgeoned the victim to death with a hammer, he said.

    The accused, who ran a coaching class, visited the credit society frequently and stole some money from the office, it was stated.

    On learning about this, the victim reprimanded him and fearing that she might go to the police, the accused killed her when she was alone at the office, he said.

    The accused has been arrested under section 302 (murder) of the IPC and further probe is underway, he added.

  • Teen stabbed to death in Nagpur city; three held

    By PTI
    NAGPUR: A 16-year-old boy was allegedly beaten up and stabbed to death by three persons, including two minors, in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city, police said on Saturday.

    The attack took place in Dipti Signal area under Kalamna police station late on Friday night, an official said.

    Vinay Dahare was beaten up and stabbed in the chest by Yogesh Bangare (20) and two minors over an old dispute, the official.

    The attack was a result of a fight that had taken place between the victim and the accused at a wedding last month, he said.

    The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he died during treatment, the official said, adding that Bangare has been arrested and two minors detained for the crime.

    The Kalamna police have registered a case of murder in this regard, the official said.

  • Woman, two minor daughters found dead at home in Punjab’s Sangrur

    By PTI
    CHANDIGARH: A 30-year-old woman and her two minor daughters were found dead at their home in Punjab’s Sangrur district, police said on Tuesday.

    Baljit Kaur was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home in Saron village on Monday evening, Sangrur Deputy Superintendent of Police Satpal Sharma said over the phone.

    The bodies of her two daughters — Arshnoor Kaur (4) and Virasat Kaur (2)–were lying on a bed, said police.

    The bodies were first seen by the woman’s husband after he returned from work, said police.

    The bodies have been sent to the local civil hospital for a post-mortem, they added.

  • Jamal Khashoggi’s Fiancee Urges Biden To Release CIA’s Classified Report Into The Murder

    Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has urged the US president-elect, Joe Biden, to release the CIA’s classified report on his murder as soon as he enters the White House. Khashoggi, a columnist for Washington Post disappeared while visiting Saudi Consulate on his trip to Istanbul in 2018. Later, Suadi officials admitted that Khashoggi was mistakenly killed during an extradition operation. However, the crown Prince continues to deny any knowledge of the same.

    Calling on the American authorities to release the classified documents, she asserted that it would “greatly assist in uncovering the truth” about people responsible for his murder. Although official investigation reports have not been released as yet, media reports have alleged the role of Saudi Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in his killing

    Biden had repeatedly denounced Saudi Arabia’s sordid activities and promised that he would withdraw the US from an arms deal with Riyadh signed by his predecessor. During his 2020 election campaign, Biden had even promised that he would make Saudi Arabia “the pariah they are” if he was elected. Sticking to the same, the incoming Biden administration was considering the release of documents to provide transparency, The Gaudian reported citing a White House source.