New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Based on the material its team got from Italy, the CBI Monday registered a preliminary enquiry against 11 people, including former Indian Air Force chief S.P. Tyagi, and four companies in the $750 million/Rs.3,600-crore deal for purchase of 12 VVIP helicopters from AgustaWestland.
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) A Delhi court Monday sent to seven days' police custody the man who shot dead a woman at Sarai Kale Khan here for allegedly interfering in his relationship with her friend. Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal remanded the accused, 25-year-old Munshi Yadav, in police custody till March 4 for taking him to Bihar's Saharsa district to find out the source of the weapon he used in the crime.
Noida, Feb 25 (IANS) About a dozen armed robbers looted goods and other articles worth over Rs.50 lakh from a factory in Noida, police said Monday. The robbers struck past Sunday midnight in electrical goods manufacturing company Noida Electricals in Sector-80 Phase II Noida. Police said about a dozen robbers armed with pistols and iron rods barged into the factory, overpowered two security guards and drove in a truck to carry away the robbed articles
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Personal animosity was the reason behind the gunning down of a 25-year-old woman near the Sarai Kale Khan inter-state bus terminal here, as she was allegedly creating problems in the relationship between the assailant and her friend, police said Monday. Pooja, a resident of Bhajanpura in east Delhi, was standing near the Sarai Kale Khan inter-state bus terminal in south Delhi when she was shot Sunday night
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Three suspicion-evoking bags were seized in the city Monday - one each from outside an army hospital and two markets - causing a scare till the time bomb disposal squads declared them harmless, said police. The three bags were spotted in succession over a span of three hours, starting with the one found near the army's Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment around 2.50 p.m., police said
Gurgaon, Feb 25 (IANS) A private security guard was arrested for raping his neighbour's eight-year-old daughter in Gurgaon, police said Monday. Shiv Shankar, 54, who lives in a rented house in Kadipur near sector 10, was arrested after the victim's father gave a complaint Sunday, police said
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the CBI on the appeal of Indian Administrative Service officer Sanjiv Kumar, convicted along with former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala in a teacher recruitment scandal. Justice Mukta Gupta sought response from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by April 8 on the plea of Kumar against his conviction and 10-year jail term. Kumar, then director of primary education, initially exposed the irregular appointments by filing a plea in the Supreme Court
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) A reward of Rs.50,000 was announced Monday for information leading to an absconding suspect in an aspiring model's murder here, police said. Investigators were hunting for script writer Shanti Deep Verma, 31, in connection with the murder of Sumit Tiwari, 21, in east Delhi Saturday, police said.
Ghaziabad, Feb 25 (IANS) A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader-cum-lawyer was killed here Monday when a dozen armed men barged into his house and opened fire, leaving his brother and a guard injured. The assailants looted the dead man Yashvir Singh's licensed firearms before getting away - in Bollywood style - in cars and motorcycles, police said
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday registered a preliminary enquiry against 11 people, including former chief of air staff S.P. Tyagi, and four companies in the $750 million deal for purchase of 12 VVIP helicopters from AgustaWestland.
